Use the original handling, walls and projection from the executable

Decoded from SKIDMARKS_CD32's machine code:

- Car physics: the per-frame engine/grip/steering update, gravity and
  jumps, the hill effect on the throttle, and body tilt. Replaces the
  reconstructed handling model.
- The meaning of every .set value (separate drag, grip and power for
  human and computer drivers; steering, gravity, tow hitch), and the
  six handling presets, offered by a new Handling menu option.
- Walls: the road edges are quadratic B-splines through the gates'
  ends. They match the painted road edges.
- The real projection, which lifts points by their height; the height
  map is indexed by world cells, not screen pixels.
- Tracks have one more gate than the stored count: the last gate was
  being dropped on every track.

Computer drivers now follow the road between the walls and steer like
the original's. Vehicle assets store the values as `handling`; older
files still load. Docs describe the decoded logic.
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# Skids track TRACK1-3. Lines starting with # are comments.
#
# The picture is track.png: 1024x512, 16 colours. Its palette is the
# track's palette. Colours 8-15 are road (full grip), 0-7 are scenery.
# track's palette. Colours 8-15 are road, 0-7 are scenery (dusty).
#
# gate x1 y1 x2 y2: lap gates in race order, in world units. Gate 0 is
# the start/finish line; the grid forms up behind it. World to picture:
# picture x = wx - wy + 512, picture y = (wx + wy) * 31/64 - 252
# the start/finish line; the grid forms up behind it. The gates' ends
# also shape the walls: each edge of the road is a smooth curve
# through the matching ends of the gates. World to picture, for a
# point at height z (pixels):
# picture x = wx - wy + 512, picture y = (wx + wy) / 2 - 156 - z
gate 754 375 827.25 340
gate 686.25 304.25 692.875 209.25
gate 614.375 275.875 608.6875 199.875
@@ -30,6 +33,7 @@ gate 376.5 563.5 316.5 653.5
gate 487.75 549.25 491.5 648.5
gate 708 556 686.5 649.5
gate 766.5 529.5 861 616.5
gate 776 448.5 882.625 465.75
# Name of the set of tracks this one belongs to, shown in the menu.
set Racing In The Name Of
@@ -38,8 +42,8 @@ set Racing In The Name Of
start 608 305
flags 0
# height: 64 rows of 64 values, ground height x 256. Each value covers
# 16x8 pixels of the picture.
# height: 64 rows (world y) of 64 values (world x), ground height in
# pixels x 64. Each value covers 16 x 16 world units.
height
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