My idea was to try a different color for the road. Perhaps a different shade of grey would improve cars recognizability.
Or perhaps different shades of red and blue.

As is, I think the game is not playable on real hardware.
I prefer not to see players colors in the chat but to see my car when I play.
At the moment, BW solution is the best solution to play the game.

Thank you for your work!

I am in, on Sunday and perhaps on Saturday CET (like previous sessions).

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Phil.

Atari

1. When a new track is loaded, for a second you see track missing some colors or grey shades messed; disable screen before loading.

2. Reset screensaver timer when stick is moved (memory location 77, by default Atari cycles colors if for 9 minutes no key is pressed). It’s not a big problem, usually races don’t last 9 minutes and Atari color cycle is a nice feature introduced in 1979 by Atari 800.

3. In warmup message, write “1-Race, 3-Next map, Q-Quit” (add “Q-Quit”).

4. In online mode, 2 lines of characters appears when trying to enter a full server.

5. There must be a bug in Island track, today a player made 2 laps moving on the center grass.

6. When loading the game, some character appears on screen.

7. I don’t like very much title screen left part graphics (especially the face and game’s title, not very clear); in color mode it is not very good, in BW it’s worse. I think a bigger game logo and a simple helmet would be better.

8. I changed my mind. Perhaps in title screen P2, P3, P4 should be “none” by default because it’s easy to add CPUs pressing 2, 3 or 4 keys.

Atari

1. With “remove Q (quit)”, I mean remove Quit from title screen, not game.

2. Not only in BW mode, but even in color mode, cars tyres are not visible at the end of the race because they have the same color of background pane.

3. When a new track is loaded, sometimes for a second you see previous track missing some colors or grey shades messed; disable screen before loading.

4. In title screen I would default with 5 laps and P2 CPU Hard (mode used setup me thinks).

5. When the race is finished, you continue to hear accelerated engine noise.

6. It would be nice to start the race pressing red button (besides 1 key).

7. When the race is finished, it would be nice to offer the option to race on the same track again.

Tested the game, very good, thank you very much!
I didn’t expect chat!

1. In online play, if I insert my user name and password, I go into the game and I can play. That means that by network settings are OK?

2. In BW mode, I cannot see chat words in the upper part of screen.

3. In BW mode, at the end of the race, cars tyres are not visible because they have the sam color of background panel.

4. I would remove Q (quit).

5. It is necessary to disable Basic (pressing Option key); it would be better if the program disables it.

I think BW solution is a good solution.
Many people use CRTs.

Anthony, why don’t you use display list interrupts to have more than 5 colors on Atari?
Some sprites flicker is ok but an interlaced screen hurts eyes..