Atari ST - Respray - 1991
Hard Drivin'
1 / 17- Genre
- Racing - Cars
- Year
- 1991
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Respray
- Controls
- Joystick / Mouse
- Distributor
- Domark
- Players
- 1 / Demo
- Developer
- [n/a]
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- Atari Games / Tengen
- Programmer(s)
- Friedrich, Jürgen
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Brown, Richard / Friedrich, Jürgen
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Atari Games [company]
- Box/Instructions
- —
- Musician(s)
- Furniss, Matt
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- [Re-release]
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 1 / Double Sided
- Dump format
- Pasti
- Protection
- —
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TRIVIA (8)
Origins
Based on Atari Games 1989 coin-op.
Sound
This game features digital sound effects
Awards:
Golden Joystick Awards: Best 16-bit coin-op conversion 1990
Conversion - Atari Lynx
Competition
Hard Drivin' was featured in ST Format's competition where four winners got a 1/18 scale radio controlled model of Ferrari F40.
Charts
Top UK ST charts position: 4 (3/1990)
Months on charts: 6 between 2/1990 - 12/1990
Months on charts: 6 between 2/1990 - 12/1990
Development
Game was developed on the Atari ST and took about 6 months to write. It was developed mainly using Turbo C for code and Art Director for graphics. Final source code size was between 350 and 400 kilobytes. 70% of the source code is C and 30% assembler.
ST version runs between 8 to 10 frames per second with over 150 objects on screen at the same time.
Source: ACE issue 28 January 1990
Releases
The Atari ST version was released first on the 16 bit market in Europe. Published later for other 16 bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (4)
The One · September, 1989
The One · December, 1989Rating: 88 %
ST Action · January, 1990Rating: 72 %
ST Format · January, 1990Rating: 84%