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Re: 2.5 Beta 5

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From: sean
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:43
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Any change of increacing the map size like on open TT?

sean
"Josef Drexler" <nospam0506@joesbox.cjb.net> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
>
> yet another beta version is available at http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/
>
> Before I go into the changes, here's a call for translators.  Most of the
> translations have been taken care of, but some of the languages into which
> TTDPatch has been translated are missing translators (or I haven't been
> able to contact the ones who did it before).
>
> If one of the following languages is your first language and you're
> competent in writing it, please contact me to translate new strings:
> - French
> - Russian
> - Spanish
>
> The following languages are up to date in beta 5:
> - Dutch
> - German
> - Hungarian
> - Italian
>
> Please report any mistakes in these translations.
>
> The following languages are being worked on and don't currently need
> translators:
> - Czech
> - Danish
> - Finnish
> - Norwegian
> - Polish
>
> If you would like to volunteer to translate TTDPatch to your language, and
> will be able to translate a ~1000 line document within no more than 2-4
> weeks, please let me know as well.
>
>
> Now back to the beta itself.  Despite my best efforts to the contrary,
> I've let a few smaller features into the beta.  Csaba has written support
> for animated stations, while Lakie wrote support for better coasts in
> corners by letting water flood diagonally (this can be disabled with
> miscmods.nodiagonalflooding on), and Oskar added the "forcegameoptions"
> switch to force certain settings in the game options in the title screen,
> so you can set the road traffic side, town names and other things that are
> normally always reset to their defaults.
>
> If you have the DOS version and are using the -Z switch to enable low
> memory mode, please change that to -XZ; -Z will soon be used for another
> set of extended command line switches.
>
> As for bug fixes, beta 5 has the usual bunch of them as well.  In
> particular, some problems with new cargos and two crashes have been fixed,
> among several other minor changes.  The full list is below as usual.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Josef
>
>
> All changes in 2.5 beta 5:
> - by Csaba:
>  * added callbacks 140, 141 and 142 for station animations
>  * fixed electrifiedrail patch code overwriting some random memory
>    (this fixes a crash on startup with enhancegui off)
>  * fixed some incorrect cargo type handling for GRFs with version 7
>  * the language of the EXE is now restored correctly when all
>    translation GRFs are disabled
>  * industries now can request random bits for the production callback
> - by Lakie:
>  * allow water to flood diagonally (disable with
>    miscmods.nodiagonalflooding on) and support graphics for resulting
>    coasts
> - by eis_os:
>  * fixed crash while creating grf debug log if grf had error condition
>  * new switch "forcegameoptions" to set default game options
> - renamed -Z switch to -XZ to later allow -Z? extended switches
> - when fragment search fails show name of failed fragment and its patch
>  proc
> - fixed zeppelin crash bug getting patched twice
> - updated German, Dutch, Italian and Hungarian translations
> - fixed train reversing problems with PBS in DOS
> - update consist callback variables when train reverses and in depot
> - changed station var.45 bits 4..7 to refer to connection to neighbouring
>  platform not further along platform direction
> - fixed bit switch descriptions not being written with correct charset
> - fixed problem finding AI buy vehicle code if not all newvehicles
>  switches are on
> - fixed problem with wrong variables being available in purchase window
> - fixed cargo types without cargo labels not being available for refit
> - action 7/9 check 0A now jumps if the GRFID is not found at all
> - fixed tenders errorneously appearing in purchase list
>
> -- 
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> ---------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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