Oliver Gantert

Great. I got quite far with the code cleanup already.

The graphics code really needs a major cleanup. Image data is copied around between several buffers, then scaled to the output size, which is extremely slow. I have always wanted to backport the game to the Amiga, but in its current state it is too convoluted. One could clearly see from the DOS code that the game was ported from the Amiga version, several concepts were directly taken from the Amiga API (like RastPorts, Lists, Bobs) and VGA output was shoehorned on top of that. I take that VGA output,...

The graphics code really needs a major cleanup. Image data is copied around between several buffers, then scaled to the output size, which is extremely slow. I have always wanted to backport the game to the Amiga, but in its current state it is too convoluted. One could clearly see from the DOS code that the game was ported from the Amiga version, several concepts were directly taken from the Amiga API (like RastPorts, Lists, Bobs) and VGA output was shoehorned on top of that. I take that VGA output,...

Today I implemented support for a "Modfiles" directory. Say you want to replace "Pictures\Bahnhof", then put your new version into "Modfiles\Pictures\Bahnhof". The game will look there first. This should(?) work for all files. Feature will be available in the next version coming in a few days. If you create some nice modifications, I might include them as modfiles packages :) Yes, this project started loooong ago, incredible. It's great that every once in a while someone comes along to offer support....

I just uploaded the Amiga CD32 to the project's file collection. Didn't know it even existed. I also noticed that I didn't upload 0.7b which is sitting on my HD for more than a year. Maybe because it only introduced one fix. I uploaded 0.7b now. The voiceover was a single track on the DOS version, too. I wrote a program to split it according to the game's data (I think CDROM.LST or so). Will be easy to do this for the English track. I'll look into it next weekend.

No Car Color in COSP

I didn't know there is an English voiceover for the game. Thanks!

We should come up with a way to mod the game without overwriting the original files. A "user directory" that is prioritized by the loader would be easy to implement. If a file is not found in the user directory, the default (original) file is loaded. I already did large parts of the english translation for the Profidisk.