De vaste bezoekers van de Meuktracker zijn ongetwijfeld bekend met OpenTTD, een opensource-clone van Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Een andere groep ontwikkelaars is met een soortgelijk project bezig voor het door Bulfrog in 1997 uitgegeven spel Theme Hospital, waarin de speler een ziekenhuis moet ontwerpen en uitbaten. Net als bij OpenTTD het geval was, zijn de databestanden van het originele spel nodig om CorsixTH te kunnen spelen.
CorsixTH is opensource en beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en Mac OS X. Het spel kan in een hogere resolutie dan het origineel worden gespeeld en is in meer talen beschikbaar. Bijna alle mogelijkheden van het origineel zijn al aanwezig en het is de bedoeling dat er nieuwe dingen worden toegevoegd. Inmiddels is de zesde bètarelease van CorsixTH verschenen en het changelog van die release laat de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zien:
GameplayUser Interface
- Feature: Staff speed!
- Added: All parts of research have been implemented, including machine strength improvements, drug improvements and the "concentrate research" button in the drug casebook.
- Added: Overdraft charges for having a negative balance.
- Fix: The length of a day was about half as long as it should be.
- Fix: A few occurrences of bone-idle patients have been resolved.
- Fix: Juniors were not correctly labeled as Doctors after promotion.
- Fix: Some crashes regarding receptionists.
- Fix: Never charge less than initial cost when reputation is below 500.
- Fix: Some repair animations were too short.
- Fix: Don't check winning and losing conditions so often.
- Fix: Taking loans can now make the player avoid losing.
- Fix: Level 7 had an emergency with an unavailable disease.
- Fix: Doctors on their way back to the research room or training room will no longer answer to any calls.
- Fix: Don't crash if a patient in a machine is sent home.
- Fix: Various tweaks to the operating theatre logic.
- Fix: Don't crash if the staff window of a leaving staff member is open when he/she leaves the world.
- Fix: Persistant data (salary, built rooms etc) are no longer lost after restarting a level.
Translations
- Feature: The drug casebook now shows if you can treat a disease or not, and in the latter case the tooltip tells you what is missing. Actual price is shown after some time, instead of charge %.
- Feature: Press and hold on value buttons will now make the value continue to increase until the button is released again.
- Feature: The Theme Hospital installation path can be changed from the options menu.
- Added: The adviser will help out in a few more situations.
- Fix: Mouse position events such as moving staff around didn't work when scrolling using the arrow keys.
- Fix: Tooltips are now updated more frequently, most evidently in the research pane.
- Feature: CorsixTH now supports TrueType fonts via FreeType2!
- Feature: To assist translators a new diff file is now created when you choose the debug option "dump strings" (with languages other than English). It contains those strings which are either found in English but not in the given language, or found in the given language but not in English.
- New languages:
- Traditional Chinese
- Simplified Chinese
- Russian
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