What is D-Rose?
D-Rose is Dave's Railroad Operations Simulation Environment. It
simulates running an entire railroad. You (will soon) get to do any
job on the railroad (like dispatcher, surveyor, president and
engineer), or sit back and watch.
News and History
- 09/06/2006 - unstable-0.03.01 released.
- 11/18/2005 - unstable-0.03.00 released.
- 12/16/2003 - stable-0.02.00 released.
- 08/05/2003 - unstable-0.01.03 released.
- 05/19/2003 - unstable-0.01.02 released.
- 05/09/2003 - unstable-0.01.01 released.
- 04/19/2003 - unstable-0.01.00 released.
- 04/01/2003 - Got SourceForge account accepted, and started
setting it up.
Current Features
- Create a map, lay rail lines, add passenger stations, schedule passenger trains (as of 0.02.00)
- Set the clock speed and watch trains run according to their schedule (as of 0.02.00)
- Configure sidings, multi-track and crossovers on a rail line (as of 0.03.00)
Features Coming Soon (in the next couple of releases)
- Ability to edit a junction, to configure # of tracks to be
connected to other legs of junction, from each direction.
- Ability for program to use multi-track and sidings, (and hence
trains will stop magically passing through each other, as they do in
0.02.00)
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Current Status
stable-0.02.00, the first "stable" release, is now out! It
will let you lay track, schedule trains, and watch the trains run
between stations. Please keep in mind that this is very rudimentary
stuff (see the screenshots for just HOW rudimentary), but it's
a start just the same.
unstable-0.03.01 is the latest "unstable" release. It has
all of 0.02.00, plus a rail editor, to allow you to configure sidings,
multi-track and crossovers on your rail lines.
For up-to-the-minute status, Check out the D-Rose blog for daily notes
on what I'm doing.
Some info about versions:
- Odd-numbered releases (0.01.x, 0.03.x, etc.) are called
"unstable", meaning that they probably have bugs, and have features
that may not work together as a program.
- Even numbered releases (0.02.x, 0.04.x, etc.) are called
"stable", meaning that they should have many fewer known bugs, and
while the feature set may not be complete, the features that do exist
should work together fairly cohesively.
- "stable" releases will only have new features in the first release
of a series, (i.e. 0.02.00), while subsequent point-releases
(i.e. 0.02.01) will be bug fixes only.
- If you don't understand all this, then only download "stable"
releases. The "unstable" ones are for the brave (or desparate for a
new feature).
Technical Info
D-Rose is written in Python/wxPython, and as such, is
cross-platform. It will be tested and actively supported on Linux and
Mac OS X, and perhaps Windows (although I'm not running Windows at the
moment, nor do we run it at work). At present, though, you need to
know (or figure out) how to setup Python/wxPython on your platform to
run D-Rose. (See install.txt in the download file for more info.) In
the future, I'll be looking into proper packaging
(i.e. self-installing zips, RPMs, DEBs, Gentoo eBuilds, etc.) for the
various supported platforms, but for now, you get to do all that.
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