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I found 2 ~usable cars. The horizon is a little lower. "Williams FW15C" and "Street Hawk", screenshots attached.

The messages are about the position, not the alignment of the horizon, so now the title of the topic is wrong.

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Is there any post of yours with the proper message?

All of them. Why? Anyway, I wanted to put a page about (and with) Stunts on my site, but I just realised that I can't use any car. Is there any way to put that horizon in the middle of the screen without deactivating the dashboard? I already pointed out a problem, but I think it's worse.

https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4437.0

The cars are too low, but besides that, the landscape is drawn in the wrong position.

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https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/File:Fordsierradashboard.png

One observation. If the camera points forward, the horizon is supposed to be in the middle of the screen. Pictures here:

https://matei.one/idxscr.html

or here:

https://worldofspectrum.net/item/0004969/

Is there any car in Stunts with the proper settings?

I attached a modified version of SimcarStunts, in which the input controls are saved for replays instead of the positions of the objects. Replays are saved in files in directory "replays" and I included 6 replays made by me, which can be loaded by selecting "6. Load" and typing "rep1", ..., "rep5". Replay "default" is loaded from the start. More details in "README.txt". Only executable file for GNU/Linux provided, besides the source code.

Thanks, but just leave it as it is if no one asks for any settings. I have version 1.6 and I prefer it. More options for me and the original interface of Stunts had some options that you eliminated (for no clouds and no scenery).

* FAST:  80 tiles, should work well with Matei's machines

It's not how I set it, it's a little slower and the low detail models should be used at high distances for the artistic impression.

* VFAST: 50 tiles, for your dear 286

I think the previous version is still a little faster. [edit] Probably not, but I would put 60 tiles and fewer high detail models. [/edit]

One bug I noticed is that the Display Options menu does not work when looking at a replay on a crowded scene.

Idea: remove the detail options from the menu and make a "SETUP.EXE" program with more options. The interface doesn't have to look like in the original program.

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Another thing. From the messages here I come up with ideas.

https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4482.msg98413#msg98413

Like in Stunts, but not in my game.

Because the framerate is not fixed, but I fixed it to n frames/second and in the new version the replay is now like in Stunts, i.e. the input controls are saved at each frame, instead of the positions. I tested, it works, the replays will be saved in files and I'll post the version here when it's ready. I will keep the replays like they are now in the main version though, but I will use the new type of replays in Skunks, because the replay feature available in previous versions is currently missing there. The same kind of things happen with Wayland, btw. Wayland is a very good protocol for graphics and who knows? Maybe 50...60 years from now it will become usable.

Do consider posting replays at ZakStunts just for fun;

Read the end of message here... from which I should have actually translated more, but I can give some of my other messages as example. Anyway:

You don't have to care about scoreboard position or the car bonuses;

I don't care about scoreboard position or the car bonuses, I don't even care about the "races". Do I have to put links to the messages where I already wrote that?

just pick your favourite car out of the 16 and enjoy the ride.

I only have ~4 pairs of skates, but the rides are not very enjoyable because there's cars everywhere.

https://matei.one/osub.html

Clearly, these killing machines have no business being used anywhere there are people around,

If we're referring to favorite games, Stunts is on the second place, here:

https://matei.one/idxscr.html

And it's not actually Stunts. Stunts is not interesting as a game, but has some other things made around it, especially by Cas. Otherwise I wouln't pay any attention to it.

https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Cas

Cas' most significant software contribution to the Stunts community is Bliss Track Editor,

No, his most significant software contribution is R5K_engine, which should be obvious. Besides, there was Track Blaster already and I hate "mouse-driven interfaces" anyway.

https://www.emu-france.com/emulateurs/10-ordinateurs/173-sinclair-zx-spectrum/1232-spectrum/

Une nouvelle version d'un des plus vieille émulateur Sinclair Spectrum disponible, crée par Pedro Gimeno. Il ne supporte que le Spectrum 48.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bars3d/

This is my program and I included the emulator in the archive. From file REAME.txt, line 119:

Besides tape images, this emulator can also load and save snapshot images, but they are in a different format compared to the one used by most emulators and mentioned above, so I made 2 programs for converting these files, i.e. sna2sp.c and sp2sna.c, which are in zxbars/tools. More information is in README.txt, also there. A snapshot can be saved from the emulator by pressing F2. No confirmation will be shown, but the file will appear in the directory as SNAP****.SP. To load a snapshot, start the emulator by typing:

spec386 /sp=SNAP0001.SP

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It's not working properly on my end. It's working in slow motion.

It is working properly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool-assisted_speedrun#Method

To make this more precise, the game is slowed down. Initially, it was common to slow down to some low fraction of normal speed.

This is how tools for speedruns function. Where do I set the speed? Now it runs 6.66 times slower, I want it a little faster.

Anyone interested in Stunt Car R@cer? The car has suspension, it bounces after landing and has "boost" for accelerating before jumps. There's a remake, but without races:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZ9A70iP6A

The car doesn't bounce either.

Yes, but also the most interesting.

Like I wrote in 2012:

https://matei.one/archive.php?f=HappypenguinSkunks

but because it would be very interesting.

Which I did in 2013. Anyway:

Code ("frame.c") Select Expand

  6:    #define TILES_TO_DRAW_MAX 80
 10:    char low_detail_priority_thresholds[] = { 10 };

The previous version with the settings mentioned before seems a little faster.

I'll check if I can repurpose Stunts' options menu for this goal.

Not a good idea because the options in Stunts are not saved in a file, so people would have to configure those options every time they start the game. I suppose it's also complicated to do.

Worst case I can instead provide different exes.

That's the best case, I was going to do it anyway and different exes are already available in the version here:

https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4312

SKIDCGA.EXE, SKIDEGA.EXE and SKIDMCGA.EXE.

Only solution I see is this (the others are just nonsense). Make track and all cars available, forget about coefficients and times recorded by the game (waste of time) and just take the artistic impression of every replay into consideration. After the replays are sent by everyone put an archive of Stunts with the track, the replays and all the cars used, for download. All participants vote and if each pirate only votes for himself, I don't see the problem. Everything solved.