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   3 <h1>Introduction</h1>
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   5 <h2>Foreword</h2>
   6
   7 Enter Micropolis and take control. Be the undisputed ruler of a
   8 sophisticated real-time City Simulation. Become the master of existing
   9 cities such as San Francisco, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro, or create
  10 your own dream city (or nightmare slum) from the ground up.  <p>
  11
  12 Whether you take over an existing city or build your own, you are the
  13 Mayor and City Planner with complete authority.  <p>
  14
  15 Your city is populated by Sims -- Simulated Citizens. Like their human
  16 counterparts, they build houses, condos, churches, stores and
  17 factories. And, also like humans, they complain about things like
  18 taxes, mayors, taxes, city planners, and taxes. If they get unhappy,
  19 they move out; you collect fewer taxes, the city deteriorates.  <p>
  20
  21 The next few sections will explain the overall concept of Micropolis and
  22 give information that will help you win Scenarios and design and build
  23 better cities.  <p>
  24
  25 <h2>About System Simulations</h2>
  26
  27 Micropolis is the first of a new type of entertainment/educational
  28 software, called System Simulations. We provide you with a set of
  29 Rules and Tools that describe, create and control a system. In the
  30 case of Micropolis the system is a city.  <p>
  31
  32 The challenge of playing a System Simulation game is to figure out how
  33 the system works and take control of it. As master of the system, you
  34 are free to use the Tools to create and control an unlimited number of
  35 systems (in this case, cities) within the framework and limits
  36 provided by the Rules.  <p>
  37
  38 <h3>Rules</h3>
  39
  40 In Micropolis, the Rules to learn are based on city planning and
  41 management, including: <p>
  42
  43 <ul>
  44
  45 <li>Human Factors: Residential space and amenities, availability of
  46 jobs, and quality of life.
  47
  48 <li>Economic Factors: Land value, industrial and commercial space,
  49 unemployment, internal and external markets, electric power, taxation,
  50 and funding for city services.
  51
  52 <li>Survival Factors: Strategies for dealing with disasters, crime,
  53 and pollution.
  54
  55 <li>Political Factors: Public opinion, zoning, and keeping residents
  56 and businesses satisfied with your city and your performance.
  57
  58 </ul>
  59 <p>
  60
  61 <h3>Tools</h3>
  62
  63 The Tools provide you with the ability to plan, lay out, zone, build,
  64 bulldoze, re-zone, and manage a city. <p>
  65
  66 <ul>
  67
  68 <li>Plan: Mapping systems give physical and demographic overviews of
  69 the entire city.
  70
  71 <li>Layout: Design living and working areas, road and transit systems,
  72 and recreational areas.
  73
  74 <li>Zone: Set zoning boundaries for parks, residential, commercial and
  75 industrial areas.
  76
  77 <li>Build: Place roads, rails, airports, seaports, fire and police
  78 stations, sports stadiums, and power plants.
  79
  80 <li>Bulldoze: Clear forests for city growth, build landfill along
  81 waterways, clear and re-zone developed areas.
  82
  83 <li>Manage: Using the mapping and graphing systems, gather up-to-date
  84 information on traffic density, population trends, power grid status,
  85 pollution, crime, land value, police and fire department efficiency,
  86 and cash flow. Set the tax rate and funding levels for city services.
  87
  88 </ul>
  89 <p>
  90
  91 But the most important Tool of all is the Simulator itself. Test your
  92 plans and ideas as you watch the city grow or shrink through the
  93 immigration and emigration of industrious Simulated Citizens. Sims
  94 will move in and build homes, hospitals, churches, stores and
  95 factories in the zones you provide, or move out in search of jobs or a
  96 better life elsewhere. The success of the city is based on the quality
  97 of the city you design and manage.  <p>
  98
  99 <h3>Simulator Reaction Time</h3>
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 101 The simulator is a very complex multi-tasking piece of software. It is
 102 constantly performing many checks, calculations, and updates, as well
 103 as keeping watch on the mouse and keyboard to respond to your demands.
 104 When you load in a city, give the simulator some time to compile its
 105 data and update the maps, graphs, population levels, etc. Some of the
 106 other times when the simulator lags behind you are when powering zones
 107 and updating the city services map after installing police and fire
 108 stations.  <p>
 109
 110 <h2>The Goals of Micropolis</h2>
 111
 112 There are many goals to be pursued and reached in Micropolis.  <p>
 113
 114 <h3>Scenarios</h3>
 115
 116 Each of the eight included scenarios is actually a game in itself,
 117 with an unlimited number of ways to win -- or lose. <p>
 118
 119 Each Scenario is a city which is either the victim of horrible
 120 planning or about to be the victim of a natural disaster. After you
 121 load in a Scenario, you will have a limited amount of time to correct
 122 or repair the problems. If you are successful, you will be given the
 123 key to the city. If not, you may be ridden out of town on a rail.  <p>
 124
 125 If one strategy doesn't work, try another. There are a million stories
 126 in each city, and you write them.  <p>
 127
 128 <h3>Your Dream City</h3>
 129
 130 Perhaps the main goal of Micropolis is for you to design, manage and
 131 maintain the city of your dreams.  <p>
 132
 133 Your ideal place to live may be a bustling megalopolis, lots of
 134 people, lots of cars, tall buildings: high-energy, high density
 135 living. Or it may be a small rural community, or a linked group of
 136 small communities providing slow-paced country living.  <p>
 137
 138 As long as your city can provide places for people to live, work, shop
 139 and play, it will attract residents. And as long as traffic,
 140 pollution, overcrowding, crime or taxes don't drive them away, your
 141 city will live.  <p>
 142
 143 <h1>Getting Started</h1>
 144
 145 <h2>Micropolis Requirements</h2>
 146
 147 Micropolis requires an Intel processor running the Linux operating
 148 system, with the X11 window system installed, a 16 bit deep color graphics display,
 149 a kernel with the shared memory option enabled,
 150 and at least 32 megabytes of memory. <p>
 151
 152 <h2>Micropolis Features</h2>
 153
 154 <h3>On-Line Help</h3>
 155
 156 You can get help on the Micropolis user interface, by pointing the mouse
 157 at anything mysterious, holding down shift, and clicking the left button.
 158 The Help window will pop up, giving instructions and useful hints on how
 159 to use the controls.  <p>
 160
 161 <h3>Multiple Views</h3>
 162
 163 You can open up any number of animated city maps and editors at once. <p>
 164
 165 <h3>Pie Menus</h3>
 166
 167 Micropolis features pop up "pie menus" for quickly selecting city editing tools.
 168 Pie menus are radial menus with their choices in different directions,
 169 and they're very fast and efficient to use.
 170 Since you change editing tools quite often while building a city,
 171 you can save much time and effort by using the pie menu shortcuts
 172 instead of the moving back and forth to the tool pallet.
 173 <p>
 174
 175 <p>
 176
 177 <hr>
 178 <p>
 179 <h2>Micropolis, Unix Version.</h2>
 180 This game was released for the Unix platform
 181 in or about 1990 and has been modified for inclusion in the One Laptop
 182 Per Child program.  Copyright &copy; 1989 - 2007 Electronic Arts Inc.  If
 183 you need assistance with this program, you may contact:
 184 <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis</a> or email  <a href="mailto:micropolis@laptop.org">micropolis@laptop.org</a>.
 185 </p><p>
 186
 187 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 188 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 189 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
 190 your option) any later version.
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 195 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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