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#16
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 17, 2024, 12:44:40 PM
The Godfater
#17
I think it'd be great. It's pure text, so it can be done. Although, I don't think it can be copy-pasted, can it?
#18
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 16, 2024, 08:20:47 PM
Keyboard
#19
Hey, I wish I had known if this magazine back in the day!  Going through it gives a strong sense of nostalgia!
#20
Stunts Chat / Re: 4D Sports Driving Master Tracks I
March 16, 2024, 08:13:30 PM
Tring "Cheap" with the Porsche 962, I'd say this one lacks more. It's more reasonable in that it doesn't have so many sharp corners and doesn't use corks u/d, but it's not very interesting. The length is more like what we're used to today. Again, no scenery, same background (country, the default). Once more, something you can be forgiven for when playing with friends at home, but kind of not for an "expansion pack", ha, ha.
#21
Stunts Chat / Re: 4D Sports Driving Master Tracks I
March 16, 2024, 08:07:55 PM
I've just raced "Bends" with the Jaguar. My impression now on the track, not just looking at it from above, is that it's not boring. It is mostly a changing track, except for two long straightways. Yet, virtually no scenery and it's not very "organic", that is, when a track element is placed, there's no thought of what you're coming from or where your going later. Very tight corners just after you've managed to finally gain some speed, too many corks u/d, etc. I liked the section of the track in which you have several chicanes and some jumps. I think it's the most entertaining part.

The track in general is a little too long for our standards today, but pretty normal in length for the early 90s.
#22
Live Races / Re: Generations - (2024-03-17)
March 16, 2024, 07:54:57 PM
Fastening my seatbelt!
#23
Stunts Chat / Re: Peculiar track
March 15, 2024, 07:10:56 PM
I agree. A track should have variety, but it's ideas like this that you can use for each part to make them diverse
#24
I got Hard Drivin' II the same day I got Stunts. I had seen the original Hard Drivin' on arcade at least once before that, but yes, HD2 felt more dated, more primitive in its capabilities than Stunts. To try to have more "colours", it uses colour composition by interlacing pixels of different true colours. Not sure if to call this "dithering". In 320x200, the pixels are too big for this to look good. But the graphics engine is more robust and you won't see through walls. Triangles are always correcly sorted, as I remember.

You don't get that feeling of speed you get with Stunts. On the other hand, there are other cars on the road... not racing, but moving around, like in Test Drive. You do find stunts similar to what you get in Stunts, which made me feel that Stunts as actually a related game.

You can only have so many saved tracks at the same time, each in one slot with a letter to identify it. Tracks are sequential, so you place a track element after another and you can arbitrarily choose the angle between them. It's an interesting idea, but you can get richer combinations with Stunts. The grid may appear as a limitation, but Stunts is an open-world game thanks to it. Well, open... within 30x30 tiles. It'd be good if tiles were half the size by side. It'd allow for much more interaction. In HD2, you can place roads very close to one another, but I don't remember if it's actually possible to get them to cross.
#25
Competition 2024 / Re: ZCT272 - Spiral Architect
March 15, 2024, 06:53:06 PM
I think the F40 will be the winning car. I am an awful pipsqueak, but you guys can make it
#27
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 15, 2024, 06:50:42 PM
Fatality
#28
Stunts Chat / Re: 4D Sports Driving Master Tracks I
March 15, 2024, 06:49:59 PM
Just took a look at them. Pretty poor, really... but they are truly old, which gives them value. The tracks that come with Stunts are much better, although not nearly as good as the tracks we make in the community.
#29
Stunts Chat / Re: Peculiar track
March 13, 2024, 10:36:52 PM
It'd be nice to have an actual race on a track that had a section like that :)
#30
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 13, 2024, 04:16:44 PM
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