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Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving
An anonymous reader points out a project called Drivey, which he describes as "a dark and fascinating example of 2.xD [not quite 3d] graphical rendering. This tiny, free [as in beer] demo gives you an amazingly compelling driving experience. To quote the author, 'It was conceived as a driving simulator for old farts like myself, who are kind of nostalgic for the "old days" [ca. 1985] but are not so thick as to believe that the games from the 80s were actually in any way superior to the games we play today.' Even works fine under WINE!"
Rename the ".exe" to ".scr", right click on the file and select "Intall". You now have a Drivey screensaver;)
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If you have driven halfway through a lightpole so that you can't see the top or the bottom, where would you draw it? Where you last saw it? When would you stop drawing it?
The problem is that it's trying to show 3 dimensions with only 2 dimensional objects. Here's another problem with a similar issue. Imagine a very flat wall. Take a large light source like the sun and bring it to a position above and behind the wall, now the wall face is dark and a long shadow is cast. Now move the light source to the front of the wall. The wall is lit up and no shadow is cast by the wall. Now slowly move the light source up directly over the edge of the wall. Get to the point just before a shadow would appear. Should the wall be lit? Should it be dark? Should half of it be lit?
Confirmed, it does not work with crossover office :(
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It's not really a game. Minimally interactive demo really...
Arrow/WASD keys control steering and accel/brake, but the car drives itself to stay on the road so you really can't steer. 1-4 selects a road/scene, C adds 8 cars, K toggles palette rotation.
With palette rotation this would almost make a good screensaver...
=Smidge=
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It is really good!
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
But this looks rubbish. There are far better free driving games on the net, like Racer for instance. Win/Lin/Mac.
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Professor of Mathematics
For anyone else reading this and that is not clicking through, the parent is not referring to the demo in question, but rather a game written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen to show off the capabilities of Basic and the IBM PC. Wikipedia entry (pops).
Try running a virus on Wine ..
.. this is indeed an excellent demo - I wonder if I can run it using libaa :)
You'll realize that all the "standard" offsets most viruses use for exploiting buffer overflows are almost always not valid in Wine.
Also this has been featured on tucows.com
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there is a remake of stunts in the making: http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/index.php?page=0&lang =en
Enjoy!
If you read help (F1), F5 toggles auto drive.
For added bonus, hold CTRL to make things really fast and SHIFT to slow to a crawl.
Rediculous is ridiculous!
Try hitting different keys and numbers... lots of different variations built into his demo...
Here's a link to the creator's blog where he performs a screencast of him playing Drivey.
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Coral cache: http://drivey.com.nyud.net:8090/
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theres a
mirror in mirrordot
i'm trying to download the link the exe and extract the binary data from the mirror dot link (mirrordot as archived it as html and added banners to the top).
It seems there a few undocumented keys in Drivey:
T - toggle title
Space - manual brake (no oversteer though!)
V,B - adjust brightness
I haven't seen such a neat demo for a long time. Can't wait for the next release.
Rediculous is ridiculous!
- Left, Right, Up, Down: Steer & Accelerate/Brake
- A, D, W, S: Same as above, respectively
- T: Toggle Info
- G: Grey Scale
- H: display random palette
- K: palette cycle (Pretty cool)
- C: adds Other Cars (8 at a time)
- N/M: Zoom in/out
- F1: Shows all key functions on Screen
- F2: Toggle WireFrame
- F3: Toggle Dashboard
- F4: Show Rear View
- F5: Toggle Manual Control
- F6: Toggle Sound
- F7: Change Sky Gradient
- F11: Toggle Full Screen
Play around with it!Note: you can seriously slow down the game by hitting C a whole bunch of times.
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."
I am quite certain that the show in question was on Global TV, not CITY-TV. There was also a 'night drives' show, where the camera was on a car that would drive through the streets of Toronto late at night.
And - because the entire production, crew, station, not to mention the music and the performers, were all Canadian, Global racked up serious CanCon points for that show!
This is not off topic - this really does look like that show!!