SimFarm

SimFarm: SimCity's Country Cousin

Developers
	Maxis
Windows 3.x	Leaping Lizard Software
Publishers
	Maxis
Release dates
DOS	1993
Mac OS (Classic)	1994
Windows 3.x	1996
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Building
Series	Sim

Warnings

The Windows 3.x release of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).

SimFarm is a singleplayer top-down view building game in the Sim series.

The Windows version crashes if the main window inside the game is stretched over 1280 pixels wide^{[citation needed]}.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Entire game can be copied to the hard drive.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.3 will updates retail versions to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\simfarm.cfg
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\*.sfm
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.sfm
Mac OS (Classic)

In Windows, this is the default path used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Uses desktop resolution. See Key points on top of the page.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		By default.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Not enough disk space free

DOSBox reports an amount of free disk space that overflows a 16-bit value used in the saving routine. May also happen on systems with increments of 64MB of free space.

Installing on a drive or disk image with 512-byte clusters will also cause the issue.

Modify with hex editor
Open Simfarm.exe with a hex editor. Browse to file offset 44479h (279673 in decimal) Change 0B D2 to EB 2B Notes Applies to the Dos version. May have unintended side-effects, if there's less than 150 KiB of free space remaining. Exercise caution when modifying executable files.

DOSBox-X: Mount with -freespace
When mounting the folder or drive containing the game, add the -freepsace parameter to the mount command. Example: mount <path-to-game> -freespace 63 Notes Increments of 64 cause the issue. Default value is 1920.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS

Windows 3.x

Mac OS (Classic)

DOS
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	3.0		6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286 12 MHz		Intel 486DX2
System memory (RAM)	640 KB		2 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	6 MB
Video card (GPU)	EGA, VGA

Windows 3.x
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	3.1		95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel 386SX		Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	6 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA

Mac OS
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7.0		9.2.2
Processor (CPU)	Motorola 68K series
System memory (RAM)	4 MB		8 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	5 MB