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Should be noted that it is an iteration of Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, released 4 years prior.
Where is the interview? Link is about history of Chris Sawyer's works but doesn't actually contain an interview. Still fascinating though, really enjoyed his games.
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for months and months and months as a kid, and still have an installation of OpenTTD on my machine for an relaxed evening. But RCT is his masterpiece. I remember being shocked as a teenager when I learned that the game I thought was the work of at least a dozen people was written by a singly guy in assembly.
It still boggles my mind that Chris Sawyer wrote Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in pure assembly, only failing back to C to handle windows sound apis. The game is a masterpiece, it defined an entire game genre for decades. And RCT ran smooth on my pentium 2 400mhz processor, even with hundreds of guests and dozens of rides. I believe there are many magnitudes of performance hiding in poor software abstractions in…
What I'd really love to know is how the game was ported to Android/iOS recently, because as far as I can tell the game is literally a 1:1 copy, so I wonder if they wrote some kind of x86 assembly interpreter for it? I cannot imagine they just remade the game in some other engine and achieved this level of accuracy.
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What I'd really love to know is how the game was ported to Android/iOS recently, because as far as I can tell the game is literally a 1:1 copy, so I wonder if they wrote some kind of x86 assembly interpreter for it? I cannot imagine they just remade the game in some other engine and achieved this level of accuracy.
It was reverse engineered by a group of devs. https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atari.mobi...
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It is not.
You're right, the article title should be fixed. Transport Tycoon (aka the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer)
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for months and months and months as a kid, and still have an installation of OpenTTD on my machine for an relaxed evening. But RCT is his masterpiece. I remember being shocked as a teenager when I learned that the game I thought was the work of at least a dozen people was written by a singly guy in assembly.
Well today is your lucky day https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
My tastes in video games have changed over the years and I am no longer sucked into the game as I was back then, but I did have a few weeks where I played a ton of OpenRCT2 with a friend - the multiplayer feature of it is a great feature and allowed me and a buddy to have a great time goofing off building rides
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for months and months and months as a kid, and still have an installation of OpenTTD on my machine for an relaxed evening. But RCT is his masterpiece. I remember being shocked as a teenager when I learned that the game I thought was the work of at least a dozen people was written by a singly guy in assembly.
Well today is your lucky day https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
Back in the day here in Canada, cereal boxes often came with CDs of different games you could install and RCT2 was one of the ones regularly included - I probably have collected a dozen copies over the days that are now lost. So if you go digging around in your basement you might be able to install it for free instead.
It still boggles my mind that Chris Sawyer wrote Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in pure assembly, only failing back to C to handle windows sound apis. The game is a masterpiece, it defined an entire game genre for decades. And RCT ran smooth on my pentium 2 400mhz processor, even with hundreds of guests and dozens of rides. I believe there are many magnitudes of performance hiding in poor software abstractions in…
Should be noted that it is an iteration of Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, released 4 years prior.
Transport Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon are not related despite both having trains and the word tycoon in them. Both great games though. I play OpenTTD to this day.