SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)(thran.uk)

463 points by speckx 5 months ago | 185 comments

A personal blog post explaining how to get SimCity 3000 running well on a modern Windows 10 PC with a 4K monitor, fixing widescreen, resolution, and scrolling issues.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz(larstofus.com)

79 points by rex64 4 days ago | 23 comments

Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.

Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine(mitpress.mit.edu)

399 points by jarmitage 2 years ago | 148 comments

MIT Press book page for "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" by Chaim Gingold, with a foreword by Janet H. Murray.

Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5(dator.dev)

28 points by drdator 20 days ago | 11 comments

OpenTTD(openttd.org)

392 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 84 comments

The About page of OpenTTD, an open source GPL-licensed simulation game based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, listing its features and enhancements.

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly(babyloniantwins.com)

356 points by rabahs 1 month ago | 123 comments

Developer's blog post on porting his 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins, written in 68000 assembly in Baghdad, to the Godot engine with help from an LLM.