The classic '90s game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity].

A UNIX version was released with a Tcl/Tk scripting/GUI interface.  The source code was recently released in a GPL version called "Micropolis". Source and Linux binaries available from http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/

To be included as educational software with the [OLPC] project.  OLPC Git repository for Micropolis: [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/micropolis-activity;a=shortlog;h=7ec9a39de9e7eb2101086c8413d41ac57ddb4649].

''Discussion''
   * Bil Simser discusses the release [http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2008/01/10/simcity-source-code-released-to-the-wild-let-the-ports-begin.aspx].
   * The author Don Hopkins blogs on SimCity [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/taxonomy_menu/4/49/66].
   * Discussion of future plans by the author: [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f80d52c93fd20904/55779e49afc3a8d9?hl=en#55779e49afc3a8d9].
   * Slashdot articles: [http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/200234], [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/1846256].
   * OSnews: [http://osnews.com/comments/19152].

Micropolis uses patched versions of Tcl 6.4, Tk 2.3 and TclX 6.4c; the version numbers date these tools to the period August to December 1992 (see [Tcl chronology]).  Unpatched versions of Tcl 6.4 and Tk 2.3 are available for comparison (see [Where to find old Tcl source distributions]).

Any GUI based on these 15-year-old tools will look old-fashioned, and while others rush to port the code to Python/GTK+, it will be interesting to see if anyone can upgrade the code to Tcl/Tk 8.5.

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''Screenshots''
 
[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCity-NCD.gif]

[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCity-Sun.gif]

[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCity-Indigo.gif]

[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCity-For-X11.gif]


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