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SimCity Source Code Is Now Open 360

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12, 2008 @04:01PM from the but-you-can't-call-it-that dept.

Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting a SimCity branded version that has been QA'ed by Electronic Arts. Some very cool changes have been made by Don Hopkins, who updated and ported what is now Micropolis. (Here is an earlier Slashdot discussion kicked off by a submission Don made.) Among other things, it has been revamped from the original C to using C++ with Python. Here is the page linking all the various source code versions. Happy hacking!"

Bridgestone Shows Off Ultra-Thin, Full-Color e-Paper 177

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 22, 2007 @07:02PM from the magazines-of-the-future dept.

Bridgestone, the company which debuted the "world's thinnest" sheet of two-color e-paper last year, has turned around and delivered a new version which is capable of displaying over four thousand colors. "In case that wasn't enough, the company is also touting what it calls the "world's largest full color e-paper that is A3 size, which is equivalent to a 21.4-inch screen." As you'd expect, the latter is expected to be used solely for advertising and could hit the market as early as next year, while the former technology is set to be commercially available in 2009."

Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs 380

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 30, 2007 @05:12PM from the cha-ching dept.

Ed Albro, PC World writes "At PC World, we've got a story today on salespeople at Best Buy and Circuit City pushing consumers to pay the stores' technicians to create recovery discs for their new laptops. Recovery discs are important to have, of course, but the fact is that they're easy to make yourself. Or you can get them from the manufacturer of your PC, often for half of what Best Buy and Circuit City charge you. The salespeople often tell you that you can buy from the manufacturer — but they claim you'll pay twice as much as the stores charge."

Comment Warming up Warcraft (Score 1) 686

by SlackerElite on Saturday August 19, 2006 @03:39AM (#15939395) Attached to: Computer Voodoo?

Back in the old days I had a 386 and the most amazing game came out: Warcraft. Problem was, it wouldn't run on my computer; always froze up during the map loads. So, I gave it a corner massage! Gently massage both corners of the lain down computer during the loading caused the maps to always work flawlessly!

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