Divercity is an extension of MicropolisJ which is Micropolis for the Java platform, which implements several new features and improvements over the original MicropolisJ. It was developed during a three-week programming course in 2014 at Freie Universitaet Berlin by Arne Roland, Benjamin Kretz, Estela Gretenkord i Berenguer, Fabian Mett, Marvin Becker, Tom Brewe, Tony Schwedek, Ullika Scholz, Vanessa Schreck. (also see last two sections on this readme for author statements of the predecessor versions)
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First of all, you must have Java (version 7 or better) installed on your computer. You can get Java at http://java.com/download.
Next, simply double-click the enclosed micropolisj.jar file to run the program.
to get the dev branch: run this command in commandline in your favorite directory:
git clone git@github.com:Team--Rocket/divercity.git divercity ; cd divercity; ant
then simply run (in divercity directory):
java -jar micropolisj.jar
Attention: Enabling sound might result in a slower UI experience.
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Copyright (C) for Divercity: 2014 Arne Roland, Benjamin Kretz, Estela Gretenkord i Berenguer, Fabian Mett, Marvin Becker, Tom Brewe, Tony Schwedek, Ullika Scholz, Vanessa Schreck.
Copyright (C) for MicropolisJ: 2013 Jason Long (jason@long.name). Portions Copyright (C) 1989-2007 Electronic Arts Inc.
MicropolisJ is based on Micropolis, Unix version, which was developed by Don Hopkins (dhopkins@DonHopkins.com, http://www.DonHopkins.com) for DUX Software under license from Maxis, in or around 1990. This version was later modified for inclusion in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, and released as free and open source software under the GPL in 2008. Copyright (C) 1989-2007 Electronic Arts Inc.
The original Micropolis game was designed and implemented by Will Wright. Copyright (C) 2002 by Electronic Arts.
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