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Hi all,

the latest alpha is up at http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/

Apart from hopefully fixing all those nasty crashes that I've introduced 
in alpha 46 (sorry!), alpha 47 has a few quite nice features.  The first 
one improves your station construction options: you can now build smaller 
stations over existing stations, thus "overwriting" them with new station 
styles.  This is especially useful with the newstations 0.3 set as it 
allows building almost anything you want.  Due to some internal 
limitations, you may sometimes notice existing tiles reconfiguring them 
even if you didn't touch them, in that case try building your station in 
a different order, or rebuild the tiles in question.

Oskar has added the capability to build bus stops with foundations (if 
buildonslopes is on), and while he was at it, he also added support for 
building certain types of railroad track on steep slopes as well.  To fix 
games that suffered from invalid truck stops due to a bug in the bus stop 
feature in alpha 46, he added code which fixes that to the Cht: 
ClearGhosts sign cheat (as well as fixing the bug that caused them in the 
first place!).

Csaba has kept busy writing the newindustry support, which is also coming 
along nicely.

Finally, I've made some small changes to path-based signalling again.  If 
a train is unable to reverse in a PBS block and has to be stopped because 
of that, its window will now open immediately to alert you to the 
problem.  In addition, trains will never pass a PBS signal that is 
followed by another signal with no regular track in between, to prevent 
crashes.  Make sure to always leave at least one piece of track between a 
PBS signal and the next signal that follows it.  Also, when you activate 
the sticky pin of a window, it will now not be closed when the window 
list is full (unless all windows are sticky).

That's it, I hope you'll have fun with it, and make great new station 
layouts!

Josef


All changes in 2.0.1 alpha 47:
- fixed bug with action B not accepting severity 03 (fatal error)
- fixed miscmods.notimegiveaway not working in the Windows version
- fixed crashes when trying to display various graphics error
  messages
- station var. 44 now has bit 2 that states whether PBS is on/off
- fixed incorrect graphics in new stations with electrifiedrailways
  off
- allow building new rail station pieces over existing station to
  allow easier construction of custom station layouts
- fixed bug with autorenew not taking into account early retirement
  set by .grf
- new station prop to disable drawing of overhead wires in case of
  sprite sorter problems
- by Oskar:
  * fixed station direction not getting reset when building truck
    station after building bus stop
  * (devel) make it unnecessary to generate .lst twice for
    correct relocations
  * Cht: ClearGhosts now fixes invalid bus/truck stations as well
  * allow bus stops on sloped land (with buildonslopes on)
  * allow rail track on steep slopes
- by Csaba:
  * started working on a new industry generation window for
    newindustries
  * support for a new text class, permanent texts. (class D800h)
  * industries now can have custom names and messages via this
    mechanism
  * TTDPatch texts are no longer saved and restored for action 4
  * new industry property 1F to set industry name (not documented
    yet)
  * new town variable (41) that tells the index of the town in
    the town array, can be used to emulate some "dedicated"
    towns.(not documented yet)
  * new industry tile variable (43) to tell the relative position
    within the industry (not documented yet)
  * fixed a bug that caused the wrong industries to appear during
    the game
- fixed bug in station prop 09 not using right TTD default if
  numtile!=08
- fixed wrong colour for coal mines in map window
- fixed bug: placing more than 49 station tiles at once (e.g. 7x8)
  would overwrite various patch variables and cause random problems
- sticky windows are no longer replaced when the max. number of
  window is reached (unless all windows are sticky)
- added station size info (var 88) to AI callback
- PBS signals which have a signal following them now never let
  trains pass through (or else this could cause crashes)
- when train can't reverse in PBS block and has to be stopped, the
  train window is opened immediately to alert the player

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Josef Drexler
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