City Parser 2000

General purpose version

By Dustin Fennell

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Overview

City Parser 2000 is a simple C# program which represents some of the data from binary Sim City 2000© files (.SC2 file format) as C# objects.

This is part of a larger project I am working on which will facilitate custom comparisons of simulated cities using C# ASP.net.

Current Status

The current version of the parser is stable with almost all binary data represented in the City object. It is not fully-polished by any means. As noted below, I would like to do some restructuring so that this can be used as a general-purpose command line application, but for now my focus is on another branch.

Future Development

• Interpret more of the SC2 file, particularly the MISC segment.
• ParseBinaryFile will likely take a more complex data structure as input (as opposed to a local filepath).
• Modifications for greater command line ease-of-use (city filepath input, City object 'ToString()' output).
• Creation of a light-weight version for use in a web application.