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City Manager is a tool for examining and modifying SimCities created by
SimCity from Maxis software.

The following is a brief description of the various menu options:


A. File Menu

     1. Open City    - will load a city from disk.  Put the program in
                       the directory with your SimCities.
     2. Save City    - Replaces existing city with modified one.  The program
                       will warn you if you modify and attempt to exit without
                       saving.

B. Display City

     1. Residential  - displays the status of your residential zones.  The
                       residential zones are broken into 2 groups:
                       Apartment complexes and single home zones.  The apts.
                       are displayed by value and density. The higher both
                       are the better.  The houses group shows the total
                       number of lots (6 per area) occupied, the total number
                       vacant, and the number of churches and hospitals. The
                       total number of residential areas is also displayed.

     2. Commercial   - displays the status of your commercial zones. Like the
                       residential group, it gives you a table broken down
                       by density and value.  Again, the higher both are the
                       better.  The total number of zones is also given.

     3. Industrial   - displays the status of industrial zones.  Industrial
                       zones only have two value classifications, unlike
                       residential and commercial.  The number of zones
                       occupied and vacant is given.

     4. Infrastructure - displays the status of all infrastructure squares.
                         These include roads, rails, police stn., fire stn.,
                         power plants, airports, sea ports, and power lines.

C. Change City

     1. Edit City    - will allow you to modify various fields in your city.
                       Most of the fields are constantly updated by the program
                       are displayed only for your information.  The fields
                       you can change are the funds and the external market
                       size.  While you can change the other fields, SimCity
                       seems to update them soon after you begin playing and
                       your changes are lost.

     2. Chrch & Hspt - will allow you to remove churches and hospitals from
                       your city and replace them with either high value &
                       high density residential, high value & high density
                       commercial, or empty residential.  To change churches
                       and/or hospitals, select one by pressing the space bar
                       or clicking on it with the mouse.  One, both or none
                       may be selected.  Then use the Tab key or mouse to 
                       move to the radio buttons to select a value to change
                       them to.  Then press Enter of click on OK button to 
                       change.  


Changes:

This version fixes several bugs.  A bug that caused lockups on certain PCs
should be fixed, and the commercial display now correctly shows the number of
commercial zones.  The change churches and hospitals feature was added,
and the program now warns you before leaving the program without saving 
your city. Finally, a new display box was added for Infrastructure type zones.


Notes:  You can edit only one city at a time, and remember to save it (F2)
        if you change values before loading another or exiting. It is also
        a good idea to make a copy of your city before modifying it.  I have
        tested this program and it has not trashed any of my cities, but I
        wouldn't recommend taking any chances.


This program was written using Turbo Pascal 6.0 and TurboVision.  I recommend
both highly.  If you are interested in the source code, or have any
comments or suggestions, send E-mail to:

           ErikN1       on  America Online
           ErikN        on  Bix

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