The German Sims2 site still has the Sims1 downloads available. Not the exchange stuff but patches and official downloads. Don't know if it's the same with the sites for other countrys.

It's nice to know that Germany is keeping the dream alive. I would be interested to use googles translate page feature just to see what German players think of TS1.

For those of you who are playing or about to play - get the jacuzzi asap! Your sim needs friends to climb up your career, and the best way to make and maintain friends is with the jacuzzi. Without it you will be stuck at a low level, earning a paltry sum and fighting an uphill battle to make friends and still fill your needs. Relationship scores have a long term number that increases slowly, so you need a reliable way to entertain en masse. A soak in the jacuzzi with company before work will likely raise mood enough for a promotion.

Edit:

Looking at German sites I see they have renamed some expansions / stuff packs:

The Full Life
Holiday Total
Hokus Pokus

i really appreciate that we have an active sims 1 thread, now. it makes me want to start up my game and take pictures.

but, did you guys know that when you start the game from the .exe in the install directory, the game appears just a little bit bigger? i think it's nice. try it? :p

It's worth a try. By that, I imagine, the game would not box certain screens within that wide border but instead use the whole screen? A little test for me right after this post.




At long last, my strategic romantic overtures have manifested the ultimate pity kiss. Oh, Bella, your lips are muy bueno! I must capture this feat of my olympic studliness and frame it so that it can complete my mini Bella shrine - using, of course, my favorite font, Cooper. Title: Bella, my Numero Uno.


And who is this flamboyant fashion statement? Or would goudy be a more precise word? Nowhere in TS2 or TS3 have I seen so many outrageously dressed sims downtown. This is a mere taste. Clashing Vancome ladies, shirtless goons, ancient Greek citizens in togas, leather chaps, mumbling hipsters, etc, roam the venues in sheer certainty that nothing seems wrong. TS1's approach to fashion is 'anything goes.'


Are these Double Dragons intentional? It's hard to say whether Maxis wanted a doubletake or if this was an unplanned coincidence that evolved into tradition in later games. Keep in mind that the developers were ad libbing with liberty to drive the game further into success. The charm of TS1 is the desperation of its wackiness, imo.


I have strong mixed feelings about this grape-watermelon individual. At times, his enchantments have lead to results that made no sense whatsoever, such as flooding my lawn with useless pink flamingos. Twice he's teleported a grumpy Mortimer into my sim's house, another time he zapped a few skill points into oblivion, once again he infested my living room with useless vines that could only be cleaned up in live mode, not deleted. Still, without this entertaining green and purple supernatural I wouldn't have been able to purchase the jacuzzi so soon, an object that is so critical to a house with only one sim.


Do you recognize this sim? Actually, she knew the Beatles when they were still the New Kids on the Block. When she was a child, there was no such thing as history class. Let me tell you, Mr and Mrs Crumplebottom were in a marriage of disrepair before he died. It is said that Mr Crumplebottom declared that beyond death he would dig out of the grave to haunt her. Knowing this, Mrs Crumplebottom had him buried upside down.


And finally, with a level 7 job in journalism, my sim is exiting the 'treading on water' phase of survival. I must say that getting my sim to this point was a merciless struggle. You can't take TS1 seriously, because if you do you will find yourself fighting enraged impulses to strike something, perhaps even the screen. But through it all the addictive nature pays off in the sheer satisfaction of knowing that you have beaten the hellish, one sim household handicap that Maxis throws at you. The developers realized this and added new buff items to take the edge off of starting difficulty. That said, TS2 and TS3 wish they had challenge. From this point on I can march willingly into the craziness that awaits, starting with the Gnome Workbench and the Jekyll and Hyde Chemistry Set.

actually, i'm about to go into the game right now.

i'll post screenshots of what i mean.

It must be a safe mode for TS1. It can zoom in much closer but it seems 640 x 480 resolution. Also the refresh rate is higher, that I can see and feel a clear improvement just by scrolling. It has also solved a downtown problem that I have. My soundcard is a SoundBlaster Audigy 2. This particular card is prone to some malfunction after the warranty expires, that it will spaz out with some games and create a rapid, loud, recursive clicking noise. That is the case with my card, and it happens downtown and makes it almost unplayable. But using the .exe seems to have solved the issue for me.

I play my game at 800x600 resolution and on all computers that's always filled the screen for me. Does it not for others?

i couldn't take any good screenshots to show the improvements,

but actually yes the .exe does make the resolution bigger.

Shoosh Malooka, i'm glad i was able to help you out




edit/ respectively, running the game on my exe file makes it show up like this:

maybe even a tad bigger, give or take.

my computer was only taking small pictures, so i zoomed it in a bit.

Are there any challenges out there for TS1? The amazing fansites/forums didn't seem to take off until the advent of TS2 for some reason.

Thank you, christmas fear. At last, I... I mean my sim can actually take Bella on a date downtown, and I can wear headphones without the sound of agony from that troublesome soundcard of mine.



For TS1, played from the interface that auto-pops up when you close the cd / dvd drive, it gives a choice between 1024 x 780 and a lower res ( either 800 x 600 or 640 x 480 ). I have been choosing 1024 x 780 because... because why not in 2010? And TS1 plays at that res, but cheats by rendering the material inside a border designed for what purpose a programmer would know. we can call it laziness. Using the .exe forces or defaults to the lower res, and therefore fills the entire screen.

