tropico

speaking of games, i've been playing tropico lately. it's a well-done sim game in the simcity/caesar/whatever-tycoon genre. there's a tropico 2: pirate cove in the works, which sounds like fun. but the add-on for the first game didn't make it to the mac, which makes me wonder if this new game will make it.

one thing of note is the fairly small team that put together tropico.

oh, how i long for the source code to alpha centauri to be opened up. i'd love to tinker under that hood. i think it is extremely unlikely it would ever happen, of course. we in the computer industry are willing to let software die in order to guarantee no lasting classics are created. shakespeare was a fool.