Download OpenTTD 0.6.0 beta 1

The game ‘Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe’ builds on the idea of ​​Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a successful computer game from 1995. In the game, the player controls a transport company and has to compete against rival companies in a battle for the largest transport empire. become. OpenTTD is released under the GPL license and comes with new and improved features, including increased 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. Those files contain copyrighted material and therefore cannot simply be used in an open source program. The developers released the first beta version of OpenTTD 0.6.0 a few days ago, with the following announcement:

Good evening/afternoon/morning/night (strike through what does not apply) everybody,

today we have released 0.6.0-beta1. In contrary to previous major releases that immediatelly started with a release candidate, we want to test whether running a few betas and semi-feature-freezing trunk yields a smaller workload and quicker release of 0.6.0.

Anyway, what’s new/changed? I’ll give a short list as the whole list is very long.

• Addition of NewHouses and NewIndustries plus a load of other (smaller) NewGRF additions.
• Bridges over diagonal rails, signals, etc.
• A new user interface for grouping vehicles.
• Proper (FIFO) improved loading.
• Autoslope (change foundations of under existing structures) and half-tile slopes (trains on the lower and upper part of a tile).
• More configuration options with respect to enabling/disabling news messages of industry changes.
• Loading indicators when trains are loading/unloading.
• A 32 bpp blitter, so one can have 32 bpp sprites and an extra zoom-out level.
• Drive through road stops, one way roads, trams and articulated road vehicles.

For the full list of changes/fixes take a look here.

Have fun playing with 0.6.0-beta1!