Alpha: Alpha 2 is out

I've released alpha 2, as usual at http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ .

Csaba has contributed a fix for the game slowing down so much when the 
vehicle list is sorted.  Now it should be much faster, but may still be 
somewhat slow on older computers with lots of vehicles.  He also fixed the 
crash when clicking on "new vehicles" in the sorted window.  Finally, he 
gave `newspapercolour' a parameter which sets the year in which newspapers 
begin to be released in colour.

I've also fixed two bugs myself, which I accidentally introduced when 
splitting the experimentalfeatures for alpha 1.  Now, miscmods 4096 is no 
longer required for the shared orders feature to work, and instead it 
really prevents the finances window from appearing every January 1st.  I've 
also introduced a new sort order, the cargo type.

There were some questions about what experimental features the alpha 
versions have currently.  At this point, only bits 0 and 1 are in use, and 
they have the same meaning as in 2.0.  See 
http://www.ttdpatch.net/Manual/Experimental-Features.html for more 
information.  The other bits referenced in the manual have become their own 
separate switches.

Finally, I've made some changes to the new graphics set being offered on 
the New Graphics page (http://www.ttdpatch.net/newgrf.html).  Now, Adam 
Kadlubek's Tropic Set and George's Long vehicles are available for download 
from there.  They've also been integrated into the all(w).zip downloads, 
but to conserve my bandwidth use, please don't download those again if you 
only need the two new files.  Or you can download them from one of the 
mirrors, or even the edonkey/emule/overnet file sharing networks.

Because the current title savegame activates the tropicset by default, and 
therefore some trains behave strangely (like the Diesel engines emitting 
steam), I've made a new title.dat that does not activate the 
tropicset.  You can get it at http://www.ttdpatch.net/title.zip (110 
KB).  Just unzip it into your TTD folder and overwrite the existing 
title.dat file.

All changes in 2.0.1 alpha 2:
- by Csaba: improve speed of sorted vehicle lists
- by Csaba: newspapercolour now takes a parameter: the year in which
   newspapers appear in colour (default 2000)
- by Csaba: fix crash when clicking on "new vehicles" in sorted
   vehicle list
- fix miscmods 4096 being required for shared orders
- now it's really miscmods 4096 that turns off the yearly finance
   window
- new sort order: cargo type
-- 
Josef Drexler ([email protected])
http://publish.uwo.ca/~jdrexler/

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