2.0.1 alpha 68

[Josef Drexler]

Hi all,

after a long wait, I've released another alpha version as usual at
http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/

This one has an amazing new feature by Steven Hoefel: trams! Enable them
with "trams on", load the new tram track graphics and build them. Then
wait for a grf set that actually defines trams... hopefully it shouldn't
take too long. Note that this is still a work in progress, and while most
things work, in particular level crossings with rail as well as bridges
and tunnels don't work entirely.

In other news there were a bunch of minor bug fixes and changes, such as
allowing vehicle lists to be sorted by the first destination, and allowing
trucks to go to non-stop bus stops (which can be built by attaching a bus
stop to a rail waypoint, and if you like removing the waypoint afterwards).

There may be one more alpha version this year depending on how things turn
out, and then I will probably start the beta process towards a new stable
release version in the new year.

Enjoy!

Josef


All changes in 2.0.1 alpha 68:
- prevent performance score from overflowing when it would be >255
- (devel) fixed reported numbers when search failed
- (devel) changed variables to new var{b,w,d} macro
- automatically pick cargo type for vehicle from refittability list if
default cargo type is not available
- by stevenh: fixed vehicle view window being scrollable
- by stevenh: added action D var 9E bit 0, enables desert revegetation
- enabled finnish translation again (accidentally left out of alpha 67)
- (devel) removed multi-climate scenariocargo and cargotypes arrays
- fixed grf error messages reporting wrong error sprite number
- added list of current text IDs to crash log
- initial support for UTF-8 texts, although currently only the existing
character set is supported
- prevent crash when attempting to display undefined text ID
- added sorting by first destination to vehicle list
- allow trucks to go to non-stop bus stops
- (devel) added player2 array to store additional player data in savegame
- actually save 2nd CC selection, and prepared for more colour schemes
- by stevenh: new switch "trams on" enables building tram and light rail
tracks and operation of trams
- by Csaba:
* (devel) added comments to newindu.asm
* various small bugfixes and optimizations in newindu.asm
* (devel) made the industry data block a ptrvar and made its data
arrays directly accessable
* now industry tiles have correct merged foundations similarly to
roads and rails

[Felix Wüst]

Post by Josef Drexler
This one has an amazing new feature by Steven Hoefel: trams! Enable them
with "trams on", load the new tram track graphics and build them. Then
wait for a grf set that actually defines trams... hopefully it shouldn't
take too long. Note that this is still a work in progress, and while most
things work, in particular level crossings with rail as well as bridges
and tunnels don't work entirely.

Is it possible, that cities build tram tracks instead of roads? It sure
looks like it:
Loading Image...
And note, that there is no road underneath the tracks...

But it still looks nice so far.

Felix

[Chris]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:48:52 +0100, Felix =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCst?=

Post by Felix Wüst

Post by Josef Drexler
This one has an amazing new feature by Steven Hoefel: trams! Enable them
with "trams on", load the new tram track graphics and build them. Then
wait for a grf set that actually defines trams... hopefully it shouldn't
take too long. Note that this is still a work in progress, and while most
things work, in particular level crossings with rail as well as bridges
and tunnels don't work entirely.

Is it possible, that cities build tram tracks instead of roads? It sure
http://www.dereff.de/aha.png
And note, that there is no road underneath the tracks...

I'm having some problems with the tram tracks implementation - where
I've got roads built on the bridge foundation tiles, these are
displaying as tram tracks without road underneath....

I'm also experiencing crashing if I try and raise a bit of land next
to where another piece of road is built on the side of a slope with
foundations. (i.e. to try and make the foundations disappear.

Crash log is:
TTD V0019E000 Crash Log by TTDPatch 2.0.1 alpha 68 (Windows)

Exception C0000005 at 001B:FFFFFFFF

EAX EBX ECX EDX
00002020 00007D78 00560000 0000001E

ESI EDI ESP EBP
00007D78 004E0000 0006EE02 0006EE46

DS ES FS GS SS Flags
0023 0023 0038 0000 0023 00010246
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF 00000FFF ######## FFFFFFFF (Segment limits)
00CFF300 00CFF300 0040F300 ######## 00CFF300 (Access rights)

Bytes at DS:EIP
xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx

Stack Dump:
00601DBD 004E0000 00000000 0006EE46 0006EE26 00007D78 0000001E
00560000
00002020 0061DF31 00584391 005842C0 7E790201 40B50201 00000058
079007E0
7D797E79 000D019B 01FE0000 EE740000 F6800006 125B0006 F96077E4
000D00C8
01FE0000 126B0000 000077E4 F9600000 373200C8 46206874 31206265
20313239

