Some geospatial data on this website is provided by. Is also extremely helpfull for getting the game to run smoothly on modern PCs though it may not fix your problem per say. Apparently the original Final Fantasy 7 will crash if it's running on Windows NT instead of Windows 95, so Windows will lie to FF about what operating system its actually running on.Check your install directory and your simcity 4 documents folder for any error logs that might point out what the problem is. If you want more of this, you can drill down in the Twitter thread linked above for a couple more examples. We have always tried in various ways to highlight the ways in which games are hard to make, and I like this reminder of all the invisible work that goes into keeping games playable even after they're done. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95." If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity.
"Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. "Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95," writes Spolsky. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft's solution, he says, was making sure old software worked - including SimCity. Spolsky is writing about the "chicken and egg problem" of getting users to adopt platforms without a lot of software, and software makers to produce software for platforms without a lot of users. The blog post was written by Joel Spolsky in May 2000, but was recently re-discovered by podcaster and game maker Kal Yoshika on Twitter.
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