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#SIM COPTER HOW TO#
#SIM COPTER INSTALL#

When prompted to insert a disk, just point to the location where sw.exe extracted all the files.

Make a copy of sbpci.inf named sbpci.cat.

If you are asked about overwriting DESC.TXT, just say YES.

This will leave a dos window open that you can close

#SIM COPTER INSTALL#

Install the AudioPCI 128 Sound Drivers:.Install DirectX 9.0c (Might not be necessary, I installed it during troubleshooting).It'll mount a Virtual CDROM and let you install the tools which include a decent SVGA adapter Intall VMWare Tools (This can be done from one of the menus in the VMWare Player application.Since I ran through Windows 98, I had to do a little bit of extra configuring to get things to work: Remember that the further back you go the more difficult it is to setup Windows. I had a copy of 98SE hanging around so I used that. You could install Windows 95 / 98 / 98SE (and possibly ME / XP 32bit) in your VM. Enable 3d Acceleration: True (This one can be edited after the VM is created).If you open VMWare Player you have the option to create a New Virtual Machine. Once your Hypervisor is installed we can get down to creating a VM. It provides a stable platform to emulate an old OS like Windows 98. Since I use ESX a lot at work I recommend using the VMWare Player hypervisor. Since I am running on Windows 7 圆4 I can't run really old games without emulating an older version of windows (Even with the 'compatibility settings' set to xp or older). Install Windows 98 + VMWare Tools + Sound Driver.Here is an overview of the steps that will be mentioned in this article: While I cover the high-level steps, this page expects that you are somewhat proficient (or at least familiar with) Hypervisors and Windows 9x. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to get this to work. Sound Blaster* Audio PCI 128 Drivers for Windows 98.

VMWare discussion on Windows 98 Sound Drivers.An unrecoverable error has occurred and SimCopter must quit.BoredWookie implementation of CPUGrab in.Solution for SimCopter Crashing problem (Link to get CPUGrabber).As the title would imply I highly recommend acquiring a copy of Windows 98 and the VMWare Player Hypervisor before continuing. This approach may work for other old games like SimCity 2000 and Civilization 1.0.

#SIM COPTER HOW TO#

This article explains how to install SimCopter on Windows 7 圆4 using a Virtual Machine. Since the game is so old I was not able to just 'install it' on my Windows 7 圆4 system even using Compatibility Mode settings. I recently stumbled across a game I used to play when I was a kid: SimCopter by Maxis.