hello fellow transport addicts
i have been playing ttd and openttd for about 10 yrs now and have recently tried other transport games such as transport giant and locomotion, and just today i tried simutrans. i like the small game size and relativly intuitive learning curve of the game, however there is one aspect of the game which has also plagued early windows versions of ttd or ttdpatch. the game music is in midi format, and it seems that the game must use a non native midi player or midi plugin to play the music, and each time a new song begins, the whole game slows down or nearly freezes until the song has begun and then the game starts moving again. openttd seems to have cured this music glitch/problem..i'm not sure how it has accomplished the smooth music interface, but i think that whoever designed the music/sound interface for openttd should share some programing secrets with other game programers so that all of the transport game 'knock-offs' can have equally smooth game engines
so far for me, openttd seems to be at the top of the transport simulator mountain, and even chris sawyer's newest releases - eg - locomotion, fall very short of the mark compared to the fine programing skills of the openttd team
