Good news, Simutrans players!
A new member
I'm Roboron, the new maintainer of Simutrans on Steam. As you already now, the game has been outdated for some months (since the 121.0 release on February). Seeing this, I decided to step in and become a member of the Simutrans administration group.
Changes on Simutrans 121.0
My first action as the new maintainer has been to update Simutrans on Steam to version 121.0. This version includes some really important changes regarding accesibility, which I'm sure will be welcome by a lot of players.
- Major overhaul of the GUI.
- Scalable font size.
- Theme size support.
- Updated translations.
- Bugfixes.
- pak64 updated to version 121.0
- pak128.german updated to version 1.3
- Branches sdl & gdi (for windows) have been removed. Only SDL2 builds are currently deployed to Steam.
- Update not available for MacOS
Help needed
As a new maintainer, I'm still learning how to deploy Simutrans properly. I think I did a decent job for the first time, but there's still some issues I need help with:
Mac builds
Version 121.0 is not available for MacOS. This is due to Simutrans Community lacking MacOS developers. If you own a Mac, and you would like to contribute to Simutrans, we need your help!
Head to the forum to test MacOS builds or learn how to build Simutrans on your Mac.
GNU/Linux feedback
Previously, Linux builds included all the required dependencies (even the system ones!) - the linux download was about 60 MB! I've reduced this removing the debug capability and shipping only required libs for a base Ubuntu 20.04 or Debian Buster installation.
However, depending on your system configuration, more required libs may be necessary. If you run into problems because a required lib is not present (Simutrans won't start), please provide me with information about the issue.
Known bugs
- Simutrans 121.0 saves may be incompatible with previous versions. You may need to delete you ~/simutrans/ directory (warning: it contains your saves) if you run into problems because of this. If you want to keep playing a save on version 120.4 (or prior), change to the frozen branch in the Betas tab.
- Simutrans for Linux currently doesn't play music. We are aware of this and we are working on a solution.
That's all for the moment. I will reply now to posts that will benefit from this update. Of course, any feedback is appreciated!
[ 2020-10-09 20:01:57 CET ] [ Original post ]