Xee-xCode-4.5 VS micropolis

> If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different places....

[1]: https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/master/XeePhot...

https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108

For posterity's sake, the link should probably be changed to https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/83394493f51991...

https://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/simcity-source-code-released-to-the-wild-let-the-ports-begin https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/community

One great reason for taking a high level networked based approach to graphics (like the C++ and Cairo based Micropolis TileEngine and the Python and AMF based Micropolis Online server and the XML / JavaScript OpenLaszlo / Flash based client use, of only sending the tile differences between each frame) would be if you were implementing a multi player game or distributed graphics application, and wanted to run WAForth on a server instead of in the browser, i.e. like low cost CloudFlare Worker edge servers that run WebAssembly and are geographically located near the users, that send commands to the clients to render graphics in their web browsers. (WebRTC is the way to go for doing that! Forget about all the old proprietary Flash AMF media server crap I was using back in the day for Micropolis Online.)

This is somewhat helpful: https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/tree/daa4297696d955a93b051627e6d84a7da5f8a4a3/micropolis-activity/src/notes

Actually, EA released the source code and binary Linux version the original SimCity under GPL-3, which I ported to various Unix platforms including Linux and the OLPC.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/open-sourcing-simcity-58470a2...

>Open Sourcing SimCity, by Chaim Gingold. Excerpt from page 289–293 of “Play Design”, a dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy in Computer Science by Chaim Gingold.

Granted, EA's QA folks had never QA'ed a Linux game before, so I had to walk them through installing VMWare on Windows and gave them a Linux operating system image to test it with, but it did pass QA, and they released it in binary on the OLPC as well as in source code form.

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis

Here's the contract with all the legal details:

https://donhopkins.com/home/olpc-ea-contract.pdf

Can also get the original source code for SimCity classic: https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis

I've got the original monochrome SimCity tile set kicking around somewhere, as well as all of the original tile packs, too. (Medieval Village, Moon Base, etc.) Should be possible to convert and reformat them into a single tile bitmap, and drop it in. If somebody wants to add them, ask me and I'll dig them up.

Original tiles:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...