Really early versions of TTD

[Roman]

I'm not sure how many people will find this as interesting as I do, but why not find out. As some might know, I take an interest in the genesis of TT. Yesterday I had a closer look at the CD-ROM containing the game manuals of Hasbro's "Tycoon Collection", as part of which the Windows version of TTD was released in 1999. And I found this on it, in the cross promo folder. Anybody notice something in the menu bar? These must have been taken from a pre-release version older than the DOS release of TTD in 1995.

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Strange that they would use such old screenshots for such a late release version. Also weird that they would cross-promote the very game they're selling with the product... and a shame these images are in such poor quality (low-res and JPEG compression).

Anyway, does anyone know of more early peeks at TTD?

[Roman]

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[kamnet]

I'm not surprised. The screen shots were probably made years before and whoever was in charge of packaging this put the least amount of work necessary to put out a (now) budget title. For 1994-1995 era computers this was probably the most high resolution graphics that could be created and distributed that would display reasonably well on most PCs of the era.

[Roman]

I found the full lossless images on the Infrogrames replay CD-ROM of TTD for DOS:

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[luk3Z]

I'd rather play TTO Full Conversion pack + PIRS to makes me feel like I'm playing early versions of TT + new industry.
I tested it on TTD v3.02.011 & OTTD 12.1 and it's working smoothly so far.

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