Download CorsixTH 0.10

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 and the intention is that an Android version will be available in the near future. 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. New in this release include earthquakes. Priorities can also be given to the handyman. The full changelog looks like this:

Not Yet Implemented

• Epidemics
• 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.

Gameplay

• Added: Earthquakes have recently been reported!
• Added: Handyman priorities have been added. They can also be told to stay and respond to calls in one building (parcel) only.
• Added: Staff’s happiness will change due to more environmental factors.
• Change: The files containing dumped strings are now created alongside the config file instead of in the installation directory.
• Fix: Handymen will now meander inside a room until the machine which needs repair is free for use.
• Fix: The URL in the config file pointing to better quality music was outdated. Note that this only affects new installations.
• Fix: Two identical entries were shown in the drug casebook if a new disease was discovered when it was open.
• Fix: Don’t crash when a saved game with the town map open is loaded.
• Fix: Too large rooms could make them unusable.
• Some graphical glitches have been fixed.

User Interface

• Added: The Map Editor and Animation Viewer have new icons.
• Change: In debug mode all gamelog output is now also displayed in the command prompt.
• Fix: Don’t initiate a window move if it happens to be below a top menu selection.
• Fix: Don’t show the main menu under any circumstances when closing the options menu in-game.

Map Editor

• Fix: The “Save” and “Save As” buttons now do what they should do.
• Fix: There were some strange log messages on opening the editor.
• Added: The arrow keys can now be used to scroll the map.
• Change: Removed a lot of tiles from the palette, since maps may not work as intended if they would be used.