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462 X.X) Credits: |
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464 The OpenTTD team (in alphabetical order): |
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465 Jean-Francois Claeys (Belugas) - GUI, newindustries and more |
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466 Bjarni Corfitzen (Bjarni) - MacOSX port, coder and vehicles |
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467 Matthijs Kooijman (blathijs) - Pathfinder-guru, pool rework |
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468 Victor Fischer (Celestar) - Programming everywhere you need him to |
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469 Christoph Elsenhans (frosch) - General coding |
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470 Loïc Guilloux (glx) - General coding |
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471 Jaroslav Mazanec (KUDr) - YAPG (Yet Another Pathfinder God) ;) |
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472 Jonathan Coome (Maedhros) - High priest of the NewGRF Temple |
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473 Michael Lutz (michi_cc) - Path based signals |
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474 Attila Bán (MiHaMiX) - WebTranslator, Nightlies, Wiki and bugtracker host |
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475 Owen Rudge (orudge) - Forum host, OS/2 port |
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476 Peter Nelson (peter1138) - Spiritual descendant from newGRF gods |
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477 Remko Bijker (Rubidium) - Lead coder and way more |
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478 Benedikt Brüggemeier (skidd13) - Bug fixer and code reworker |
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479 Zdenek Sojka (SmatZ) - Bug finder and fixer |
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481 Inactive Developers: |
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482 Tamás Faragó (Darkvater) - Ex-Lead coder |
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483 Christoph Mallon (Tron) - Programmer, code correctness police |
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485 Retired Developers: |
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486 Ludvig Strigeus (ludde) - OpenTTD author, main coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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487 Serge Paquet (vurlix) - Assistant project manager, coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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488 Dominik Scherer (dominik81) - Lead programmer, GUI expert (0.3.0 - 0.3.6) |
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489 Patric Stout (TrueLight) - Programmer, webhoster (0.3 - pre0.6) |
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491 Thanks to: |
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492 Josef Drexler - For his great work on TTDPatch. |
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493 Marcin Grzegorczyk - For his TTDPatch work and documentation of TTD internals and graphics (signals and track foundations) |
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494 Petr Baudis (pasky) - Many patches, newgrf support, etc. |
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495 Simon Sasburg (HackyKid) - For the many bugfixes he has blessed us with |
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496 Stefan Meißner (sign_de) - For his work on the console |
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497 Mike Ragsdale - OpenTTD installer |
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498 Cian Duffy (MYOB) - BeOS port / manual writing |
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499 Christian Rosentreter (tokai) - MorphOS / AmigaOS port |
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500 Richard Kempton (RichK67) - Additional airports, initial TGP implementation |
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501 Michael Blunck - For revolutionizing TTD with awesome graphics |
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502 George - Canal graphics |
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503 David Dallaston (Pikka) - Tram tracks |
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504 All Translators - For their support to make OpenTTD a truly international game |
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505 Bug Reporters - Thanks for all bug reports |
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506 Chris Sawyer - For an amazing game! |