Sim City is now GPL'd

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23 points·iamelgringo··8 comments

When I first saw Sim City back in the 80s I thought it was very unrealistic. Then I visited San Jose.

lol... so true. Maybe one of those big "natural disasters" like a earthquake will hit it, and it will be rebuild to something more decent.

I opt for the space monster (sim city 2000).

Earthquakes, fires, floods and massive storms...

And that's only what we've had in San Jose this year.

having spent far too many happy hours playing each iteration of the sim city series (through #4), i can say the game has gotten way more realistic.

sim city 4, especially, has a bunch of skyscrapers from san francisco that you'll get in your cities if you do a decent job of zoning commercial areas.

there's a certain joy to walking around downtown san francisco and seeing the life-size versions.

It's great that this is going to be on the XO.

I remember when this was first available on Suns, you could play the free demo version for 10 minutes at a time. Everyone in our office would compete to build the largest city in that time.

These days my favorite 20-minute distractions are YC and Celestia ( http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html ).

Does anyone know if you can compile it on mac os X?

i get this error when i try to run make:

In file included from tclexpr.c:33: tclunix.h:104: error: conflicting type qualifiers for 'sys_nerr' /usr/include/stdio.h:273: error: previous declaration of 'sys_nerr' was here make[1]: * [tclexpr.o] Error

what if you rename or redefine sys_nerr in tclunix.h and in files that use this definition?

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