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Excellent work!

• Speaking of dates, I never filled in my birth date when signing up, yet my profile page claims I'm 65 years old.
• Usernames appear to be coded in UTF-8, but pages are served as ISO-8859-1. See Böbszlee's profile for examaple.

Slowdrive wants a second pipsqueak! Come on, youngsters, shoegazers, noisers, dreampopers, rockers and post-rockers!

Dstien and Paradisio (=Mingva) are still available for Slowdrive.

My motivation for being in a team is primarily aesthetics; to avoid gaps in the team column on the scoreboard. Average Joe sort of died when the whole bunch jumped ship. I guess I could live up to the Slowdrive name.

other interesting statistics

Like in the old RPLInfo? I mean the number of different keypresses (accelerate, brake, shifting, etc.).

No magic needed for that, it's already available in the RPL file. Was thinking more about driving metrics.

I haven't fixed the "incomplete replay" issue, and I'm not sure I can — see other thread.

Could a "repldump-as-a-service" be of interest? Submit a replay + car tuning and get back exact finish time/DNF + penalty time and possibly other interesting statistics. The downsides are that restunts only targets BB1.1 for now, and this would maybe convolute your code, especially if the latency is so high that results would have to be delivered asynchronously.

That might be pretty cool. Unfortunately there is the issue of PG laps with screwy endings (the ones you need to rewind and fast-forward a few times until they play correctly).

Ah, I have a vague memory of seeing something like that. Do you remember any specific replays? Would like the figure out what's causing this.

Could a "repldump-as-a-service" be of interest?

It would be extremely cool, but I think we can do with basic checks for the replay upload. After all, there have been no check for years

If it's not broken, break it.

I hacked together a flaky prototype by sandboxing DOSBox:

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$ curl -F replay=@FINSHESC.RPL http://api.stunts.no/v0/replayinfo
{
    "finished":       "yes",
    "totalTime":      "1:59.15",
    "drivingTime":    "1:59.15",
    "penaltyTime":    "0:00.00",
    "avgSpeedMph":    86.43,
    "avgSpeedKph":    139.10,
    "topSpeedMph":    157.50,
    "topSpeedKph":    253.47,
    "impactSpeedMph": 0.00,
    "impactSpeedKph": 0.00,
    "jumps":          5
}

$ curl -F replay=@PENALTY.RPL http://api.stunts.no/v0/replayinfo
{
    "finished":       "yes",
    "totalTime":      "4:27.80",
    "drivingTime":    "1:03.80",
    "penaltyTime":    "3:24.00",
    "avgSpeedMph":    60.98,
    "avgSpeedKph":    98.14,
    "topSpeedMph":    117.91,
    "topSpeedKph":    189.75,
    "impactSpeedMph": 0.00,
    "impactSpeedKph": 0.00,
    "jumps":          0
}

$ curl -F replay=@CRASHED.RPL http://api.stunts.no/v0/replayinfo
{
    "finished":       "crashed",
    "totalTime":      "DNF",
    "drivingTime":    "0:15.95",
    "penaltyTime":    "0:00.00",
    "avgSpeedMph":    80.63,
    "avgSpeedKph":    129.77,
    "topSpeedMph":    128.80,
    "topSpeedKph":    207.29,
    "impactSpeedMph": 128.52,
    "impactSpeedKph": 206.84,
    "jumps":          1
}

$ curl -F replay=@ABORTED.RPL http://api.stunts.no/v0/replayinfo
{
    "finished":       "aborted",
    "totalTime":      "DNF",
    "drivingTime":    "0:15.15",
    "penaltyTime":    "0:00.00",
    "avgSpeedMph":    72.46,
    "avgSpeedKph":    116.61,
    "topSpeedMph":    111.35,
    "topSpeedKph":    179.20,
    "impactSpeedMph": 0.00,
    "impactSpeedKph": 0.00,
    "jumps":          1
}

$ curl -F replay=@z128/01duplode.RPL http://api.stunts.no/v0/replayinfo
{
    "finished":       "yes",
    "totalTime":      "1:44.00",
    "drivingTime":    "1:44.00",
    "penaltyTime":    "0:00.00",
    "avgSpeedMph":    167.16,
    "avgSpeedKph":    269.02,
    "topSpeedMph":    245.00,
    "topSpeedKph":    394.29,
    "impactSpeedMph": 0.00,
    "impactSpeedKph": 0.00,
    "jumps":          27
}


I haven't fixed the "incomplete replay" issue, and I'm not sure I can — see other thread.

Could a "repldump-as-a-service" be of interest? Submit a replay + car tuning and get back exact finish time/DNF + penalty time and possibly other interesting statistics. The downsides are that restunts only targets BB1.1 for now, and this would maybe convolute your code, especially if the latency is so high that results would have to be delivered asynchronously.

[EA would have had to get the rights back from Br0derbund]

But there are some problems. The game is NOT freeware. I found on a site
that somebody checked with Mindscape and Broderbund. This is irrelevant as
long as the screen shows "Copyright 1990 Distinctive Software"

The topic of Stunts came up in a thread on the Programming Reddit yesterday, and Kevin Pickell himself appeared with some interesting comments:

I'm pretty sure Br0derbund still owns the copyright on it.

Br0derbund still had the rights to it after EA bought DSI. I actually had it running on the Sega Genesis around 1992 or so and there was talk of releasing it but we had two problems, I could not get it running faster than about 10 frames per second and EA would have had to get the rights back from Br0derbund so it was shelved.

I don't have the source for it anymore, and since it was my first 3d program, I would be ashamed if anyone has a look at the source.

Neato! But odd that Archive.org didn't use the original release. All the files in the archive are dated 1996-12-24 23:32, DEFAULT.TRK and .HIG are overwritten, and some custom tracks are included. And this text file:

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Here is a selection of our favourite tracks for the best of all current
driving simulators, STUNTS.

Make sure you check out the incredible high-altitude crash in the replay
file for G!!!!!!!...

To use the files, simply copy them into your STUNTS game directory.  To
erase our high scores, simply erase the .HIG files for each track.

Hope you have as much fun driving on them as we had inventing them.

Steve Rolfe and Jeff Renaud,
Nov. 24, 1991.


Stumbled upon the KMS article on the Videogame Music Preservation Foundation Wiki. Apparantly, KMS stands for "Kris' Music System" and is used by quite a few games. Would be interesting to see if these games share more similarities with Stunts.

Throwing in the towel with an additional -49 bytes and +1 smashed sign. One day I'll have to step through the replay buffer to figure out how you all round those corners at such high speeds without drifting aimlessly off course.

Congratulations to BJ, Dupe and The Big C with podiums. And a special thanks to CTG for organizing this eventful event. I find this public replay submission format very motivating compared to the usual blind racing against god-like opponents.

Pathetic warm-up lap.

It's not that bad, but you can do it a lot better. Be brave and try to win this match!

Hah. Shaved off 33 bytes. Will give it another try...

Pathetic warm-up lap.

[Lancia Delta Integrale HF]

Final: Duplode - Bonzai Joe

Congratulations! Duplode have finally found a worthy opponent.

Choices? BZJ and DST can choose first.

After the previous round's track selection fiasco I'll pick a car instead this time. Since the Niva shape remains unreleased, I'll go for another evergreen: Lancia Delta Integrale HF

I'm beginning to realize I may not win this one.

Duplode (#2) - Dstien (#6), Dstien can choose first

With assistance from random.org, my choice fell on the track Left. Fasten your seat belt, Duplode.

My in-acura-te replay.

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I, dstien, hereby select the car Acura NSX for my first,
and likely last, round of the Stunts Christmas Cup 2014.

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