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Open Source Rewrite of Civilization 1 Source Code – OpenCiv1 Project

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I like how people that played any of the Civ games are still so enthusiastic about them even 30 years later.

Cesar 3 was also rewritten (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius), and besides the marvelous work from the author that has allowed fans of the original to experience it on modern platforms and further preserve it, it has also invigorated the community and spawned other efforts to further enhance the game.

It’s a shame that many companies do not agree with such an approach for dormant or abandonware properties.

I would love to see something like this for sim city 2000. I know someone tried and was threatened with a lawsuit

https://github.com/nicholas-ochoa/OpenSC2K

> threatened with a lawsuit

There's a special place in hell just for the corporations that do that.

I apologize in advance for being pedantic, but:

1. Employees of those corporations go to Hell. 2. The notion that corporations are people has no basis in the Bible, so corporations do not go to Heaven nor to Hell. 3. Owners of the corporations seem the most culpable before God, so I would not want to own stock in any corporation that sinned. I can imagine a stock holder arriving at the pearly gates and trying to make excuses that this person had to maximize their investment returns and the lives that were destroyed by the companies they were part owner of were not something they ever bothered to look into.

TL/DT: Everyone here is going to Hell.

such a shame it's done in C# and is using components that do not exist in Mono

If written in something more open, it would have more chance of pickup and using it on other weird platforms would become a thing

This is one person's passion project and they are writing it in the language they prefer. We need to respect that they are doing free labor and publishing the resulting code as open source.

It sucks that it is not modern C#, but rather legacy .Net 4.8 which lacks the performance improvements and cross-platform compatibility of .Net 5 and above, but perhaps the author will feel an itch to refactor it, or someone else will come along and modernize it and make a pull request.

It looks like the project is currently targeting .NET 8

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