Re: [TTD] Next round of TTDPatch: 1.5 now available: ** BOOM *

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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:00

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In article "Re: [TTD] Next round of TTDPatch: 1.5 now available: ** BOOM
*", Chris locke writes:
> Has anyone else noticed that when running the patch, the road vehicles
> on the title screen get hit by the train??
> 
> There is a mono-rail track on the right, and the 3rd road vehicle that
> trundles across it (a little truck) the monorail train speeds round the
> corner and ploughs straight into it.  After that, it hits a bus and
> kills more people.

That happens if you enable the new non-stop handling.  There's a station at
each side of the crossing where the monorail would stop without the patch,
but keep running with it, and hit all the busses.

> Am I the only person that gets so bored he watches the title screen???!!

Apparently not...
(I even managed to load the title screen as a savegame, but it's not very
interesting...)

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From: Josef Drexler <jdrexler@julian.uwo.canada>
Subject: Re: [TTD] Next round of TTDPatch: 1.5 now available: ** BOOM *
Date: 1999/09/13
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