OpenTTD v1.4.0-beta5

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OpenTTD v1.4.0-beta5 is released. OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

Features
OpenTTD is modelled after the original Transport Tycoon game by Chris Sawyer and enhances the game experience dramatically. Many features were inspired by TTDPatch while others are original.

Significant enhancements from the original game include:
bigger maps (up to 64 times in size)
stable multiplayer mode for up to 255 players in 15 companies, or as spectators
dedicated server mode and an in-game console for administration
IPv6 and IPv4 support for all communication of the client and server
in game downloading of AIs, NewGRFs, scenarios and heightmaps
new pathfinding algorithms that makes vehicles go where you want them to
autorail/-road build tool, improved terraforming
canals, shiplifts, aqueducts
larger, non-uniform stations and the ability to join them together
mammoth and multi-headed trains
different configurable models for acceleration of vehicles
clone, autoreplace and autoupdate vehicles
the possibility to build on slopes and coasts
advanced/conditional orders, share and copy orders
longer and higher bridges including several new designs, plus fully flexible tracks/roads under bridges
reworked airport system with many more airports/heliports (e.g. international and metropolitan)
presignals, semaphores, path based signalling
support for TTDPatch NewGRF features offering many options for graphics and behaviour configuration/modification
drive-through road stops for articulated road vehicles and trams
multiple trees on one tile
bribe the town authority
many configuration settings to tune the game to your liking
save games using zlib compression for smaller sizes, while not interrupting gameplay
significant internationalisation support. OpenTTD has already been translated into over 50 languages
dynamically created town names in 18 languages, plus NewGRF support for additional languages
freely distributable graphics, sounds and music
framework for custom (user) written AIs
zooming further out in the normal view and zooming out in the small map
Lots of effort has been put into making OpenTTD easy to use. These include:

convert rail tool (to electrified rail, monorail, and maglev)
drag&drop support for almost all tools (demolition, road/rail building/removing, stations, scenario editor, etc)
sorting of most lists based on various criteria (vehicle, station, town, industries, etc.)
mouse wheel support (scroll menus, zoom in/out)
autoscroll when the mouse is near the edge of the screen/window
sell whole train by dragging it to the dynamite trashcan
cost estimation with the 'shift' key
advanced options configuration window, change settings from within the game
Graphical/interface features:

screenshots can be in BMP, PNG or PCX format (select in game options menu)
more currencies (including Euro introduction in 2002)
extra viewports to view more parts of the game world at the same time
resolution and refresh rate selection for fullscreen mode
colourful newspaper after a certain date
colour coded vehicle profits
game speed increase (through fast forward button or by pressing the TAB key)
snappy and sticky windows that always stay on top and neatly align themselves to other windows
more hotkeys for even less mouse-clicking
support for 32 bit graphics
support for right-to-left languages
support for other (sized) fonts where the user interface scales based on the font and translation

OpenTTD v1.4.0-beta5 Changelog:




- Feature: Warn the user about empty setting search results, and about missing setting search results due to filtering (r26322, r26321)
- Feature: [NewGRF] Extend object variable 0x60 to also return the view [FS#5696] (r26316)
- Feature: Allow map sizes up to 4096x4096 (r26319)
- Feature: [NoGo] Allow GS to hide story page date (r26307)
- Feature: [NoGo] More story APIs: RemovePageElement, GetCompany, GetDate, SetDate (r26306)
- Feature: [NoGo] ScriptStoryPageElementList() - a list of all story page elements for a given page (r26305)
- Feature: [NoGo] ScriptStoryPageList() - a list of all story pages (r26303)
- Change: improve the performance of map generation (r26313, r26312, r26311, r26310, r26309, r26308)
- Fix: Station sizes > 8 were always allowed [FS#5929] (r26375)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Mixed up callback mask flags in station inspect window [FS#5928] (r26374)
- Fix: Calling DoCommandP during the gameloop cleared pending persistent storage changes [FS#5831] (r26371)
- Fix: [Windows] Use a separate event to indicate that the drawing thread has finished initialising, preventing potential deadlocks (r26367)
- Fix: [Windows] Protect the whole video driver from concurrent access (r26366)
- Fix: [Windows] Do not draw the cursor when its sprite is not ready and set _screen.dst_ptr immediately when the buffer changes [FS#5867] (r26365)
- Fix: Writing out of the bounds of the rail type map [FS#5892] (r26364)
- Fix: Reset the default window size icon size just like all the other cached icon sizes [FS#5906] (r26362)
- Fix: ClientSizeChanged is only called via WndProcGdi which already has the mutex [FS#5922] (r26360)
- Fix: Some order options do not combine with others, e.g. go via + full load [FS#5845] (r26357)
- Fix: Protect all VideoDriver_SDL methods with the (now recursive) _draw_mutex (r26351)
- Fix: Make sure link graph jobs can delete themselves after SLA_NULL [FS#5898] (r26347)
- Fix: Call Layouter::ReduceLineCache from GenerateTownName in all cases to keep cache size in check [FS#5870] (r26346)
- Fix: Rewrite SmallStack so that it does not use a pool and is reentrant (r26343)
- Fix: Reroute cargo when automatic distribution is switched off [FS#5902] (r26341)
- Fix: Do not redraw the link graph overlay if it is empty [FS#5908] (r26338)
- Fix: Some inconsistencies regarding link graph (job) IDs (r26331)
- Fix: The case of rerouting cargo from one VehicleCargoList to another (r26330)
- Fix: Take care of next_station when reassigning from MTA_DELIVER to MTA_TRANSFER [FS#5901] (r26327)
- Fix: when autosaving the message about a save already happening could be shown, even though the code's intention was to not show it [FS#5871] (r26326)
- Fix: Check whether NewGRF change vehicle capacity when they are not supposed to, and truncate cargo appropiately if they are allowed to [FS#5897] (r26317)
- Fix: The giant-screenshot confirmation window only triggered for rediculously big screenshots, for ludicrously big ones [FS#5899] (r26314)

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