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- What's new in McRace 1.20
-
- - Added a command line parameter for those systems running with locked
- fossils. Because of buffering, 1200/2400 players would blow their
- engines at the start, never being able to start the race because the
- local end had already displayed the green light.
-
- For these systems, the /P parameter may be used on the command line
- in addition to the other normal parameters. What this does is pauses
- the game while the screen draws, prompting the user to press any key
- to begin the light tree.
-
- - McRace no longers requires the presence of EXITINFO.BBS. McRace now
- just looks for DORINFO1.DEF.
-
- - McRace now uses RA 1.00 structures. No conversion programs are
- necessary.
-
- - McRace now recognizes CTS flow control on high speed modems.
-
- What's new in McRace 1.10c
-
- - Added a new twist to the game that's been requested several times.
- Players must now press a key to start the race once the light turns
- green. If a player presses a key before the light turns green, the
- player red-lights. Once the light turns green the player has 2.8
- seconds to press a key to start. If the player fails to press a key
- during this time, the player's engine will blow due to over-revving.
- If the user starts the race within .9 seconds of the green light, a
- slight advantage will be given to the user throughout the race for
- having the jump off the line.
-
- - Changed the format of the high score file (MCRACE.HSC). At the end
- of the month, McRace used to store the high scorer's information. Now,
- the top three drivers will be stored and displayed during the following
- month.
-
- - Fixed a bug which caused a SHARE violation. Turns out I was leaving
- a file open after I was done with it. This may also be the bug that
- corrupted a few data files.
-
- - Added external support file MCRACE.DRV. This is an ASCII text file
- which contains a list of opponent driver names. Now you can edit the
- list of names to your liking. The limitations of this list are: there
- must be no blank lines within the file, a maximum number of 100 lines
- are supported, and each opponent driver name must not be longer than
- 18 characters. Upper or lower case is supported as McRace will convert
- to upper case when reading the file.
-
- - Added support for the JPTerm remote user program. JPTerm is in alpha
- test at the time of this release.
-
- - Wrote the JPTerm remote user program. JPTerm lets users playing from
- remote take advantage of fast graphics and sound capabilities. JPTerm
- can be started from DOS prior to connecting with a BBS or it can be
- started while already connected with a BBS by exiting the communications
- program in use (carrier must not be dropped) and then executing JPTerm.
- JPTerm will be available from a Motor City Software system when all the
- bugs are worked out.
-
- - Added another digit to the scores column in the ViewScores routine. It
- looks like some gambling type folks could get a score greater than
- 9,999,999. This will now allow a max score of 99,999,999.
-
- - Restricted gambling to a maximum of a 6-figure number. This means that
- if you have more than a million points you can still only gamble up to
- $999,999 per shot.
-