When the history of train sims is finally written, Mechanik will certainly occupy an important spot as an early cab-view sim. It was an MS-DOS sim written by a pair of college students in Poland. Mechanik was just disappearing from scene when I became involved in train sims five years ago. It had been eclipsed by BVE, a more sophisticated cab-view sim written by a 14-year-old Japanese student a few years earlier and had just been "discovered" by the western world.
Christopher Lees has written a thorough how-to guide explaining where to get Mechanik and how to install and run it on current Windows systems. He is also hosting several Mechanik routes.
Visit Chris's BVE Cornwall site (http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk/fusion/news.php) for the guide and the routes.
- Al
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