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How to run a city builder on 16 MHz (larstofus.com)

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[–] iUseTc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

16? It ran well on the Amiga with 7.something MHz

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

The finished-but-unreleased NES port managed it on 2.

And let met tell you, those hertz do not go as far.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago*

The article is incorrect on minimum specs. There were three subsequent releases of SimCity that did have higher specs, but I got this game for Christmas and it ran on my XT clone running at 4.77Mhz or 8Mhz in "turbo" mode. With a Hercules monochrome graphics card, which the game was targeting among others - in fact, SimCity got praise for targeting that card.

So they've gotten confused with the SimCity Enhanced CD-ROM, or SimCity Classic for Windows, which had higher minimum specs.