Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990

Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.

I loved this game so much. There was a "deluxe" version with small improvements.

I would love to play a modern version of this. Probably true for other strategy classics like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Colonization.

Edit: ha, I remember that I used a really good tactic of playing with competitors' stocks, gaining majority, siphoning tons of money from them, and then selling the stocks. More profitable than running actual railroads.

It was a pretty cool game. Not as good as e. g. civilisation but nonetheless fun. I even managed to make profits with my railroads.

Young folks can use dosbox etc... but it just does not feel the same compared to how it was "originally". I could not get myself to want to play raildroad tycoon again; I found it easy to play games such as civilization or UFO: Enemy Unknown (oddly enough the first part is more playable than the second part here).

Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it seems like all the struggles are in rendering and barely nothing in terms of game logic.

I don’t know. It just surprised me. Thought it would be the other way around.

I spent countless hours as a teen on that game. I feel it might be faster to rewrite it from scratch though than reverse engineer it.

Loved that game. And Sid Meier's Colonization.

The image links seem to all be broken but you can see some high-res maps in the video starting around 1m10s

Congratulations, that's something really good!

the developer 'Wilczek' is posting the progress on his Railroad Tycoon reversing in this Vogons-Thread

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