OpenTTD for Debian ------------------ To properly play this game, you need a base graphics and sound set. Currently, the graphics, sound and music files from the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe game (Windows and DOS versions) are supported, as well as the free graphics replacement set "OpenGFX", sound replacement set "OpenSFX" (which is in non-free due to a restrictive license) and the free music replacement set "OpenMSX". Normally, installing the openttd package should automatically install openttd-opengfx as well, allowing OpenTTD to run out of the box. If you want sound, you'll have to enable non-free sources and install the openttd-opensfx package manually (or install the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe sound files). The easiest way to install the OpenMSX music files is to use the in-game content download system, which should offer the latest version of the music files. To find out how to install the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe graphics sound files and music files, see readme.txt, section 4.1. -Playing Music In addition to installing a music set (see above), you'll also need to install the timidity midi player, available in the timidity package. Remember that not all audio devices support multiple audiostreams (music and sound), so you might have to use alsa software mixing or pulseaudio. -Scenarios There are no scenarios included in this release. Scenarios can be downloaded using OpenTTD's content service, which is available from OpenTTD's main menu. If you have obtained a scenario through other means, you can place it either in your ~/.openttd/scenario directory or in the system-wide /usr/share/games/openttd/scenario directory. Limited support for non-Western languages ----------------------------------------- Historically, OpenTTD used the ICU library to provide support for non-Western languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew. Since ICU 58, some of the required parts for layouting these languages were removed from that library. A replacement using the Harfbuzz library was in place for a few versions, but this was not well maintained and was a fuss to build Debian packages for. Since OpenTTD 1.8.0-2, the ICU library is no longer used for layouting and OpenTTD falls back to a very basic implementation of its own. For Chinese and Japanese, the result should be usable, though line-wrapping might not be perfect. For Arabic, no proper context-aware glyph-shaping happens. For Hebrew and Arabic, text is rendered reversed (left-to-right, rather the right-to-left), making these languages pretty much unusable for now. Hopefully OpenTTD can provide a better solution of its own (possibly using some parts of ICU or the Harfbuzz library) in the future. Until that happens, not all languages are completely supported anymore.