DOWN BY THE LAITURI
English fan translation, by MP83 (2026)
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A full English translation of the 1997
Finnish DOS game, Down By The Laituri.

Also included is a brand-new Windows
runtime, so you don't have to rely on
DOS hardware or DOSBox emulation anymore.


THANKS
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Antti Haapakoski, Teppo Lähtinen, and
Olli Attila for the original game.

DanaCrysalis and Esports_are_for_losers
for their additional support.

Claude.ai for the translation and
all the technical stuff, like porting
the game to Windows(!!!).



Q: But MP, why didn't you translate all
the texts by yourself? You're a native
Finnish speaker, after all.

A: For two reasons: 1) I wanted to
save some time, because I knew I'd be
spending most of it editing all the
graphics to make sure they matched the
original style. 2) I know from experience
how good machine translation from Finnish
to English can be, as long as slang isn't
involved, which it isn't in this game,
so I knew that I wouldn't have to fix
too many things. Besides, the end result
wouldn't differ all that much if I were
to do it myself anyway.