[Olpc-za] Fwd: [OLPC-Games] SimCity activity: please test and enjoy

Jonathan Carter jonathan at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 13 03:09:29 EST 2007


Hi Morgan

Morgan Collett wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 8:06 AM, Jonathan Carter <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> I'm downloading it to try it out :-)
>> Did you get it? How does it run on the OLPC?
> 
> Like it's 1989 all over again... :)
> 
> The main area of the screen where you build things didn't render, but
> then I was running an unstable developer build with the Rainbow
> security framework partially non working.
> 
> I'll reflash back to the last stable build and try it again soon.

D'oh! I kept thinking of the Sims instead of Simcity. It's quite a dated 
game, it would be nice if they could make the interface a bit more XO'y. 
I'm sure it will still give hundreds of thousands of kids plenty of 
entertainment. I wonder if the cheats still work :)

-Jonathan


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