Download CorsixTH beta 7

Regular visitors to the Meuktracker are undoubtedly familiar with OpenTTD, an open source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Another group of developers is working on a similar project for the game published by Bulfrog in 1997 Theme Hospital, in which the player must design and operate a hospital. As was the case with OpenTTD, the original game data files are needed to CorsixTH to be able to play.

CorsixTH is open source and available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The game can be played in a higher resolution than the original and is available in more languages. Almost all the features of the original are already there and new things are planned to be added. The seventh beta release of CorsixTH has now been released and the changelog of that release shows the following changes and improvements:

Known Issues

• If the X-Ray Viewer is inaccessible in the Operating Theater the whole room will be unusable.
• There are still many features which are not yet implemented including trash, earthquakes, epidemics and awards.
• The graph window doesn’t show any graphs.
• Handyman priorities are not yet fully implemented.

Gameplay

• Added: Staff security pay.
• Added: Patients may die if they don’t get treated in time.
• Added: Doctors slowly gain skill when working.
• Added: Extra objects and the number of trainees influence speed of training in the training room.
• Added: Even with no research new machines will eventually become available.
• Added: Some patients have started littering your hospital with soda cans! Make sure you have enough handymen to keep your hospital clean.
• Added: Modern heating systems aren’t as reliable as they used to be. Prepare for breakdowns now and then.
• New disease: Alien DNA! Note that there are still a few glitches to fix concerning this new disease.
• Change: Vending maintenance costs have increased throughout the world and as a result Sodas now cost $20, up from $15.
• Change: Heating costs are calculated on a per day basis, rather than per month.
• Change: Machine and drug improvements are now made evenly across all eligible objects rather than maxing one at a time.
• Change: Humanoids never meander outside anymore.
• Fix: Handymen no longer crash the game when trying to water an unreachable plant.
• Fix: Staff resting in the staff room should keep their sofa until fully rested if there’s nothing else to do.
• Fix: The player can’t hire new staff or pay bonuses without a positive balance.

User Interface

• Added: The graph window, no graphs yet though.
• Added: Right click menu in the queue dialog.
• Added: Confirmation dialog when about to fire a member of staff.
• Fix: If there is only one person who is in an emergency, use the singular form in the sentence.
• Fix: The pickup item button in the edit room dialog is now fully functional.
• Fix: The pointer should no longer jump around in Linux when using SDL.

graphics

• Added: The scanner uses more than one animation.
• Fix: Some objects were cut in half after a relocation.

translations

• Change: If the specified language is not found, try to revert to English.
• Fix: Competitor names are now translatable.