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Looks like a great game to try tonight! In the spirit of Transport Tycoon?

But man, there's something really off-putting about downloading from Sourceforge. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems scammy.

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>But man, there's something really off-putting about downloading from Sourceforge. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems scammy.

They were caught adding malware to installers. As in the installers you downloaded were modified to have an extra "Do you also want to install yahoo toolbar" step when installing.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2610419/retro-repo-sourcef...

They since stopped. But the reputation damage persists to this day.

Hasn't ownership changed hands since then?

It has, but the damage is already done and building back a lost reputation is hard even when we 'know' that the people in charge now are not the same people that where in charge then.

Be that as it may, that doesn't make it appropriate to accuse the current team of bundling malware.

They are the ones who removed that, in a stated effort to put SF back on the right track. They don't deserved to be maligned for their efforts.

Nobody did that, though? One person mentioned it felt scammy for an ineffable reason. Another responded with that bit of history, including the fact it is only history. That's it.

I was thinking it was in spirit of https://www.openttd.org/, but looks like independent?

It predates OpenTTD by more than 5 years (i.e. early versions were more contemporaries to and in the spirit of the original TT(D)). I remember finding it on magazine a free-/shareware disc in elementary school and played it quite a bit back in the day and then off-and-on in later years.

The fact you had to explain this makes me feel old.

I tried downloading this at work, but our corporate filters claim malware in the exe and won't let me run it. I'll have to try the Steam version.

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