The engine sound has been created by project team member Junosix - possibly from the BBC sound effects archive.

@@gridleaderretro Ok, very nice engine sound, really adds to the game!

This could potentially be ported to the Jaguar. However, everybody I've spoken to so far is adamant that a paid-for physical release should come first, whereas I want the game to be available as a free ROM image from day 1.

@@gridleaderretro Given the work put in, it would only be fair for you to see some of the fruits of your labor. Concerning the Jaguar you could work with Cyrano Jones from Atari Ages to adapt the code for the Atari Fauve and market it in boxes. Jaguar fans like me will buy it, even though it's available for free on the Atari ST. In any case, the game looks general. Does it run on a basic ST or is an STE required? It's a good job!

@@tylerdurden7646 Thanks. I'd like to see the game on Jaguar but it would also be very important to me that it makes good use of the Jaguar hardware. I don't feel that a direct ST port would be enough in this case (even if the Jaguar-owning demographic might disagree). The source will be made available shortly after the STE version is released, so theoretically anybody could attempt a port to Jaguar without my involvement. The ST version is STE-only by the way - I don't believe the STFM could do this feature set at this framerate.

@@gridleaderretroI read that the blitter on the STE is difficult to set up for the CPU. The Jaguar blitter forces the CPU to shuffle 16bit words around. Something which in times of cheap registers had no priority on JRISC. Feels like Flare developed the Blitter for ARM with its forced barrel shift in every instruction. Or this CPU in MortalKombat. I think it is pure 16bit. So I may dislike ObjectProcessor quite a lot, but here it is the better option.

This is going to be amazing. Your masterpiece so far. My only request is that you provide as way to compensate you somehow, even if you drop them ROM for free. Didn't have to be money, but I feel we of the ST community owe you something for having built this.

I believe it's either this or the 50 fps. And since AFAIK the goal from the start was getting the 50 fps...

Spot on @rafaellima83 :)

​@@gridleaderretro We talked briefly through Twitter about this project, but I was using my game studio account, Banana Bytes. Dunno if you going to remember. I never owned any Atari computers, I just had (still have) an Amiga and that constant complain of "Lazy ST ports" etc etc. Now I'd love to have this one on the Amiga :D It doesn't just looks like a technical feat, but also looks to be pretty fun to play. Great job :)

Thank you! I am indeed Jonathan. Don't forget to look at Pole Position for the STE if you've not yet seen it - that was my first prod for the Atari STE.

@ yeas, I know your Pole Position conversion too, great one! I’m gonna play it today too, thanks man.

I have no plans for hills in this game. Maybe in a future game, although it might mean dropping the 50fps framerate to 25fps.

@gridleaderretro ok, merci en tout cas de travailler sur le STE, machine jamais exploitée à 100% depui qu'elle a été produite 😉

Yes - that was very much one of my objectives in creating this game ... to prove that the ST could do a racing game that wouldn't look out of place in the arcades :)

STE is on top. :)

No plans for an STFM version I'm afraid :(

Thanks! Atarimania hosts 4 different versions of the game. The earliest (labelled "public alpha") should work on plain ST - I think all others are STE only. No idea if it works on Falcon, sorry!

Thanks - that's the best feedback I could hope for!

Yep, this is certainly heavily inspired by WEC :) I don't plan to go all the way though - the 50fps framerate is the thing I'm really trying to show off here.

More recent videos are available :)

Thanks! 50fps on these old platforms looks rather lovely don't you think?

I needed some excuse to use the STE's hardware scrolling :)

Thanks!

Agreed - this would make a great RoadBlasters engine!

@@gridleaderretro also Hang-on

Thank you! Cheers!

Yes, although this is a very simplified engine (no hills and no varying road width) compared to Out Run. Basically, everything is super-specialised to allow the primary objective, which is the 50fps framerate.

Because the primary objective of this game is to run at 50 frames per second, and there's barely enough power there to run it with a flat road.

Thanks!

You will hopefully be playing it in early December :)