The first playable versionĪ screenshot of Simutrans beta version 0.78.7 with the minimap and some toolbars and windows opened. Because of this and the need to use a DOSBOX, we recommend you to skip this version and try the next one if you want to truly play an early Simutrans. As the “demo” name suggest, this version has practically no content, and crashes frequently, since it was just a version to show up the Simutrans engine working and a little more. This beta version was released on, while the history.txt starts just two months before (). The first of the versions we have made available is not the actual first release, but it is pretty close. If you ever wanted to take a taste of one of the earlier Simutrans releases, today is your lucky day! The first demo versionĪ screenshot of Simutrans demo version 0.50, with text in German. However, many of the players reading this today have never played a Simutrans version from Hajo’s era. I did try Simutrans for a hot minute also about ten years ago but had hoped that with the stable release on Steam and even the little "marketing" effort on YouTube, that there would be something a slightly shallower learning curve by now, but maybe I'm too dumb to figure it out these days.In the last post of this series we talked with Hajo about the first years of Simutrans. Or if there is something obvious I'm missing, would really appreciate any help or tips. Should I just give up on a tutorial, grow a pair, and watch some videos or something and just start a plain new game and figure it out from scratch? I guess I shouldn't expect an idiotproof start to this game but it was pretty jarring to experience this coming from OpenTTD (which I admittedly last played about ten years ago - maybe I'm losing it as I age). The only tutorial I could find was a scenario called "pak128 tutorial" so I tried installing pak128 (wasn't sure which, so after the regular one didn't work I tried the default setting which installed the German one), but no matter what I do when I load the scenario, nothing seems to happen.
However, after some confusion about installing paksets and trying to find the tutorial that one commenter mentioned - and a few errors and crashes - I have to admit I'm lost. OpenTTD), then reading some responses to this post that convinced me that I should probably start with vanilla before trying Extended, I figured the idiotproof approach would be to install the game from Steam. Hi! Not sure if this is the most active community to ask this in, but after seeing a 25th anniversary video on YouTube and getting hyped about the realistic development patterns and deeper power/road development in Simutrans (vs.
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