SimCity

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.

More information

• SimCity Info
• Video Tape Transcript of Toronto Usenix Symposium Keynote Address
• Video Tape Transcript of HyperLook SimCity Demo
• HyperLook SimCity Demo Video
• Video Tape Transcript of X11 SimCity Demo
• X11 SimCity Demo Video
• Linux SimCityNet Demo Video
• Cellular Automata in SimCityNet on Unix Video
• Unix World 1993 Review of SimCity
• Multi-Player SimCity for X11 Announcement
• SimCityNet: a Cooperative Multi User City Simulation
• SimCity-For-X11.gif : Screen shot of SimCity running on X11.
• SimCity-Indigo.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an SGI Indigo.
• SimCity-NCD.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an NCD X Terminal.
• SimCity-Sun.gif : Multi player X11 SimCity running on an Sun.
• HyperLook-SimCity.gif : SimCity HyperLook Edition. SimCity running on HyperLook, a user interface development environment for the NeWS window system.

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