Free ORTS Routes

[R. Steele]

MSTS Bin modifies the MSTS executable...has nothing to do with Open Rails. To parrot everyone else.

[crstagg]

If I have only installed ORTS do I have to have MSTS bin?
Thanks

Only if you are going to install and use the MSTS executable. I assume you can afford to by it. All it costs is a bit of time.

[biologybob]

After downloading J.H.Sullivan's Milwaukee Road route I see it requires MSTS default routes. It says this is an ORTS route. Does this mean if I download an ORTS route I will still need the MSTS default routes?

[crstagg]

After downloading J.H.Sullivan's Milwaukee Road route I see it requires MSTS default routes. It says this is an ORTS route. Does this mean if I download an ORTS route I will still need the MSTS default routes?

Bob,
Surely you have been around MSTS long enough to remember the MSTS routes that had to be installed in an install with the default routes so that files from the default routes could be copied into the new route. That was usually done with an install.bat file. This is the same thing. Sullivan has used building or scenery files from the default routes in his route. Since those files are the property of Micro$oft, it is illegal to distribute them w/o permission. Therefore it is required that you have the default routes in an install and put his Milwaukee route in it so that the install.bat can copy the files to the route. If you don't have the default routes then you can't use his route.

[conductorchris]

I seem to recall that biologybob is new to us and has picked up open rails without having MSTS.
Christopher

[crstagg]

I seem to recall that biologybob is new to us and has picked up open rails Christopher

B$! 13 years = new? 3 Years before you!
Join Date04-18-2007

[rdayt]

I dunno. I went quite a few years between the letdown of MSTS and the discovery of OR/TSRE.
Bob, do you have a copy of MSTS?

Randy

[crstagg]

Bob,
See this thread and read all the posts not just the first one. https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showth...ut-ORTS-routes