Re: SimCity GS

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Polymorph wrote:
> 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.
> 

And back in 1990: http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&id=28141
And in 1991: http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&id=40946
And in 1994: http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&id=88083

.. and ever since then ...

So in other words, people have been talking about it for 20 years now.

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