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SimCity3000 black&white Cursors
- Published on February 18th 2025 by ꧁Ꮯʋꝛ̢ ⳽σ̴ꝛ̢⬩Ꮯⱺ︠͡ ɭȴٟᥱᥴ ︠Ꞇῗٟσ̴ᥰٟῗٟst꧂.
- Released under the Custom (contact author) license.
Ladies & gents,
the in-game, black & white cursors from SimCity 3000 !
Plin-plooonnn
plan-plooooonnn
plin-plooon, plin-ploon, plan-plooonn...
plink plink, plink plink, plink plink, plink-plink
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
these were actually uncompressed in a subdirectory of the game,
.cur files free for grabs much like the Rise of Nations ones!
Of course, a few unused black&white cursors have been included.
Look, I get it,
too many cursors of unclear desktop purpose,
& spartan as ever with the 1-bit, black&white format.
BUT...
I found out, that almost every black&white cursor, hm?
Almost each one of 'em...
has a fully-coloured BITMAP counterpart,
& they were to appear in-game at some point!
Yet... they didn't...
I suspect it's the
coloured-pointers-flicker-on-certain-screens issue,
explicitly mentioned in the settings of Zoo Tycoon(2001),
& the possible reason behind the hidden setting
for black&white cursors in Rise of Nations!
(I still didn't check the devs' text files...
they might've referenced this in one of 'em).
So, TLDR :
BLAM!
Too many cursors,
unclear purpose most of the time,
Spartan black&white...
BUT, coloured ones will be coming!
That'll take a while...
Crediting :
UI Art Director : C.Stratton
^this must be the guy... but
I'll mention the others just in case ;]
Art : C.Aquilina, J.Brown, K.Byall, H.Chan, J.Frantz Jr.,
K.Kraus, K.W.Lim, B.Macaraeg, W.Moore, D.Patch
Art Director : O.Quigley
Additional Art : Alpha Omega, Flying Rhino,
M.Sechman & Associates, REM Infografica
RELEASE SERIE 1 !
Containing :
-Every single darn black & white cursor
found within a game subdirectory (except
stand-alone versions of the panning arrows &
early mover);
-Trio of custom arrow+hourglass WiBs;
-Anchor point(truecolour)+panning arrows &
early mover combos for resize & move.
Considered :
Making wedge-less alterations of
lay industrial, power, water, et possible al,
for extra wait options.
Tags: Windows XP Game ■ Black □ White Simple Symbol
Resources
- Learn how to download and customize your mouse pointer.
- Have a web page or a blog? Learn how to add custom cursors to your web pages.
- Make your own cursors with our freeware cursor maker.
- Your favorite cursor is missing? Make a suggestion.
