Demo Version 1.1 New version of executables featuring V1.1 Upgrade XTreme Racing Demo -------------------- What is XTreme Racing ----------------------- XTreme Racing is a superb racing game from Silltunna Software/Black Magic for all AGA Amigas. Here are some of its features according to the cool looking game box : Fast & frantic racing action from Black Magic (the creators of Gloom) and Silltunna Software. Experience up to 8-PLAYER mayhem - win the race by whatever means fair or foul. Out-race, out-gun & out-think your opponents, pick-up the cash bonuses & upgrade your car. XTreme Racing is the funniest, fastest and most intense 3D racing game to hit the Amiga - Get ready for an XTreme Racing experience!!! Features ======== o High-speed 3D texture mapped graphics, surpassing anything seen on the Amiga before! o 300 plus colours on-screen from a 24-bit palette o Multiple screen sizes & resolutions - up to full screen, 1x1 pixels o Enhanced for Fast RAM/Accelerators (020/030/040) o Up to 8-Player split-screen, null modem & modem play o Over 20 different tracks o Several distinct racing venues, each with a different graphical style o Extra track features include Jumps, curbs and the ability to squash cars! o 8 different vehicles to drive, like the Ferrari F40, Lotus, Pick-up, etc... o Varied game-play modes - including Cup games, Grand Prix, Death-Match, Head-to-Head o Multiple weapon pick-ups & vehicle enhancements, inluding homing missiles, mines, grenades, time-delay bombs, banana skins, sheep!!, etc... o Several secret features & levels, including Lemming splat & Sheep Racing! o Extra Camera - can be placed anywhere, including on other cars and on the back of your car, and on the track etc.... Includes Zoom modes, rotate modes, Tracking modes o Choice of in-game soundtracks o Fully saveable set-up & screen preferances & lap/race times o Hard drive installable o Full support for CD32 joypad and 2 button joysticks. All controls redefinable to suit your tastes! o Run from WB, quit back to WB (if enough ram available) o No really annoying protection schemes. We are trusting you to make sure everyone buys this game. Not everyone will, but pressurise your friends if they like it and have a pirate version/your version SO WHATS DIFFERENT IN THE MAIN GAME ----------------------------------- This demo version only contains a single track and can only be played on 2 players as opposed to up to 8 using the serial mode on the full game, 4 players per machine. This version also does not include the sheep modes. Finally, you cannot save out best laps or screen options in the demo version. Apart from that, we have tried not to cut the game down so that you can get a good idea what it is like. Here are some snippets from the manual which should explain one or two things! CREDITS Alex Amsel : 3D Programming and Game Code Richard Whittall : Vast amounts of Graphics, and Chief of Track Designs Ltd. Mark Fitt : Additional Code, Editor code, Samples, Eater of Ring Doughnuts Simon Speight & Tony Farrell : The Music Nigel Critten : Misc gfx Thomas Schwarz: Compression Routines Game Design : Alex 'Wolves lost again' Amsel and Richard 'Pounding Musical Score' Whittall Thanks to Bullfrog Productions Limited for providing samples of the Magic Carpet Soundtrack. XTreme Racing is Copyright © 1995 Silltunna Software Limited. Disclaimer ---------- If your system is damaged in any way by running or installing this software then Silltunna Software cannot be held responsible. Use at your own risk. Not that we have had any problems. REQUIREMENTS This game requires an AGA Amiga (A1200 or A4000), with at least 2 megs of Ram. A hard drive is recommended but is not necessary to play the game. Users with accelerator boards or extra memory will find that the game will adjust its options to suit your machine. If you only have 2 megs of ram we recommend that you do not run this game from Workbench. We have included a LapTime utility for owners of the FULL game. [ There have been one or two minor problems on this demo, but the full version is very stable, rest assured! ] THE AIM OF THE GAME Its all fairly obvious, so we will leave it up to you to discover how the weapons work. We suggest you redefine the controls since noone ever agrees the best ones! CD32 joypads are fully supported both in this demo and in the full game. IN-GAME OPTIONS You can change various options whilst actually playing the game. Simply press the 'ESC' key , or the CD32 Play/Pause button, and a menu will appear. You can then use the joystick or cursor keys to select an option. Selecting the top option will take you onto the next menu. Main Options RESUME GAME - Return to game. Pressing the 'ESC' key a second time will have the same affect EXIT - Quit the game without finishing Screen Options 1 CAMERA UP/DOWN - Using this option you may raise or lower your view of the track. HORIZON UP/DOWN - By adjusting the horizon you can often see much more of the track. However, slower machines will be slowed down by over use of this option. FPS RATE (xx) - The number in brackets is the current frame rate. You may restrict the frame rate by clicking on this option. SCREEN MODE - This option allows you to switch between the standard "blitter" screen mode, or the enhanced "C2P" screen mode (machines with Fast mem only) Screen Options 2 PIXEL WIDTH - You may adjust the pixel width to either 1 or 2. This is not available on all screen modes. PIXEL HEIGHT - You may also adjust the pixel height to either 1 or 2. Users with only 2 megs of ram may find that they can only use 1 pixel height with a smaller screen. Adjusting the pixel details changes the overall detail level of the graphics. SCREEN WIDTH - You may adjust the screen width if you wish. Smaller widths will increase the speed of the game. SCREEN HEIGHT - You may also adjust the screen height. Again, smaller screen heights will mean the game is faster. Screen Options 3 BACKGROUND ON/OFF - Turning the background