julius

Information

Source Port	julius
Game(s)	Caesar III
Homepage	https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
Source Code	https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
Build Type:	Mac Source Ports Build
Port Type	Recreated Source Code
Project Build Strategy	Project doesn't do Universal 2 App Bundles
Source Code Strategy	Source available
Projct Release Strategy	Versioned but outdated releases
Mac Support Status	Official Mac support and builds
Project Status	Active
Build System	CMake
Programming Language(s)	C/C++
Data Situation	Asks for the location of the data on first run.
Homebrew Requirements	brew install sdl2 sdl2_mixer libpng

Notes:

So, here's the deal.

augustus is a fork of julius (this port). Both augustus and julius play Ceasar III.

julius aims to be as close to the original game and source code as possible, both for the sake of recreation/preservation but also because it maintains compatibility with saved game files (so, theoretically if you had an old Caesar III save from somewhere it would work with julius, but I haven't tested this. )

augustus is a fork of julius that offers several quality of life improvements (like being able to zoom in) but at the cost of saved game compatiblity.

I originally forked augustus and then later realized that I couldn't fork julius because GitHub does not allow you to fork two different repos that are forks of each other (despite the name change), so I just cloned the original repo and only added the macsourceports_universal2.sh file to it. The only difference is the names used in the scripts.

Later I just changed both ports to use the original repo and kept the scripts in the MSPBuildSystem repo

Other than this fork nonsense the two ports are straightforward.