Top News im September 2021

Stunt Car Racer gets an STE version (11.09.2021 - 00:12 Uhr)

Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car Racer is surely one of the most original racing games ever. The two cars are on a track several metres high. By the standards of the time, both the frame rate and the graphics (filled vector graphics) were fine. Two computers can be connected via null modem cable, which also works across systems, at least with the ST and Amiga versions. Despite its success, the game remained without a successor and the 16-bit versions of the time remained the best technical versions of the game.

Jonathan Thomas (Lotus STE) wonders if this game could be further improved with the hardware features of the STE, such as using the blitter to draw polygons faster. Should Stunt Car Racer be as high quality a work as Lotus STE, ST(E) gamers can look forward to an update with many small and large improvements.

(mj)

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TTF-GDOS version 2.3 released (18.09.2021 - 22:34 Uhr)

After a twenty-year break, there is an update for TTF-GDOS, a free GDOS replacement that works with TTF (TrueType Fonts). Apart from some bug fixes and optimisations, the biggest change is the included program ttf2gem, which converts TrueType fonts into GEM fonts.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ttf-gdos/

(mj)

Stunt Car Racer gets an STE version (11.09.2021 - 00:12 Uhr)

Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car Racer is surely one of the most original racing games ever. The two cars are on a track several metres high. By the standards of the time, both the frame rate and the graphics (filled vector graphics) were fine. Two computers can be connected via null modem cable, which also works across systems, at least with the ST and Amiga versions. Despite its success, the game remained without a successor and the 16-bit versions of the time remained the best technical versions of the game.

Jonathan Thomas (Lotus STE) wonders if this game could be further improved with the hardware features of the STE, such as using the blitter to draw polygons faster. Should Stunt Car Racer be as high quality a work as Lotus STE, ST(E) gamers can look forward to an update with many small and large improvements.

(mj)

zeST, new FPGA project (10.09.2021 - 23:05 Uhr)

Not all FPGAs are the same and an existing core must first be ported to another FPGA family. With the zeST project, the Xilinx Zync-7000 family now has the pleasure of an ST/E replica. The CPU replication is based on the free fx68k implementation of the 68000. zeST still lacks a comfortable user interface; it is booted via a setup program using Linux.

Developer François Galea uses the project to learn VHDL. He wants to inform about progress on Twitter.

The Zync-7000 family combines an FPGA chip with a dual-core 32-bit ARM CPU and various hardware controllers.

(mj)