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Hello I modified my track to nearly the max road possible on the map. The game stopps/freezes as soon the counter ingame goes to 10:00 minutes. No more clicking or going back to the menu possible.
Is there a bug on my track or is this a memory cache problem?
I play it on a modern pc with DosBox at 8555 cpu cylce (Ctrl+F12).
If this is a memory problem how can we fix this to get past the 10:00 minutes driving? 
Thank you very much!

the Amiga port is essentially less good, more compressed, than the DOS version

Hello Overdrijf,
yes the Amiga's original had only a resolution of 320×256 or 320×512 pixels with 32 Colors together out of a palette of 4096 colors but it wasn't so bad. Take a look and join me on my re-visit drive on my own road I created 30 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_U9_t2PMI

Can you try it with a simpler one color car? Maybe it crashes cause of incompatible color palette?
Or has someone contact to the original developers?
https://www.retroisle.com/gamedetails.php?n=Stunts&id=27380
I only have contact to Bruce Dawson. But he worked on Test Drive 1 and Test Drive 2.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ 

Good evening. Thank you too.
If you want to have the whole WHDLoad Treasure then I would recommend you to use the WHDLoad Tool -->   WHDLoadTool08a.zip
http://ftp.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/~Uploads/mrv2k/WHDLoad%20Download%20Tool/
With this you can download the whole WHDLoad Collection with just a few clicks and save time to work on the custom car for the Amiga Version of 4D Sports Driving. 

Cool Daniel, very cool that you exmined the Amiga version a few years ago.
To have the latest hard disk installed games for Amiga I highly recommend whdload.
Here you find the complete installed and lastest versions.
4D Sports Driving is of course to find in 0-9.

https://ftp.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/Retroplay%20WHDLoad%20Packs/Commodore_Amiga_-_WHDLoad_-_Games/

Don't forget to check out Test Drive 1 and Test Drive 2 too.
For them use this setting to have best performance and no graphic glitches:
CPU 68020
Fastest possible

Chipset Full ECS
Chipset Extra A500
Cycle-excat (Full)
Cycle-exact (DMA/Memory accesses)
Wait for Blitter

Hello Daniel3D,
that would be awesome. If there is anything you need regarding Amiga Emulation or filetransfer or files from the Amiga Game. Then let it me know. Glad if I can help.

[Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray C2]

Awesome work but to complete the prior successor Test Drive II we would also need the

Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray C2
and
Shelby GT500 Cobra Mustang

form the Test Drive II Muscle Cars Pack.
Then it would be complete.

Thank you for your awesome cars !

Good morning Daniel3D,

thank you for your reply. All your custom cars you made are great and fun to watch and drive.
These cars with their own dashboard enrich the game very very much. So first of all thank you very much for your awesome work!
 
When I put one of your high quality cars to the Amiga directory the game tries to load your car but then crashes. So the game is intended to load custom cars.

If I could make a wish to the community I would just like to have one custom simple box car for the Amiga.
Just to learn and understand wich requirements the cars for 4D Sports Driving must fulfill to run in the game. I know the very first OCS Amigas 1000,500 had resolution of max. 640 × 256 Pixel (PAL), and could use 16 colors together out of a pallete of 4096 colors.

For the Amiga I use the PC Programs XnView and Irfanview with the all plugins extension to use iff Amiga files.

It would be really greatest if you and the community could help to analyse and understand how the cars work for the Amiga game because I have at least the same fun on the Amiga as with the DOS version and the game runs really nice with the correct setting or on a good PC with WinUAE and the correct setting like Amiga 1200, 68040, Fastest as possible or on a slower PC in the Emulator with JIT in WinUAE enabled and with this setting you get around 20 to 25FPS not the 10 FPS mentioned in the article.

I included in my HDF (HardDiskFile) the tool DirectoryOpus4.12. This is a file explorer wich makes it very comfortable and easy to exchange files.
If you want to copy files between PC <-> and the Amiga HDF you just have to include a hard disk directory in the WinUAE menu CD & Hard drives.

You find the files of the game in the directory SYS:Spiele/4DSportsDriving&MstrTrcks/data or DH0:Spiele/4DSportsDriving&MstrTrcks/data

PS: If you set the gearbox to Manual in the car selection then you can shift the gears with the Keys A for up, Y for down.
Since this is a WHDLoad (whdload.de) Game all progresses to the game will ony be saved if you exit the game in menu with the keys:
Prt.Screen on an real Amiga or on an WinUAE PC with the key on the number pad  * (x)!
Otherwise progresses and Track edits will not be saved!!

You can always access the WinUAE Emulator menu with F12!

Hello dreadnaut,

thank you very much for the welcome.
If you want you can check it out very very easy.
Just download my Workbench 1.3.3 with 4D Sports Driving WHDLoad Version included.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1juLxaepV6ZnrSZ4DjZEs5Wexlk7OWW6Q/view?usp=sharing
The only thing you need is WinUAE and a Kickstart Rom >= Kickstart 2.04 (striker01 @ hotmail . com).
If you don't want to install WinUAE you can download the ZIP version that runs without installing.
https://www.winuae.net/download/
It is really easy. You can use my attached uae config file (drag and drop in WinUAE and adjust the path for the HDF and kickstart files ) for a emulated full speed 68040 Amiga 1200.

Looks awesome Daniel3D. When can we expect your release to travel back to the future (past)?

[https://thecompany.pl/game/search/4]

Hello all and thank you for unlocking me to your awesome Stunts Forum.
I love the updates, new cars and improvements the community here is developing for this 30 years old game and I am curious about everything new for this great old Test Drive like Stunts driving game.
I really love most the new cars you guys are creating with all those details and working dashboard.
I know most of the tracks are working for the Amiga version too, but I would like to ask if someone could try to make a additional working car for the Amiga too?
If you want to try it your self just go here and download 4D Sports Driving:
https://thecompany.pl/game/search/4
I can also provide a quick setup and working Workbench 1.3.3 with WHDLoad and 4D Sports Driving installed
wich I can e-mail you if you are interessted in creating working additional cars to the AMIGA version of 4D Sports Driving.
Best regards,
Reini