Which game would you like to see written?

I’m resurrecting this old thread, as it looks like someone has written an Open Source game engine for Sega’s 3D Racing game, Out Run.

There’s now a RISC OS port. You can download it from here. At least a RPi 2 is recommended. Even then you’ll need to change the settings to avoid stuttering sound.

There’s now a RISC OS port.

OMG!!!!!!
Out Run on RISC OS. Dreams do come true.
Just tried it on my RPCEmu 0.8.13 and it works like a charm. A bit slow on my PC, but the fact that I can play it native is brilliant achievement.
Thank you ever so much.

update: I think it would also be a good way to demonstrate RISC OS at shows etc. Plenty of people finds racing games fun.

OMG!!!!!!

;-) The last time I played that was on the SS Canberra, I think. The menu is TREACLE slow, but once you’re in the game, it is playable; even on a Pi1 if you set 1X scale and 30fps. Also, I have turned the sound off (doesn’t work, stutters like crazy) and doing that allows DigitalCD to carry on playing a streaming radio station for some real radio music.

The keys are a bit odd: 1 to Select, 5 to insert a coin (I think), Left/Right to steer (with some sort of delay), Z to accelerate, X to brake, SPACE to change gears, and Shift to change the ‘view’.

After all these years, 96.4 The Eagle (the station I used to listen to all the time) is now able to be streamed outside the UK. So I was listening to it, and amusingly the rush hour traffic in Guildford still sucks and The Ripley Bypass (sp?) is still a disaster zone… Not that I would know, I preferred to take the train, so I usually went to Woking or Aldershot instead as it was on a direct line.

Plenty of people finds racing games fun.

Back in the Archimedes days, we had E-Type which was a lot like Outrun, complete with the brief flash of panties upon crashing.

Outrun – gotta love the absymal physics where the car rolls over and over yet the male driver and obligatory female passenger are ejected from the car at some 200kph and somehow manage to be little more than shaken and not stirred, and definitely not puréed…

The last time I played that was on the SS Canberra

Cruise ship for educational cruises. Had a head teacher in the period up to 1977/8 (approx) by the name of Harris – his next job was a secondary school¹ pretty much as far from the sea² as you can get when in the UK.
All a bit pre-acorn

¹ I’d left before then.^3
2 OK, Coventry isn’t totally central
³ Whether it was my absence or his presence the school was run down and shut in just a few years and the site is now a business park.