http://freetrain.sourceforge.net Free & open source game of rail and business simulation Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is now possible to compile and run FreeTrain on Mac OS X.  There are still problems so at the moment it's only for the brave and to be found in our SVN repository. http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=36 There has been good progress over the last few weeks especially by Dave, and now there are instructions for setting up FreeTrain from SVN so that it 'runs' on Linux/Mono/SDL.  The caveat is that it still has problems, but the situation is improving almost every day so if you feel ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=35 We have moved forums to here: http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/forum/ Unfortunately it was not possible to carry over the contents of the old forum due to the host charging for it.  However we now have an total control over an ad free forum on Sourceforge.  It's phpBB3 and avatars and attachments work fine.  I hope ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=34 Well after the timely intervention by Atsushi Eno, there's even better news.  The author of Tao.SDL and SdlDotNet, Dave Hudson, has stepped forward to help with getting FreeTrain up to speed on Mono and SDL.  I could not think of a more appropriately qualified person and it bodes for an ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=33 With project members struggling on the port to SDL, I reached out to the Mono community and - credit to the open source process - got a very prompt contribution from Atsushi Eno. He provided a patch to make FreeTrain build against Mono/SDL. Whilst it doesn't run ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=32 Steve posted an impressive screenshot in the forums showing his SDL port of FreeTrain.  It's obviously a WIP but it's a giant leap in the right direction.  He has had to implement his own widget library from scratch as well as porting all the drawing functions. The forums suffered a setback when our forum ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=31 Here are some highlights of recent FreeTrain developments: Steven is tirelessly continuing his one-man project of porting the whole game to Mono+SDL. It is not a smooth ride, apparently, as the various technologies don't play well together. Feel free to go give him a helping hand! Forum user Digitalicious has written a ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=30 The PluginsExtra package has gotten a new release! The most important update is that all structure contributions have been converted to the 'generic' format, which means that you can use the much more usable and powerful 'type tree' interface for most of your construction needs! To celebrate this occasion, I ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=29 You can now download the third FreeTrain SE release. Some plugins have been improved and updated, while several menu options and window labels have been tweaked for better consistency and accuracy. Last but not least, the serious bug that rendered the train trading dialog unusable has been resolved. If you download ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=28 It has been reported that our second FreeTrain release has a serious bug that prevents you from buying or selling trains, leaving you with only the tree starting ones. Due to the seriousness of this bug, this release has been removed from the download page. We are working hard on ... http://freetrain.sourceforge.net/?p=27