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- From: hopkins@turing.ac.uk (Don Hopkins)
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- Subject: SimCity available via ftp
- Message-ID: <HOPKINS.92Jul26111153@delta9.turing.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 10:11:53 GMT
- Sender: usenet@turing.ac.uk (Usenet for nntp)
- Organization: The Turing Institute, Ltd.
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- The HyperLook edition of SimCity for SPARC is now available via
- anonymous ftp from "ftp.uu.net", in the directory "vendor/dux".
- Retrieve the files "SimCity.README", "SimCity.INSTALL",
- "SimCity.tar.Z" and "HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z". The file
- "SimCity-screen-dump.im8.Z" contains a color picture of the game in
- action! Many other interesting HyperLook related files are in the
- directory "packages/NeWS". SimCity is also available in Scotland via
- anonymous ftp from "turing.com" (in the "pub" directory). Enclosed
- are the files "SimCity.README" and "SimCity.INSTALL".
-
- Please enjoy your fun!
-
- -Don
-
- SimCity Product Information
- ---------------------------
-
- SimCity Requirements:
-
- SimCity requires a SPARC workstation running the SunOS 4.1
- operating system, with the OpenWindows 3.0 window system
- installed, an 8 bit deep color graphics display, a kernel with
- the shared memory option enabled, and at least 16 megabytes of
- memory. It doesn't support 1 bit deep monochrome displays, nor
- does it work with earlier or different window systems.
-
- This version of SimCity was built using the HyperLook user
- interface design system, and is shipped with a HyperLook run
- time system. It includes an demonstration of HyperLook,
- featuring a fully functional PostScript graphics editor, that
- was used to draw parts of the SimCity user interface.
-
- SimCity is copy protected, using the Elan License Manager. If
- you don't have a license, SimCity will run in demo mode:
- saving the city is disabled, and you can play for five minutes
- before something dreadful happens.
-
- SimCity Features:
-
- On-Line Help
- You can get help on the SimCity user interface, by pointing
- the mouse at anything mysterious and pressing the "Help" key.
- The HyperLook Help window will pop up, giving instructions and
- useful hints on how to use the controls.
-
- Multiple Views
- It's possible to display several animated views of the city on
- the screen at once. You can even zoom in and out, to magnify
- or shrink the graphics! The animation is slower when a view is
- scaled, but you can still scroll around and edit your city as
- usual, at any size.
-
- Open Look
- HyperLook is integrated with The NeWS Toolkit (TNT), to
- implement the Open Look user interface. SimCity uses Open Look
- buttons, menus, sliders, settings, text and numeric fields.
- They help to make the interface familiar and easy to use.
-
- Pie Menus
- SimCity features pop up "pie menus" for selecting between city editing
- tools. Pie menus are circular menus with their choices in
- different directions, and they're very fast and efficient to
- use. Since you change editing tools quite often while building
- a city, you can save much time and effort by using pie menus
- instead of the tool pallet.
-
- Sound Mixer
- SimCity plays its sound effects using the HyperLook sound server,
- which makes real time sound effects by mixing them together
- and playing them immediately when needed. So you can hear the
- bulldozer rumbling, buildings crashing, and the monster
- roaring at the same time, all synchronized with the animation.
-
- PostScript Printing
- You can print your city on a color or monochrome PostScript printer.
- It's possible to print the whole city on one page, or a twelve
- page poster.
-
- SimCity Legal Information
- -------------------------
-
- Unix SimCity Implementation, User Interface & Graphics
- by Don Hopkins, DUX Software. Thanks to The Turing Institute.
- Original Concept & Design by Will Wright, Maxis Software.
- Unix SimCity HyperLook Edition 1.0 Copyright (C) 1992 MAXIS, DUX Software
- HyperLook 1.5 Copyright (C) 1992 The Turing Institute, Ltd.
- SimCity is a registered trademark of Maxis Software.
- HyperLook is a trademark of The Turing Institute, Ltd.
-
- SimCity Ordering Information
- ----------------------------
-
- This version of SimCity will run in demo mode (you can play for a
- while, but you can't save your city, and after 5 minutes, something
- horrible happens to your city), until you get a license and install a
- valid key. To get a license, contact DUX Software at:
-
- DUX Software
- 4906 El Camino Real
- Suite 1
- Los Altos, CA 94022
-
- Phone: +1-800-543-4999
- +1-415-967-1500
- FAX: +1-415-967-5528
-
- Retrieving and Installing SimCity
- ---------------------------------
-
- Retrieve the following files:
- SimCity.README
- SimCity.tar.Z
- HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z
-
- Read the README file and make sure you have the appropriate configuration
- to run SimCity and HyperLook. You will need 2,600 Kbytes of disk space
- for SimCity and 1,500 Kbytes for HyperLook, for a total of 4,100 Kbytes.
