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Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

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I like this game, and remember it! (Yay, finally said something positive! :bleh: )

I dont found where change the video option, the game looks nicely but the cityscape without color is a sort of cold.

I remember this game too - Its quite hard if I remember ( I would have been about 10 years old when I played this last though); certainly easier to spend all your money without doing anything remotely useful or profitable compared with Railroad Tycoon anway. I think there was a cheat where you could somehow save the demo game running in the background of the title screen though! I cant wait to get home from work and download this and play it again!

Really a great game and an important addition to the site.
Looked for this gem a few month ago. BUt it was hardly to find...
Then, when I finally found it, the old version of dosbox didn´t execute it properly. But I hadn´t to wait too long until a new dosbox release was brought up.
Gameplay is - even today - quite hard I think. The biggest problem seemed to be to balance the trains right on their route...

Ahh a classic, great game indeed.

If I remember right on Chirstmas Eve you should be able to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus.

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I dont found where change the video option, the game looks nicely but the cityscape without color is a sort of cold.
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You can change the video using arguments when running atrain.bat. If you try to run atcons.exe it will tell you this:

Usage : ATCONS.EXE (VideoMode} {Mono/Color} [SoundSource]
VideoMode : /480 = 640x480
: /350 = 640x350
: /720 = Herculies Mono Mode
MonoColor : /M = Mono
: /C = Color

SoundSource : Optional
/NOSOUND
/IBM
/TANDY
/PS1
/ADLIB
/COVOX
/BLAST
/PPDAC
/ROLAND

Using this information, I would recommend this:

atrain /480 /C /IBM

... or something similar (there may be a better sound option, I'm not sure)

I tried to switch it to monochrome to see what you are seeing, but it has some sort of database error if I try it, I was able to turn off the sound though so I know those config settings work to some extent.

If you want this game i would dl it fast if i were you.

I remember seeing this quite brilliant game on the feared esa list.

When i played this often the best way of making money seemed to be building and selling houses continously.

But there was a scenery which was quite profitable from the start on.

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I dont found where change the video option, the game looks nicely but the cityscape without color is a sort of cold.
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You need to use the command prompt, dosbox, or dos itself to run it.

To start the command prompt, go to the Start menu, Programs, Accessories, and then Command Prompt.

In the command prompt, type:

c: (replace "c" with the drive letter which a-train is on)

cd\a-train (replace "a-train" with the name of the folder a-train is in)

atrain /480 /C /IBM

That should hopefully work. You could also create a shortcut for atrain.bat and put /480 /C /IBM after its target if you don't like typing every time you wish to start the game.

If you tried this before, I am sorry I misunderstood you. On the other hand, if you have never used the command prompt before, then you will have to learn to be able to change the settings on this game. You may want to read some dos tutorials for help.

Hope this helps. :ok: