Open1602 0.3.1

What's new in 0.3.1

Changes since 0.3.0, most of them from
the second round of player feedback.

New

• News of other players' wars: the status bar reports when two other players go to war or make
  peace, and the help line over a partner's coat of arms in the diplomacy window names whom that
  partner is at war with. A switch in the display window turns the news off.
• Fertility view: while a field or plantation is in the build tool, the island under the mouse
  shows green where its crop grows and red where it does not. Ctrl + B shows the same for a selected
  farm, and the display window can switch the automatic view off.
• Ship trade: computer players offer spare ships for sale, and a computer that has lost all its
  ships buys one on offer. With the new setting "Computers buy ships" (on by default) they also
  buy ships that players at peace offer for at most the shipyard's price.
• New player colours: magenta and dark grey replace light blue and lime, which were too close
  to blue, teal and green.
• Groups (Ctrl + number) are kept in the savegame and come back after loading.

Fixes

• Walkers and carts move their legs at every frame rate and zoom level.
• The fire brigade puts out a fire from the road in front of the building instead of vanishing
  into it.
• The water mill's wheel turns in the river instead of standing on land.
• F at a forester plants the trees' variants mixed, as when planting by hand.
• The tab titles in the F1 key overview now fit neatly inside their tabs, and the selected page is
  highlighted in yellow.

Download

Open1602 0.3.1, built from 3f985f0.

Open1602 needs the data of an installed Anno 1602 (the GOG edition, the Königsedition or
the History Edition); the packages hold only the engine. On its first start it looks for
the installation and, when it finds none, asks for its folder.

Platform	Package	Start
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Open1602-0.3.1-windows-x64.zip	unpack, start open1602.exe
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel)	Open1602-0.3.1-macos-universal.zip	unpack, right click Open1602.app > Open (the app is not notarised)
Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch)	Open1602-0.3.1-linux-x64.tar.gz	unpack, start bin/open1602

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Open1602 0.3.0

What's new in 0.3.0

Changes since 0.2.0, many of them from
the feedback of players on Windows.

New

• Trade cart: requested in the city window, it drives on land between cities, trades and runs
  routes picked on the map; it has its own window and figure, and soldiers can attack it.
• City gates can be closed (G); computer soldiers find their way into a walled city.
• Plant all farm fields of a farm at once (F).
• History Edition controls: its build mode, shortcuts for the next city, rotating back, the
  frame rate and the coordinates, F1 help pages, soldiers grouped by kind and unit identification.

Computer opponents and pirates

• A computer answers a ship that is about to found a city on its island.
• Computer soldiers pass over an enemy city with nothing left to attack; a computer without a free
  island no longer gets stuck.
• A computer's ship under the white flag gets jobs again after the pirates plundered it.
• Pirates spare surrendered ships, and the pirate nest offers its goods every 42 seconds, as in the
  original.

Fixes

• The reveal setting "Nothing" also hides the towns other players found.
• A palisade no longer replaces a stone wall; stone walls, houses and piers can be dragged as in
  the original, piers along a line.
• Soldiers stop their attack animation after a fight, no longer stack on one tile, and troops on
  every island count for the mood.
• Messages lead to the right place and show their icons and rivals in the original's colours; the
  delay of sounds is gone.
• Flags, roaming warriors, the forester's loop and the monument in the build menu as in the
  original; a refusal to build names the original setting behind it.

Download

Open1602 0.3.0, built from 56ff8af.

Open1602 needs the data of an installed Anno 1602 (the GOG edition, the Königsedition or
the History Edition); the packages hold only the engine. On its first start it looks for
the installation and, when it finds none, asks for its folder.

Platform	Package	Start
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Open1602-0.3.0-windows-x64.zip	unpack, start open1602.exe
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel)	Open1602-0.3.0-macos-universal.zip	unpack, right click Open1602.app > Open (the app is not notarised)
Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch)	Open1602-0.3.0-linux-x64.tar.gz	unpack, start bin/open1602

