Micropolis Downloads

This is the binary and source code for Micropolis (A.K.A. "S*mC*ty": see the GPL License and additional terms, below), which is released under the GPL.

For more information, see Don Hopkins' Blog: http://www.DonHopkins.com. Please email questions and comments to dhopkins@DonHopkins.com.

• micropolis.xo
  Download this to TCL/Tk Micropolis install on the OLPC XO-1.
• micropolis-activity.tgz
  Download this to install TCL/Tk Micropolis on x86 Linux systems.
• micropolis-activity-source.tgz
  Download this to build TCL/Tk Micropolis from source.
• MicropolisCore.tgz
  Download this to build the Python modules micropolis, cellengine and tileengine.
  • The micropolis module is the new version of Micropolis, cleaned up and recast as a C++ class.
  • The cellengine module is a cellular automata machine engine.
  • The tileengine module is a Cairo based tile renderer, used to display micropolis tiles and cellengine cells. It plugs into micropolis and cellengine, but is independent of them and useful for other applications.
  • These modules require Python 2.5 and the Python modules pygtk, pycairo and PIL to be installed. Probably some other modules I can't think of off the top of my head, too.
  • This code will compile on Windows or Linux. It is intended to be used with the OLPC's Sugar user interface environemnt (depending on Cairo and Pango for graphics and text formatting), but layered so the core code is useful in other contexts such as different scripting languages, web servers, desktop applications, embedded devices, etc.

Micropolis GPL License Notice

Micropolis, Unix Version. This game was released for the Unix platform in or about 1990 and has been modified for inclusion in the One Laptop Per Child program. Copyright (C) 1989 - 2007 Electronic Arts Inc. If you need assistance with this program, you may contact:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis or email micropolis@laptop.org.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .

ADDITIONAL TERMS per GNU GPL Section 7

No trademark or publicity rights are granted. This license does NOT give you any right, title or interest in the trademark SimCity or any other Electronic Arts trademark. You may not distribute any modification of this program using the trademark SimCity or claim any affliation or association with Electronic Arts Inc. or its employees.

Any propagation or conveyance of this program must include this copyright notice and these terms.

If you convey this program (or any modifications of it) and assume contractual liability for the program to recipients of it, you agree to indemnify Electronic Arts for any liability that those contractual assumptions impose on Electronic Arts.

You may not misrepresent the origins of this program; modified versions of the program must be marked as such and not identified as the original program.

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