From 1996 to 2026 represents thirty years of continuous development. To new projects to highlight the Ape SDK's versatility.

BronzeSim is a stand-alone ISO C99 simulation of an Early Bronze Age-style island world driven by a small Domain-Specific Language (DSL) (.bronze files). The goal is to keep the simulation data-driven (occupations, tasks, and rules defined in DSL) while the C engine remains focused on deterministic execution, chunked world storage, and fast iteration. It is intended this new DSL be the basis for London1940.org.

ApeSDK-JS is a console-only Node.js port of the C implementation of a minimalist ApeSDK.
The ApeSDK was started in 1996. Since then it has been under continuous open source development.

(A variety of historical documents...)

From 2003-2009, it was used by Apple. From 2005-2011, it was used by Intel.

Each version of the ApeSDK has run for hundreds of days and continue to show the same evolutionary complexity and stability.

The ApeSDK features a number of simulation components:

  • a detailed landscape simulation,
  • a rich biological simulation,
  • a complex weather simulation, and,
  • scaling from a landscape to a planetary simulation (Simulated Earth).

    Three levels of social simulation including:

  • a reactive simulation,
  • a language simulation representing external and internal conversations with a number of actors, and,
  • a social factor simulation.

    The SDK also features a full-stack scripting language and a series of low-level features bringing it up-to-date with every expected feature of contemporary simulation:

  • JSON IO data core,
  • multi-platform graphics for Mac, iOS, Windows and Linux,
  • a web server for remove viewing and interaction, and,
  • frequency and time based audio IO.

    There is substantial documentation associated with the ApeSDK.

    And a Discord server.

    The ApeSDK is currently used in:

  • London1940.org - Simulating London in 1940.
  • urban - an urban environment simulation with the organic Ape agents interacting through a cityscape.
  • Simulated Ape - a simulation app for Mac and Windows.
  • war - a pitched battle simulation.

    Get the Source Code

     git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/apesdk/simulatedape.git

    For Linux/Mac command line

    cd simulatedape
    cd apesdk
    ./build.sh
    cd ..
    ./simape
    help

    For Mac

    Open the simulatedape directory, then the Simulated Ape directory. Open:

    Simulated Ape.xcodepro

    In Xcode. Build and run as you see fit! It is written in C and Swift 6 exclusively.

    For Windows

    Open the simulatedape directory, then the WinSimulation directory. Pick your environment of choice and enjoy! It is written in C exclusively.

    Download

    Mac : Apple Silicon (1.8Mb) or Intel (1.8 Mb): (you will have to approve running the app through Privacy and Security in your System Settings.)

    Video on running the Mac simulation two ways.

    Windows : Simulated Ape (180 kb)