Re: SimCity GS

[Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com>]

On Aug 12, 2:03 pm, wyeo <willie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wapedia.mobi/en/Micropolis_(software)
>
> "Micropolis is a city-building sim game developed by Don Hopkins. It
> is based on the original source code of SimCity, which was donated to
> the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project by Electronic Arts as free and
> open source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> version 3 on 10 January 2008."
>
> I wondered since EA has made the source code for SimCity available,
> and I think that I read before that Burger Bill completed SimCity GS,
> can this mean that we can ever see SimCity for the Apple IIGS as a
> freeware title ?

SimCity for the IIgs was discussed on c.s.a2 only last year. See the
following thread:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_frm/thread/d6eac765f4116abf

But the upshot of all that is that SimCity for the IIgs was never
completed due to various reasons.

Cheers,
Mike