Oh CRAP! It's the F1 demo!?!

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

Well, well, well…

As I was cleaning out some old disks, I stumbled upon an old CD with some ancient code bits on them. And guess what was inside?

http://www.pastpixels.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/F1.jpg

So, I present to you, the “Holy Grail” of the never released demos due to stupid decisions. Caveat, it only works on Windows systems, but perhaps you folks could get it to run on other OS’s. I should add that I just opened up the directory on a Windows 7 machine, ran the D3D bat file and the thing just worked. Good job Shawn!

Also, remember that this was done back in 2001…almost a decade ago. I shudder to think of what might have been if we were allowed to do anything with this on consoles back then…:frowning:

http://www.pastpixels.com/Public/F1.zip

Instructions:

  • Unzip wherever you like
  • Go to …/F1/GCProjects/Formula1_0
  • Run either ‘F1_D3D.bat’ or ‘F1_OGL.bat’

Let us know if it works on your machines.

#2

Cool stuff. The demo ran fine here on my laptop, though with some timing issues, everything was very fast.

I see its running on Java 1.3 :slight_smile:

#3

Ahaha, the dodgy collision is hilariously bad. :o

And the C++ code is obviously written by a Java-only programmer. Dynamically allocating the Point objects for a bounding box? LOL. Talk about a performance sink.

#4

Haha we live and learn :slight_smile: It’s taken years for Java to get to a state where it could be used for AAA titles and then … well, Chris’s overlords kinda buggered it anyway. Can’t believe they scuppered iOS Java too. Sigh.

Cas :slight_smile:

#5

Sure, but this was not production code, just a demo.

Also, press ‘C’ to change camera angels.

Someday I will produce a “Made for TV” movie about the whole ordeal…

#6

Hi!

What should be modified to use it on Linux?