off can increase the speed of the game substantially DUST OPTIONS - You may turn the dust off, have it on your car, or on all cars. Having it on all cars obviously looks best, but it may slow the game down on slower machines. LAP TIMES - The play area can feel a little cramped if you are on a small screen, so you may turn the lap time information off if you wish DITHERING ON/OFF - On some screen modes the pixels may look a little blocky. By turning dithering on the game may look better, especially on a TV. Camera Options Just for you we added a camera which you can use to watch your opponents, usually just before you shoot a homing missile at them. The camera can be placed directly on a car or, in tracking mode, the view will come from various cameras on the track itself. If the camera is actually on the car then you may use the Zoom and Rotate functions as well. One of the most useful things about the camera is that you may use it as a reverse view. To enable this to be set up quickly simply turn the camera on, and press fire while Zoom or Rotate is selected. You may need to press Fire a second time. The method can also be used to reset the camera to its normal position quickly. Note: Camera options are not available on 4 player mode. CAMERA SWITCH - Clicking here will cycle through the available camera modes, or turn it off ROTATE CAMERA - Rotate the camera left or right ZOOM CAMERA - Zoom the camera towards or away from the car NEXT/PREV CAR - From here you can select whichever car you want the camera to be focusing on KEYBOARD SHORT-CUTS F1 - Camera - Focus on previous car F2 - Camera - Focus on next car F3 - Switch between No Camera/Fixed Camera/Tracking Camera Modes F4 - Turn the background On/Off F5 - Switch between Blitter/C2P Screen Modes F6 - Change Screen Height F7 - Car Camera Down F8 - Car Camera Up F9 - Horizon Down F10 - Horizon up -/+ Change screen width Del - 1/2 pixel widths Help - 1/2 pixel heights Cursor Keys - Rotate/Zoom camera SO MANY OPTIONS, WHAT DO I DO? As you can see, by altering various options you can speed up the game, or increase the detail level and slow the game down. Since we have written this game to work well on a huge variety of machines we will simply leave it up to you to chose the options that suit you best. A different set of options will be stored for every possible screen height and combination of players on-screen. At first it may take a few minutes to set up, but on the full version you can save these options and never need touch them again. SILLTUNNA SOFTWARE? Who are they? And where did that silly name come from? We are...... Alex Amsel - 'Specialist Amiga programmer with Attitude', or at least that's what my business card says. In reality, I'm a complete nutter Industrial music freak and also a mad Wolves fan. In fact, this game was written beneath a backdrop of managers being sacked, and much Banks' drinking by me and everyone I know in Wolverhampton. Richard Whittall - The man with the 'static' fingers - let him near your electrical equipment at your peril! Has been know to do large amounts of graphics, game design and the odd-bit of playtesting - a founder member (along with Mark Fitt) of the 'Anti-Wolves' club. Responsible for all the 'gory' bits too! Mark Fitt - A mad cockney who can't understand our intelligent Midland accents. Mind you, we can't understand him either. Communication is difficult, but goes something like ' l8er doodz, ttyl m8ey, doughnut doughnut.' A prize for anyone who can understand this programmer and part-time musician. He especially loves front-ends. 'Silltunna' is Swedish for 'Barrel for Herrings', or something along those lines. And no, you can't ask why! We are always on the look out for any programmers or artists, especially people with experience with 3D, and if you have something to show us on the Amiga or PC then send it to : (Demos) Alex Amsel Silltunna Software The Grange Stables Radway WARKS CV35 0UE Tel : 01295 678 173 Email : alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (email is preferred incidently) All work will be treated in strictest confidence and we virtually guarantee a reply. Be warned, we tend to be very honest so don't send any sub standard work! Started at the end of July 1995 and finished in December 1995 this must be one of the quickest games of its type written in recent years. We have had almost no days off in that time and so are probably enjoying a holiday in deepest Birmingham at this very moment. We hope you enjoy what we have worked so hard to produce. Please don't pirate this game, or we simply won't be able to work on the Amiga any more. And besides, we won't send you a Christmas card. So there. We would like to thank many people who have aided in completing this game, but special thanks go to : Black Magic - And Mark Sibly in particular for allowing us to release this game under the excellent Black Magic label. We strongly suggest you go out and buy Gloom Deluxe, Guardian & Blitz Basic immediately. What are you waiting for?! Ted Bailey - What can we say Ted? Tester Extraordinaire. All round Northerner. Peter McGavin - The best c2p routines in existance Juergen Fischer - For proving that c2p doesn't have to be slow on all machines All our testers : Greebo, Simon Speight, Nigel Critten, Gareth Tickner, Ralph B. Claire Hill - For keeping Rich sane(ish) Dominic Bowen - For the excellent Logo Design Stefan Hauser - keep up the good work ID Software - In the vain hope that we can do the Amiga Quake conversion ;) Everyone on comp.sys.amiga.games/misc, and everyone on IRC ! Also thanks to: Phil Darryl, Tara Mawby, Mike & Sandra, Nick Curtis et al, everyone I knew from Exeter, Anil Reddy, Ash Hogg, Louise & Ali, Louisa, Sally & John, and everyone involved with Wolves or the Amiga (except for pirates). and...Finally!... Special thanks to all our families who helped support us while developing XTreme. This is dedicated to the late Frederick Davies, who is dearly missed.