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Don breaks it down like so:
Don breaks it down like so:


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: I ported the Mac version of SimCity to SunOS Unix running the NeWS window system about 15 years ago, writing the user interface in PostScript. And a year or so later I ported it to various versions of Unix running X-Windows, using the TCL/Tk scripting language and gui toolkit. Several years later when Linux became viable, it was fairly straightforward to port that code to Linux, and then to port that to the OLPC.
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I ported the Mac version of SimCity to SunOS Unix running the NeWS window system about 15 years ago, writing the user interface in PostScript. And a year or so later I ported it to various versions of Unix running X-Windows, using the TCL/Tk scripting language and gui toolkit. Several years later when Linux became viable, it was fairly straightforward to port that code to Linux, and then to port that to the OLPC.


=== More information ===
SimCity Info
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/index.html
* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/index.html SimCity Info]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/keynote.html Video Tape Transcript of Toronto Usenix Symposium Keynote Address]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/hyperlook-demo.html Video Tape Transcript of HyperLook SimCity Demo]
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* [http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov HyperLook SimCity Demo Video]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/x11-demo.html Video Tape Transcript of X11 SimCity Demo]
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* [http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/X11SimCityDemo.mov X11 SimCity Demo Video]
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* [http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/SimCityNetDemo.mov Linux SimCityNet Demo Video]
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* [http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/CellularSimCity.mov Cellular Automata in SimCityNet on Unix Video]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcity-review.html Unix World 1993 Review of SimCity]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcity-announcement.html Multi-Player SimCity for X11 Announcement]
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcitynet.html SimCityNet]: a Cooperative Multi User City Simulation
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-For-X11.gif SimCity-For-X11.gif] : Screen shot of SimCity running on X11.
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-Indigo.gif SimCity-Indigo.gif] : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an SGI Indigo.
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-NCD.gif SimCity-NCD.gif] : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an NCD X Terminal.
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-Sun.gif SimCity-Sun.gif] : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an Sun.
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* [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook-SimCity.gif HyperLook-SimCity.gif] : SimCity HyperLook Edition. SimCity running on [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html HyperLook], a user interface development environment for the [http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html NeWS window system].


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Video Tape Transcript of Toronto Usenix Symposium Keynote Address
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/keynote.html


Video Tape Transcript of HyperLook SimCity Demo
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/hyperlook-demo.html
HyperLook SimCity Demo Video
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http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov


Video Tape Transcript of X11 SimCity Demo
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/x11-demo.html
X11 SimCity Demo Video
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http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/X11SimCityDemo.mov


Linux SimCityNet Demo Video
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http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/SimCityNetDemo.mov


Cellular Automata in SimCityNet on Unix Video
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http://www.donhopkins.com/home/movies/CellularSimCity.mov

Unix World 1993 Review of SimCity
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcity-review.html

Multi-Player SimCity for X11 Announcement
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcity-announcement.html

SimCityNet: a Cooperative Multi User City Simulation
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/simcitynet.html

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SimCity-For-X11.gif : Screen shot of SimCity running on X11.
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-For-X11.gif
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SimCity-Indigo.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an SGI Indigo.
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-Indigo.gif
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SimCity-NCD.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an NCD X Terminal.
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-NCD.gif
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SimCity-Sun.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an Sun.
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/SimCity-Sun.gif
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HyperLook-SimCity.gif : SimCity HyperLook Edition. SimCity running on HyperLook, a user interface development environment for the NeWS window system.
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook-SimCity.gif
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html
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Revision as of 03:09, 9 November 2007

SimCity is one of the oldest and grandest of Maxis games. A Linux port by Don Hopkins has been released under a free license for distribution on the XO.

Sources

The current XO activity bundle is here : SimCity-1.xo. This came from the original SimCity, through a complex lineage.


Don breaks it down like so:

I ported the Mac version of SimCity to SunOS Unix running the NeWS window system about 15 years ago, writing the user interface in PostScript. And a year or so later I ported it to various versions of Unix running X-Windows, using the TCL/Tk scripting language and gui toolkit. Several years later when Linux became viable, it was fairly straightforward to port that code to Linux, and then to port that to the OLPC.

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