Download OpenTTD 0.5.0

‘Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe’ builds on the idea of ​​Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a successful computer game from 1995 in which the player controls a transport company and has to compete against rival companies in a battle for the largest transport empire. OpenTTD is released under the GPL and includes new and improved features, including larger levels and the ability to play against other players online. Although OpenTTD is open source, the game does require some files from an original copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. These files contain copyrighted material and can therefore not be used in an open source program. The developers released version 0.5.0 with the following announcement:

On behalf of the OpenTTD team I am proud to present you OpenTTD 0.5.0 Final. Those who have been us since the release candidates, we thank you for your diligent testing and bug reporting. For the users who are only venturing to upgrade from 0.4.8, you will see a *LOT* of changes, all for the better. The various RC’s have already talked about this, but let me restore the biggest changes since 0.4.8:

• YAPF: a lean-mean C++ pathfinder with far superior performance to NPF and the original pathfinder
• TGP: a customizable random country generator
• UTF8: full unicode support throughout opentd (display, input and output)
• NewGRF: newstations, newsounds, I18n and many more fixes and features
• Multiplayer: MP stability has greatly improved, desyncs diminished

Internationalization has also greatly come along with new official languages ​​such as Bulgarian, Esperanto, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian. Translators have done a great job, thank you for your hard work![break]