A guide for playing The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs

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  • PlaySimsOnMac

    Discontinued A guide for playing The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs

  • Sims-1-Complete-Collection-Widescreen-Patcher

    Patches The Sims 1 to a custom resolution.

    • Something that I recommend to use if you plan to play The Sims 1 is to use this widescreen patcher: https://github.com/FaithBeam/Sims-1-Complete-Collection-Wide...

    It also installs DDrawCompat (or DGVoodoo2) for you, which is useful because vanilla The Sims 1 on Windows 10+ is choppy for some reason, using DDrawCompat (or DGVoodoo2) fixes the choppiness issue.

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  • Sims-1-Complete-Collection-Wide

    • Something that I recommend to use if you plan to play The Sims 1 is to use this widescreen patcher: https://github.com/FaithBeam/Sims-1-Complete-Collection-Wide...

    It also installs DDrawCompat (or DGVoodoo2) for you, which is useful because vanilla The Sims 1 on Windows 10+ is choppy for some reason, using DDrawCompat (or DGVoodoo2) fixes the choppiness issue.

  • Simitone

    Re-implementation of The Sims 1, based off of FreeSO.

    • According to [1] "EA only demanded us not to port the game on mobile devices"; that's the only thing I could find.

    It's still on GitHub anyway: https://github.com/riperiperi/Simitone

    Looks like the main dev mostly moved on to https://github.com/riperiperi/FreeSO

    [1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/Simitone/status/12027483512272691...

  • FreeSO

    Re-implementation of The Sims Online.

    • According to [1] "EA only demanded us not to port the game on mobile devices"; that's the only thing I could find.

    It's still on GitHub anyway: https://github.com/riperiperi/Simitone

    Looks like the main dev mostly moved on to https://github.com/riperiperi/FreeSO

    [1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/Simitone/status/12027483512272691...

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