Download CorsixTH 0.0.1

Regular visitors to the Meuktracker are undoubtedly familiar with OpenTTD, an open source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Another group of developers is working on a similar project for the game published by Bulfrog in 1997 Theme Hospital, in which the player must design and operate a hospital. As was the case with OpenTTD, the original game data files are needed to CorsixTH to be able to play.

CorsixTH is open source and available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The game can be played in a higher resolution than the original and is available in more languages. Almost all the features of the original are already there and it is the intention that new features will be added. After eight beta releases of CorsixTH, the first stable release has now appeared with version number 0.0.1. Below is the changelog of this release.

Gameplay

• Added: A host of awards given at year end.
• Added: A new mode: Free Build Mode. In this mode you don’t have to worry about money. All custom maps can be played in this mode.
• Added: Patient animations such as yawning and checking watch when waiting.
• Change: The queue size for a room can be set to 0 to prevent patients from going there.
• Change: Patients now spend some more time in the ward.
• Fix: Crash when removing a room that has humanoids on their way to it.
• Fix: Patients sitting down, but about to get a soda got ordered to sit down again.
• Fix: A crash could occur if a new room was accepted when there were multiple types of objects left to place.
• Fix: Emergencies with diseases not available on a level no longer happen.
• Fix: The VIP no longer makes staff be called to the rooms he visits.
• Fix: With multiple reception desks new patients now find their way to the reception with the least queue size.
• Fix: The wrong amount of money was returned when selling a room.
• Fix: Aliens could not be cured on the last two levels.
• Fix: The transparent walls setting made new rooms remove outer walls.
• Fix: Sometimes patients who had left the hospital could still wait for a new room, making said room impossible to build.
• Fix: A crash when the staff member left a room before the patient.
• Fix: Build cost of objects were not always correct.

User Interface

• Added: The save and load dialogs can now sort both ascending and descending and are a little more space.
• Added: More messages in the progress report dialog.
• Added: More advice in different situations from the advisor.
• Added: Adviser messages now has priorities, making more important messages appear faster.
• Change: When the mouse cursor leaves the game window it will stop scrolling the in-game world.
• Change: The message when a crash occurs is now a little more informative, and humanoids no longer get stuck as easily.
• Fix: The staff management window is now updated when staff is hired or fired from outside the window itself.
• Fix: If the desired language cannot be loaded on startup the game now reverts to English instead of crashing.
• Fix: The game could not autosave if the save or load dialog was open.
• The auto-scroll setting is now saved between sessions.
• The advisor can now be turned off from the top menu.
• The game uses a new icon.

Map Editor

• Fix: The game no longer crash just because the map builder has not added any access roads from the edge of the map.

Not Yet Implemented

• Earthquakes
• Epidemics
• handyman priorities
• rats
• Graphs
• Visual effects on patients with serious radiation and jellyitis.
• Fullscreen animations such as the level screen and winning letter.

Known Issues

• If the X-Ray Viewer is inaccessible in the Operating Theater no image will be shown on it.
• If the user exits the game via “the cross” when in windowed mode settings are not saved.
• Radiators and other “edge tile” objects occupy a whole tile instead of just one edge of the tile.