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Current Version: OpenMSX 0.3.1
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Contents
0 About OpenMSX
1 Installing
2 Troubleshooting
3 Contributing and compiling from source
4 License
5 Credits
0 About OpenMSX
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OpenMSX is an open source replacement for the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe
(TTD) music. All contributions are licensed under the GPL v2.
1 Installing
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1. First, make sure that you downloaded and installed at least OpenTTD version
1.0.0 or later.
2.
a) Manually:
Next, download the latest OpenMSX package. There are a few sources:
- the development homepage http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/openmsx
- Look for "OpenMSX" on one of the OpenTTD binaries servers, it is found in the
"bananas" section:
http://binaries.openttd.org/bananas/OpenMSX-0.2.1.tar.gz (or possibly with a
newer version).
Unpack the zip file into the OpenTTD /gm directory (see section 4.2 of the
OpenTTD readme for a detailed treatise on all data dirs OpenTTD recognizes).
- An OpenTTD folder in your user account's home directory:
Windows: C:\My Documents (95, 98, ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\OpenTTD (2000,
XP)
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\OpenTTD (Vista, 7)
Mac OSX: ~/Documents/OpenTTD
Linux: ~/.openttd
- The OpenTTD installation directory.
3. In the main menu of the game, click the Game Options button. The Game
Options dialog will appear.
4. Select OpenMSX from the drop-down list below Base Music set if that's not
selected already (bottom left of window). Close the window using the in the
upper left corner.
Now that wasn't so hard, was it? Anyways, if you're having trouble getting
OpenMSX to work, please file a detailed report on what you did, what error
messages you got and where you got stuck at our bug tracker at
http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/openmsx or in the tt-forums.
Depending upon the hardware and the music driver used, OpenTTD may have problems
to playback some songs without error or that it may happen that subsequent sound
output is changed in a detrimental way. The latter is especially know to happen
with the windows "dmusic" sound driver. You may want to try the "win32" music
driver, if you have problems with windows' default dmusic driver. Search your
openttd.cfg for "musicdriver" and change the line to "musidriver = win32".
Consult also the OpenTTD readme for available options and its known-bugs.txt
for a more detailed and possibly more up to date description of windows music
driver issues.
On Linux: your system should already have most tools, you'll probably only
mercurial available from the source mentioned above. For installation
instructions concerning mercurial refer to the manual of your distribution.
The use of mercurial is strongly encouraged as only that allows to keep track of
changes.
Once all tools are installed, get a checkout of the repository and you can build
OpenMSX using make. The following targets are available:
- all: builds all grfs and the obm file
- install: build and then copy OpenMSX in your OpenTTD music directory. Use
Makefile.local to specify a different path
- clean: cleans all generated files
- mrproper: also cleans generated directories
- bundle_src: create a source tarball
- bundle_zip: create a zip archive of OpenMSX
- bundle_bz2: create a bzip2 archive of OpenMSX
- bundle_tar: create a tar archive of OpenMSX
- check: checks the md5 sums of the built grf and obg files against those of
the official release versions
Given the usual case that you modify something within OpenMSX and want to test
that, a simple 'make install' should suffice and you can immediately test the
changes ingame, if you selected the nightly version of OpenMSX. Given default
paths, a 'make install' will overwrite a previous nightly version of OpenMSX.
Mind to re-start OpenTTD as it needs to re-read the grf files.
4 License
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OpenMSX Music Replacement Set for OpenTTD Copyright (C) 2010 OpenMSX Authors
(see below or in the source in themes.list) and is licensed under GPL v2.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 1 Franklin
Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
5 Credits
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OpenMSX is created by the following people (in order of the song list):