How I came to simcity , and simtropolis...

Fri, 15 May 2009 16:54:00 -0500

Most probaly are not interested in these things , but for those who are , I am trying to create a diverse blog.

so , , if you are reading this , you are obviously interested , and this will tell you about a lot of myself... I may not get a complete edition today , so it may be incomplete. I will remove this , however , when it is complete.)

once , we went to one of my "friend's" house , he had a bunch of electronics , and I instantly fell in love with the electronic idea.

I later got several electronics kits for christmas.
I was overjoyed.

one of them included a paralaxx robot , I had a lot of fun programming it(in basic!)
one boring friday night , I made up my mind(with a commitment I had no idea would last years , then fail...)
I was going to program , computers , and make a computer game...(like I said , it failed , I made something , but it was true junk!)

it took about a year aloneto learn how to program C alone.(I was about 10 by then. I know , I was young.)

unfortunatly , like an idiot , I was working on it even while I learned , and it just worsened the piece of junk I made(by then , it was too big to re-write , so I was stuck with it!)

so I worked on it about another year , totalling about 2 years , my code was a piece of true crud , I finished it on my birthday , I was 11 , I made a site page for it , but that no longer exists ,and I can't say I am upset.

but while I worked I came across a mogazine article that changed my life(I didn't know it at the time!)
you can probably tell I was using a linux machine.
it was "wine windows emulator for linux" it barely worked , but I looked up stuff to install for it , I learned that roller coaster tycoon , worked on it.

I played it a bit , but a few days later , we got simcity (I guess my dad saw me playing a simulation game , and got a bunch more (one of which was simcity 3000!))

I loved it for about a year , then we got simcity 4.

I got bored , so I looked up some videos on google for sc4.
I found one with turn lanes , and everytrhing(little did I know it was the nam!)
at the end , I saw "Mods by simtropolis modders."

so I lokked up that on google , and found simtropolis!
obviously, I joined, then downloaded a number of things... not finding the nam until later... a couple weeks later, I FOUND IT!!!

To be continued another day.

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How I came to simcity , and simtropolis...