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Too bad EA cease and desisted the open source reimplementation, Simitone.

According to [1] "EA only demanded us not to port the game on mobile devices"; that's the only thing I could find anyway.

It's still on GitHub: https://github.com/riperiperi/Simitone

Looks like the main dev mostly moved on to https://github.com/riperiperi/FreeSO

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/Simitone/status/12027483512272691...

While yes, EA did let them continue the project, after EA's request the project has slowed down considerably.

And about FreeSO: FreeSO is a The Sims Online reimplementation. The Sims Online is an improved version of The Sims 1's engine. Due to the similarities, riperiperi decided to make a The Sims 1 reimplementation based off FreeSO's engine, with support for mobile devices.

And besides, in theory EA couldn't even request that: The engine is a clean room implementation, the implementation doesn't use any of the original game assets.

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