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Article #28611Re: 2.5 Beta 5
From: sean
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:43
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 news:pan.2006.05.29.01.44.22.231417@joesbox.cjb.net... > 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 > > -- > Josef Drexler | http://jdrexler.com/home/ > ---------------------------------+--------------------------------------- > Please help Conserve Gravity | Email address is *valid*. > Carry a helium balloon. | Don't remove the "nospam" part. >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "sean" <sean.spam@bigpond> Newsgroups: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc References: <pan.2006.05.29.01.44.22.231417@joesbox.cjb.net> Subject: Re: 2.5 Beta 5 Lines: 104 Organization: Wlaptop X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <UQLfg.1811$ap3.332@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:43:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.10.129.161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1149209012 147.10.129.161 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:43:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:43:32 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit