It's been a long time since the last CorsixTH [Official Site, GitHub] release, well over a year in fact, so it's good to see this open source game engine still alive.
Theme Hospital is an absolute favourite classic of mine, one I still have my original CD for stored away and I have such happy memories playing it. It still holds up pretty well today, but CorsixTH makes it a whole lot better since it supports more modern features as well as native support for Linux.
Note: It does require the data files from Theme Hospital, which you can grab from GOG (affiliate link).
Here's some highlights of the new release:
- Mouse capture support. Now by default the mouse will be captured in it's window.
- Allow objects to be built on top of litter and rat holes.
- Can now click and hold to quickly change handyman priorities.
- Significant map editor performance improvement when selecting multiple tiles.
- Rat holes will now appear if your hospital is dirt enough, the actual rats don't appear yet though.
- Rooms can now be built over top of trash.
- The game window can now be resized by dragging the edges.
- Graph labels no longer overlap, making them all readable
On top of that, the latest release comes with a great many bug fixes. It might not sound like the most exciting release, but CorsixTH has been pretty stable for a while, with you being able to play most of the game.
See the full release notes here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by Ketil on 21 December 2017 at 5:20 pm UTC
legluondunet Dec 21, 2017
Quoting: KetilBoth CorsixTH and Theme Hospital in dosbox are fun, but I would still say that the original in dosbox is slightly better. Corsixth is getting close though.
The primary advantages to use CorsixTH:
- they corrected numerous bugs from original game
- you can natively launch the game and it benefits modern computer power and configuration
Even 20 years later I have very much fun to play this game, it's rare.
Last edited by legluondunet on 21 December 2017 at 7:48 pm UTC
- Bonus levels where your only objective is to kill rats
- Not all level configuration parameters are implemented
- Comparison with competing hospitals
- Spawn rate of patients based on reputation
- Multiplayer
- Better operating theater, dna fixer, scanner
Overall I think corsixth is easier than the dos version of theme hospital. Last time I really played corsixth was before they had implemented epidemics, but the bullet points above are verified against their TODO list.
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