It took a long time… But the blog is once again online, on a shiny new server.
Don’t blame VS at all! ;-)
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The Blog is back!
Apr 6
Fear of heights
Feb 26
If you love skiing, mountain climbing or a well planned railroad then you can play on this map of the Swiss Alps made by NYC911. It is part of an interesting scenario in which you have to be very careful in laying your track.
Links:
- Swiss Mountains Scenario – Forum topic
- Simutrans Maps – download maps here
- Take a train through the Swiss Alps with Street View – Google blog
We have been able to extend our Simutrans South American maps collection by courtesy of gabyregistrado. He made a very nice map of the western part of the Rio de la Plata. It measures 1599×798 and has nice water and mountain features. Apparently the air is very good in this environment.
Links:
- Rio de la Plata (western part) – Forum topic
- Simutrans Maps – download maps here
- Buenos Aires – wikipedia article
Time for the traditional pre-Christmas release of pak128.Britain! 1.13 contains the following updates and additions:
– lots of new ships
– ironworks (wlindley)
– gasworks (jamespetts)
– new 4-wheel carriage graphics (jamespetts)
– SIMUTRANS FRIED CHICKEN!!! (Sarlock)
– numerous bugfixes
– lots of new ships
– ironworks (wlindley)
– gasworks (jamespetts)
– new 4-wheel carriage graphics (jamespetts)
– SIMUTRANS FRIED CHICKEN!!! (Sarlock)
– numerous bugfixes
Get it here.
Merry Christmas and happy playing!
Valley of Mexico
Dec 9
Feo has made a very cute map of the Valley of Mexico, the historical heart of Mexico and Mexico City. It is only 304×240, so very suitable for low-profile computers or network play. Set water level at -2.
Buen juego!
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Sarlock has made a map of Vancouver and its Fraser river. It is a very big and detailed map, sized 6000×2148. Each tile represents 20m, so we are talking about an area of around 120×40 km. Mountain heights are on a logarithmic scale. Be sure to set water level at -9. To date this is the longest map on Simutrans Maps and it might be hard on your computer if you completely fill it up.
So, pack it up and roll on out to Vancouver!
Links:
Release: Simutrans 112.0
Oct 26
simutrans 112.0 is now available
Simutrans version 112.0 is available at the simutrans forum.
Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by transporting passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship and air between places.*
changes
Multithreading code is now enabled for many more situations, especially loading and saving. The other big change are scripted scenarios, which will change the way simutrans can be used.
ATTENTION: Addons now reside inside a folder “addons” in the simutrans folder. Please move your addons into that folder!
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Here we are with another edition of the SMSC. The subject of this month is Tale of two cities.
Everybody can participate, with only one screenshot of 800x 600 pixels, in jpg or png formats. You can use any pakset, and the deadline is October 18th. The voting begins on October 19th.
The prize will be a mention of your nickname in the Simutrans Hall of Fame, praises from the whole community and one post including your picture at blog and simutrans.com.
Links:
Relive your holiday
Sep 4
So, we all have returned from our holidays. While you were away, others have spend time to make some new content for Simutrans Maps. If you are dreaming of going back to the good life, you can spend it with Simutrans in the USA and Central America, in New York City, on the British Isles and on … eh … Mars.
Kierongreen has made two huges maps, one of the British Isles (including the Shetlands), size 2440×3816, and one of the United States and Central America, size 5120×3276. That last one is now the biggest map available on Simutrans Maps. Be warned, both need serious computers to actually use them.
On a much smaller scale Carlbaker spinned off another part of his huge USA North-East map. This time it covers the area of New York City, size 1400×1114. And finally RogerBW has managed to map Mars just in time before Curiosity landed. He did in two sizes, 720×360 and 1440×720. Simutrans in space!!!
Links:
After the summer break, we reboot the SMSC with a new edition. The subject of this month is Beautiful Stations.
Everybody can participate, with only one screenshot of 800x 600 pixels, in jpg or png formats. You can use any pakset, and the deadline is September 18th. The voting begins on September 19th.
The prize will be a mention of your nickname in the Simutrans Hall of Fame, praises from the whole community and one post including your picture at blog and simutrans.com.
Links: