It was a pretty cool game. Not as good as e. g. civilisation but nonetheless fun. I even managed to make profits with my railroads.
Young folks can use dosbox etc... but it just does not feel the same compared to how it was "originally". I could not get myself to want to play raildroad tycoon again; I found it easy to play games such as civilization or UFO: Enemy Unknown (oddly enough the first part is more playable than the second part here).
I loved this game so much. There was a "deluxe" version with small improvements.
I would love to play a modern version of this. Probably true for other strategy classics like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Colonization.
Edit: ha, I remember that I used a really good tactic of playing with competitors' stocks, gaining majority, siphoning tons of money from them, and then selling the stocks. More profitable than running actual railroads.
Civilization 4 (currently on sale for $6 at gog) includes a colonization mode. I don't like it as much as the original but that's probably my nostalgia bias
Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.
edit: turns out this was a fabrication, good thing I read my cited source!
"On September 8, 2020, Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games, was released, containing confirmation that the Gandhi software bug was fabricated and a detailed background of the urban legend's formation"
Loved watching my brother play this game growing up, it was a bit too complex for me!
I've played OpenTTD a bit and seems quite similar.
A question I've always had with these reverse engineering projects, can someone build off their work to do a clean room reimplantation if they avoid any code/dissembly ?
Could someone refer to any good entry level DOS games reverse engineering materials? I dabbled a bit with NES hacking, but I'm finding it hard to get into DOS reverse engineering. What debugger to use? Any gotchas I should know in advance?
I'll add another recommendation for the freeware version of IDA 5, a copy of which the ScummVM project has permission to host. Although it's Windows-only and its UI feels a bit clunky today, the keyboard shortcuts allow an experienced user to be pretty efficient in navigating code, assigning data types, changing symbol names, etc.
I was especially pleased with IDA 5's ability to find and organize all the segments in just about any MZ EXE I've used it to reverse. It was even able to deal with the overlay segments in a Borland VROOMM / FBOV executable, and that was a pretty short-lived endeavor that faded to obscurity as soon as DOS/4G was on the scene.
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I would love to play a modern version of this. Probably true for other strategy classics like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Colonization.
Edit: ha, I remember that I used a really good tactic of playing with competitors' stocks, gaining majority, siphoning tons of money from them, and then selling the stocks. More profitable than running actual railroads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
edit: turns out this was a fabrication, good thing I read my cited source!
"On September 8, 2020, Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games, was released, containing confirmation that the Gandhi software bug was fabricated and a detailed background of the urban legend's formation"
from the above link
I don’t know. It just surprised me. Thought it would be the other way around.
I've played OpenTTD a bit and seems quite similar.
A question I've always had with these reverse engineering projects, can someone build off their work to do a clean room reimplantation if they avoid any code/dissembly ?
I was especially pleased with IDA 5's ability to find and organize all the segments in just about any MZ EXE I've used it to reverse. It was even able to deal with the overlay segments in a Borland VROOMM / FBOV executable, and that was a pretty short-lived endeavor that faded to obscurity as soon as DOS/4G was on the scene.