NAM 39 Now Available
If you haven’t stopped by SC4 Devotion, Simtropolis, or r/simcity4 recently, you may not have heard, but yes, there’s another NAM release ready for your enjoyment, NAM 39. This release marks the...
View ArticleBATing for Bucks: A Pandora’s (Brown) Box
In the past couple years, a practice prevalent in other games’ content ecosystems (including that of Cities: Skylines) has begun to creep into the SimCity 4 community, and one which has attracted some...
View ArticleSome Guidance on the Use of “Pre-Cooked” Models in the SimCity 4 Community
Recently, I’ve been involved in a number of discussions with people in the SC4 world–both public and behind the scenes–about the practice of reusing third-party 3D models, obtained through various...
View ArticleWhy Pre-Rendered And Pre-Built Regions And Cities Aren’t A Thing On SC4...
In addition to the notoriously long-running debate about sharing plugins folders, there’s another related discussion that occasionally pops up from time to time, including very recently over on...
View ArticleNAM 44 Is Now Available
NAM 44 Promotional Image NAM 44–the 44th version of the Network Addon Mod for SimCity 4–has just been released. (Just in time for Haljackey’s birthday, coincidentally enough.) It is presently up at...
View ArticleThe NAM Team “Agile-Like” Development Paradigm (Post-NAM 37): How It Works
Those of you who have followed the developments of the Network Addon Mod (NAM) in recent times have likely noticed that the pace at which new versions have been released has increased dramatically in...
View Article#20yearsSC4 – NAM 46 and NAM Lite 2 Now Available
Yesterday marked a significant milestone for SimCity 4: 20 years since it was released, back on January 14th, 2003. Now, right on the heels of this momentous occasion, the NAM Team is pleased to...
View ArticlePSA: Update To The Mac App Store Version Can Wipe Out Your Plugins (And How...
Just a few days ago, Aspyr released an update to their macOS port of SimCity 4 Deluxe to add native support for Apple Silicon processors–a move that will allow their port to continue to run on that...
View ArticleNAM 47 and NAM Lite 3 Now Available
After a mere two-and-a-half months of development, NAM 47 has been released, with some pretty revolutionary features, on two completely different ends of the transportation spectrum: 12-lane highways...
View ArticleThe Future of SC4 Modding: The Matter of Digital vs. Disc, and Windows vs....
This is a repost of a thread I started over at Simtropolis. There are currently several different versions of SimCity 4 Deluxe out in the wild, including the various digital editions (i.e., GOG,...
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