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SimCity for PalmOS Platform

Posted by Hemos on from the i-love-my-palm-v dept.

JohnnyZed wrote to us with the link to Atelier a company that's released the original SimCity (SimCity Classic) for the PalmPilot. I don't usually like product plugs, but I had way too much fun with this game when it came out - now I can play it on the plane! Or the bathroom!

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  1. Great.. more batteries by bjb · · Score: 3
    When I used to play SimCity on my Amiga many moons ago, I used to leave my machine on for days on end so that my city would thrive.

    ...that Amiga was plugged into an AC outlet...

    Now I'm going to start tinkering with SimCity on my PalmIII. I'll probably set up a city again, spend many hours developing my town when I probably should be reading a good book or magazine (isn't that what YOU do on the throne?). I'll probably leave my Pilot chugging away for hours to let my city thrive.

    ...that Pilot is running on AAA batteries...

    All this expense going to Mr. Duracell because I had to let my petri dish past-time city tell me that I have a traffic jam.. Jeez.. Why don't you just put a Tamagotchi on my pilot instead?

    (Scary side note: a tamagotchi program DOES exist and it DOES wake up your pilot about 30 times an hour telling you to press the calculator button so it can :FEH: eat!)

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  2. Shameless Plug by Matt+Lee · · Score: 3

    Well, this SimCity game looks nice... but if you're in the mood for something a bit more... free, then check out:

    dopewars.cjb.net

  3. How about Civilization? by acb · · Score: 3

    Now all we need is Civilization for the PalmPilot; then productivity can go completely down the drain.

  4. Re:"They said it couldn't be done" by EnglishTim · · Score: 3

    They even did a version for the BBC Micro -

    it had 32K of memory, 10 of which had to be used by the screen (when you were in 4 colour, 160x256 screen mode)... I read an interview with the guy who did the port (He was porting from the ST version) - he said that the array in the ST version that held which buildings were connected to electricity took 32K up by itself...

  5. "They said it couldn't be done" by hattig · · Score: 3

    Now, forgive me if I am incorrect here, but a Palm organiser is not that underspecced compared with the original computers Sim City came out on? For example, apart from the 386s that it ran on, it ran on the Amiga 500 (7.2MHz 68000), Atari ST, Amstrad CPC (64K, Z80) and probably the Sinclair Spectrum and C64. So saying that it wasn't possible on the Palm is a bit silly! They only had to overcome the low-res screen, which can't have been that brain-straining...

    I wonder if they will do an updated version for the colour Palm machines coming out soon? That would be worth it.

    Is there a version for the Psion, because it would really kick ass on that, as it is more powerful and has a higher resolution screen.

    Sim City does kick ass though, even the original all othose years ago. A great way to waste time instead of doing something useful. I am afraid this could set a lot of projects back in many companies :-)