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From Elite to Rollercoaster Tycoon: 20 years of sim games, part 2 - In part two of our epic history of video game sims, we abandon virtual
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The game was downloaded between 2003 and April 2017 1.3 million times alone from
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1.5 (while recommending "OpenGL 2.0 or greater") with around 256 MB of
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Development is intermittent. As of June 11 2020 the latest commit to the
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repo was May 10, 2020. The last downloadable release was May 8, 2010
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by Cord Kruse on insidemacgames.com (April 20, 2007)
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Platform(s)
Linux
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
Microsoft Windows
Genre(s)
Submarine simulator
Single-player
IPv6
IPv4
Multiplayer

open-source
World War II
German U-boat simulation
PC
sourceforge.net
open source software
GPLv2
beta
Multi-platform
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
Mac OS X
Linux distributions
Microsoft Windows
SDL
OpenGL
OpenGL

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