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by nico 15 days ago
Loved SimCity growing up.

Would it be possible to automate porting the windows version into a mac or web version? Like giving a long-running agent the task and some tools to check/play the game on both platforms?
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cguess 15 days ago
SimCity 4 has a native Mac build, it's on Steam. Most of the modding community uses Windows now though since the .dll hacks became feasible.
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bombcar 15 days ago
SimCity 4 not only has a native Mac build, but it has an applesilicon one (I believe you have to enable a beta flag somewhere).

Pretty impressive for a game released in 2003.

Oh my goodness SC4 is 23 years old. I'll go be old in the corner.

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spockz 15 days ago
At this point you can probably just run it with proton or wine. Why bother porting the whole thing?
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nico 14 days ago
For fun and customization. This guy used Claude to decompile and recreate an old mac game: https://www.tiktok.com/@philsmy/video/7644482888544636180
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nonamenoslogan 15 days ago
Can confirm it runs on Debian with Wine just fine.
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