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Release: Simutrans 112.0

Oct 26

Posted by sdog in Announcements, Development & Releases | Comments off

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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New Simutrans release!

Oct 26

Posted by VS in Development & Releases | Comments off

v112.0

A new stable version of Simutrans, 112.0, has been released today!

For players, this version adds support for drag&drop station construction, connecting channels between various companies, and other minor upgrades and fixes. The big news, though, is support for scripted scenarios! This promises an entirely new experience for single player mode…

Apart from these, a somewhat hidden feature is that dedicated servers now do not load image data. Thus, they need drastically less memory.

You can find a full changelog and download links for windows, linux, haiku and mac binaries at the International Simutrans Forum.

Tags: 112.0, release, simutrans

Sarlock October Screenshot Contest Winner

Oct 26

Posted by sdog in Contests and challenges | Comments off

october screenshot contest: a tale of two cities

A picture from Canada, (Sarlock’s screenshot) won the SMSC contest. (It could not be more fitting in autumn i should like to remark.) Raiser’s contribution was only one vote behind, don’t miss to have a look at all screenshots at the international forum.

Beside showing Canada, remarkable about the winning screenshot are the new trees. A work in progress snapshot of Sarlock’s extensive (winter) tree project for pak128. Over the last weeks he’s been working on high quality conifers and birches with good winter images.

please find larger screenshots and the original captions below.
(This is an extended cross post from the original g+ post.)

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Tags: screeenshot, SMSC

Winter is coming

Oct 23

Posted by sdog in Paksets and add-ons | Comments off

Fabio and mEGa are working on a large city re-vitalization project, in pak128. They are adding winter versions to a large number of pak128 hi-rise buildings.

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Tags: development, pak128, pakset

October’s Edition of Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest

Oct 3

Posted by vilvoh in Announcements | Comments off

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:

The International Simutrans Forum

Tags: October, screenshot, SMSC, two cities

Relive your holiday

Sep 4

Posted by combuijs in Announcements, Community, Community Forums, Simutrans sites, Tools and Resources | Comments off

Mars 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:

Tags: Simutrans maps Mars Curiosity New York North America British Isles

September’s Edition of Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest

Sep 3

Posted by vilvoh in Announcements, Contests and challenges | Comments off

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:

The International Simutrans Forum

Tags: beautiful stations, contest, screenshot, september, SMSC

Release of pak128.Britain 1.12

Aug 31

Posted by thehood in Announcements, Development & Releases, Paksets and add-ons | Comments off

A new version of pak128.Britain is now available. This contains the following major additions and changes:
– Lots of new city buildings
– More planes (Milko)
– More modern buses (Mattw62)
– More DMU trains, steam locomotives and carriages (jamespetts)
– Complete narrow gauge railway vehicle set (jamespetts)
– Narrow gauge stations
– Updated way graphics (kierongreen)
– New station extensions (jamespetts)

There have been a number of changes to the railway carriages. Existing saves should not be broken, but trains may not restart after returning to a depot as many of the constraints have changed. Do report any bugs relating to this or anything else in the forum as usual.

Happy playing!

Download link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/pak128.britain/pak128.Britain%20for%20111-0/pak128.Britain.1.12-111-3.zip/download