Somebody... anybody?

[petert]

What does any of that even mean?! All I understand is 'browse' and 'create'. It says create an empty sample.cat file, what kind of file?
'Use a command like $ touch sample.cat on the command line'... Umm, in English? I can't stress enough how I need this in explaining-to-your-90-year-old-grandmother-who-is-still-convinced-that-the-toaster-is-black-magic language.

And I realise how irritating it must be for you but I just *don't* understand this.

Ok. Sample.cat is a file which is used for sound effects. If you don't have it, you can't open the game. You need to create one. Don't quote me on this: You can right-click, new Text Document, and rename it to sample.cat.

[MilitantSheep]

Did that, nothing. And what is TRG1R.GRF? Because that and all it's friends are listed in a clicky telling me that they're missing or corrupted. I thought they were the graphics, I downloaded them earlier today from a link on here. There was a list and I downloaded the ones at the top of it because they had the latest date.

[planetmaker]

Did that, nothing. And what is TRG1R.GRF? Because that and all it's friends are listed in a clicky telling me that they're missing or corrupted. I thought they were the graphics, I downloaded them earlier today from a link on here. There was a list and I downloaded the ones at the top of it because they had the latest date.

Then you haven't put those files in the proper directories (which those might be is also found in the readme). Assuming you use windows, put them into
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\OpenTTD\data
where you replace <username> by whatever is the name you login into windoze.

[Zuu]

touch is a command that is commonly available on unix-alike systems (like Linux or MacOSX). On Windows one have to install MSYS/Cygwin to get very good text file tools that are commonly available out of box on unix-alike operating systems.

However, you do not need to use unix-style tools to perform that action. In windows you can right click, create *any* type of the file types it suggests. Right click on it to open it in your favorite text editor, select all garbage text and remove it. Save. Rename the file to desired filename + type. (If you have text files available as an option they are usually empty by default, then you do not need to empty a template word file or whatever)


Also a general rule is that if they say that you should run something that starts with a $ and then some thing you don't understand, then it is something that should be run in a terminal, where the $-sign represents the command line prompt (the text to the left before where you type your command).


[edit: sorry didn't see there was a second page]

[dihedral]

[...]but I just *don't* understand this.

then you might as well just not understand any message in the game itself! and i sure aint gonna explain every single error and not error message to you!