Comment by oneeyedpigeon

Comment by oneeyedpigeon 6 days ago

> Where to Get It: Railroad Tycoon Platinum is available as a digital purchase on Steam and GOG.com.

Sadly, for Windows only :(

If you are running Linux, it seems to work well with Proton, though I didn't check it myself: https://www.protondb.com/app/7620

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jcranmer 6 days ago

I've recently been running it via Proton on Linux, and it runs quite smoothly.
(Haven't tried any multiplayer on it though; the game is old enough that networking doesn't automatically mean "use TCP/UDP/IP," so I can see that stumbling bad on modern OSes.)

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- BlueTemplar 6 days ago
  
  What would it be ? IPX ?
  Didn't that have TCP/UDP/IP emulation already in the DOS era ?
  
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  jcranmer 6 days ago
  
  I don't have the game or the manual in front of me, but my recollection is that there are actually four separate networking options, of which TCP/IP and IPX were two.
  
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leg 6 days ago

I've played 100s of hours of if under Proton on Linux. Works great.

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Asooka 6 days ago

The Linux version would almost certainly not run on any current Linux. I have a vague memory of trying to run the demo nearly 20 years ago and it failing due to requiring some now-deprecated X11 extension. If you want to try, the Internet Archive does have a Loki software demo CD, which includes Railroad Tycoon 2: https://archive.org/details/linux-games-cd