SCS Software

The exe file was one kilobyte larger with the latest update, so no world-shaking changes / innovations.

The upcomming Aerosoft Game TramSim provides a covid19 mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXiyUiLS41A

https://www.aerosoft.com/en/train-simul ... 89/tramsim

What do all those say who have smiled at my idea?

The truck sounds are still very poorly implemented since the Fmod change. The Scania sounds are much better on the Game On the Road, although Fmod is also used for sounds there. SCS urgently needs to catch up here.

Although SCS has grown so big in recent years, the innovations are very limited. The engine is also slow in development. However, an engine change would be a catastrophe, as it would be a total new beginning.

SCS could have secured a big slice of the pie if they'd been a little faster. Now TML was faster and they sold 200,000 copies.

https://www.tml-studios.de/forum/index. ... ator-sold/

Fortunately, the Fernbus simulator is available since 4 years, because we are still waiting for the SCS bus simulator after 7 years.

The launchpad update could just as well be a preparation for driving school mode. At the moment we don't know anything exactly.

I suspect that this project is no longer being worked on.

The last official information about this was in the last newsletter, which is now over 5 years old. The newsletter has also been abandoned.
https://scs-misc.s3.amazonaws.com/newsl ... etter.html

Hopefully 32-bit support will finally be thrown overboard in the coming year 2021. All that old code and backwards compatibility just makes the game unnecessarily slow.

The screen is much larger anyway, so it would make sense here if the game scaled the screen more and pulled everything apart a bit. In 2020 and in the HiDPI age, better scaling should be possible for large screens so that the screen is nicely filled.