16 MHz? Where the heck did the OP pull that number from? Is that a hallucination?
I ran it on 7 MHz 68k, and the PC port ran on an 8088 IIRC, slower still. Hell, the cover OP used for the post reads "XT/AT/PS2 compatibles".
I ran it on 7 MHz 68k, and the PC port ran on an 8088 IIRC, slower still. Hell, the cover OP used for the post reads "XT/AT/PS2 compatibles".
I'm guessing a part of the confusion could be that there was also a rerelease called SimCity Classic. The Classic release also came as a Windows 3.x version which (unsurprisingly) had higher system requirements. The specified minimum for that was a 286, though, not a 386.
I have no idea how well a 286 would have coped, though; it's rare to see "real" games (bigger ones, not Solitaire) for Windows 3.x that didn't require a 386.