Note: If you want to run this on a modern linux computer, good news! The source code of this version of the game was released by EA a few years ago.Original description: Multi Player SimCity for X11 is now available from DUX Software!DESCRIPTION: SimCity, the original award winning city simulation game fromMaxis Software, now runs on powerful Unix workstations with X11! DUX'simplementation of SimCity for Unix was awarded product of the year 1992by Unix World in the January 1993 issue, and reviewed in the April 1993issue. Now it's souped up, works with standard X11 servers, and evensupports networked multi user collaboration! Multi Player SimCity isdesigned to be a fun cooperative educational experience! SimCity is a colorful animated interactive system simulationgame, providing a set of rules and tools for planning and building acomplex dynamic simulated city. Several people on different X11workstations can participate in the same city, cooperating andcoordinating their actions across the network. Working together, you can zone land use, hook up the power grid,build roads, bridges, parks and stadiums, raise taxes, and even summondisasters, causing the city to grow and thrive, or crumble and die. It'sa creative, entertaining way to develop your political skills!REQUIREMENTS: SimCity runs on Silicon Graphics Irix, SPARC SunOS, and otherUnix workstations. You can play it locally or over the network on most 8bit color or monochrome X11 displays, like NCD X terminals. And you canhear it on standard sound devices, and NCD's NetAudio server.OPTIONS: SimCity supports but doesn't require the X11 shared memory andshaped window extensions, and a local sound device or NetAudio server.And you can turn off the sound so your boss doesn't know you're playing!FEATURES: Multi Player SimCity for X11 sports the Motif look and feel,implemented using the efficient TCL/Tk toolkit. It features multiplecity editors and maps with overlays, fast colorful animation, engagingsound effects, easy to use pie menus and direct manipulation interaction,simultaneous multi player editing, communication and annotationfacilities, and voting dialogs for group decision making. It includeseight challenging scenarios and a library of interesting cities.AVAILABILITY: Multi Player SimCity is available directly from DUX Software, andvia anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9), in the directory"vendor/dux/SimCity". You may freely copy it, and play the fullyfunctional game in "demo mode" on one display without a license, but thecity melts every 5 minutes. If you enjoy SimCity, you can buy a licenseover the phone by credit card, without leaving your seat! A singleplayer license lets you save and restore your cities, and play for aslong as you like on one display; a multi player license lets you playSimCity with your friends over the net!PRICING: Single Player Node Locked License: $49 Multi Player Node Locked License: $89 Single Player Floating License: $129 Multi Player Floating License: $149PLEASE CONTACT: DUX Software, 4906 El Camino Real, Suite 1, Los Altos, CA 94022 Phone #: 1-800-543-4999 or 1-415-967-1500, FAX #: 1-415-967-5528 Email: simcity@dux.comNOTICE: X11 SimCity Copyright (C) 1993 by DUX Software Corporation. Unix implementation and multi player user interface by Don Hopkins, DUX.Based on the original SimCity concept and design by Will Wright, MAXIS.SimCity is a registered trademark of Maxis Software.
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