- LHA -lh5/-lh6/-lh7 decoding with CRC checks (disk 1 is mostly lh5)
- Real track palettes and set names, read from each track file's header
- Camaro, plus the caravan as a towable trailer (Caravans option)
- Drivers' names, menu pictures and the original .set values per car
- Original sound effects (IFF 8SVX) through a new sample mixer: engine
pitched with revs, tyre screech, crashes, backfire, horn, start beeps
- The original tune (OctaMED MMD1) through a new player; loudness tracks
OpenMPT's render through the whole song. Music option in the menu
- Title picture (IFF ILBM) at the top of the menu
- skids unpack and skids music commands
- Gate crossings now judged on each car's whole movement per frame,
including collision knocks; stalled computer cars are put back on the
line after 8 seconds
The executable's game logic (handling, AI) is still not decoded.
The build embeds assets/ and nothing reads the disk images any more.
desktop.ini only labelled the images in Windows Explorer, so it goes too.
skids extract --data <adfs> can still regenerate assets/ from a copy.
assets/ now holds every track as a 16-colour indexed PNG (its palette is
the track palette) plus a text file of lap gates and height map, and
every vehicle as a PNG sprite sheet plus a text file with its name and
handling (moved out of the code). The build embeds assets/ instead of
unpacking the ADFs, so the disks are no longer needed to build either.
skids extract converts original disks to assets and checks each file
reads back identically; benchmark results from the assets match the
disks exactly. Assets win over disk data with the same name, and
--data assets picks up edits without a rebuild. assets/README.md
describes how to edit everything.
build.rs unpacks the ADF images next to Cargo.toml (or in
SKIDS_EMBED_DIR) with the same ADF/LHA readers the game uses and packs
the files into the executable. At run time the built-in data loads
first and anything given with --data, or found next to the executable,
overrides it. The embed feature is on by default; builds without it
behave as before and ask for --data. CI now runs the binary from an
empty directory.
Cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) engine that plays the original
Amiga data straight from the ADF images:
- ADF (OFS/FFS), LHA and CrunchMania (CrM!/CrM2) readers
- Track decoding: 24 tracks of 1024x512 16-colour planar art, height
maps and lap gates on an isometric ground plane
- Vehicle decoding: 8 cars, 32 headings x 25 tilt frames of 64x32
AGA sprites
- Reconstructed handling, AI, race rules, menus and synthesised sound
(disk 1 with the executable, palettes and audio is not in the set)
- info/extract/bench/trace/render tools, format notes, CI builds
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