Aug 22
During the summer holidays carlbaker has made a beautiful and huge map of South East Europe. You can now download this map from Simutrans Maps and play with a whopping 5,745,600 tiles.
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Edit: The map is updated and slightly larger now. There is also a smaller 1293×1198 version available.
A new version of pak96.comic has been released. It includes new sounds, buses, trucks, stops and several bugfixes and adjustments.
You can download it from the Simutrans German Forum
Today James released version 9.12 of Simutrans Experimental. This is predominantly a bug-fix release, which fixes a number of issues identified in the previous version, and incorporates some GUI fixes from Standard, but also adds one new feature: a better handling of gradients.
The development versions of standard Simutrans can be found at the nightly page.
Today James released version 9.9 of Simutrans Experimental. It is based on standard Simutrans version 110.0.2. This version fixes several larger bugs that were introduced when rewriting major parts of it’s physics engine to make it fit for network games. It also catches up with the steady changes it inherits from standard.
[Update] James released in the meantime 9.10, fixing some gamebreaking bugs in 9.9. [/Update]
Please note recent versions of experimental are likely to still contain bugs, to fix severe ones the releases are not as well tested as before. Versions before 9.6 are more stable in comparison.
Last but not leastgives a first glimpse on the selectable liveries:
James Petts released a new version of simutrans experimental. Version 9.8 fixes some bugs introduced in 9.6 and 9.7. Please take note that 9.7 was released only a day before and 9.8 fixes a critical error in revenue calculation. As a reminder, 9.6 had a major rework of the physics engine to make experimental ready for network-games. Read the rest of this entry »
A new version of Simutrans-Experimental is available today: Simutrans 110.0.1 Experimental 9.6. This version addresses the long-standing issue of network play between computers running different platforms.
There have also been some general bug fixes, and one or two small feature changes, but it does not yet incorporate all of the latest changes from Standard, as the priority was to fix the networking. It is anticipated that these changes will be incorporated into the next version.
The pak128 development team has announced that the open-sourcing process of the pakset is finally finished, therefore they have released a preview.
A new version of Simutrans-Experimental is available today: Simutrans 110.0.1 Experimental 9.5. This version is a bugfix release, containing fixes for a number of reported problems, and includes all the latest fixes and enhancements from Standard
The issue of interfacing between Windows and Linux clients and servers in online play has not been addressed specifically in this version, but it is hoped to rectify this in a future version.
Mar 13
Simutrans v110.1 is out. As said Prissi, our head developer, “it’s mostly a bug fix release.This is the first version incorporating multiplayer and tons of bugfixes and improvements. “
This time we have MAC builds.
Notice: Complete versions (i.e. pak64 + executable) are discontinued. Please use the online installer for download!
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Feb 15
This is the first version incorporating multiplayer and tons of bugfixes and improvements. Due to network mode, the development team had to have this long break. The next releases will come more frequently.
Some changes and new additions have been included like the default savegame format (now bzip2), skins and interface, timeline for headquarters, new features related with winter graphics and drag-and-drop bridges. The main feature added is the multiplayer mode.
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