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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!"
Someone told me Bill Gates owned, like, 50% of EA.
run on LINUX?
Here's to the crazy ones
above poser does not hide it.
(poser was a typo for poster, but i just can't find it in myself to correct it! so perfect!)
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Oh, I can too. But I'm having too much fun with the games I have, and I have a birthday in a month so I'm rather hoping somebody will take pity on me and buy me one. :P
That, and I am actually waiting on a new VISA card. They upgraded me to a new card, which means issuing a new number. It hasn't arrived yet.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
There's yet to be a game/simulation that accurately simulates of the complexities of modern counter-insurgency warfare, and something like a modded SimCity could do it well.
We've got good games that reflect the military aspects of modern warfare: America's Army, Call of Duty 4 and Combat Missions: Shock Force (fun as that last title may be) all spring to mind, but they limit themselves to the "blowing stuff up" aspect of modern warfare. Shooting people is the easy stuff in COINOPS, what we've yet to see is something that accurately reflects what General Krulak called "The Three-Block War", or what Thomas P.M. Barnett calls "The Department of Everything Else", where a military unit, through civic improvements and statesmanship denies the enemy the use of the population as cover.
A game like Sim City, properly modded, could fill this gap, and give all of us armchair Lt. Colonels a glimpse into the what it takes to fight on today's battlefields.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
A comment about the history of copy protection on SimCity is off topic in a discussion of the open sourcing of Sim City? Unbelievable.