#dt3k

Here is the full changelog:

- sound generation and music streaming (windows/linux) - adlib sound effects (dos) - new menu screens for career mode - you can now repair your car in the garage - new bird's eye map view - new characters and font sets - new building textures - new "van" traffic model - one new passenger (hail to the king!) - smoother and fancier screen transitions - resized cockpit dashboard - opengl renderer now does shading in full color - new exit to console screen - added support for the close window button on all screens - floor markings now blink (experimental) - optimized boundary check on floor drawing routine for extra speed - improved framerate handling by averaging out several frames - added fast linear buffer writing (software modes only) - optimized color lookup tables - disabled "security" boundary checks on raycasting loop  (improves speed a bit, but might cause lockups or crashes if the map gets corrupted) - created lookup table for plane distance calculations - general tweaks for performance - added debug screen to measure time spent on processing - fps counter is now hidden by default (open the debug screen with F3) - added icon and window title to executable - all targets are now cross-compiled with a single script (should be tested more often, more stable) - graphics bitmaps are now compressed with custom RLE format - aiming for <1MB game without music data - fixed input polling hangup under windows - completely reworked the help/readme screen

Download instructions and notes

There are two folders, one for binaries and one for data. Unzip them together, then go on the binaries folder (win32/x64/dos) and run the executable:

TAXIDEMO - software renderer, shareware version;

TAXI - software renderer, full version;

TAXIGL - OpenGL renderer, full version.

The DOS port runs in protected mode and requires a DOS extender. CWSDPMI is bundled with the game and should be launched automatically, but you can try running it manually before TAXI*. Other extenders like PMODE/DJ and HDPMI32 will also work, but DOS4GW will not.

The DOS version requires a VGA graphics card, an Adlib compatible sound card and 32MB of RAM. A Pentium 2 processor is recommended. The game has no real mode requirements so it will run inside Windows 95/98 just fine.