Pole Position Arcade Port to the Atari ST

[TL]

LOL, This Pole Position kicks 7800 butt! 

It certainly does! Great to see you here Walter!!!!

[Cryptic33]

That's a sexy reincarnation Greyfox

[walter_j64bit]

Greyfox can this Pole Position be ran from a hard drive? 

[Greyfox]

The port is being done on Floppy as far as I know, but it's some time away from completion, secondly I'm not involved in this project other than to create awareness for the it here at RVG, lol..that's twice now I've been associated to been attached to it.. but I'm sure when it's done, it will be very straight forward to put this on a HD for loading.. it's some feat none the less, he also has a PC port happening as well, but this will be a handy port to the Amiga when it's completed 

[Greyfox]

Well its exactly a month since the last update, today has had a new demo video added with lots of bug fixes

http://youtu.be/q7CkJvXRi-0

Here's what's new

Here's another work in progress video for Atari ST Pole Position, showing progress made in the last month. The video firstly shows the demo mode, after which a player-controlled qualifying session and race is completed.

New features/improvements shown in this video include:

- Starting lights
- Puddles in track during race session
- 'Game Over' caption during demo mode
- Better frame rate
- Checkered road markings at start line
- Less glitchy opponent car rendering
- Less glitchy background scrolling
- Correct colours on title screen
- Exploding cars
- Correct flashing of colours during post qualifying/race report

There are still lots of incomplete features and glitches, but I hope to iron many of these out before the next update.

[TrekMD]

This keeps looking better and better.

[Cryptic33]

This keeps looking better and better.

Ditto

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I'm the author of this conversion and just wanted to reassure you all that work is ongoing, if a little slower than I'd hoped. I've just posted up a new video representing progress in the last couple of months - most of which has been in the performance department. The frame rate of the game is now about 50-60% better than in the previous video - it makes a big difference!
[align=center:2hmb662g]so here's a link to the video:[/align:2hmb662g]
[align=center:2hmb662g]www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKrqcY88aU&[/align:2hmb662g]

[Greyfox]

Welcome Chicane to RVG delighted you've joined us here, yes I'm a big follower of yours over at Atari Forums and have been keeping everyone up to date over here with the great progress of this wonderful arcade conversion your working on, sop please don't be a stranger and keep us all in the loop

I've fixed your post , to embed you tube videos you simply paste the link without "http://" at the beginning of the address..e.g. "www.youtube.com/yourvideoclip" highlight it and click on the center alignment button to make it nice and centered on the post.

Have a good one fella

[TrekMD]

Welcome to RVG Chicane!  Thanks for joining and updating us about the game.  Great job so far!

[zapiy]

Yeah welcome and thanks for taking the time to update us.

[walter_j64bit]

Yeah wecome and thanks for taking the time to update us.

Ditto.

[Greyfox]

Wow forgot all about this one, its been e543'ely quite of late, so I'm really hoping he hasn't abandoned the project as it's so good so far, I will resurrect the original threat on the forum he first posted this on and see if he has any updates.

[walter_j64bit]

:63:

[Greyfox]

I have posted an enquiry on what the status on this and hopefully Chicane will get the Time to let us know how it is progressing