Csabo's 1K Racer ---------------- A game in 1024 bytes for the Commodore C16 or Plus/4. Written by Csaba Pankaczy aka Csabo/LOD. Finished 2002.09.15 - submitted for the 2002 1K GameCompo. Description: ------------ You control a car over a closed course. Your goal is to keep going as long as you can. Don't hit anything! After you reach the starting lines, you receive an extra car for each lap. Controls: --------- Cursor Up: Steer car up. Cursor Down: Steer car down. (after game over) Press Run/Stop to start a new game. Requirements: ------------- Any Commodore C16 or Plus/4 (or an emulator of course). This game works only with PAL systems. This software runs fine on all known Plus/4 emulators. Technical details: ------------------ This was the first game I started for the compo. I wanted to write a racer game, but I didn't want the track to be random. I'm pleased with the track, I managed to put in rivers, trees, a few buildings, and an overall challenging course. What's good: it's soft-scrolling (vs. character scrolling). Since the Plus/4 doesn't have sprites, I had to create all 8 phases of the car. Also, the scrolling has variable speeds from 0-20 (although you only speed up to 11). I wanted to increase the replay value by adding 'gas', which would continually decrease, and picking up 'gas cans' would replenish it. Unfortunately it didn't fit... Still I believe a player would be moderately interested to play this game. Score is kept, and one could play over and over to beat their own best. The development time was lots and lots of afternoons and evenings spread over about 3 months. The code is very optimised, and it went through lots of testing. This game is believed to be bug-free. Cheats/etc: ----------- Use "POKE 4371, 48+" to increase the number of initial cars. should be between 1-9, although higher numbers will work as well (it won't look good). Default is 3. Use "POKE 4169, 169 : POKE 4170, 0" for invulnerability cheat. This makes the game kind of pointless, and it can also cause the game to crash. To restart after reset, type "SYS 4242".