DOS Games Discussion

[Guest]

Hello I was wondering if anyone could help me find an old DOS game. It was a vertical scrolling game, like Raptor.

You controlled a small Red Sports car, and you would have to dodge walls and obstacles, otherwise the car would explode upon impact.

There were also ramps you could use to jump over walls, and a powerup that transforms your car into an aircraft, which you could use to fly over water areas.

The game scrolls by itself, and just like some of the Mario games, if you allowed the wall to push you into an obstacle, you would die.

At first the screen scrolls slow, then as you progress through the level, it would go and faster.

It's been an odd 9 or 10 years since I've played it, it came on a DOS Game Demo CD, with 50 other games.

I always thought it was called "SPEEDY", because I remembered the intro animation of a Red Car jumping over a hilly race track, and rock music playing in the background, in which they sang "Speedy" in the chorus.

Later I will upload a cheap drawing of what I remember it to look like, if anyone knows what game I am talking about, please let me know!

[Ac3d]

Here is a link to my cheap drawing of "Speedy"

click ->

Sorry i couldn't attach it to my last post, not sure how it's done
in these forums

It used proper soundblaster sound effects, and the only music it had was in the intro


[EDIT]
Added the thumbnail, but no idea 'bout the name ~dosraider

[Wally*Won_Kenobie]

Big Red Race Car?? Just a wild guess

[Ac3d]

Do you mean Big Red Racing? sorry that's not the one, this game is set in Bird's Eye View.

"Speedy" isn't listed as a Dos Game in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_games

So I must be wrong about the name?

[Dobbelsteen]

I have speedy at home.. it's on a linsoft cdrom for kids with 5 or 6 games on it..
I could try to rip the game from the cdrom and upload it somewhere!

[Ac3d]

please upload the game! It would be much appreciated

[Dobbelsteen]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6W08GF9V

Here it is!

[dosraider]

THX Dobbelsteen, have send a PM to Ac3d.



*downloads*

[Ac3d]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Ac3d]

am i allowed to send this to dosbox.com?

[dosraider]

As this is the sharewareversion, and all necessary documents (File_id.diz-order.*-catalog.*) are included it's legit to share and post for download.
Otherwise it would have been deleted by me. (Me can be a real bitch, sometimes).

So: feel free to share-post-whatever you want.

[Ac3d]

ok cool, just one more question... do you know how to get the sound working under dosbox? i've tried all soundblaster combinations and the best i can get is static, this is why i wanted to send Speedy to dosbox, because isn't listed under their compatibility list atm.

gah just one problem after the other haha

long live speedy

[dosraider]

Nope, and I suppose it's because it's a sharewareversion, the soundfiles have no extension. There are a lot of files in the \sound\subdir, but no extensions. Try maybe to add some extensions ....?
Gonna give it a look later, but not this week ......

[EDIT]
Said not this week, but ...
You need to set the SB type to SB1 in dosboxconfig:

[Dobbelsteen]

I found an install file in another directory of the cd, maybe that helps

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=96Z88YP5

I noticed that a lot of files are in dutch and german, if you need help with translating things you can PM me

[dosraider]

THX for that, Dobbelsteen, but the sound works now, you just need to set SB to type1, seems the only possibility to get the sound working.