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Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Apple II

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There was a BBC Master port in 2019, decent frame rate too!

https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-scr-beeb.html

Didn't know this game existed. Seems like it may have been inspiration to "Stunt Race FX" from SNES. Great game!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Race_FX

Geoff Crammond's work is kind of legendary in the industry :-)

Here's a great take on SCR: https://youtu.be/hcmSBwLKVOY?si=PPecndiH1E6NFfsq

I have very fond memories of playing that with a friend, first on the C64 then on the Amiga - with a serial cable for multiplayer connectivity!

Edit: Adding in this awesome analysis of Revs as well, by same YT author - https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo?si=3Y3YRn2i0QI7yaBJ . Great watch!

> "I have very fond memories of playing that with a friend, first on the C64 then on the Amiga - with a serial cable for multiplayer connectivity!"

Oh yeah! This game on Amiga networked for multiplayer was one of my first "LAN party" experiences on any sorta regular consistent basis. Me and my friends would have tournaments every weekend at one of our houses and man was it fun stuff!

Reminded me of Stunts, the game of my childhood. I just recently found out it STILL has an active community: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-remarkable-community-ar...

Stunts! was glorious freshman year of college. There were so many bugs we found, my friends and I started making "illegal" levels, where there was a small circular track but the real track was slightly off the path.

I remember one track that used all the bugs - you could drive on the water if you were mostly driving into the fence, you would get a weird burp in the air to make a slightly longer jump if you came at the right angle, etc.

Sadly, all the levels were lost in a tragic HD crash, but the memory lives on!

Same here, I spent so much time designing tracks and trying them out on lots of diffent cars.

Stunt Car Racer came out in 1989. Five years before this thing you mention.

Inspiration to not inspiration from (unless they edited)

> It took a few weeks of throwing away every non-essential feature and shuffling around what was left, but I just managed to squeeze the game into 48K RAM, which is the largest expansion the original Apple II would support.

64K with the add-on Language Card in slot 0:

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39956/Apple-II-Langu...

https://archive.org/details/a2alc

Previously Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269173

We used to play the dos port of this on a 386. However every so often it would ask us for a question to answer from the manual which we didn't have lol. Super cool you could build tracks, it was insanely impressive for 386.

There was actually a version of this for the Spectrum (48K) which I played a lot!

In retrospect that is probably the most impressive port, in the "there's no way this machine could handle this!" sense.

Kudos for explaining the colors in that hires mode! Peak idiosyncrasy :) apple ii is a c64 minus all custom asics.

This was one of the only 3D games that worked on my father's 7mhz Amiga 500 when I was a kid.

I can still hear the Amiga versions sound effects in my head.

i had it on my a500. mind blowing realism at the time. super fun game.

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