Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
github.com165 points by fidotron 2 days ago
165 points by fidotron 2 days ago
The author of this project blogged about his experience making it the whole time. It’s a pretty entertaining read: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/search/label/cannonball
A nice origin story http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2009/08/outrun-decompilation...
OutRun on Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/@reassembler68k
This is great.
If you're into these retro games there's a couple of others that have been fun:
Ultimate Stunts: https://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
Descent 3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3 (if you own the original, or on other platforms if you want to buy)
OpenRCT2 is amazing as well. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 was an absurdly entertaining game, and this wrapper makes it even better.
The top end of OutRut type tech was Power Drift and Rail Chase
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge in case the name is lost on anyone.
It's probably more a reference to The Cannonball Run film[1], which the designer of Out Run mentioned[2] inspired the original game.
If anyone has an M1 binary…