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Anonymous Sat Jul 18 23:08:09 2020 No.6616207 [Reply] [Original]

what did they mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 00:01:55 2020 No.6616313 >>6616207 No drinking and driving, but blowjobs from hot blondes while driving is permitted?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 00:32:46 2020 No.6616364 >>6616207 >wear VR >drink tinnies What's your fucking boggle?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 09:58:24 2020 No.6617254 >>6616207 I wish someone would leak the source code to this game, its so comfy and needs fixing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:18:42 2020 No.6617309 >>6617254 this

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:36:45 2020 No.6617353 >>6617254 It's probably lost, like for most old games. Finding backups for sources this old is the exception, not the norm.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:43:07 2020 No.6617371 File: 89 KB, 640x480, the-need-for-speed.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6616207 PC "driving" games were utter shit before TNFS came along

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:47:45 2020 No.6617380 >>6617371 Hard Drivin on Atari ST was pretty sweet.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:21:04 2020 No.6617457

>>6617371

But Test Drive 3 was amazing because it was more of an open world like experience, which is why I'd love to see the original developer share the source and for people to work their magic on it.
Imagine hooking up your steering wheel and just driving around a gigantic flat shaded world, with a radio that plays midi music.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:26:28 2020 No.6617473 >>6617457 Yeah, NFS was just your run of the mill early 90s racing game, but with FMV background and 3D cars. Literally no different from Commodore 64 and Atari ST era racing games. TD3 was truly groundbreaking.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:30:29 2020 No.6617487
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>See that lighthouse? You can go to it!

That's not something most games of that era could say, 99% of the time you couldn't even go off the road.
Truly a groundbreaking game, but its legacy ruined by the terrible controls. (which might be worsened by having a too fast cpu)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:33:45 2020 No.6617504 >>6617457 lol because the original dev still has that lying around lmao

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:29:47 2020 No.6617664 File: 13 KB, 646x405, 14568568975690.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6617371 nah

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:30:40 2020 No.6617669 >>6616207 No drinking and driving? What did you THINK they meant?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:58:25 2020 No.6617917 File: 109 KB, 500x623, 49070972.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6617664 >flat shaded >pc speaker sound lol immersive

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 14:22:42 2020 No.6617974 >>6617917 stop acting like a /v/tard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 14:25:03 2020 No.6617984 >>6617504 lmao lmao sometimes they do lmao lol rofl

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 14:33:58 2020 No.6618013 Does anyone have any idea what CPU should be used for TD3 under emulation?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:06:23 2020 No.6618116 >>6618013 >highway speeds @ 5 fps vs. manhole cover launched by a nuclear blast @ 20+ fps 386_slow @ 3000 cycles in DOSBox but it'll play like ass no matter what you throw at it. TD3 was way ahead of it's time in a shitty way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:08:50 2020 No.6618124 >>6617917 >not playing with MT-32 or MUNT with pirated roms i shiggy diggy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:11:36 2020 No.6618129 >>6617487 Controls were always awful, played it on a 386-33

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:12:41 2020 No.6618134 >>6617984 Where is the proof? Any link to back that up? Most old game sources are gone.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:14:53 2020 No.6618141 >>6618116 Sounds rather like shitty programming to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:15:13 2020 No.6618143 >>6617669 why the qt pale blonde tho?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:18:41 2020 No.6618281 >>6618116 Thanks! I've used 286/16 in pcem. +- 5 fps but no warp speed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:35:03 2020 No.6618314 >>6618141 It is actually much worse than just shitty. Time and game world update is coupled with FPS. I do not know any other game like this made after 90s, even TD1 works fine on different CPU speeds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:36:50 2020 No.6618316 >>6617917 Total zoomer attitude. I was having immersive experiences with Elite on ZX Spectrum back in the 80s despite the wire frame 3D graphics and shitty framerate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:43:38 2020 No.6618330 >>6618316 This board is regularly polluted by zoomers stumbling in from /v/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:59:25 2020 No.6618363 >>6618134 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_later_released_source_code

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:03:20 2020 No.6618380 >>6618363 That doesn't make sense you spastic

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:46:13 2020 No.6618484

>>6617254
I'm not going to lie, at this point your best option is reverse engineering the retail game. It's a really small game and it's so old that the source code is very likely lost for good.
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO-Reverse_Engineering

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:52:47 2020 No.6618501 >>6618484 That takes really long, even with those small games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:58:51 2020 No.6618513 I've always liked the look of these flat shaded driving games, and the flight sims with that style are pretty neat too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 18:52:15 2020 No.6618661 >>6618380 >most old game sources are gone >show him that they're not >that don't make no sense you spastic!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 19:30:47 2020 No.6618725 I watched a couple of minutes of this on YT and it was a fucking nightmare. It looked utterly unplayable, and the open-world aspect of it was flimsy anyway.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 20:24:31 2020 No.6618842

>>6618501
It's still your best chance.

