fastpop72,
so - I spent the past 2 days working on final lap, suzuka, fourtrax, got them all mostly working fine. But then I remembered the catch with these games:
1: they all use the same "engine", or mostly the same w/simple changes
2: you're not going to play them long, because there are _no_ computer opponents. Sure, you'll see a couple pass you when the race starts if you wait long enough, but; they don't think, they go 1/10th of the speed of anyone else, and eventually they just disappear altogether.
These games were meant for 1 thing only: linked arcade machines. I remember in the late 90s at the big "arcade" places, they'd have 4-6 of these machines linked together, an announcer guy with a mic would pull in people to play, and start all the games at the same time, and basically you just race against the other human players at the arcade.
It probably won't be committed to the repo until I cleanup the code a bit (probably between now and monday). I feel like I completely wasted a good 2 days here, so going to take a nice break and work on something else for now.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, one of the best features is that you're always the winner, even if you don't move.
best regards,
- dink
