Cars

Introduction

Cars is a little game where you drive a car round a course for five laps and try to win the race. It is designed to be a multi-player game, so that you can race up to eight friends. It runs as a single process displaying X displays on each players machine (you have to organise X authorisation yourself for this). It can be played with just one person (see screen-shots!), but is a bit boring, although you can try for the saved lap and race records.

How to run

• Download the binary (see below), and decompress in a suitable directory.
• Change directory to that directory and type:

      cars machine1:0 machine2:0
      

  where machine1:0 is a valid X display you can bring windows up on. You can type up to 8 machines (eight players in the game).
• Type your name in. Wait for everyone else to type their name.
• Drive round five laps as fast as possible. Keys are as follows:

  Shift              - accelerate
  Ctrl               - decelerate
  Alt key            - quick quit game key ;-)
  Left mouse button  - turn left
  Right mouse button - turn right
  

Download

I am currently only making the binaries available. This program compiles OK under Solaris, Digital Unix and Linux. .

Digital Unix (Alpha) binary (approx 75k) . Note this is really a .tar.Z file, but geocities have stopped supporting this file type!
Solaris 7 (Sparc) binary (approx 65k) . Note this is really a .tar.Z file, but geocities have stopped supporting this file type!
Linux RedHat 7.1 (2.4 kernel/i386) binary (approx 166k) . Note needs Open Motif installed to run.