Sim City open source

[guyjin]

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/01/12/1846256.shtml

Sim city open sourced. Can a PCE (or megadrive, even) port be far behind?

[nodtveidt]

Hrm...it's too damn bad they had to poison it with C++ and Python. Otherwise, I probably could have ported it to the PCE.

[Kitsunexus]

I didn't think the original SC WAS programmed in Python... 

[nodtveidt]

It wasn't. It was coded in straight-up C. These people who've released this sourcecode poisoned it before releasing it, probably bending to the pressure of the C++ geeks who cream their jeans at a new C++ source and throw a bloody fit if someone dares release a C source code because "LIEK ZOMG ITZ SO OLD SKEWL GIT WID TEH TIEMZ MAAAAAAAN LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111". f*cking nerds.

[Joe Redifer]

Which is better, Sim City or Sin City?  They both seem similar.

[Kitsunexus]

You can't shoot the helicopter with the zoning tool in Sin City. ^_^

[guyjin]

Yeah, it would have to be de-plused before a PCE port.

I need to get back into programming again.

[Kitsunexus]

So wait, why are they calling this the original source, if it isnt? 

[nodtveidt]

Because they're f*cking retarded...that's all I can come up with for an answer.

[nat]

Because they're f*cking retarded...that's all I can come up with for an answer.

How hard would it really be to convert it back to C?

[nodtveidt]

All depends on how mangled it is. It's all wrapped up in classes now, which means it'd be a real bitch to convert back to procedural code, but there's always a chance.

[nat]

Probably not at the top of the priority list, at any rate.

[nodtveidt]

Well, I'm sure as hell not about to do it.