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542 fail to start. Perhaps this is for the better because those OSes are not known |
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545 With the added support for font-based text selecting a non-latin language will |
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548 name like "Tahoma" or a path to a font. |
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550 Any NewGRF file used in a game is stored inside the savegame and will refuse |
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551 to load if you don't have that NewGRF file available. A list of missing files |
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552 will be output to the console at the moment, so use the '-d' flag (on windows) |
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553 to see this list. You just have to find the files (http://grfcrawler.tt-forums.net/) |
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554 put them in the data/ folder and you're set to go. |
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557 X.X) Credits |
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559 The OpenTTD team (in alphabetical order): |
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560 Albert Hofkamp (Alberth) - GUI expert |
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561 Jean-François Claeys (Belugas) - GUI, newindustries and more |
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562 Matthijs Kooijman (blathijs) - Pathfinder-guru, pool rework |
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563 Christoph Elsenhans (frosch) - General coding |
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564 Loïc Guilloux (glx) - Windows Expert |
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565 Michael Lutz (michi_cc) - Path based signals |
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566 Owen Rudge (orudge) - Forum host, OS/2 port |
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567 Peter Nelson (peter1138) - Spiritual descendant from newGRF gods |
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568 Ingo von Borstel (planetmaker) - Support |
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569 Remko Bijker (Rubidium) - Lead coder and way more |
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570 Zdeněk Sojka (SmatZ) - Bug finder and fixer |
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571 José Soler (Terkhen) - General coding |
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572 Thijs Marinussen (Yexo) - AI Framework |
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574 Inactive Developers: |
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575 Bjarni Corfitzen (Bjarni) - MacOSX port, coder and vehicles |
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576 Victor Fischer (Celestar) - Programming everywhere you need him to |
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577 Tamás Faragó (Darkvater) - Ex-Lead coder |
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578 Jaroslav Mazanec (KUDr) - YAPG (Yet Another Pathfinder God) ;) |
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579 Jonathan Coome (Maedhros) - High priest of the NewGRF Temple |
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580 Attila Bán (MiHaMiX) - WebTranslator 1 and 2 |
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581 Christoph Mallon (Tron) - Programmer, code correctness police |
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584 Ludvig Strigeus (ludde) - OpenTTD author, main coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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585 Serge Paquet (vurlix) - Assistant project manager, coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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586 Dominik Scherer (dominik81) - Lead programmer, GUI expert (0.3.0 - 0.3.6) |
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587 Benedikt Brüggemeier (skidd13) - Bug fixer and code reworker |
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588 Patric Stout (TrueLight) - Programmer (0.3 - pre0.7), sys op (active) |
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590 Thanks to: |
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591 Josef Drexler - For his great work on TTDPatch. |
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592 Marcin Grzegorczyk - For his TTDPatch work and documentation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe internals and graphics (signals and track foundations) |
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593 Petr Baudiš (pasky) - Many patches, newgrf support, etc. |
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594 Simon Sasburg (HackyKid) - For the many bugfixes he has blessed us with |
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595 Stefan Meißner (sign_de) - For his work on the console |
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596 Mike Ragsdale - OpenTTD installer |
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597 Cian Duffy (MYOB) - BeOS port / manual writing |
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598 Christian Rosentreter (tokai) - MorphOS / AmigaOS port |
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599 Richard Kempton (RichK67) - Additional airports, initial TGP implementation |
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600 Alberto Demichelis - Squirrel scripting language |
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601 L. Peter Deutsch - MD5 implementation |
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602 Michael Blunck - For revolutionizing TTD with awesome graphics |
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603 George - Canal graphics |
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604 David Dallaston (Pikka) - Tram tracks |
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605 All Translators - For their support to make OpenTTD a truly international game |
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606 Bug Reporters - Thanks for all bug reports |
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607 Chris Sawyer - For an amazing game! |