Metropolis - Open SimCity

SimCity was was released as opensource project with the code name Metropolis by Don Hopkins. There is not a lot of information available yet, i have skimmed the wiki so far.

Unfortunately, it does not work on Ubuntu Gutsy, this is what I get after installing the x86 build on my 32bit ubuntu install (i had to install yacc and libxpm-dev manually).

$ sudo apt-get install -y yacc libxpm-dev

I can only get to the main menu, it looks like this:



When I run the game the game starts but does not react to any user input:

spliffy@splatter:~/Desktop/micropolis-activity$ sh ./Micropolis -S
Starting Micropolis in /home/spliffy/Desktop/micropolis-activity ...
Welcome to X11 Multi Player Micropolis version 4.0 by Will Wright, Don Hopkins.
Copyright (C) 2002 by Electronic Arts, Maxis. All rights reserved.
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
Adding a player on :0.0 ...
Cool, I found the shared memory extension!

Micropolis has been terminated by a signal.
Pick a window -- you're leaving!


spliffy@splatter:~/Desktop/micropolis-activity$ sh ./Micropolis
Starting Micropolis in /home/spliffy/Desktop/micropolis-activity ...
Welcome to X11 Multi Player Micropolis version 4.0 by Will Wright, Don Hopkins.
Copyright (C) 2002 by Electronic Arts, Maxis. All rights reserved.
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
Adding a player on :0.0 ...
Cool, I found the shared memory extension!

Micropolis has been terminated by a signal.
Pick a window -- you're leaving!

Does someboy know how to fix this? i am really looking forward to play SimCity :)

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