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SimCity Source Code Is Now Open
Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting a SimCity branded version that has been QA'ed by Electronic Arts. Some very cool changes have been made by Don Hopkins, who updated and ported what is now Micropolis. (Here is an earlier Slashdot discussion kicked off by a submission Don made.) Among other things, it has been revamped from the original C to using C++ with Python. Here is the page linking all the various source code versions. Happy hacking!"
... a big scream was heard, as if a thousand hours had suddenly been lost.
My very own Linux city!
why it is that commercial zones placed more than a certain distance to the left of the city center never developed. I wonder if it was some kind of subtle political commentary on how leftist policy hurts business or something.
Now, if they will only open-source that dark brown piece of paper with the glyphs printed in black on it...
Who would have known? Thanks for the warning I almost got close to maybe think about clicking the link, you saved me!
The godless atheist Linux crowd can now eliminate the 1 line of code that creates a tornado every time you bulldoze a church.
Why all the effort to port to C++ ? C rocks !
It needed to be updated, because it ran too fast on modern hardware.
I guess a new disaster needs to be added: Slashdotting
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
It had to be done because a bug was found that meant the players could then take any action, and it would have no affect on public mood, aslong as it was justified by the plan crash somehow!
Yes, it'll be great to port Micropolis (SimCity) to embedded devices! I'd like to port it to the TomTom, and hook it up so you can operate the bulldozer or road building tool via GPS, just by driving around!
-Don
(Disclaimer: I work for TomTom, and this should NOT be interpreted as a product announcement!)
Take a look and feel free: http://www.PieMenu.com
I couldn't hear you, I was busy watching the NYC episode of the Simpsons and - NOOOOooooooooo...
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
Hey, dipshit. It doesn't matter if this game only runs at 30000 FPS on your 4 GHz quad-core Core2 Duo just because it uses Python, rather than the 80000 FPS it would achieve were it completely written in C. I mean, your goddamn fucking eyes and brain don't even notice any difference once you exceed 40 FPS. What the hell is wrong with you? Your ignorance of Python makes you look like a shitfool.
Slashdot, the only place one can make a flippant remark regarding the state of 20 year old code and successfully find someone who worked on it.
A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth...
What the hell is this Lunix thing that so many keep talking about?
It's GPL, we can add it back.
And we can add in kidnappings and beheadings. Everyone wins!
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
Bro, you suck at your job.
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Lunix is one of the most powerful contraceptives evar ....It is an operating system that was the result of really crappy reverse-engineering efforts to create a free version of UNIX. Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox are the perpetrators behind this travesty. Tons of people use it, especially hippies, and no one really likes it except the terminally uncool. Most of them use it in violation of SCO's intellectual property rights. To use Lunix legally, one must pay a $699 license fee to SCO for each processor that runs the Lunix kernel.
I believe I understand.
NeWS is like Lisp, but with PostScript instead of Lisp for programming, PostScript instead of Lisp for rendering, and PostScript instead of S-expressions for data representation.
Yeah, it's the perfect opportunity to teach kids that plane crashes are bad, mkay?
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
I, for one, would like to welcome Don Hopkins: our sim-hacking overlord.
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My personal favorite /. moment was someone telling John Carmack he didn't know what he was talking about.....
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
okay, just what really geeky street do people talk about Xlib, cygwin, and X servers for windows like the latest gossip? I want to find this mythical "geek street" that you're telling me about! Is it the east downtown Tokyo ghetto? IT IS, ISN'T IT!
I imagine that I could probably run things at a pretty low tax rate in a world where a coal power plant costs $3000, and an airport costs $10000, and I can fully fund a police station for $50/year.
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