[HN Gopher] Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
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       Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
        
       Author : fidotron
       Score  : 163 points
       Date   : 2025-01-10 22:11 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | jinnko wrote:
       | This is great.
       | 
       | If you're into these retro games there's a couple of others that
       | have been fun:
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       | Ultimate Stunts: https://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
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       | Descent 3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3 (if you
       | own the original, or on other platforms if you want to buy)
        
         | throwaway4736 wrote:
         | OpenRCT2 is amazing as well. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 was an
         | absurdly entertaining game, and this wrapper makes it even
         | better.
        
           | anthk wrote:
           | Is not a wrapper, it's a whole new engine.
        
       | ndiddy wrote:
       | The author of this project blogged about his experience making it
       | the whole time. It's a pretty entertaining read:
       | http://reassembler.blogspot.com/search/label/cannonball
        
         | grimgrin wrote:
         | A nice origin story
         | http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2009/08/outrun-decompilation...
         | 
         | OutRun on Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/@reassembler68k
        
           | OnlyMortal wrote:
           | I assume he's clipping hidden surfaces?
        
       | miramba wrote:
       | If anyone has an M1 binary...
        
         | suprjami wrote:
         | Use RetroArch:
         | 
         | https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.9.14/apple/osx/univer...
        
       | ndesaulniers wrote:
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge in case
       | the name is lost on anyone.
        
         | Umofomia wrote:
         | It's probably more a reference to The Cannonball Run film[1],
         | which the designer of Out Run mentioned[2] inspired the
         | original game.
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         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cannonball_Run
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         | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run#Development
        
       | z303 wrote:
       | Also Turbo OutRun Reimagined
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       | https://sk1ds.itch.io/outrun-clone
        
       | nox101 wrote:
       | The top end of OutRut type tech was Power Drift and Rail Chase
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngUCwEVtlI
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd3FFT7pnc
        
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