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The original SimCity is now the open source Micropolis

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:00:00 GMT
Think you're smarter than the meatheads on your local city council? Now you can prove it -- without running for office -- courtesy of the original city simulation game. Electronic Arts (EA) has released the source code to SimCity under the GPLv3. The newly freed game is dubbed Micropolis, and it is playable in most major Linux distributions.

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NAME

       game-data-packager - build a .deb of game data

SYNOPSIS

       game-data-packager [ -i ] [ -d out-directory [ -n ] ] game [ game-options ]

DESCRIPTION

       Many  open-source games require game data which is licensed incompatibly with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  game-data-packager is a
       tool designed to help you locally assemble Debian packages containing such game data from CD-ROMs, the Internet or elsewhere.

OPTIONS

       -i     attempt to install the generated Debian package via dpkg(1) and su(1)

       -d out-directory
	      writes the generated Debian package to the specified directory.

       -n     Do not attempt to install the generated Debian package. This option must be used in conjunction with -d.

       game   The game being packaged. Running game-data-packager without arguments will display a list of valid games. Running game-data-packager
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