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1 OpenTTD README
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2 Last updated: 2007-05-29
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3 Release version: 0.5.2
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7 Table of Contents:
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9 1.0) About
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10 2.0) Contacting
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11 * 2.1 Reporting Bugs
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12 3.0) Supported Platforms
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13 4.0) Running OpenTTD
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14 5.0) OpenTTD features
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15 6.0) Configuration File
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16 7.0) Compiling
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17 8.0) Translating
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18 * 8.1 Guidelines
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19 * 8.2 Translation
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20 * 8.3 Previewing
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21 9.0) Troubleshooting
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22 X.X) Credits
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25 1.0) About:
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27 OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a popular game originally
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28 written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely
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29 as possible while extending it with new features.
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31 OpenTTD is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. For
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32 more information, see the file 'COPYING'.
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36 The easiest way to contact the OpenTTD team is by submitting bug reports or
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37 posting comments in our forums. You can also chat with us on IRC (#openttd
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40 The OpenTTD homepage is http://www.openttd.org/.
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48 To report a bug, please create a Flyspray account and follow the bugs
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49 link from our homepage. Please make sure the bug is reproducible and
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52 is not already known.
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54 The Flyspray project page URL is: http://bugs.openttd.org/
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58 - Bug details, including instructions how to reproduce it
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59 - Platform and compiler (Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, ...)
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61 - If this bug only occurred recently please note the last
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62 version without the bug and the first version including
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63 the bug. That way we can fix it quicker by looking at the
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64 changes made.
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69 OpenTTD has been ported to several platforms and operating systems. It shouldn't
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70 be very difficult to port it to a new platform. The currently working platforms
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71 are:
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73 BeOS - SDL
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76 MacOS X (universal) - Cocoa video and sound drivers (SDL works too, but not 100% and not as a universal binary)
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80 Windows - Win32 GDI (faster) or SDL
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91 sample.cat
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124 http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/Console
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129 The configuration file for OpenTTD (openttd.cfg) is in a simple Windows-like
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130 .INI format. It's mostly undocumented. Almost all settings can be changed
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131 ingame by using the 'Configure Patches' window.
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136 Windows:
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137 You need Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Open the project file
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139 you need to add WITH_SDL to the project settings.
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140 PNG (WITH_PNG) and ZLIB (WITH_ZLIB) support is enabled by default. For these
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141 to work you need their development files. For best results, download the
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142 openttd-useful.zip file from SourceForge under the Files tab. Put the header
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143 files into your compiler's include/ directory and the library (.lib) files
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145 For more help with VS see docs/Readme_Windows_MSVC.txt.
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147 You can also build it using the Makefile with MSYS/MinGW or Cygwin/MinGW.
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148 Please read the Makefile for more information.
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150 Solaris 10:
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151 You need g++ (version 3 or higher), together with SDL. Installation of
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152 libpng and zlib is recommended. For the first build it is required
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153 to execute "bash configure" first. Note that ./configure does not work
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154 yet. It is likely that you don't have a strip binary, so use the
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155 --disable-strip option in that case. Fontconfig (>2.3.0) and freetype
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156 are optional. "make run" will then run the program.
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159 OpenTTD can be built with GNU "make". On non-GNU systems it's called "gmake".
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160 However, for the first build one has to do a "./configure" first.
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161 Note that you need SDL-devel 1.2.5 (or higher) to compile OpenTTD.
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163 MacOS X:
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164 Use "make" or Xcode (which will then call make for you)
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165 This will give you a binary for your CPU type (PPC/Intel)
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167 To make a universal binary type "./configure --enabled-universal"
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170 BeOS:
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171 Use "make", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
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173 FreeBSD:
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174 You need the port devel/sdl12 for a non-dedicated build.
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175 graphics/png is optional for screenshots in the PNG format.
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176 Use "gmake", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
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178 OpenBSD:
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179 Use "gmake", but do a "./configure" before the first build.
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180 Note that you need the port devel/sdl to compile OpenTTD.
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182 MorphOS:
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183 Use "make". However, for the first build one has to do a "./configure" first.
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184 Note that you need the MorphOS SDK, latest libnix updates (else C++ parts of
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185 OpenTTD will not build) and the powersdl.library SDK. Optionally libz,
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186 libpng and freetype2 developer files.
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188 OS/2:
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189 Open Watcom C/C++ 1.3 or later is required to build the OS/2 version. See the
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190 docs/Readme_OS2.txt file for more information.
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195 See http://www.openttd.org/translating.php for up-to-date information.
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198 http://translator2.openttd.org/, is highly encouraged. For a username/password
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199 combo you should contact the development team, either by mail, IRC or the
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200 forums. The system is straightforward to use, and if you have any problems,
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201 read the online help located there.
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203 If for some reason the website is down for a longer period of time, the
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204 information below might be of help.
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211 process! This avoids double work, as someone else may have already
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212 started translating to the same language.
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214 Otherwise, some characters will not display correctly in the game.
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216 Latin.
