February 19, 2008 4 Comments Categories Tags



OpenTTD 0.6.0-beta4

written by Osai

Grab it while it’s hot. Tonight the developers released the forth beta of OpenTTD 0.6.0. The list of features and fixes is huge and shows how much effort the developers put into this project. Great.

You can find the binaries as well as the source code at SourceForge.

This is a little excerpt of the amazing list of changes:

  • Feature: Allow buttons to resize in NewGRF settings window (r12172)
  • Feature: Change colour of autorail and autoroad selection when Ctrl is pressed (r12167)
  • Feature: Separate catenary transparency settings from building transparency settings (r12103)
  • Feature: Allow locking individual transparency settings so they will not be changed by pressing ‘x’ (r12102)
  • Feature: Add some missing VarAction2 variables (r12124)
  • Feature: Make snow appear on rail tiles dependant on track height, not on height of the lowest part of the tile (r12098)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Specify the purchase, rail and road description of a bridge (r12069)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Add support for var 12, Variational Action 2 (r12045)
  • Feature: Allow trees on shore (r12029)
  • Feature: Invisible trees are now separate from the building concept (r12022)
  • Feature: Add support for passenger engine designation for AI-use, NewGRF property 0x08 for trains (r12019)
  • Feature: Show all cargo sources (en-route from) in the station view cargo waiting list instead of just one (r11990)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Resizable industry view window on callback 3A (r11987)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Implement var 8F(random bits) during callback 28 [FS#1697] (r11985)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Add support for Action 0D, var 13: informations about current map size (r11961)
  • Feature: Make use of new sprites added by Action5 type 0D (r11947)
  • Feature: Allow building bridge heads on more slopes (r11937)
  • Feature[newGRF]: Add support for Rivers. Rivers can currently only be placed with-in the scenario editor (r11926,r11938,r11949,r12071)
  • Feature: Generate.vbs script to allow project files generation for users unable to run generate bash script (r12123)
  • Feature: Sort the strings in languages dropdown (r11886)

And many more at Belugas post (tt-forums.net)

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4 comments so far

  1. Ammler February 19, 2008 09:24

    Beta is just another name for monthly, the new release system of OpenTTD devs. 😉

  2. VLengoc February 19, 2008 11:14

    The devs seem quite close to the final version now. 🙂

  3. Osai February 19, 2008 22:01

    I think we will see some more Release Candidates before the final version.

  4. #openttdcoop March 4, 2008 22:52

    OpenTTD 0.6.0-beta5…

    The OpenTTD developers released another beta today. This is probably the last beta release before they start with release candidates. According to the official announcement:
    he final version might very well be around before spring.
    Tick Tock, Time is t…

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