Empire Building

So Lesley is already addicted to BB6 and therefore I need something to wile away the next 11 weeks until it's finally all over. What did I do? I downloaded one of the greatest games of all time and configured it to run on my Win2K laptop, Transport Tycoon has landed, oh yes.

Runs like a complete dog through DosBox which allows you to play ancient games of yesteryear. I remember playing this for hours on end during my final year at Uni ('95) on a cutting edge DX4-100 with 8Mb of RAM, a veritable beast of a machine. This old laptop is an 800Mhz PIII but it feels slower than I remember running Transport Tycoon on the DX4. Anyway, "Floyd Jaguar Inc" is open for business and already making cash, chooo-woooo, chug-a-chug, marvelous.

A Google search for "Transport Tycoon" revealed a large number of communities and sites dedicated to this fabulous piece of code. I'm away to pick up a few tips on how to become a Billionaire before I'm 30... er 40, uhmm 41 then. If you don't mind breaking the law you can download the required files using the links below.

Transport Tycoon
DosBox

Update: Ah ha, you can speed up the DosBox wrapper by Ctrl-F12 which increases the CPU cycles, I've gone from 3000 to 6000, a lot smoother and seems stable. Smokin'.