Subj : DESQView and OS/2
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Nov 30 2025 11:54:04

  Re: Thin client PC to run MS-
  By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Nov 30 2025 11:23 am

 DW> IIRC, I am thinking that the only programs I tried running under DV that
 DW> wouldn't work also wouldn't work under OS/2 -- or at least I never went to
 DW> the trouble to try.

 DW> I am positive I did try Simcity 2000 and it did *not* work.  Another that
 DW> I had trouble with was PC-Write and, for that matter, Wordperfect 5 for
 DW> DOS.  I never tried either of those under OS/2 but suspect that one or
 DW> both might just work.

It looks like there was an OS/2 version of SimCity 2000.  It's on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/SimCity2000ForOS2

I believe there was also a Windows 3.1 version of SimCity 2000.  Perhaps that might run in the Windows subcomponent of OS/2.

Nightfox

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