SimCity 2000 (DOS)
Welcome
This page is going to go over the basic commands of starting a game in SimCity 2000. This guide will assume that SimCity 2000 and DosBox has been installed and will go over the commands to start playing the game.
Getting Started
Start up DosBox, there should be two windows that pop up. This is the main window and the other window provides other helpful information. For this we will only concentrate on the main screen of DosBox.
The first thing to do is to type in the DOS directory, for this example it is:
C:\dos
then hit enter, a prompt should confirm the action
Now type:
C:\
to switch from the z:\ directory to the c:\ directory
Now type in
CD\sc2000
to get into the game directory
Following that type in
SC2K and the game should start!
Press alt and enter to bring to fullscreen mode and press windows key to exit
Helpful Commands
|
Command Plain |
Command Example’s |
Description |
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Mount drive directory |
Mount c c:\dos
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This is the basic command to set up the main directory that DOSBox will emulate out of. The first part is mount which is the command, the C is for the emulated drive and c:\dos is the directory on the actual computer |
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Cd directory |
Cd sc2000 |
Changes current directory to the directory specified in the command. CD is the command and sc2000 is the directory. |
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-label NAME |
-label DFCD |
Is given in the same command following a mount for a drive. Gives a label to a drive, used in CD rom situations to give the CD the name in order to run in DOSBox. |
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-type MEDIA |
-type Disk |
Is given in the same command following a mount for a drive. Allows DOSBox to further specify to the game what type of media it is running off of in order to run. |
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Dir |
Dir |
Gives an overview of what is in the selected directory. |
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DRIVE:\ |
C:\ |
Changes the drive from one drive to another. Good for moving between the different drives, the four main drives in DOSBox are Z:\ for mounting C:\ for the hard-drive D:\ for CD-ROMS A:\ for Floppies |