>>6618661
Not him. Do you know how many DOS games were made?
Only a handful of them got their source code released to the public under different licensed.
I agree that there are several games with their source code still preserved, but I don't think that too much people still have source code that old.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:40:32 2020 No.6619027 >>6617917 Maybe. But dat map editor tho.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:58:05 2020 No.6619106 >>6618842 Thing is, he made it seem like its impossible. yet I have the source code for DOS double dragon here. so while the chances are slim its not impossible. and it never hurts to dream.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:37:54 2020 No.6619382 >>6619106 >yet I have the source code for DOS double dragon here. Because it was included with every copy of the game. I don't think this happened with Test Drive III: The Passion. https://tcrf.net/Double_Dragon_II:_The_Revenge_(DOS)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 03:52:06 2020 No.6619984 >>6617371 > zoomer revisionist history no thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 03:53:15 2020 No.6619985 >>6617457 zoomers here too young to remember the greatness of the test drive series from accolade. they can't cope as per usual.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 04:26:46 2020 No.6620029 >>6618129 That might still be too fast. I played it on a 12MHz 286 to completion and never noticed that the controls were bad. They felt really similar to Stunts. Does anyone know what system it was designed for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 04:40:07 2020 No.6620053 File: 758 KB, 852x1200, c2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6616313 Tfw you buy a car that was in a deadly accident and you get no blowjob ghost for free

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 16:48:47 2020 No.6621595 >>6617487 I had Test Drive 1 on the ST and it took like half an hour to load and then ran at like 1 fps. If you deviated from the road even slightly you'd "crash" (screen freeze) and game over.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:04:44 2020 No.6621638 >>6621595 I had it too, aaah good times.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 18:11:05 2020 No.6621842
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It's a shame that most zoomers will never be able to understand why stuff like this was so groundbreaking, to be able to go off the road and actually see the planes landing in 3D was amazing.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 18:12:45 2020 No.6621847
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Or to be driving around and having to stop because a 3D train was coming by, and you could say fuck it actually follow it and see where it was going.
ever just explored in GTA5 and hitched a ride on the train? and to feel that excitement of having this certain degree of freedom? that's what Test Drive 3 did 30 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 18:14:31 2020 No.6621856 >>6616207 This shit has nothing on NFS

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 18:14:44 2020 No.6621858
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Or driving around and suddenly it starts to rain so you gotta turn on your wipers, or when you're driving around and it suddenly starts to snow.
driving around farms and taking a different road and suddenly you're near the ocean.
30 years ago.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 21:22:42 2020 No.6622387

>>6621856

It's not even the same kinda game man, NFS is a very straight racer. there are no train tracks/trains or planes/airstrips xwings in NFS.
that's like saying Ridge Racer 8 is better than GTA3 just because it looks nicer, they're nothing alike.
so give it a rest and stop comparing apples to oranges, and don't forget that NFS came out a whopping four years after TD3.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 22:41:47 2020 No.6622631 >>6621842 >>6621847 >>6621858 The Terminator was open world too and had more features than TD3. Shame the graphics and controls are more primitive and janky though. I wish they used the Test Drive engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix9iD64pV4

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:48:24 2020 No.6623605 >>6620029 Stunts works properly on 100MHz and maybe more CPU. TD3 could be much better if done properly. Also map scale is too small when compared to cars (ie turns are too sharp even on low speed).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:07:46 2020 No.6623634 >>6620029 >>6623605 It was fine on my Amiga 500. Luxury on A1200. http://hol.abime.net/2361

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:06:59 2020 No.6623917 >>6622631 That looks great, god I love the dithered flat polygon aesthetic so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqpK6_3G64&t=2m16s

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 16:13:57 2020 No.6624902 Does anyone have a manual for this game? I've tried replacementdocs, google and archive.org...

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