Status October 22, 2001: Moved the page to its new home.

Here's what I've got left to do before the final release:

Missing features:

A Load Game screen(already have an offer of code)
Compress that title screen
Bit more infomation in the budget screen
Cost adjustments
Redistributed growth (right now, growth concentrates itself in the upper left region on the map)
Fix bug with road building
Optimize, optimize, optimize
Clean up source code

About

SimCity is a project I started working on back in March 1997. Since its conception, SimCity has grown from a small demo into a full feldged simulator. I've tried as much as possible to stay true to the computer version of SimCity.

Download

The following files are available for download:
• simcity.zip SimCity v0.99b
• simcity96.zip SimCity v0.96B (previous release)

Current Build: The current build is 29 bytes smaller than the last release.

Features

SimCity give you the ability to create residential, commercial, and industrial zones, build parks, police and fire stations, airports, and seaports. You can get information about your city's size, pollution and crime rates. Your city can either be coal powered, or nuclear powered. When starting from scratch, you can pick from 5 different types of maps.

Zones

For those of you not familiar with SimCity, there are three basic types of zones: residential, commercial, and industrial. Your citizens live in the residential zones, work in the industrial zones, and shop in the commercial zones. To grow properly, your city will need a proper mix of all three types of zones.

In addition to the residential, commercial and industrial zones, there are city structures. These are police and fire departments, power plants, and roads. Each of these requires maintaince each year. These costs are summarized below:

Zone	Build	Maintaince (/yr)
Police Station	$500	$15
Fire Station	$500	$15
Seaport	$500	$50
Airport	$500	$50
Coal Power Plant	$500	$50
Nuclear Power Plant	$500	$100
Roads	$10	$5

These items are accessed through the Services menu. Press [MORE] to access the other items.

Information

Under the Info menu, there are 4 choices: Crime, Pollute, Value, and Budget. Each of these will give you specific information about your city.
• Crime: Displays a map of crime in your city. Darker areas mean more crime.
• Pollute: Displays a map of pollution in your city. Darker areas mean more pollution.
• Value: Shows a map of city land value. Darker values are higher valued.
• Budget: Brings up the city budget. Tells you how much money your city is generating and how much it costs to operate your city. The up and down arrows adjust the tax rate. [ENTER] accepts the value, [EXIT] cancels.

Game Menu

• Options: Lets you change the simulation settings, including disasters, auto-goto, auto-budget, and game speed

• New Map Lets you create one of five new maps: You have the choice of 5 new types of maps:
  • Plain: just a regular vanilla map.
  • Forrest: A map with patches of park scattered all over.
  • River: Basically a forrest with a couple rivers crossing the city.
  • Coast: Your city is boarded by the coast on one side.
  • Island: You guessed it.

Disasters
Your city can now be ravaged by the following disasters: