OpenBeach 1.11.1 for Windows x64
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OpenBeach is a free, open-source engine that plays the 2002 resort tycoon Beach Life on the files of your own copy.
It is an unofficial fan project and contains no data of the original game: you need your own legal copy.

Not comfortable with this? Open this folder in an AI agent (for example Claude Code or Codex) and write:
    Install OpenBeach and import my copy of Beach Life.
The agent follows AGENTS.md and asks you for what it needs.

WHAT YOU NEED
- Your copy of Beach Life: the folder of an installation, the CD, or a disc image of it (.iso).
  These work: the European and the French/German CD, the UK/US CD (Virtual Resort: Spring Break), the later English CD,
  and the installed folders of these. A copy the importer does not know is refused with a message and nothing is changed.
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

INSTALLER
  The release also has an installer (openbeach-1.11.1-windows-x64-installer.exe): it asks for the .iso of your CD,
  installs OpenBeach and imports your copy, so steps 1 and 2 are done. Start OpenBeach from the desktop or the Start
  menu; "Import Beach Life" in the Start menu imports a copy again.

STEP 1: UNPACK
  Unpack the whole archive into a folder of your own, for example Documents\OpenBeach (not Program Files).
  Tip: right-click the downloaded .zip, Properties, tick "Unblock", OK, then unpack: Windows asks fewer questions.

STEP 2: IMPORT YOUR COPY (once, about 15 minutes)
  Open the "game" folder and drag your Beach Life folder, your CD drive or your .iso file onto Import.cmd.
  (Or double-click Import.cmd and drag your copy into its window.) Wait for "Done", then close the window.
  If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click "More info", then "Run anyway": the files are not signed.
  Your copy is only read, never changed. You can run the import again at any time, for example with another copy.

STEP 3: PLAY
  Double-click Play.cmd in the "game" folder.
  Before the game starts, a settings window lets you pick the language, window or fullscreen, the window size, the
  frame rate cap and the intro movie. Click Play (or press Enter); if you change nothing, nothing changes.
  Alt+Enter switches between a window and fullscreen. While you play a map the mouse stays in the game window, so the
  screen edge scrolls the map; Esc (the options) or Alt+Tab lets it go.

LANGUAGE
  The game is available only in the languages of your copy: English for the UK/US and the later English CDs, and
  French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish for the European and the French/German CDs. The import takes the
  language of your installation, or asks for one when you import a CD. To switch to another language of your copy,
  pick it in the settings window that opens before the game.

SAVES, SETTINGS AND THE LOG
  Everything is in game\userdata\: saves in SaveGames/, settings in BeachLife.ini and openbeach.ini, the log in
  openbeach.log. To update OpenBeach, unpack the new version and copy your userdata folder into its "game" folder.
  Saves of the original game: copy them into game\userdata\SaveGames\; OpenBeach converts them when it starts.

NO COPY AT HAND? TRY THE DEMO
  Double-click Demo.cmd: a small scenario of the project's own that needs no data of the original game.

WHERE DO I GET AN .ISO FILE?
  If you still have the disc, make an image of it on a computer with a drive: ImgBurn or AnyBurn on Windows, Disk
  Utility on a Mac (a "DVD/CD master" image, renamed from .cdr to .iso) or the dd command on Linux. If the disc is lost
  or scratched, you can look for an image of your own edition of the game on the internet.

PROBLEMS
  OpenBeach is still under development: the campaign and the sandbox can be played, but you may meet bugs. Report them
  with game\userdata\openbeach.log at https://github.com/h4570/openbeach/issues or on https://discord.gg/PtJqgwGtZm
  No install at all: https://openbeach.app plays the game in your browser.
  Licence: GPL-3.0-or-later (game\LICENSE); third-party components: game\THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
