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Could be... Which answers are you missing?

Well, some curiosity behind the development, behind the choice of the music, the car, the idea, anything that could give us something new to valorize it. I can think about it anyway..

Hi,

some time has passed since I was here and I'd like to ask if is it possible to make a new interview just like was done with the developer that unfortunately was not as goos as I hoped regarding the lenght of the answers and the (little)passion gived to the interviewer. It would be a good thing to have a new interview with another developer. What do you think?

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Yeah!!! Now I've a FAT32 C: partition I installed Dos 7.1 on first and after xp on it. Stunts run flawlessy smooth as never seen on dosbox. I was right on it comparing both system.

The only bad thing is that my laptop can't apparently resiza dos low res image to scale on fullscreen..

I can only agree : even if I managed to find almost-good settings for DOSBox with my new computer, it's always with a slight "late response" of the cars compared to pure DOS. Which is a handicap, especially for corner speed.

Exact, I'm happy I'm not the only one to feel it. I suffer it when I've to prepar for a dangerous turn.

If I got it correctly, Simon's suggestion is to have a NoRH and/or IRC scoreboard for Permanent Comp. tracks. Such a scoreboard, that would most likely be implemented as solely trust-based (right? ), could be useful for posting times under such rulesets without having to share the board with 3x:yy times, particularly for newcomers who after joining would like to see times on Default and other tracks as a reference. For that matter I think I'd make use of it too should it exist...

Yeah because I think that each race could be done in a "all permitted" way and in a "just race on the track as fast as possible" in two different scoreboard so one person can race for one type or the other. I've seen rpl of the best times for ex. on default but even if this is a type of fun, I think that the normale race would be competitive and fun too.

BTW, Simon82, after you set DOSBox parameters correctly, you should try NoRH competition (not anymore managed by Mark, but managed by Krys T?ff from next year on). You'll see NoRH also allows drivers to do crazy replays as well.

But norh races are not make here in zaq site, only at USC or others? I see that for the zt79 only one score is inside and rules on this site are gone.

can your computer boot from an USB flash drive? I plan to prepare a Stunts USB boot drive image.

This is the first thing I've thoke to but not every pc can do it. I've a Mac Mini and with Bootcamp I don't know if it's possible. I've spare computer here and there but It would be good to have it on a usb key and surely easy to do. Just the boot drivers on it are a little tricky to install the first time.

To Duplope:
Try and you'll see that something change in better, obviously being a native environment. I thinki Dosbox fit in a layer in wich it's inserted a millisecond lag I've the unluck to feel of. Maybe I'm the only "robot".. surely I'm a passionated of the accuracy of every reproduction, talking about both dosbox or emulators.

Hi (to zaq and others)

I was thinking that would be good to have a permanent "clean" competition we couldn't decide do make different path to arrive in. I was thinking at a no-rh rule plus a time to respect staying on the track. For example we could go on the grass for a maximun time o 2-3 second maybe to correct ourself, maybe to jump an ostacle who know. Don't you like it?

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I don't know why but it seems something different from a real system with dosbox. It loose some frame in the complex situation.. even with high cpu cycle.

Then you might wish to reduce a bit the cycles (too high can cause slow down as well), or maybe turn on dynamic CPU on.

Don't you see a little difference in response time when press a command? I'm talking about millisecod but it is something I can feel. When you play on a real system you see it's better.

I had a trusty old P-133 for just playing Stunts - it worked like a charm. Since I have my new laptop (1,2Ghz Pentium-M), Stunts under Dosbox (and linux) runs as perfect as in native mode. I had to enable dosbox's dynamic core, no other config changes were necessary. (overlay 3x display mode in window almost fills the whole screen, perfect)

I don't know why but it seems something different from a real system with dosbox. It loose some frame in the complex situation.. even with high cpu cycle.

I think that the ideal system would be a real 486 from 33 to 50Mhz. I run it on a 386SX 20 Mhz but I rememember loosing frames with full detail world.

I've tried Dosbox, Windows xp emulation (with latest years xp patch lot of dos game run) and VirtualPC. Surely VirtualPC would be the best choose because it use natively the x86 dynamic emulation for the entire system but the bug is in the audio reproduction so bad in adlib,soundb. or pc speaker.

Me too. 0.99 USD/hours.

I know.. in facts devealoper told that he could rewrite it from scratch. What about pay him to rewrite it?
Who better than it could make this?

Kevin Pickell now works for Electronic Arts. I'm sure EA pays him more than we could do for his programming talent...

Sure, but they pay him for months of devealopment in games that are not nearly comparable to Stunt. This could be easier to rewrite and I think that could make it in free time.. (I'm joking.. but I'd pay surely something for this project). 

Welcome in Stunts community Simon82.

Convert the game will be difficult without source code. It will be a remake, not a conversion.

I know.. in facts devealoper told that he could rewrite it from scratch. What about pay him to rewrite it?
Who better than it could make this?

Best thing would obviously be, find source code but I don't know how. Have you try to contact others devealopers?

Hello to all, I'm a new registered italian user that has played this game for years with a 386SX 20Mhz. This is the best game ever created. 
I've read lead develoaper interview and I was sad reading that source code has been lost.
Do you think that is possible to port this game to another system like Sony PSP? or maybe a Symbian OS port could be a dream! 

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