For those people who play the great SimCity™* game and keep on running out of money, or could do so much more with a little more money, or just love to cheat, I wrote this little program to allow them to do just that. Simply open your city, specify how much money you want, and your interest-free, infinite term loan is granted on the spot!
——— Compatibility ———
This program should work on any Macintosh.
——— Usage ———
The use of this program is very straight forward: once you launch it, you are prompted for a SimCity file to open, and given the opportunity to quit. Select the file you wish to modify (i.e. the city you want to give an infinite-term loan to) and click Open as usual (or double-click on the filename).
You are then told how much money the city currently has and asked what you would like to change it to—note that this is the total amount, not the additional (loan) amount, e.g. if you had $527 before running this program and wanted to increase it by $2000, you’d type 2527, not 2000. If you type an invalid number, an appropriate alert message will pop up.
Once you click OK to this dialog, the changes are made, if possible. If for some reason the program is unable to save the new amount to the file, (e.g. the disk is locked), it will report the problem and let you start again. If all is well, it will tell you so and return you to the file dialog to select another file to modify or quit.
——— Limitations & Known Problems ———
This is called the Unlimited SimCity Bank, so there are no limitations!! Well, not quite, anyway. You are limited to a maximum of $999999999 (I hope that’s enough!!). Also, it does not support SimCity 2000 cities, unfortunately.
1.0d: 13-14 Jan 1991 Developmental version to implement spec.
1.0b1: 9 Feb 1991 Some minor fixes and lets go beta!
Docs: 9 Feb 1991 Standard documentation
1.0: 19 Feb 1991 All well, no reports of problems, not much that can go wrong anyway, so lets release it (my first program to get to the release stage, though hardly first written).
Docs: 18 Jan 1995 Updated docs to reflect my new name and to use styled text.
——— Acknowledgements ———
Thanks must go to the great guys at Maxis Software for creating the wonderful SimCity game. If any of you or your distributors object to this program in any way, please let me know immediately—I don’t want to upset anyone with this…
——— Dejal Userware ———
This program is being released as Freeware. You may give it away to anyone, provided you include this document with the software, and both are unmodified. Since it’s not Shareware, you may continue to use it without paying me any money, however if you’ve found it useful and want to donate something, I wouldn’t turn you down!
If you come across any bugs, please let me know. Rest assured I have checked it quite extensively, and found it works fine on my machine and those of my Beta Testers, but I accept no responsibility if it trashes your hard disk or blows up your Mac.
You may be interested in other programs I’ve written, including some high quality Shareware applications. Here are brief descriptions of just two of them:
• SndConverter Pro (Shareware): my most popular product to date; this application allows you to quickly convert a batch of sounds from one format to another. Additional options include the ability to downsample or compress sounds, filter the sound names, change sampling rates, convert 16-bit sounds to 8-bit, plus other features. It will help you find and extract sounds, and supports Apple events (file, folder and disk dropping), resolving aliases, and other features.
• QuickEncrypt (Shareware): drop a file on this application to quickly and securely encrypt it, or decrypt previously encrypted files. It is very configurable and has many features, including support for files of an unlimited length, multiple worksets, user-controlled password limitations, a default password, automatic encryption and/or decryption, verification of validity, the option of a standard source folder and various destination options, opening files once decrypted (via AppleEvents), and more.
Write to the address below, or contact me via e-mail, for more information. If you want to receive the Dejal Userware™ disk, which includes every program I have written and released as Shareware or Freeware, plus my sound catalogue, send US$5 or provide your credit card details. I can accept VISA, MasterCard, Bankcard, Diners Club and American Express, as well as cash & checks in any major currency or international money orders — I can even accept credit card orders via e-mail! I prefer cash (any currency, not only NZ$ or US$) for small amounts like US$5.
Please let me know if you use this program, by writing or e-mailing:
Snail: Dejal Userware, PO Box 33-1011, Takapuna, Auckland 1309, NEW ZEALAND
Internet: dejal@iconz.co.nz (preferred) or dejal@deepthnk.kiwi.gen.nz
Dejal Userware home page: http://amug.org:80/~dejal/
CompuServe: >INTERNET: dejal@iconz.co.nz or 100033,2435
I read the Internet mail every day, and will reply immediately (allow a day or two for net.delay), but only call CI$ once a fortnight, or less.
Note: my software is now available for anonymous ftp at ftp.amug.org in the /pub/dejal directory. Most of the software is also available on sumex-aim and its mirror sites, though my ftp site has the advantage of having all my software in the one directory, and you know they are the latest versions.
* SimCity is a trademark of and the game is copyright by Maxis Software. This program and the author is in no way affiliated with Maxis Software.