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

What's Changed

• Fixes from a Windows player's feedback: white flag, soldier animation, message targets, sound delay by @x4rd4s in #276
• Windows feedback, part 2: flags, roaming warriors, dragging houses and piers, stone walls, rival message colours by @x4rd4s in #277
• A palisade no longer replaces a stone wall by @x4rd4s in #278
• Build mode like the History Edition, refusals name the original setting by @x4rd4s in #279
• History Edition shortcuts: next city, rotate back, frame rate, coordinates by @x4rd4s in #280
• History Edition: soldiers by kind, F1 pages, unit identification, no stacked soldiers, piers along a line by @x4rd4s in #281
• A computer answers a ship about to found a city on its island by @x4rd4s in #282
• Forester loop, monument in the build menu, computer without a free island by @x4rd4s in #283
• Plant all farm fields (F), and message icons in the original's colours by @x4rd4s in #284
• Closable city gates (G), computer soldiers find a way in by @x4rd4s in #285
• Trade cart in the simulation: requested at a city, drives on land, trades and runs routes by @x4rd4s in #286
• Trade cart: city window button, map figure, cart window, map-picked route; soldiers attack carts by @x4rd4s in #287
• AI soldiers pass over an enemy city with nothing left to attack by @x4rd4s in #288
• Pirate nest offers its goods every 42 s, as the original's task 5 by @x4rd4s in #289
• Reveal setting: "Nothing" also hides the towns other players found by @x4rd4s in #290
• Pirates spare surrendered ships; troops count on every island for the mood by @x4rd4s in #291
• Release 0.3.0: version and release notes by @x4rd4s in #292

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Open1602 0.2.0

What's new in 0.2.0

Changes since 0.1.1.

Anno 1602 History Edition

• Open1602 now runs with the data of the History Edition as well as with the GOG edition and the
  Königsedition. It finds the installation below Ubisoft Connect, in Heroic's prefixes and through
  Ubisoft's registry entries, and reads the language folder of the chosen language.
• Its main menu with the true colour art, its Game.dat and savegames in the user's folder.
• Its Bink 2 videos play (Open1602's own decoder, no new library); its Options button opens the
  display window.

Mods

• A content registry: the values of the original's buildings and figures, buildings, goods,
  inhabitant classes and unlock levels of a package's own, all as data.
• A package can bring its own PNG pictures for buildings, figures and ships, icons for the build
  menu, goods and messages, and sounds and music as Ogg Vorbis or FLAC.
• Scripts: packages can bring a script.lua (Lua 5.4.8 in a sandbox) with tick events and
  messages; its state is kept in the savegame.

Game settings

• A page "Original settings" in the start dialog brings back eleven bugs and exploits of the
  original and its computer players, one by one; Open1602's fixes stay the default.
• "Graphics: as in the original / modern" in the display window: the classic look draws shadows
  and smoke dithered as the original does.

Playing

• Ships attack another player's buildings and Kontor with a right click; Ctrl or F attacks roads,
  bridges and piers.
• Soldiers heal at their own doctor (walk up to it, or Ctrl + left click as in the original) and
  walk onto a near place instead of stopping short.
• A destroyed Kontor keeps its city; storage and trade at destroyed Kontors as in the original.
• Shift + click on the cannons of the ship window fills every free cannon place.

Interface

• The minimap in the original's design; a right click on the minimap no longer misfires.
• Coats of arms of the computer opponents' cities in the top bar.
• The mouse wheel turns the pages of the trade route editor and scrolls the savegames and music
  titles in the settings.
• The scenario menu shows the briefing's slider; locked campaign parts and inactive buttons are
  drawn faded; fulfilled missions play their videos full-screen, as the original.
• The endless game lists what sets the chosen level apart; the multiplayer name is remembered;
  long savegame names end in "...".

Fixes

• After loading, a city holds no more of a good than its warehouse takes; a stored 0 in
  satisfaction and food is read as the original reads it.
• Many details checked in the game against the original: the tutorial, founding a Kontor, the
  settings dialog, the scenario list, the demolish preview and the computer opponents'
  production.

Download

Open1602 0.2.0, built from 1f9d740.

Open1602 needs the data of an installed Anno 1602 (the GOG edition, the Königsedition or
the History Edition); the packages hold only the engine. On its first start it looks for
the installation and, when it finds none, asks for its folder.

Platform	Package	Start
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Open1602-0.2.0-windows-x64.zip	unpack, start open1602.exe
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel)	Open1602-0.2.0-macos-universal.zip	unpack, right click Open1602.app > Open (the app is not notarised)
Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch)	Open1602-0.2.0-linux-x64.tar.gz	unpack, start bin/open1602

