…and will henceforth be known under the name Micropolis and is apparently going to be included in the OLPC project. Cool.

Read more here: SimCity Source Code Released.
Also, visit Don Hopkins, one of the main forces in this project.

Strangely enough, it only a few days since I encountered the open source / old school project FreeCol - that is based on Sid Meiers classical Colonization. This spurred me to search for more open source games and came upon this list: Free and Open Source Games on the Internet.

Are we going to see a rise in open source computer games based on abandoned gems from the 90ties?
Here’s a vote for Ghosts’n'Goblins and Elite!
Update – there is actually an open source project dedicated to deep space trading, privateering and bounty hunting: Vega Strike. I haven’t tried it (yet), but I’m downloading as I write this. Update follows

What old games do you miss?