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Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by forbiddenvoid »

tedeh wrote: post #5

This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various forms of distress by picking them up and flying to various destinations. Great flashback from 90's gaming, I remember tossing people out at random when flying which was always hilarious when you're a young kid. You could then pick them up and fly them to the hospi…

I spent a lot of time in SimCopter as a teenager. It was always fun to get to explore the cities I had spent so much time curating in SC2k.

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by nimajneb »

tedeh wrote: post #5

This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various forms of distress by picking them up and flying to various destinations. Great flashback from 90's gaming, I remember tossing people out at random when flying which was always hilarious when you're a young kid. You could then pick them up and fly them to the hospi…

I never had SimCopter, but I did have the vehicle based one. I remember having fun playing in it in cities I made. Is it called Streets of Sim City?

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by jgosar »

jtokoph wrote: post #83
jgosar wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SimCopter was actually the inspiration behind this project, but what annoyed me was that the buildings mostly looked nothing like in SimCity 2000.

My biggest disappointment was the lack of Arcologies in SimCopter. If I remember correctly, the land they were originally on was just empty once imported.

Unfortunately that's the case in MineCity 2000 as well

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by NexRebular »

hawski wrote: post #22
tedeh wrote: post #5

This reminds me a lot of SimCopter (1996) where you could also import your SC2k city and fly around and do missions. Mostly about helping people in various forms of distress by picking them up and flying to various destinations. Great flashback from 90's gaming, I remember tossing people out at random when flying which was always hilarious when you're a young kid. You could then pick them up and fly them to the hospi…

I liked to play the SimCopter demo and thanks to it Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries still remind me of the game. I suspected (or maybe just hoped) that you could somehow import SimCity 2000 cities (I had the original boxed release, the first game I owned), but either it was not possible to do in the demo or I just failed to find the way (I was barely a teenager without the Internet access).

I remember it was possible to import your own maps in the demo... by just copying your own city over the demo one.

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by MayeulC »

tippysdemise wrote: post #89
MayeulC wrote: post #65

That looks great! It's C# though, so I have no idea how to build this under Linux. I also wish there was a Minetest backend. Similar: OSM to Minecraft[0][1] (there should be another code drop soon-ish, I heard [2] they plan to move the dev effort to GitHub by the end of the year). [0]: https://minecraft.ign.fr/ [1]: https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac [2]: video, in French: https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/w/c…

Usually, building C# projects on Linux is as simple as getting the .NET SDK using your favorite package manager and running `$ dotnet build` at the root of the project. Just FYI.

Thanks for the tip! I saw some .sln files and I assumed project information was only stored in a Visual Studio-specific format.

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by MayeulC »

nycdotnet wrote: post #75
chris37879 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the GUI uses WinForms, which means you won't be able to build it on linux, I would wager. You may, however, be able to run an already built version of it through Wine.

The GUI code looks very simple at first glance - just four buttons and file picker and background worker. Chances are this would be straight-forward to port to a .NET command-line tool that would be cross-platform assuming there's nothing Windows-specific in the domain logic.

Thinking about it, wouldn't mono support this fairly well? I don't have much experience with mono nor C#, but going from a sibling comment and my package manager, I would be tempted to install mono-msbuild-sdkresolver and run `mono build`.

Of course, I believe a command-line tool is a better fit, especially if one wants to automate this.

The real value of this project probably lies in the buildings the author made :)

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by jl6 »

coldpie wrote: post #72
jl6 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Playclassic.games does not intend to violate any copyright or violate any license of a game. I thought there was a chance this site might have arranged licenses from the original publishers, funded by revenue from the (many) ads, but no, it appears to be good old fashioned piracy. Edit: I tried Settlers, which has one of those copy-protection systems that involves entering information that can be found in the print…

Hard disagree. Severs aren't free to run. They're welcome to recoup those costs and even make a profit from providing a valuable service. Ethically they're doing nothing wrong by letting people play a 30-year-old game for free, even if they're in violation of our utterly insane copyright laws.

I didn’t see any statement on the site that the ads and donations were ringfenced to cover server costs.

Re: Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds

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Post by lostgame »

xattt wrote: post #57
hawski wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked to play the SimCopter demo and thanks to it Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries still remind me of the game. I suspected (or maybe just hoped) that you could somehow import SimCity 2000 cities (I had the original boxed release, the first game I owned), but either it was not possible to do in the demo or I just failed to find the way (I was barely a teenager without the Internet access).

This is kind of like being a fan of early Simpsons, where exposure to one thing leads you to find out more about the thing they’re drawing inspiration from. The association of Flight of the Valkyries and helicopters came from Stanley Kubrick’s Apocolypse Now.

>> ‘Stanley Kubrick’s’ ‘Apocalypse Now’

…in what possible world; lol. I want to see that world.

I think you mean Francis Ford Coppola. :P Or ‘Full Metal Jacket’ - but your statement as it stands just makes me giggle.

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