GlobalRail readme.txt  (SPike 20 June, 2001)


Welcome to GlobalRail version beta 1.0.1

This project is still early in it's development.
I started this PC version 5 years ago, long before Mr Microsoft
started his MSTS.  Only recently have I purchased a 3D card and
a sound card so that I can seriously design a 3D game.

Please don't build too many locos as the final format may change
within the next 12 months.  I will annouce this point in a future
release.

My PC config: Celeron 300MHz, 64Mb DRAM, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 16Mb AGP
from MSI, Creative SB PCI card, Win98, Borland Delphi 5.0 standard compiler.
Other software:  PaintShopPro v6.0, GoldWave (sound capture),
MS Help workshop tool.


Acknowledgements

I received lots of help and encouragement in the year 2000 from
the GTS working group. Thanks

Also, "Iskandar" Alessandro W. Mavilio, Italy (from memory) has
provided me with the first splash screen image (brown blurr of
a driver's cab view and styled text of the game's title).


Web links:

3D engine:  http://www.morfit.com

Anglefire page:  http://www.angelfire.com/games/simu1

SPike home page:  http://www.biosci.uq.edu.au/~spike

A good source of simple rail images for building rollingstock
is 
     http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/liveries

 Contacts:
 livery page:  Tobias B Kohler, Email ( unci@tigerden.com )
 site manager: Marco van Uden, Email ( m.van.uden@worldonline.nl )
 
It is hard to find images of rail locos or wagons (photo or drawn) from
the side view.  Most images are angled or front/rear view.


Please send all debug info to me!

   spike@biosci.uq.edu.au

Please include some info of your PC configuration with the bug error,
Thank you.



Have fun.  SPike