- You must also have 3,200 Kbytes of disk space on /tmp (or some other
- local file system) on the machine that runs SimCity, for shared memory.
-
- % df
- % more SimCity.README
-
- Uncompress and untar the two .tar.Z files, and you'll have the directories
- "SimCity" and "HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z".
-
- % uncompress SimCity.tar.Z
- % uncompress HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z
- % tar xfv SimCity.tar
- % tar xfv HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar
-
- Go into the SimCity directory, and run the "InstallSimCity" shell script.
- A typical installation is shown, where <return> means pressing the
- "Return" key to accept the default. If the default is not acceptable,
- then enter the full path name of the appropriate directory (or the
- host name of the license server).
-
- % cd SimCity
- % InstallSimCity
- SimCity Installation:
-
- Please enter the name of the top level SimCity directory,
- or press return to accept the default of:
- /g/demo/SimCity
- Directory: <return>
-
- Please enter the name of the top level HyperLook directory,
- or press return to accept the default of:
- /g/demo/HyperLook1.5-runtime
- Directory: <return>
-
- Please enter the name of the SimCity license key directory,
- or press return to accept the default of:
- /g/demo/SimCity/Resources/Keys
- Directory: <return>
-
- Please enter the name of a local directory that SimCity can use
- to store its shared memory images. It must have plenty of space.
- Press return to accept the default of:
- /tmp
- Local Directory: <return>
-
- Please enter the host name of the SimCity license server,
- or press return to accept the default of:
- delta9
- Host Name: <return>
-
- Configuring shell scripts:
- GetKey
- SimCity
- SimCity.GenerateCity
- SimCity.NewCity
- Scenario.Bern
- Scenario.Boston
- Scenario.Rio_de_Janeiro
- Scenario.Detroit
- Scenario.San_Francisco
- Scenario.Dullsville
- Scenario.Tokyo
- Scenario.Hamburg
-
- All done. Now you can play SimCity!
- If you don't have a key, SimCity will run in demo mode.
- Run the 'GetKey' script or select 'Get Key...' from
- SimCity's 'File' menu to get a key.
-
- Now that you have installed SimCity, you can run the "GetKey" shell
- script to get a license key from DUX software, or run "SimCity" in
- demo mode without getting a key. In demo mode, your city will melt
- after 5 minutes, or when you try to save it to disk, so buy a license,
- it's cheap! When you buy a license, DUX will ship you the latest
- version of the software, a nice 100 page manual with lots of nifty
- illustrations, and a handy reference card. And when you're ordering,
- don't forget to ask how to embezzle funds!
-
- % GetKey
- To get a key for SimCity, contact DUX Software at:
-
- DUX Software
- 4906 El Camino Real
- Suite 1
- Los Altos, CA 94022
- Phone #: 1-800-543-4999
- or 1-415-967-1500
- FAX #: 1-415-967-5528
-
- and give them your server code.
-
- Your server code is: 1234 5678 9012 3456
- Please enter your key: 9876 5432 1098 7654<return>
-
- Feature name: 16 [16]
- Number of licenses: 1
-
- Key successfully installed.
- % SimCity
- Got a license!
-
- Now you're playing SimCity! An introduction window will pop up while
- the rest of the system loads. Then the startup screen will appear.
- Point the cursor at the controls and pictures and press the "Help" key
- (usually at the lower left corner of the keyboard) to learn how to use
- the user interface!
-
- To get the most out of the game:
-
- 1. Get a license key!
- It's cheap, and you'll get a manual with lots more tips!
- 2. Save your city often.
- You have to have a key to do that, though!
- 3. Print out your city periodically. But don't kill too many trees.
- You can even edit the city map images in the HyperLook drawing editor,
- annotate them, print them out, and save them as drawing or EPS files.
- 4. Don't forget to eat.
- Keep in mind the closing times of local restaurants, or keep lots
- of munchies on hand.
- 5. Have fun!
- If things are going bad, remember not to take it too seriously,
- it's only a simulation!
-