Shortline is an excellent beer-and-pretzel realtime railroad management game that eschews complicated financial aspects (as in A-Train) and all realistic factors in favor of the pure joy of creating a miniature railroad.
You goal is to assure an uninterrupted collision-free passage of different trains to target points, and your success both in traffic dispatch and railroad management and construction determines your score. It's a lot of fun, and quite addictive :)
Review By HOTUD
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Works well on DOSBox, and setting a personal profile (as seen in the help document section 11 does reset the game to lvl 1 instead of starting at 16.) I use the command "SL.exe 1" to set it to profile 1.
It does seem to be a problem with this version that it auto-calls the trains. you can find online versions that you have to call the trains manually, which makes the game actually playable. I don't know how to switch the "setting" to not be auto-call or if it can be switched.
Check out section "11. Person profiling" in the help text.
@BUG?
You can give Shortline a name when you start it like this:
SL.exe "Bob"
Each time you use a new name you will start with $100,000 and Level 1.
You can't do anything at all when one train is almost at its destination and another one appears there. Also, game is quite slow.
This game keeps freaking out, no way to control it, then it crashes. I'm using Boxer.
Hi MARTIE, have you tried using DosBox? It's a DOS emulator. It should allow you to play this game in Dos.
Where can I find a version of Shortline Railroad that work on windows
As far as I remember, one has to delete RESULTS.TBL file to reset it into level 1.
It starts on LvL 16 and there´s no way to change it? I´ve tried but couldn´t change the level =\
When I try to play this locally, the mouse doesn't work. Any idea how to fix it?
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