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Monday, January 14th, 2008

The original SimCity is now available under GPLv3 under a new name, Micropolis

Very interesting news about SimCity – it’s been years since I’ve played it and this really is the earlier version (C64 actually). This is nothing like the later versions available in recent years so I don’t want to set the expectations too high. You can download the source or binaries here. Surprisingly it’s not in the Ubuntu repos yet. There’s actually a port specific to the XO which I’m sure Emily and David may be interested in ;-).

It didn’t work for me on a very quick attempt – my Micropolis window froze up but was easy to quite and exit gracefully. There must be a bug or it must not be Compiz-ready…