This is what I'm trying in vain to articulate:

click below or see the attached jpeg
http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1131564

That blue border is there to comply with the higher resolution. And gameplay on the lot screen is simply run at the higher res, and therefore zooms in at max to a longer distance. Using the .exe described by christmas fear forces 800 x 600 so you would not see the blue area ( this applies to the neighborhood screen ).



Is that exactly how it shows on your screen? It's cropping out four of the needs bars and what looks like 20% of the interface. But if you have no problems playing in that condition then have at it.

I not only still play Sims 1, I play them all...1,2 & 3 as well as consoles, portables, and stories games.
As for challenges, I did adapt the homeless challenge to my Sims 1 console game. That's probably the easiest one to adapt.

After a whole week of trying to install sims 1 i gave up. 6months later i try again and it installed beautifully. It worked today!! Now if i can only find my sims 3 my sim collection will be complete. So i cant wait to crush grapes and watched the gnomes get drunk and tear up my garden!

edit to add: Remember that program where we could use a picture of someone and make a sim out of that picture. It was so simple! I wish we had that for sim 2 and sim 3. I don't have all that paintshop pro stuff to make a nice sim.

I imagine a challenge for Sims wouldn't work to well, since most of them involve aging....

I changed the resolution to fit my screen at least in height. It's set as 800x600 but launches to fit Got 1920x1200 as much as a square can.

This is how it looks (in full size):


(remember to zoom in)

Notice the shitty arrangement of the kitchen. WTF was EA thinking when they built that house

ohh, no. i cropped the picture, actually. that's only apart of it.

it was hard to get an actual sized picture because my print screen button was only taking ridiculously small images.

it's not a full picture. :P

I recently decided to install The Sims 1 and all of the EP's since my computer can handle it all.

I figured "You wasted all of your and your parents' money 6 years ago and you haven't even played them in 6 years. This needs to be fixed, now!" Seriously, I got them all within the range of the first several months of 2004 and after The Sims 2 came out I didn't even touch them. Talk about wasting money... D:

However installing them was on the edge of my most recent "The Sims phase" so I didn't get much playtime in. Maybe next time. Just a bit frustrating of a game. Friends are like impossible to make in that game!

not only friends are impossible, but have you tried the path of 'superstardom' ?

my god, you literally lose star points and you lose your celebrity status if you don't keep going back to studio town every day.

That's true, if you try to play exactly as the challenge is written in the forums...but I've been able to modify my own Sims 1 versions of some of them as long as I stay within the limits of what Sims 1 is capable of. Since it isn't "official", I don't see why we can't use the challenges as personal inspiration.

i think its already a challenge if u put 8 sims in a house with no mood boosters. Even more of a challenge if you keep them poor haha

It's true that being poor mitigates the bills by logic of 'less things, less to pay for.' But TS1 is the only Sims that demonstrates the details and difficulties in the chain of basic survival, where sims without better stuff to keep their needs satisfied vs the amount of time they have in day will eventually lead to a misery trap. Soon, the single household sim is swamped with not enough time due to endless complain animations, low skills from lack of motivation to improve skills, not enough energy because of a low quality bed, no time for friends for hope of a promotion, decreasing funds, and finally death by starvation / fire. Poor is the main antagonist that single sims are meant to struggle with and overcome until a level 6 job brings them out of treading water. Then, finally, they can start playing with more interesting things, make wooden gnomes, dabble with chemicals, throw massive parties, etc. I guarantee you, being poor in this game will drive you insane in the membrane until you hate it so much that it drives you to find a way out of the nightmare for good.

Recently I downloaded some more things from TSR. But I haven't decided to install TS1 again yet..
By the way, while looking through download folder for Sims things, I recalled I downloaded some stuffs from SimEchoes(http://www.simechoes.org). Well, worth to check.

**I think 'Asylum Challenge' can be done at TS1.

It be awesome trying an Asylum Challege in TS1, and somehow extract characters like the mime, tragic clown, claire the bear, those costumed people in vacation, drew carey, etc to be your asylum patients xD

I also uploaded a clip of Makin Magic's amusement ride and duel on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOOsFtW0yo

I finally reinstalled TS1 last week and it was an interesting experience. I made a single male Sim, having him start out in the superstardom 'career' and I can't believe how hard it was! I quickly got into a trap where all his free time after work was spent fulfilling needs, leaving very little time for socialising. I started him out in modelling and he was making $130 on a good day. With one fame star he needed a body skill to advance but didn't have enough money for an exercise machine (no gyms or visiting friends' houses here!) I was just getting to desperation point when he started a fire making dinner and knowing he couldn't afford to replace the kitchen if it burnt down I made him try to put the fire out and he died. The End.

So yeah, maybe I'll go back to it soon, making a couple and having them start out in the standard careers.

My brothers and my sister love the Sims 1. (I used to have it a year ago before I got sims 2)
The sims looks so ugly!

I miss TS1. I'd like to play it again, except I am not sure Windows 7 is going to like it.