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

What's Changed

• Remember the multiplayer name across starts by @x4rd4s in #231
• Ship window: Shift+click on cannons fills every free cannon place by @x4rd4s in #234
• Content registry, parts a and b: values of the original's buildings and figures, buildings of a package's own by @x4rd4s in #230
• Heal soldiers at their own doctor: walk up to it, and Ctrl + left click as in the original by @x4rd4s in #233
• Goods of a package's own by @x4rd4s in #235
• Classes of inhabitants as data by @x4rd4s in #236
• Unlock levels as data by @x4rd4s in #237
• AI production switches: check the building's switch first, as the original by @x4rd4s in #238
• Jugglers: shadow under their feet, animated like the body by @x4rd4s in #240
• Support the Anno 1602 History Edition by @x4rd4s in #239
• Endless game: list what sets the chosen level apart below the briefing by @x4rd4s in #241
• Leave out the History Edition's Options button for now by @x4rd4s in #242
• Classic graphics: shadows and smoke dithered as in the original by @x4rd4s in #243
• History Edition main menu: keep the shadow between Credits and Intro by @x4rd4s in #245
• Ships: right click attacks another player's buildings and Kontor by @x4rd4s in #244
• History Edition: leave out its unused in-game buttons, fix the savegame list and help lines by @x4rd4s in #246
• Destroyed Kontor keeps its city; beach ruins on beach by @x4rd4s in #248
• Settings: the mouse wheel scrolls the savegames and the music titles by @x4rd4s in #247
• History Edition: find its Game.dat and savegames in the user's folder by @x4rd4s in #249
• Trade route editor: the mouse wheel turns the pages of its stops by @x4rd4s in #250
• Pictures of a package's own: PNG images for its buildings by @x4rd4s in #252
• Top bar: show the coat of arms of computer opponents' cities by @x4rd4s in #253
• Military mode: the "Kampf" button can be clicked again, so a ship's white flag can be hoisted by @x4rd4s in #254
• Ctrl or F attacks another player's road, bridge or pier by @x4rd4s in #251
• Sounds and music of a package's own: Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, music.toml by @x4rd4s in #255
• History Edition: take the mission window's art from TOOLS.INC by @x4rd4s in #256
• sim: storage and trade at destroyed Kontors as in the original by @x4rd4s in #257
• docs: status.md records that the game has run on Windows by @x4rd4s in #258
• Icons of a package's own: icons.toml for build menu, goods and messages by @x4rd4s in #261
• sim: soldiers walk onto a near place instead of stopping 3.5 tiles short by @x4rd4s in #263
• Long savegame names end in "..."; a loaded 0 in satisfaction and food becomes 128 by @x4rd4s in #262
• sim: after loading, a city holds no more of a good than its warehouse takes by @x4rd4s in #266
• Figures and ships drawn with a package's images: figure_images.toml by @x4rd4s in #265
• Original settings: bring back eleven bugs and exploits of the original by @x4rd4s in #260
• Lua 5.4.8 and a sandbox for mod scripts (engine/script) by @x4rd4s in #267
• History Edition: the Options button opens the display window, the Bink 2 videos play by @x4rd4s in #259
• Scripts of packages in the game: script.lua, tick events, messages, state in the savegame by @x4rd4s in #269
• Settings dialog: a savegame's values in full by @x4rd4s in #270
• Match the original: demolish preview, mission videos, campaign parts, ship picker by @x4rd4s in #268
• In-game check against the original: tutorial, Kontor founding, settings, minimap, scenario list by @x4rd4s in #264
• Draw locked campaign parts and inactive buttons faded, as the original by @x4rd4s in #272
• Small UI fixes: victory view hint, lobby settings, free save slots by @x4rd4s in #271
• Show the briefing's slider in the scenario menu, as the original by @x4rd4s in #274
• Minimap in the original's design; right click on the minimap fixed by @x4rd4s in #273
• Release 0.2.0: release notes from docs/releases, Lua licence in the packages by @x4rd4s in #275

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0

Open1602 0.1.1

Open1602 0.1.1, built from a5c51b2.

Open1602 needs the data of an installed Anno 1602 (for example the GOG edition); the
packages hold only the engine. On its first start it looks for the installation and, when
it finds none, asks for its folder.

Platform	Package	Start
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Open1602-0.1.1-windows-x64.zip	unpack, start open1602.exe
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel)	Open1602-0.1.1-macos-universal.zip	unpack, right click Open1602.app > Open (the app is not notarised)
Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch)	Open1602-0.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz	unpack, start bin/open1602

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Open1602 0.1.0

Open1602 0.1.0, built from 41daa42.

Open1602 needs the data of an installed Anno 1602 (for example the GOG edition); the
packages hold only the engine. On its first start it looks for the installation and, when
it finds none, asks for its folder.

Platform	Package	Start
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Open1602-0.1.0-windows-x64.zip	unpack, start open1602.exe
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel)	Open1602-0.1.0-macos-universal.zip	unpack, right click Open1602.app > Open (the app is not notarised)
Linux x86-64 (glibc 2.39+: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch)	Open1602-0.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz	unpack, start bin/open1602

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.