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== Development history ==
''Simutrans'' was originally written by Hansjörg Malthaner in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=A short History of Simutrans Development |url=http://www.funkelwerk.de/site/index.php/projects/simutrans/years-1997-2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031184339/http://www.funkelwerk.de/site/index.php/projects/simutrans/years-1997-2001 |archive-date=October 31, 2010 }}</ref> Around 2004 he retired from development,<ref>[http://www.simutrans.com/en/about/ about - History] on simutrans.com</ref> and an international community of volunteers took over the development.<ref>{{cite web|title=Simutrans Tikiwiki : Thanks|url=http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Thanks|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227123033/http://www.simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Thanks|archive-date=2011-12-27}}</ref> ''Simutrans'' was developed internally as a [[closed source]] game until 2007,<ref name="license">{{cite web|title=Simutrans's Artistic License, SourceForge|url=http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?&fq&#91;&#93;=trove:17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706053607/http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/#91;&|archive-date=2010-07-06}}</ref> when the software was [[Software relicensing|relicensed]] under the [[Artistic License 1.0]].<ref name="license"/>

''Simutrans'' has been [[Source port|ported]] to [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Linux]], [[BeOS]]/[[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]], [[Mac OS X]], and [[AmigaOS 4|AmigaOS 4.x]], which make use of several graphics libraries such as [[Graphics Device Interface|GDI]] ([[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] only), [[Simple DirectMedia Layer|SDL]] (all versions) or [[Allegro library|Allegro]] (BeOS only). It is portable to any architecture using [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] and one of the aforementioned libraries. ''Simutrans'' has [[multilingual]] support.

The current stable release of ''Simutrans'' is version 124.3 as of January 11, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forum.simutrans.com/index.php/topic,23369|title=Simutrans 124.3|last=|first=|date=|website=forum.simutrans.com|access-date=2025-01-11}}</ref> There is a popular branch of the code called ''Simutrans-Extended'', which aims to extend the basic game.<ref name="experimental">[http://blog.simutrans.com/?tag=simutrans-experimental Simutrans Experimental]</ref> ''Simutrans-Extended'' was formerly called ''Simutrans-Experimental'', but changed its name in 2017 to make clear that it is a distinct [[Fork (software)|fork]] of ''Simutrans'' and not a testing branch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=16685|title=Simutrans-Extended is the new name for Simutrans-Experimental|website=forum.simutrans.com|access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref> [[Daily build|Nightly builds]] for ''Simutrans'' and the main PakSets are also released for both standard<ref>{{cite web|title=Simutrans Nightly|url=http://simutrans-germany.com/~nightly/simutrans/index.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106124757/http://simutrans-germany.com/~nightly/simutrans/index.php|archive-date=2008-11-06}}</ref> and Extended<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/downloads/nightly/|title=Index of /downloads/nightly|website=bridgewater-brunel.me.uk|access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref> versions.