Sim tower and Windows 7

[Megan140]

I've been trying for over an hour now to get Sim Tower (I know, old game. No need to tell me) to work. It worked fine up to Vista. I've tried to run it in compatibility mode but with no luck. I've also tried Virtual PC 2007 but nothing. I have even tried copying and pasting to my comp and then installing but nothing (that one was a long shot I know). I am currently installing VMware-the free download-to see if that will work.
Is there anything else I can try to get this game to work? I have Windows 7 Home premium 64bit.

-that's what I keep getting

 

[Ijack]

But you still need a copy of XP to install in VirtualBox. That may cost more than the upgrade unless you already have one to hand.

 

[Megan140]

Actually, I managed to dig up an old XP Recovery disk with the authorization code still attached to it. So I used that and now I can play Sim Tower.
Thanks to everyone for helping me

 

[Herr_Koos]

Great, glad you got it working.

 

[verbalizer]

all that for Sims.?
crazy.

 

[Megan140]

all that for Sims.?
crazy.

What can I say? When I like something, I'm willing to do a lot to get it

 

[hmsdexter]

You can also use reactos in a virtual pc to run simtower.

I have used it to get some old games working

 

[Megan140]

Best answer selected by Megan140.

 

[ravenx30]

Well I can get the setup running in dosbox (using a front end 'dosshell') which simlifies dosbox into icons ;P

but my problem is when in the install stage it cant find any of my drives lol i get the error: Drive C doesnt exist!

so having trouble even installing the dam thing. wish i could manually install it by extracting the files manualy but that batch file is fairly big lol

im using win 7 home prem too. dosbox works fine with other dos games but this classic XD

 

[nikorr]

This topic has been closed by Nikorr.