OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19152/SimCity_s_Source_Code_Released_Under_GPL Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:58:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Well... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295539 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295539 Nice move but let's see how the community is going to deal with it... Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (HangLoose) Comments Very nice, but.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295549 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295549 "The plane crash disaster has been removed as a result of 9/11."

I'll leave the silliness of that for somebody else to rant about, but I'd like to see someone recode it back in (even though they'd probably have to do a fork). I also think it'd also be pretty cool if somebody made a fork and added the gifts and graphics from the old Super Nintendo port of SimCity (my favorite version) to it.

When I was growing up, SimCity was definitely one of my favorite games, so it makes me happy to see it open-sourced. I just hope the code will be taken advantage of (tinkered with, polished up, ported to all sorts of operating systems, etc). I'd love to see SimCity 2000 open-sourced as well, but I won't hold my breath on that one.Edited 2008-01-12 23:16 UTC Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shykid) Comments Why did you have to post this? http://www.osnews.com/thread?295550 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295550 Now I'm going to be spending the rest of my weekend playing sim city instead of fixing the fence in the backyard. Curse you! Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments Charm http://www.osnews.com/thread?295551 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295551 This game still has its charm. I'm fairly young person (22 soon) but I have quite fond memories of first Sim City. It's a great game. Even though I enjoy modern games (finished Call of Duty 4 recently) I have hard time adapting to SimCity sequels. I hope that thanks to releasing the original source code it can be made more friendly to children (I mean, made prettier) so they can enjoy it as much as we did. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (miscz) Comments Great Move! http://www.osnews.com/thread?295562 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295562 I used to play SimCity in CGA under DOS back in the day. I would love to play it again after say... more than 15 years or so... :-) Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Javier O. Augusto) Comments "the SimCity name removed due to copyright issues" http://www.osnews.com/thread?295564 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295564 Somebody confused copyright with trademark law. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments RE: Very nice, but.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295565 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295565 Oh, that stinks. I dont remember a plane crash in 3000 anyway, but it was a pretty good disaster: it taught you how to not put the airports in stupid locations. If you did, they crashed.
Had nothing to do with terrorism... well, it might remind some people of it if they stick the airport is a commercial area with high rises. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jesuspower) Comments Comment by Almafeta http://www.osnews.com/thread?295592 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295592 "references to the SimCity name removed due to trademark issues"

Or, more likely, not having the permission of the owners. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments A bit redundant... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295596 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295596 ...considering the already excellent clone LinCity, which has a much better GUI than the outdated SimCity Classic. If they had opensourced SimCity 2000, well...

http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MiliTux) Comments Where's the source? http://www.osnews.com/thread?295617 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295617 The source code on the Don Hopkins web page has been tweaked for the OLPC. I want the original DOS source code! Where is it? Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (werfu) Comments RE: A bit redundant... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295619 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295619
...considering the already excellent clone LinCity, which has a much better GUI than the outdated SimCity Classic. If they had opensourced SimCity 2000, well..

Initially the original SimCity is primarily release to get the game on the XO laptop and will get some enhancements as pointed out in the article to take advantage of XO system. EA has the final say whether SimCity 2000 and its sequel will be open-sourced. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finalzone) Comments Tried it on my Linux box... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295649 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295649 ...downloaded the binary they provide, it sort of works, but the main screen displays only a featureless salmon rectangle, instead of the map. The small whole map shows.

Where can I file a bug? I'd love to play again with my good old simcity, on my platform. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (devurandom) Comments RE: A bit redundant... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295651 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295651 Notwithstanding how nice Lincity-NG might look, opensourcing SimCity is a great move, IMHO. I have always felt that the logic, or AI, or whatever you want to call it, in the actual SimCity games to be better than the Lincity ones. Who knows -- maybe the LinCity developers can take the best bits from SimCity and make LinCity even better.

At the end of the day, opening up SimCity can only be beneficial. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jackson) Comments RE: A bit redundant... http://www.osnews.com/thread?295715 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295715 As much as I like LinCity playing it is in no way the same as playing SimCity. They are simply different games, far more so than the minor Civilization/FreeCiv differences. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments Open Source. Where All Old Software Goes to Die TM http://www.osnews.com/thread?295798 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295798 Fascinating. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments Graphics http://www.osnews.com/thread?295909 http://www.osnews.com/thread?295909 I wonder how the graphics are licensed. Even the XO's display packs a lot more power than the displays available in SinCity's hayday. I would love to see the community update the tiles to 32bit and maybe even up their resolution too. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Corey) Comments RE: Great Move! http://www.osnews.com/thread?296067 http://www.osnews.com/thread?296067 What, you need the source code to do that? Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments