Re: SimCity style of game for GS?

[Joe <joko@nospam.com>]

Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:

> There is/was a version of Sim City programmed by Bill (now Becky)
> Heineman, but it was never released due to high licensing fees (or so
> rumour has it). You could always try writing to him and see if he (a)
> still has the game and/or source code, and (b) if he is able to
> release it after all these years?

Seeing this thread, I decided to look around the old hard drive, and there 
it was, SimCity for the IIGS from March, 1994. Double clicking on the S16, 
the title screen apppeared with the name Interplay.

But, I barely moved my mouse, and it crashed. It credited a mutual friend 
of Burger Bill and I for the music; I heard no music. It'd been a decade 
since I last looked at this program, and it did less than I remembered. 
But, then again, I last ran this on a ROM1 and I'm now using a ROM3, and 
maybe that has something to do with it not working?

Oh, and I've never played SimCity, so I don't really know what to do, and 
there's no docs.

This is one of those many projects started by BurgerBill, that never saw 
the light of day. The file is large, 221k (did I just write that, in 2009, 
that a 221k file was large? Sheesh. The times they have a changed). I have 
no idea how much of the porting/programming is complete, or whether it's 
just some pretty graphics.

But, I do have the uncompleted program from 1994, so if someone were to go 
to the trouble of contacting the Burger for permission to make this 
available...

Joe Kohn