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skibz | 23 comments

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Desperately hoping they include the Fox & Hounds multiplayer mode, which is some of the best fun I've ever had with a LAN game.

My colleagues at The Digital Village (we made Starship Titanic) spend so much time on that one mode, we mentioned Stainless in the ST credits.


ddmf|parent|next|

Remember taking our pc's (along with 17"crt) to my pals house and playing fox and hounds until 5 or 6am then going to work.

purpleidea|parent|prev|next|

> we made Starship Titanic

oh neat! I was a voracious Douglas Adams reader and when this game came out, I bought a copy. I don't think I could ever get it working on my machine, and I eventually gave up and have probably lost the copy.

Is it worth buying a new one and giving it a go? (I'm on Linux-only these days.)


amatecha|root|parent|next|

looks like it's natively supported on Linux, and apparently runs even better running the Windows version under Proton: https://www.protondb.com/app/467290

yoz|root|parent|next|

Yup, and it's available on both Steam and GOG, usually pretty cheap. It's not running the original code underneath - some amazingly dedicated soul spent over a year porting its custom engine into ScummVM, and that's what the versions on sale now use.

Enderboi|root|parent|next|

And that dedicated soul (dreammaster) would really like to know who wrote the final star map puzzle, because there was sooo much matrix math his head almost exploded :)

imp0cat|parent|prev|next|

Yeah, this game was crazy on a LAN with friends.

CaptainFever|prev|next|

> Dethrace is released to the Public Domain. The documentation and function provided by Dethrace may only be utilized with assets provided by ownership of Carmageddon.

> The source code in this repository is for non-commerical use only. If you use the source code you may not charge others for access to it or any derivative work thereof.

I'm confused. Is the source code in this repository public domain, or not?


M95D|parent|next|

Dethrace is just the game engine. It needs maps, car models, textures, sounds, etc. from the orginal Carmageddon game, which is not Public Domain.

VonGuard|prev|next|

I was the USA champion in this game back when being an esports pro meant winning a Voodoo 2 for your efforts. Best driving game ever, and so much fun.

hnlmorg|parent|next|

I remember being epically disappointed about this game when I played it after original release.

Perhaps I was too quick to judge it? I might buy a copy and give it another try.


dang|prev|next|

Related:

Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game Carmageddon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711067 - April 2023 (38 comments)


klyrs|prev|next|

> Maybe they removed the "a" to be compatible with 8.3 filenames?

My hair feels gray


mdaniel|parent|next|

  start /D C:\DOCUME~2 GRAYHA~1.PPT
And then, on the other end of the spectrum, pour one out for the Steam morons who refuse to start on a case sensitive FS: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0395-A862-13F3-6E...

The very idea of having to keep around a .dmg formatted "Case Insensitive" is just ... what. the. hell.


mschuster91|root|parent|next|

That's because they don't want to deal with "Steam sucks!!!" posts from people who want to run some game that has hardcoded file paths assuming Windows behavior.

stuaxo|root|parent|next|

I totally get this.

A very long time ago I was trying to debug a flash website that had been created on a case insensitive Mac or Linux and was breaking on Linux without the source.


JKCalhoun|prev|next|

Enjoyed hours playing Carmageddon. Thanks, Patrick.

stonethrowaway|prev|next|

Now if we could have reversing of Death Rally!!

classichasclass|parent|next|

You're welcome:

https://github.com/urxp/drally


randomcarbloke|root|parent|next|

what about Quarantine?

klyrs|root|parent|prev|next|

That was fast. What about the 1989 classic Death Track?