Handler Stack Dump (at 0023:0006EBB0):
0000C001 9C7AA198 401AF303 00000000 00000000 00000038 00000023
00000023
004E0000 00007D78 00007D78 0000001E 00560000 00002020 0006EE46
FFFFFFFF
0000001B 00010246 0006EE02 00000023 0000027F 00000000 00000000
00000000
00000000 00000000 00001F80 0000FFFF 7C590CAE 72A00000 00000000
00000000

Patch flags:
DAFCFEFF FFFF3F7F FFFD7DFC 000366FF 00000000 00000000 00FF843F
A0800000
00000074 00000000 00001000 00000001 00003E80 005A07D0 005A0096
016D005A
76260500 13B14EC4 02BC03E8 138803C0 05140000 0A28370A 140A1928
1E145014
141E1450 3C1E1E14 0000003F EBD003FF F0F0F0F0



I can also email my config file and an example savegame (started from
scratch after this patch version was released) if you like....

Kind regards,
Chris

[Stevie D]

Post by Josef Drexler
Hi all,
after a long wait, I've released another alpha version as usual at
http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/
Note that this is still a work in progress, and while most things
work, in particular level crossings with rail as well as bridges and
tunnels don't work entirely.

:-(

Abnormal program termination: memory protection fault
CS:EIP=00A7h:00000013h

Might this be anything to do with 310 low paras, or whatever it was
chuntering on about when I loaded it up?

I was looking forward to being able to build tram tracks too ... maybe
now I'll have to wait until I can build trams to use on them!

[Stevie D]

Post by Stevie D
Abnormal program termination: memory protection fault
CS:EIP=00A7h:00000013h

Alpha 71 is giving me exactly the same error message :-(

Windows 98, if that makes any difference.

[Stevie D]

Post by Stevie D

Post by Stevie D
Abnormal program termination: memory protection fault
CS:EIP=00A7h:00000013h

Alpha 71 is giving me exactly the same error message :-(
Windows 98, if that makes any difference.

Perhaps I should add that this is on start up, with the DOS version.
It never even gets as the welcome screen.

[Josef Drexler]

Post by Stevie D

Post by Stevie D

Post by Stevie D
Abnormal program termination: memory protection fault
CS:EIP=00A7h:00000013h

Alpha 71 is giving me exactly the same error message :-(
Windows 98, if that makes any difference.

Perhaps I should add that this is on start up, with the DOS version.
It never even gets as the welcome screen.

Have you tried deleting ttdload.ovl?

[Stevie D]

Post by Josef Drexler
Have you tried deleting ttdload.ovl?

I'm afraid so. It didn't help.

[Josef Drexler]

Post by Stevie D

Post by Josef Drexler
Have you tried deleting ttdload.ovl?

I'm afraid so. It didn't help.

Well, it seems to be a crash while the DOS extender is still setting up
things for TTD, before TTDPatch gets even started. I have no idea what
could cause this, but maybe you can try playing with the memory settings
in the Win98 shortcut.

For reference, these work for me:
Conventional memory: auto
Initial environment: 2048
EMS: 16384
XMS: 16384 (HMA box not checked)
DPMI: 60000

[Michael Blunck]

Josef Drexler wrote:

[...]

Post by Josef Drexler
Conventional memory: auto
Initial environment: 2048
EMS: 16384
XMS: 16384 (HMA box not checked)
DPMI: 60000

This last one is interesting. I can only set it to as much as 16384 or
to "automatic". Do you think this could have something to do with my
DOS-under-Win crashes?

regards
Michael

[Josef Drexler]

Post by Michael Blunck
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Post by Josef Drexler
Conventional memory: auto
Initial environment: 2048
EMS: 16384
XMS: 16384 (HMA box not checked)
DPMI: 60000

This last one is interesting. I can only set it to as much as 16384 or
to "automatic".

You can enter any number directly, it's just not in the default list.

Post by Michael Blunck
Do you think this could have something to do with my
DOS-under-Win crashes?

If "automatic" sets it to more than 64 MB, it might make problems. I'm
pretty sure that ~60 MB was the max. that worked. Smaller numbers would
only cause TTDPatch to abort with an "out of memory" conditions at most.

However TTD doesn't work in VMWare win98, only in plain DOS, so I can't
test this anymore.