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Yes, hahaha me too. I clicked happy because I thought "yes, EA a big devil company who no release any game for Linux in their history, thanks karma". But not.
by mdtrooper 4y ago
Yes, hahaha me too. I clicked happy because I thought "yes, EA a big devil company who no release any game for Linux in their history, thanks karma".
But not.
- DonHopkins 4y agoActually, 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-58470a275446 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 https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis Here's the contract with all the legal details: https://donhopkins.com/home/olpc-ea-contract.pdf https://donhopkins.com/home/olpc-ea-contract.pdf