Windows and Linux (Nightly) Downloads
Posted: 31 May 2004 12:42
As people seem to suffer from temporary blindness at times here is sticky topic that will help them find download locations for OpenTTD.
Official Releases:
Instructions/Notes for Unofficial releases:
Now whoever asks where to download openttd from will be personally spanked by a team of highly qualified O.S.D's (OpenTTD Spanking Division).
[EDIT]: I added info for mac nightly build too - Bjarni
[EDIT]: Updated 6 june 2004 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Added Linux too 12 june 2004 - Bjarni
[EDIT]: Updated 10 july 2004 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Merge nightly topic, jan2005 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Remove release specific things, general only, jul2005 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Update link of bugtracker, jan2007 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Update website link, Feb 2009 - peter1138
[EDIT]: Make the text reflect reality, Dec 2009 - Rubidium
[EDIT]: New links, Jan 2019 - TrueBrain
Official Releases:
- Official releasess can be found on the OpenTTD website.
- These are the nightly builds that feature the latest developments. You get bleeding-edge technology, but the game might crash, savegames might be incompatible, etc.
- The nightlies for MS Windows and Linux will be updated every day at 20:00 CE(S)T (18:00 UTC during DST in Amsterdam and 19:00 UTC otherwise) with the newest version of the game. Feel free to test it and report any bugs you find to the GitHub.
- You can get the nightly builds from here
Instructions/Notes for Unofficial releases:
- Just download openttd-trunk-<version>-<os>.zip, extract it to your OpenTTD folder overwriting all necessary files (it's best to create a backup copy, and use that) and start as always.
- Nightly Builds are released with code-checking (assertions) still in it. This means slower gameplay (on slower machines), and the "crashing" of the game for every small inconsistency. You can either choose 'ignore' or 'break'. Ignoring should continue the game, 'break' quits the game. If you get assertion after assertion when ignoring, something is most likely be pretty wrong. Post the message on Flyspray, and wait until it is fixed. (The choice to ignore assertions is for Windows only)
- Beware that this is the latest development build from the repository. It might not be stable, it might even crash!
- It might delete your savegames, format your harddrive, kill your girlfriend. None of the developers can be held responsible for any harm resulting from using it. Just so you know
- Savegames that you had from a previous SVN or nightly-build might be broken the next day with the new nightly-build. So beware of building huge and precious networks with SVN builds, since it is a development version and there's no guarantee it will work the next day, altough we will try to do our best!
- The zip contains a logfile, usually called svnlog.log where the latest changes to the source can be seen. There you can see what has changed during the last day, and also people who missed out on a nightly still can see the changes.
Now whoever asks where to download openttd from will be personally spanked by a team of highly qualified O.S.D's (OpenTTD Spanking Division).
[EDIT]: I added info for mac nightly build too - Bjarni
[EDIT]: Updated 6 june 2004 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Added Linux too 12 june 2004 - Bjarni
[EDIT]: Updated 10 july 2004 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Merge nightly topic, jan2005 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Remove release specific things, general only, jul2005 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Update link of bugtracker, jan2007 - Darkvater
[EDIT]: Update website link, Feb 2009 - peter1138
[EDIT]: Make the text reflect reality, Dec 2009 - Rubidium
[EDIT]: New links, Jan 2019 - TrueBrain