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train train

Posted 17. March 2004, 22:14 in by Alan Macdougall, received 2 comments.

...must …resist …

Nah, sod it. I’m even more of an anorak than I thought. I discovered the oddly named googol-Choo-Choo, on VersionTracker, and downloaded it. It turns out to be a model railway simulator, where you can build a layout complete with trees, buildings, cars and animals, then set a train to run on it.

The payoff is the 3-d view of the train in action: several different angles are available, including the driver’s view.

And… though it pains me to admit it… this is very strangely compelling. Will I end up, in 30 years time, the sad bloke with no family but a huge model railway layout in the basement? Or even worse, the sad bloke with no family but a huge virtual model railway layout in the basement?




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  1. Patrick Quinn-Graham
    18 March 2004, 22:59 #

    One of two games I legally have (the other being Worms 2) is Microsoft Train Simulator (given to me as a prize - part of SQL Server 2000 SP-something beta). It's great fun... unfortunately I've never really had the right PC to run it on - when I got it it needed 3D graphics to run well, and didn't like my (then) laptops 8mb of ram to do it's native 1024x768, so it always ran kind of pixelated at 800x600. Now that I have a 64mb graphics card in my PC I'm not running a desktop window OS. Damn it. Maybe I'll go download this :)

  2. Alan
    19 March 2004, 08:40 #

    How does it run umder Virtual PC? (Probably pretty slowly on the iBook, I imagine.)

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