by KSteffensen
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- Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.
- Could someone refer to any good entry level DOS games reverse engineering materials? I dabbled a bit with NES hacking, but I'm finding it hard to get into DOS reverse engineering. What debugger to use? Any gotchas I should know in advance?
by simonebrunozzi
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- I loved this game so much. There was a "deluxe" version with small improvements.
I would love to play a modern version of this. Probably true for other strategy classics like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Colonization.
Edit: ha, I remember that I used a really good tactic of playing with competitors' stocks, gaining majority, siphoning tons of money from them, and then selling the stocks. More profitable than running actual railroads.
by shevy-java
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- It was a pretty cool game. Not as good as e. g. civilisation but nonetheless fun. I even managed to make profits with my railroads.
Young folks can use dosbox etc... but it just does not feel the same compared to how it was "originally". I could not get myself to want to play raildroad tycoon again; I found it easy to play games such as civilization or UFO: Enemy Unknown (oddly enough the first part is more playable than the second part here).
by marticode
1 subcomments
- I spent countless hours as a teen on that game. I feel it might be faster to rewrite it from scratch though than reverse engineer it.
- The image links seem to all be broken but you can see some high-res maps in the video starting around 1m10s
by rustyhancock
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- Loved watching my brother play this game growing up, it was a bit too complex for me!
I've played OpenTTD a bit and seems quite similar.
A question I've always had with these reverse engineering projects, can someone build off their work to do a clean room reimplantation if they avoid any code/dissembly ?
- Loved that game. And Sid Meier's Colonization.
by wodenokoto
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- Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it seems like all the struggles are in rendering and barely nothing in terms of game logic.
I don’t know. It just surprised me. Thought it would be the other way around.
by LowLevelMahn
1 subcomments
- the developer 'Wilczek' is posting the progress on his Railroad Tycoon reversing in this Vogons-Thread
- Congratulations, that's something really good!
by huflungdung
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