Monday January 14, 2008 Micropolis: Sim City open sourced
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(Via a Hackzine post) Here's a Blast from the Past. I see that Don Hopkins has released a GPLed version of the original Sim City, cleaned up and renamed to the original title, Micropolis. |
Old time employees will remember Don as a Sun NeWS guy. I knew he hated X11 as much as me, but he put it so much more elegantly. What I didn't know (via his Wikipedia page) was that he did much of the core programming for The Sims
I'll have to checkout SimCity on the OLPC too, when our OLPC arrives. We ordered it just after Christmas so hopefully that'll be soon.
( Jan 14 2008, 06:01:57 PM PST ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [4]
Where The Dogs Are
Over the weekend we took our dog down to the dog park next to Googleland in Mountain View. It's divided into two areas, for large and small dogs.
We'd been there once before on the weekend just before Christmas, and that time it was very quiet, with just a few other dogs. On Saturday, it was very busy. Most of the time she spent sniffing everything. She was very methodical, working her way around the complete enclosure. Every now and then she'd greet another dog. There were times when there were 3-4 dogs in a line, each sniffing the butt in front of them.
Close by, there is a great area for kite flying, with about 15 kites in the air whilst we were there. Plus a load of Indian gentleman playing a knock-up game of cricket with a tennis ball and fold up beach chairs as wickets.
A great time was had by all.
( Jan 14 2008, 09:48:41 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]
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