OpenMSX Readme - An OpenTTD Music replacement set

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Current Version: OpenMSX 0.2.1
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Contents
0 About OpenMSX
1 Installing
2 Contributing and compiling from source
2 License
3 Credits



0 About OpenMSX
===============

OpenMSX is an open source replacement for the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe
(TTD) music. It's currently work-in-progress and does not have a huge collection
of music, contributions are welcome as long as they are licensed under the GPL
v2 and / or the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.



1 Installing
============

1. First, make sure that you downloaded and installed at least OpenTTD version
1.0.0 or later.

2. 
a) Manually:
Next, download the latest OpenMSX package. There are a few sources:
- the development homepage http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/openmsx
- Look for "OpenMSX" on one of the OpenTTD binaries servers, it is found in the
"bananas" section:
http://binaries.openttd.org/bananas/OpenMSX-0.2.1.tar.gz (or possibly with a
newer version).

Unpack the zip file into the OpenTTD /gm directory (see section 4.2 of the
OpenTTD readme for a detailed treatise on all data dirs OpenTTD recognizes).
- An OpenTTD folder in your user account's home directory:
	Windows:	C:\My Documents (95, 98, ME)
			C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\OpenTTD (2000, XP)
			C:\Users\<username>\Documents\OpenTTD (Vista, 7)
	Mac OSX: ~/Documents/OpenTTD
	Linux:   ~/.openttd
- The OpenTTD installation directory.

b) Via ingame content download:
- Go to the content download, and search for OpenMSX; it's found in the baseset
category.

3. In the main menu of the game, click the Game Options  button. The Game
Options  dialog will appear.

4. Select OpenMSX  from the drop-down list below Base Music set if that's not
selected already (bottom left of window). Close the window using the × in the
upper left corner.

Now that wasn't so hard, was it? Anyways, if you're having trouble getting
OpenMSX to work, please file a detailed report on what you did, what error
messages you got and where you got stuck at our bug tracker at
http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/openmsx or in the tt-forums.



2 Contributing and compiling from source
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The OpenMSX source is available in a Mercurial repository or as gzip'ed tarball.
You can do an anonymous checkout from http://mz.openttdcoop.org/hg/openmsx ,
e.g. using
   hg clone http://mz.openttdcoop.org/hg/openmsx or obtain the tarball from
http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/openmsx/releases.
   
Prerequisites to building OpenMSX:
- mercurial (only when not building from a tarball, available from
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download?action=show&redirect=BinaryPackages)
- md5sum (linux, mingw) or md5 (mac)
- some gnu utils: make, cat, sed
- unix2dos for convenient conversion of the text files
- python (if you use mercurial, you'll have python)
and you might additionally want a text editor of your choice and possibly a
programme capable of creating and editing midi files.

On Windows: we advise to get a mingw development environment, download mercurial
from the sources mentioned above) For more detailed instructions see our guide
at http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/home/wiki and the very extensive and
detailed installation instructions on the mingw wiki at
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

On Linux: your system should already have most tools, you'll probably only
mercurial available from the source mentioned above. For installation
instructions concerning mercurial refer to the manual of your distribution.

On Mac: Install the developers tools. Mercurial is easiest insalled via
macports: sudo port install mercurial

The use of mercurial is strongly encouraged as only that allows to keep track of
changes.

Once all tools are installed, get a checkout of the repository and you can build
OpenMSX using make. The following targets are available:
- all: builds all grfs and the obm file
- install: build and then copy OpenMSX in your OpenTTD data directory. Use
Makefile.local to specify a different path
- clean: cleans all generated files
- mrproper: also cleans generated directories
- bundle_src: create a source tarball
- bundle_zip: create a zip archive of OpenMSX
- bundle_bz2: create a bzip2 archive of OpenMSX
- bundle_tar: create a tar archive of OpenMSX
- check: checks the md5 sums of the built grf and obg files against those of
the official release versions

Given the usual case that you modify something within OpenMSX and want to test
that, a simple 'make install' should suffice and you can immediately test the
changes ingame, if you selected the nightly version of OpenMSX. Given default
paths, a 'make install' will overwrite a previous nightly version of OpenMSX.
Mind to re-start OpenTTD as it needs to re-read the grf files.



3 License
=========

OpenMSX Music Replacement Set for OpenTTD Copyright (C) 2010 OpenMSX Authors
(see below or in the source in themes.list)

This set is dual-licensed, you can chose either (see license.txt for the legal
code):

a) GPL v2+

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 1 Franklin
Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

b) Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License



4 Credits
=========

OpenMSX is created by the following people (in no particular order):

makefile and bundling:         planetmaker
tttheme2.mid:                  -lucas-
keep_on_rolling.mid:           Trolley Trev
little_blue_box_car.mid:       Hazza
modern_motion.mid:             Mr.Ksoft
busy_schedule.mid:             mimm
the_fast_route.mid:            mimm
smooth_groove.mid:             Samwise
train_filled_with_cash.mid:    imuh3
ultimate_run.mid:              Tistou Blomberg
midnight_snow_run.mid:         Tistou Blomberg
run_for_your_life.mid:         Tistou Blomberg
coconut_run2.mid:              Tistou Blomberg
harp_harmony.mid:              Tistou Blomberg
mighty_giant_run.mid:          Tistou Blomberg
wood_whistles.mid:             Tistou Blomberg
linns_basket.mid:              Tistou Blomberg
relax_song.mid:                Tistou Blomberg
chemistry_lab.mid:             Tistou Blomberg
