Faster - Atari STE
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025
- In this video, Faster, released in 2024 for the Atari STE by Retro Racing.
Released at Sillyventure 2024 WE, 5-8 December 2024, Faster is a silky-smooth 2.5D racing game built using modern tools, techniques and knowledge.
It features:
50 frames per second racing action on a stock 8MHz Atari STE
15+ large, full-colour sprites on screen drawn by Blitter chip
30+ colours on screen from enhanced STE palette
Full 24 hour day/night cycle
Simultaneous digital engine noise, sound effects and YM soundtrack
Screen shaking effect courtesy of STE hardware scrolling
This game is freeware, the only thing the programmers ask is that you tell the world about it through tweets, blog posts, RUclips reviews, word of mouth etc, so that everybody knows that the Atari STE is actually quite good after all!
Please follow @RetroRacing on Twitter/X for further updates.
System Requirements:
Atari STE (not compatible with STFM, even if a Blitter is installed)
1 Megabyte RAM or more
Atari TOS or EmuTOS (note that Atari TOS 2.* requires 2 megabytes RAM)
Double-sided floppy drive (or equivalent - e.g. Gotek)
Joystick in port 1
How to play:
Plug digital joystick into port 1 (note: Jagpad currently not supported)
Insert FASTER disk (or disk image), switch on/reset STE and wait for title screen (with 'Press Fire' prompt)
Press fire to start game
Controls are up/fire to accelerate, down to brake, left and right to steer
Drive for as long as possible before running out of time.
Credits:
Code: Chicane (aka @RetroRacing, aka Jonathan Thomas)
Music: Dma-sc
SFX/Mixer enhancement: Junosix
Additional art: Karl Morris, Scott Elkington
YM playback: Zerkman
Original PCM mixer: Masteries
Random technical buzzwords :)
Mix of C and hand-optimised 68k code
Compiled blitter sprites
Dirty rectangles
Bitplane tricks
Software audio mixing
Ruthless elimination of MULs and DIVs
Faster is amazing, a pleasure to play with its fast, coloured graphics, terrific soundtrack with digitized sound fx. The difficulty is challenging and even if there's no championship or different tracks it's worth playing. Just grab your funstick and race vs the time.
Here you'll find real loading times and gameplay.
All footage taken from original hardware machines and upscaled to 1080P.
Let me know what do you think about the video in the comments below but, most important, Enjoy!!!
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Thanks for watching.
I wanna say a huge thank you to retro racing for this fantastic 2024 STE game. God bless you
Nice to see an STE-caliber game. There were so few during its heyday
Best racing game ever for the STE by far. Scrolling is super smooth too
Absolutely amazing game, this is what an STE can do. Jonathan Thomas is the guy who made also the Lotus Esprit STE edition, and Pole Position conversion.
Amazing what this guy is capable of
At least, we all know, that this Atari ST game drives retrospectively FASTER 😸😺👍🕹️.
Wouah. J'ai suivi son développement via Yaronet. Imaginez ce qu'on aurait eu comme jeux à l'époque si on avait exploité l'Atari Ste ! Au lieu de faire des jeux pour Stf et compatible Ste...
Après moi j'ai du mal avec les jeux comme ça. J'ai l'impression de jamais réussir à tourner en roulant vite contrairement aux adversaires qui passent les virages sans ralentir. 😅
A bit strange that it doesnt work with ordinary STs equipped with blitter. I guess its about expanded color pallete
And hardware scrolling and DMA audio
@@CFalcon030 You mean hardware scrolling is a function separate from blitter? I thought that blitter handles that.
@@fradd182 it's different yes. It's due to the update on the shifter. You can scroll with the blitter though as well.
I am not totally sure this game uses hardware scrolling though.
@@CFalcon030 Thanks.