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1.5 Contributors

Code Contributions

(In order of appearance.)

Josef Drexler

Josef is the main author of TTDPatch. He started the project in 1996 and made it public in May 1999. He's working on it whenever he has spare time, and wrote a large chunk of the code. If a feature is not credited to someone else, it was written by Josef. He also maintains this manual, and the ttdpatch.net website.

Marcin Grzegorczyk

Marcin joined Josef in the development of TTDPatch in 2000 and is the other major contributor to the patch. He fixed a lot of the bugs in Josef's code, and developed the following features: rvqueueing, Plane crash control, most of the "generalfixes", city bridge removal, signalwaittimes, disaster selection, forceautorenew, morenews, unifiedmaglev, newbridgespeeds, signalsontrafficside, electrifiedrailway, errorpopuptime, all new town growth switches, most of the miscmods, saveextradata, Enhanced keyboard handler, euro, buildonslopes, buildoncoasts

Norman Rasmussen

Norman wrote the Windows 2000/XP compatibility code, and dxmci.dll to make TTD use DirectMusic for playing the music.

Oskar Eisemuth

Oskar joined the team in March 2003, and has been busily adding new features to the patch. He wrote morebuildoptions, morehotkeys, enhancegui

Csaba Varga

Csaba joined in April 2003, and has also contributed a number of new features since then. He wrote plantmanytrees, morecurrencies, manualconvert, newagerating, fastwagonsell, newrvcrash, stableindustry

Graphics and other Tools

Michael Blunck

Michael designed and drew the new graphics distributed with the patch.

Jakub "SHADOW-XIII" Górecki

SHADOW-XIII wrote the TTDPatch Starter, a program to choose your switches and write the TTDPatch configuration file and run either TTD or TTDPatch. He also wrote the GRF Manager, which simplies working with the new graphics.

Andrés Zsögön

Andrés wrote the TTDPatch Configurator, also a program that allows you to choose the TTDPatch switches and write a configuration file, as well as run TTD and TTDPatch. In addition, he wrote the GRF Wizard which simplifies working with GRFCodec.

Translations

The following people have translated TTDPatch:

Language	Translator
Czech	Mirek Duda
Danish	Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt (up to 1.6), Rune Baszkiewicz (from 2.0)
Dutch	Remon Pel (up to 1.6), Jan Willem van Dormolen (from 1.7)
English	Josef Drexler
Finnish	Vesku (up to 1.6)
French	Rémi Denis Courmont (up to 1.6), Edo (from 1.8.1)
German	Josef Drexler
Hungarian	György "Saiyan" Müller
Italian	Jack VanderCloud (up to 1.6), Lorenzo F. (from 1.8.1)
Norwegian	Hilanmo Terje (up to 1.6), Tor Inge Johannessen (from 1.9)
Polish	Marek Majkowski, SHADOW-XIII and Marcin Grzegorczyk
Russian	Yuri Burawtsow
Spanish	John Bernal