So you took an existing open source remake of SC2000, spruced it up with AI and now expect people to fund it? I went to the website and was immediately hit with an intrusive pop-up asking for donations.
Your opening paragraph says you've been working on this "in the past weeks" yet you've already spent several thousand euros?

Well, according to the license rules there is nothing wrong with giving people the opportunity to support the project by donating. And yes, the current input is arund $ 2.500 which happens quite fast if you are working with OpenAI Astra in High-Mode to get the ideas properly integrated.

There is absolutely no need to donate, I do not force anyone, the project is free to download. You "can" if you want to support, you don't have to.

And I can already tell you, it's not simply "spruced up", it's quite a bit more complex in terms of concept and realization 😀 Feel free to give it a try!

As a long time fan of Simcity 2000 I think this looks very interesting, especially the graphical enhancements.

I'm not that familiar with OpenSC2K and while checking that project many features seem to overlap. Beyond the graphics and network play, what is the features that is special to this project?

All OpenSC2K features are included as Reticulatung Splines is a fork.

What makes this project so special is actually the environment and weather effects which are generated to build upon the graphical existing style of SimCity2000. I think this can be considered as a SimCity2000+

The river in the screenshot looks very nice! I like the improved graphics.

I've tried v.0.3.0-rs.4 on macOS 27.0.1 and imported the graphics file from the DOS-version of Sim City 2000. The game works but the graphics are grey scale and the menu items don't show up (they show number 1 to 18). Also the console displays error: "ERROR: Parameter "version" is null.
at: version_get_shader (./servers/rendering/renderer_rd/shader_rd.h:203)".

One of the things I liked of Sim City 2k were the serious\demential newspaper articles, how is the support of them in this reimplementation compared to OpenSC2K?
How is it the support for localized versions of the original game?

jmarsh wrote on 2026-10-17, 10:47:

So you took an existing open source remake of SC2000, spruced it up with AI and now expect people to fund it? I went to the website and was immediately hit with an intrusive pop-up asking for donations.
Your opening paragraph says you've been working on this "in the past weeks" yet you've already spent several thousand euros?

AI-assisted fork of an AI-written reimplementation based upon the work of sc2kfix. If you want to play an open source version of Sim City 2000 just use sc2kfix.

@megetog615 the great thing about this is: Freedom of choice. Play whatever you like the most 😉

@Nemo1985 - I am not aware of that features. You do get the classic ingame newspapers but what do you mean with serious/demential news?

@Thandor - Can you share screenshots, your macOS version and more information about the issues?

DarkTemplar wrote on Today, 10:37:

@Thandor - Can you share screenshots, your macOS version and more information about the issues?

I've attached a screenshot. Running macOS 27.0.1 on Apple M4. When I use "Export City as PNG" I'll end up with a .PNG file that does include the original graphics so this indicates that the original Sim City 2000 DOS version graphics are loaded correctly (which I imported when the game asked me to).

The screenshot is taken with version v.0.3.0-rs.4 but I've also tested v.0.3.0-rs.5 which has the same problem.

DarkTemplar wrote on 2026-10-17, 08:18:

I... use OpenAI Codex...

Gross.
To think I read almost all your load-bearing wall of self-gratulatory text and then BAM see that you support clank coding.

Please remember community guidelines here and be constructive.

@Thandor - Thanks for the explanation, I will try to find a solution, just stay tuned on GitHub for a fixed version in the near future 😀

DarkTemplar wrote on 2026-10-17, 08:18:

Hi everyone,

I'm Daniel, also known for the Doom modding page Realm667 and a certain amount of more or lesser knon mods for Doom. While concentrating mostly on that scene, SimCity 2000 has stayed with me for decades, and I've been working on a personal project in the past weeks to bring new possibilities to those familiar cities: Reticulating Splines.

This is indeed cool

for a moment there, as i read your doom background, i imagined a sim city 2000 > wad tool, build a city and then enter that city as Doomguy!

gerry wrote on Today, 16:43:

DarkTemplar wrote on 2026-10-17, 08:18:

Hi everyone,

I'm Daniel, also known for the Doom modding page Realm667 and a certain amount of more or lesser knon mods for Doom. While concentrating mostly on that scene, SimCity 2000 has stayed with me for decades, and I've been working on a personal project in the past weeks to bring new possibilities to those familiar cities: Reticulating Splines.

This is indeed cool

for a moment there, as i read your doom background, i imagined a sim city 2000 > wad tool, build a city and then enter that city as Doomguy!

The Streets of DoomCity or The Doomed Streets of SimCity 😀.

holy crap it looks so cool, I was hoping Micropolis would integrate this in the future

https://mvolution.itch.io/micropolis