Guide to setting up OpenTTD DOS

[WWTBAM]

Here is the guide to running OpenTTD under MS-DOS I wrote. Its up to you to find the build I used.
http://wiki.openttd.org/OpenTTD_DOS

[SirkoZ]

That's nice and all, but you don't specify where to download the actual OpenTTD for DOS. A crucial point of the guide, no?

[WWTBAM]

Currently you must build it or get some one to build it for you.

[Eddi]

"if you want someone to build it for you, press 1"

[Train_builder]

What can be used to build this program? I have no idea on how to compile the source. Would Code :: Blocks work?
BUMP!!!!

[Baldy's Boss]

I run my OpenTTD with FreeBSD.
I want to be able to run Transport Tycoon (the original) on DOSBox under FreeBSD the same way I used to under Windows XP (when I tried it crashed).Does anyone here have it working?

[Dave]

I want to be able to run Transport Tycoon (the original) on DOSBox under FreeBSD the same way I used to under Windows XP (when I tried it crashed).Does anyone here have it working?

This isn't the right part of the forum to ask that.

Try asking here: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=3

[Baldy's Boss]

I want to be able to run Transport Tycoon (the original) on DOSBox under FreeBSD the same way I used to under Windows XP (when I tried it crashed).Does anyone here have it working?

This isn't the right part of the forum to ask that.

Try asking here: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=3

Raised the issue there weeks ago to no response.

[Dave]

I want to be able to run Transport Tycoon (the original) on DOSBox under FreeBSD the same way I used to under Windows XP (when I tried it crashed).Does anyone here have it working?

This isn't the right part of the forum to ask that.

Try asking here: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=3

Raised the issue there weeks ago to no response.

This still isn't the topic to be asking the question in.

[WWTBAM]

Not even the forum to be asking in.

[Dave]

If this is the post you're referring to (from here http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 0#p1145643) then:

I was playing TT in DOSBox on Windows XP until my XP machine crashed,but I haven't been able to get TT to run in DOSBox on a FreeBSD machine.

... Is not a question. Maybe you should reconsider how you frame your request.

[Train_builder]

Still, what can be used to compile it, and an even bigger question: How do you compile it?????

[Eddy Arfik]

Still, what can be used to compile it, and an even bigger question: How do you compile it?????

An even bigger question is why? I can't think of any hardware capable of running OpenTTD where MS-DOS would be a suitable operating system.

[leifbk]

An even bigger question is why? I can't think of any hardware capable of running OpenTTD where MS-DOS would be a suitable operating system.

Maybe it would work in a VM on a recent x86 box, like the i7.

What's more serious is the inherent limitations of MS-DOS, in particular the 640K memory barrier. The original TTD was coded in assembler, while OTTD is coded in C++. Code is a lot tighter in assembler than in C++. Also, I believe that the map array is larger in OTTD than in the original TTD (more variables per tile). So, you'd probably be limited to a map size of max. 128x128 and maybe a couple of hundred vehicles total.

[Eddy Arfik]

An even bigger question is why? I can't think of any hardware capable of running OpenTTD where MS-DOS would be a suitable operating system.

Maybe it would work in a VM on a recent x86 box, like the i7.

What's more serious is the inherent limitations of MS-DOS, in particular the 640K memory barrier. The original TTD was coded in assembler, while OTTD is coded in C++. Code is a lot tighter in assembler than in C++. Also, I believe that the map array is larger in OTTD than in the original TTD (more variables per tile). So, you'd probably be limited to a map size of max. 128x128 and maybe a couple of hundred vehicles total.

Yes, it probably would work in a VM, but why someone would want to build a stripped down version for an ancient OS running in a VM when the full version runs native?

However, in this case

I want to be able to run Transport Tycoon (the original) on DOSBox under FreeBSD the same way I used to under Windows XP (when I tried it crashed)

using a VM with proper DOS install might be a better solution than DOSBox which in my experience seems to crash randomly

[Train_builder]

Why not Freedos, which is FAT32 and can support larger amounts of ram? MS-DOS does not directly support larger amounts of ram, so you are correct. HOWEVER, there is ways to run programs in the extra ram.

[Nappe1]

An even bigger question is why? I can't think of any hardware capable of running OpenTTD where MS-DOS would be a suitable operating system.

Maybe it would work in a VM on a recent x86 box, like the i7.

What's more serious is the inherent limitations of MS-DOS, in particular the 640K memory barrier. The original TTD was coded in assembler, while OTTD is coded in C++. Code is a lot tighter in assembler than in C++. Also, I believe that the map array is larger in OTTD than in the original TTD (more variables per tile). So, you'd probably be limited to a map size of max. 128x128 and maybe a couple of hundred vehicles total.

Original TT and Dos version of TTD used Protected Mode extender and could use all available RAM up to 4GB barrier, which is 32bit address space limit available in i386 protected mode. (But due having static amount of max trains, ships, etc. it probably used around 4MB or bit more as I recal that it got faster and less Hard Drive active with more RAM than minimum 4MB. I can't recall exactly which Protected Mode Extender it was using, but most of them could use CPU controlled HD swap if allowed / needed.)

[Train_builder]

I found one called DOS4GW. I have tried it in DOSbox. If I could, and there was a way to run modern Windows programs in DOS, I would switch to DOS. And, can you use the original TTD with OpenTTD, for things such as multiplayer?