[Coco] Another game porting idea: Simcity

[John Guin]

According to the comments, the original C code is embedded in a tgz file
(embedded in the tar file the article references).  I don't have a working
linux machine with tar support so I can't verify, but it sounds closer to
what may be needed.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Mark McDougall
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:14 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Another game porting idea: Simcity

John Guin wrote:

> SimCity, which was built for the Commodore 64 (among many other
platforms),
> has been released under the GPL.
> 
> Anyone even know where to start with porting this to the Coco?

Reading the post, I don't think anyone will be "porting" this version to the

Coco. The code has been all-but-re-written in C++ with a tile rendering 
engine and integrated with Python using SWIG. That won't be running on a 
2MHz 6809... :(

Not sure what the C64 was written in, but I suspect it bears little 
resemblance to this GPL incarnation.

None-the-less it's an interesting development, and the author of the article

has probably got it right when he imagine it will spawn all sorts of 
enhancements and ports (to modern hardware no doubt).

FYI if you're familiar with DOOM, there are numerous 3rd-party ports, most 
of which are written in C and some are highly portable, able to be adapted 
to run on soft-core processors inside FPGAs!

Regards,

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