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  "textContent": "Late 2010 I had some time before starting a new job, and I was looking for a project to keep myself busy. I was an avid Transport Tycoon Deluxe player so I was using first TTDPatch and later OpenTTD, and thoroughly amazed by both. The open-source release of OpenTTD was an amazing gift to the community, which offered so much potential for the future (and the ongoing development on OpenTTD has proven that out I'd say!). Not knowing any assembly I didn't see myself doing anything like that, but there are other options than just disassembling something completely, and there was this other tycoon game that I used to play a lot, that it might be interesting to look into: Pizza Tycoon (also from MicroProse). And that didn't have anything like the same community of players around it, so no pressure\n\n\n\nAnyway, now we're fifteen years further down the line, and I just released the first version of Pizza Legacy, my open-source reimplementation of Pizza Tycoon (later re-released on GOG and Steam as Pizza Connection, which was also the original Amiga title before MicroProse published the DOS version).\n\nI didn't recreate the original engine from assembly, instead I reverse-engineered the game’s data formats and built a new engine that replicates the original’s behavior. It’s a modern approximation designed to do the same things the original engine did, though it’s not an exact reconstruction and some features are still missing.\n\nFun facts:\n\n  * Graphics for the English version of Pizza Tycoon were done by Terry Greer, who also did the graphics for the submarine, UFO and XCom easter eggs in Transport Tycoon (source)\n  * Nice cross-selling, when you win Pizza Tycoon it tells you:\n\n\n> Or is fast food mastery just your first step along a cash crazed road to power and world domination?\n> Maybe you'd like to build on your cheesy success by going into other areas of business.\n> Most people who try this fall flat on their faces because they don't stick to what they know.\n> But you, you are already having visions of branching out into... TRANSPORT!!!\n> Just think of it - trains, planes and automobiles, all owned and controlled by you.\n> Then again, maybe you'd rather just sit down and eat another pizza!\n\n\nYou can download Pizza Legacy v0.0.1 for macOS, Linux, and Windows from the downloads section on the project website (where you can also find what works and what doesn't, this is by no means complete). You'll need a copy of the original Pizza Tycoon / Pizza Connection DOS version. Sources can be found in my repo.\n\nStatistics: Posted by oVRoM — 09 Mar 2026 19:53\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Off-Topic • Pizza Legacy: open-source reimplementation of Pizza Tycoon (1994)",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-09T19:53:24.000Z"
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