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220 So, now that you've notified the development team about your intention to
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221 translate (You did, right? Of course you did.) you can pick up english.txt
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222 (found in the SVN repository under /lang) and translate.
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224 You must change the first two lines of the file appropriately:
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226 ##name English-Name-Of-Language
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229 Note: Do not alter the following parts of the file:
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231 * String identifiers (the first word on each line)
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232 * Parts of the strings which are in curly braces (such as {STRING})
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233 * Lines beginning with ## (such as ##id), other than the first two lines of
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234 the file
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236 8.3) Previewing:
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238 In order to view the translation in the game, you need to compile your language
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239 file with the strgen utility, which is now bundled with the game.
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241 strgen is a command-line utility. It takes the language filename as parameter.
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242 Example:
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244 strgen lang/german.txt
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246 This results in compiling german.txt and produces another file named german.lng.
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247 Any missing strings are replaced with the English strings. Note that it looks
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248 for english.txt in the lang subdirectory, which is where your language file
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249 should also be.
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251 That's all! You should now be able to select the language in the game options.
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253 9.0) Troubleshooting
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256 To see all startup options available to you, start OpenTTD with the
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257 "./openttd -h" option. This might help you tweak some of the settings.
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259 If the game is acting strange and you feel adventurous you can try the
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260 "-d [[<name>]=[<level>]" flag, where the higher levels will give you more
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261 debugging output. The "name" variable can help you to display only some type of
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262 debugging messages. This is mostly undocumented so best is to look in the
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263 source code file debug.c for the various debugging types. For more information
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264 look at http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/Command_line.
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266 The most frequent problem is missing data files. Don't forget to put all GRF
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267 files from TTD into your data/ folder including sample.cat!
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269 Under Windows 98 and lower it is impossible to use a dedicated server; it will
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270 fail to start. Perhaps this is for the better because those OS's are not known
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271 for their stability.
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273 With the added support for font-based text selecting a non-latin language will
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274 result in garbage (lots of '?') shown on screen. Please open your configuration
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275 file and add a desired font for small/medium/-and large_font. This can be a font
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276 name like "Tahoma" or a path to a font.
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278 Any NewGRF file used in a game is stored inside the savegame and will refuse
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279 to load if you don't have that grf file available. A list of missing files
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280 will be output to the console at the moment, so use the '-d' flag (on windows)
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281 to see this list. You just have to find the files (http://grfcrawler.tt-forums.net/)
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282 put them in the data/ folder and you're set to go.
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283
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284 X.X) Credits:
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286 The OpenTTD team (in alphabetical order):
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287 Jean-Francois Claeys (Belugas) - In training, not yet specialized
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288 Bjarni Corfitzen (Bjarni) - Mac OS X port, coder
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289 Matthijs Kooijman (blathijs) - Pathfinder-guru
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290 Victor Fischer (Celestar) - Programming everywhere you need him to
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291 Tamás Faragó (Darkvater) - Lead programmer
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292 Loïc Guilloux (glx) - In training, not yet specialized
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293 Jaroslav Mazanec (KUDr) - YAPG (Yet Another Pathfinder God) ;)
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294 Kerekes Miham (MiHaMiX) - Maintainer of translator service, and host of nightlies
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296 Peter Nelson (peter1138) - Spiritual descendant from newgrf gods
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297 Remko Bijker (Rubidium) - THE desync hunter
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298 Christoph Mallon (Tron) - Programmer, code correctness police
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299 Patric Stout (TrueLight) - Programmer, network guru, SVN-repository and website host
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301 Retired Developers:
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302 Dominik Scherer (dominik81) - Lead programmer, GUI expert (0.3.0 - 0.3.6)
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303 Owen Rudge (orudge) - Contributor, forum host, master server host, OS/2 port (0.1 - 0.4.8)
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304 Ludvig Strigeus (ludde) - OpenTTD author, main coder (0.1 - 0.3.3)
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305 Serge Paquet (vurlix) - Assistant project manager, coder (0.1 - 0.3.3)
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306
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308 Josef Drexler - For his great work on TTDPatch.
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309 Marcin Grzegorczyk - For his TTDPatch work and documentation of TTD internals and graphics (signals and track foundations)
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310 Matthijs Kooijman (blathijs) - For his many patches, suggestions and major work on maprewrite
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311 Petr Baudis (pasky) - Many patches, newgrf support, etc.
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312 Simon Sasburg (HackyKid) - For the many bugfixes he has blessed us with (and future PBS)
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313 Stefan Meißner (sign_de) - For his work on the console
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314 Mike Ragsdale - OpenTTD installer
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315 Cian Duffy (MYOB) - BeOS port / manual writing
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316 Christian Rosentreter (tokai) - MorphOS / AmigaOS port
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317 Richard Kempton (RichK67) - Additional airports, initial TGP implementation
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318 Michael Blunck - For revolutionizing TTD with awesome graphics
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319 George - Canal graphics
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320 David Dallaston (Pikka) - Tram tracks
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321 All Translators - For their support to make OpenTTD a truly international game
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322 Bug Reporters - Thanks for all bug reports
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323 Chris Sawyer - For an amazing game!