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Product Description:
Crittersim is a simulation program that runs a section of a virtual world. There are plants and animals and a semblance of natural selection going on. In it you can control various characteristics such as the rate of plant seeding, apply herbicide and pesticide, and observe how various species compete for limited resources. Using an advanced editing mode you can even create your own species or modify existing ones.
What's new in this version:
- H Simulation continues while menus and modal dialogs are displayed.
- Enhanced crash reporting.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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Pretty cool little app. 
- Version: 1.2, 5/21/2007 07:17PM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
SeniorWebmaster (ResourceFork Software)
herbicide and pesticide... whoa ! - Version: 1.1, 12/4/2006 10:49AM PST
(2 of 10 users found this comment useful)
jetboy_4ever
imagine my dismay when i read the product description for crittersim and came to the part that said, "apply herbicide and pesticide".
now, i know that this has more to do with the moral ethics of a product than its performance, but i think that any software product that promotes an agricultural technology that is far outdated and has been proven to be hazardous to the health and welfare of the people who use herbicides and pesticides as well as those who consume the products treated with these dangerous chemicals needs to rethink its moral responsibility to the world.
crittersim, by promoting the use of herbicides and pesticides, is sending the wrong message to consumers, especially young consumers.
this one needs to go back to r&d to create a sim that's more in line with 21st century agri-tech and also has a moral conscience. i don't think versiontracker should be promoting any product that says that endangering the health of people and animals and poisoning the earth is ok.
now, i know that this has more to do with the moral ethics of a product than its performance, but i think that any software product that promotes an agricultural technology that is far outdated and has been proven to be hazardous to the health and welfare of the people who use herbicides and pesticides as well as those who consume the products treated with these dangerous chemicals needs to rethink its moral responsibility to the world.
crittersim, by promoting the use of herbicides and pesticides, is sending the wrong message to consumers, especially young consumers.
this one needs to go back to r&d to create a sim that's more in line with 21st century agri-tech and also has a moral conscience. i don't think versiontracker should be promoting any product that says that endangering the health of people and animals and poisoning the earth is ok.
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- herbicide and pesticide... whoa !
- Some more plant and animal graphics. still small, but just maybe other shapes or sizes, so you can have tiers or hierarchies of animals. predators, prey, carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, etc.
- Presets: a button in the advanced settings to pre-fill the stats-numbers boxes with some interesting values. Examples being slow moving but long living critters, or quick growing and dying plants like weeds. A drop-down would work well.
- Global speed control so you can watch things happen in slower or faster motion.
- Optional but cool to add: other "disaster" type effects. Freeze, extreme heat, drought etc. each could affect the various sets of populations of critters and plants differently. Example: drought that kills off the larger predatory critters but retains the lower forms, yet also kills off their plant-based food supply. That would be so cool and fun. Sorta like SimCity with disasters.
Keep up the good work. Thanks for making this and thinking creatively.