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Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project

11 points by trekker7 19y ago

tlrobinson 19y ago
I just donated/ordered my OLPC! http://www.laptopgiving.org/ http://www.laptopgiving.org/ I loved Sim City! I wonder though, how useful is a game that's centered around American type cities to kids in developing countries?
- rms 19y ago
  This is a straight PR move on EAs part. I haven't seen anyone from OLPC actually say that Sim City is included. I suspect it is accessible to OLPC children the same way it is accessible free to us -- http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php, because I sincerely doubt that OLPC would install non-free software on every laptop they distribute.
  - Tichy 19y ago
    Maybe, but somehow Sim City seems very suitable for the OLPC, don't you think? Especially the way it seems to be projected, it would be cool to use Sim City for scientific experiments.
    - rms 19y ago
      Sorry -- I had read this earlier in a less detailed article and replied without reading this one. It sounds like Sim City is being rewritten to be scriptable in python which puts it well within the aims of the OLPC project.
      - tlrobinson 19y ago
        Hmmm scriptable Sim City... That could be interesting
      - tlrobinson 19y ago
        Hmmm scriptable Sim City... That could be interesting
  - ced 19y ago
    OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name "Micropolis" from http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/200234&from=rss http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/200234&#38...
hhm 19y ago
Did you notice SimCity is going to go open source too? I'm not sure it was mentioned in this piece of news...
euccastro 19y ago
I wish they did the same for M.U.L.E. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.
jadams 19y ago
Nice. Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.

11 points by trekker7 19y ago

I just donated/ordered my OLPC! http://www.laptopgiving.org/ http://www.laptopgiving.org/ I loved Sim City! I wonder though, how useful is a game that's centered around American type cities to kids in developing countries?

rms 19y ago
This is a straight PR move on EAs part. I haven't seen anyone from OLPC actually say that Sim City is included. I suspect it is accessible to OLPC children the same way it is accessible free to us -- http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php, because I sincerely doubt that OLPC would install non-free software on every laptop they distribute.
- Tichy 19y ago
  Maybe, but somehow Sim City seems very suitable for the OLPC, don't you think? Especially the way it seems to be projected, it would be cool to use Sim City for scientific experiments.
  - rms 19y ago
    Sorry -- I had read this earlier in a less detailed article and replied without reading this one. It sounds like Sim City is being rewritten to be scriptable in python which puts it well within the aims of the OLPC project.
    - tlrobinson 19y ago
      Hmmm scriptable Sim City... That could be interesting
    - tlrobinson 19y ago
      Hmmm scriptable Sim City... That could be interesting
- ced 19y ago
  OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name "Micropolis" from http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/200234&from=rss http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/200234&#38...

hhm 19y ago

Did you notice SimCity is going to go open source too? I'm not sure it was mentioned in this piece of news...

euccastro 19y ago

I wish they did the same for M.U.L.E. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

jadams 19y ago

Nice. Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.