To everyone out there INSANE SOFTWARE is:-
Andrew Heap - Programmer/Graphics (AMIGA and PC).
Jared Quinert - Musician/Coder (PC).
Bradley Leffler - Graphics/Programmer
Vaughan Roberts - Programmer/Graphics (AMIGA) He is missing in Action, please contact me if you have his new details.
Are you interested???
To those out there who would like to join our little group please email me at aheap@users.on.net. We are interested in people who can deliver quality in there work. At the moment we have alot of work in the pipeline for the PD/Shareware scene, and so are interested in programming a number of games to get our group known. Be it AMIGA or PC.
Contact Details
Email me at : aheap@users.on.net or andrewinireland@hotmail.com if you wish to drop me line :)
Near Future Screech version details.
- Full Sound from original Amiga version.
Screech Version 0.73 Features Added.
- Better Menu system.
- More things to run over!
- More polished!
- Scoreboard functioning!
- Fixed numerous bugs.
Screech Version 0.48 Features Added.
- Full Option menu.
- End of Race results.
- More sounds, closer to amiga version.
- All the things from the original minus the fox!
- Cloud effects.
- Smoke effects.
- Crowd effects.
- Joystick control.
- Up to 4 players at one time!
- and alot more.....
- Direct X 7 compatiable
Screech Version 0.44a Features Added.
- Added more effects for the angel
- fixed wheel death animation
- cleaned up some code that may of caused some crashes.
- Track 5 added.
Screech Version 0.43a
- Added Track 4 to the raceable list.
Screech Version 0.42
- FOUND THE BUG. One that would cause crashes when you pressed fire to start. Fixed.
- Tracks 2 - 4 now have position display enabled. You now know what position you are on the track.
- Zone Code is finally done.
- Made the collision code more forgiving and fixed up a couple of bugs in it.
- Fixed Collisions so they are more friendly too ALL.
Screech Version 0.40
- Added Menu options for the main menu. Joystick and keybaord navigate the menus.
- Selectable control type for player.
- Menu upgrade.
- Code cleaned up regarding Control configs. Should be able to config the game to your liking in the next version.
- Fixed up debugging code so that it logs better!
Screech Version 0.39
- Added Joypad SUPPORT. THis is very early but you can race with the joypad. Only works in race at the moment!
- Cleaned up some issues with Debug version. Config is now saved in registry rather than an ini file.
- Zone code has received an update. In the next version of the game there will be lap counters on all tracks.
- Found Direct 3D was failing to release some Vertex Buffers.
Screech Version 0.37
- Added Cloud Effects for Test!
- Added Appearance Flash into the game!
- Added Sarah Jackson to the list of names...I think that was one :)
- Clean up...
Screech Version 0.36 Features Added.
- Tracks 2 - 3 were enabled. But you wont get lap counters working on these!
- Fixed Player names so you now where you are in the race.
Screech Version 0.35
- Fixed Over and under passes so that they now are working on track 3.
- More Sounds!
Screech Version 0.20 Features Added.
- Start sequence! (Press space to get sequence going!)
- Fixed Frame issue (Windows dependent - if size of tool bar was not 18 then game would not display gfx)
- 3 tracks are available in test mode.
- Drawing order code added, over and underpasses now work.
- Miscellaenious bugs fixed.
- Position Displays are now working! (flashing number above car!)
- Some clean up to help with crashes when exiting program (no longer crashes)
- Added some new initialisation code that kills some glitches in game.
- Menu added, allowing for selection of tracks. 4 & 5 aren't available yet!
- Movement code has been changed completely. Much smooooother!
Screech Version 0.16 Features Added.
- Moving towards time based framerates.
- Improved skidding code.
- Sound! - Engine sound is in there! WOW!
- Menu sub system now appears. So you now have a chance to play.
- Screech now runs properly from the directory that it is put in (as long as the data folders are there!)
- Water and Oil on track.
- Things to run over on the track! :) (Maybe)
Screech Version 0.14 Features.
- Test Foreground objects to race under. (Currently some objects are drawn on the track already)
- Skid marks
- Hardware scanning to select which gfx card to be used.
Screech Preview
- Fullscreen switch on and off.
- Alt-F4 closes game down.
- Collisions working
- Skidding Working
- Lap Counter Working
- Race as one of the cars.
- Cars of different colours.
- Highlighting of Leaders.
- Config settings saved in ini file.
In the screenshots section, there are some preview screens of what I did on the AMIGA with Screech, it will at the least have this look but with palette of 65536 colours rather than 32 I will able to make it look SO much better looking. If you are a PC owner and would like to know more or are just interested in the game then EMAIL me at screech@sub.net.au, the more I know people are interested in the game then the more I will work on the game.
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