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+===========================+
| SKIDMARKS 2 AGA CAR DISKS |
+===========================+
All cars designed and rendered by: Andrew Bolt
================================== 14 Station Road
Greenmount
Bury
Lancs
BL8 4BJ
This 2 disk set contains four AGA cars for use with Skidmarks 2, scripts for
installation to hard and floppy disks, and this documentation.
The imagine models used for these cars are entirely my own, and took many
hours to create. In addition, each car, which consists of 800 frames of
animation, took between 12 and 48 hours to render on my un-accelerated, 2Mb
ram, 420Mb HD A1200, in full imagine raytrace mode.
These disks are copyright Andrew Bolt, but can be freely distributed as
long as they remain unchanged, and that you don't ask for more than a
reasonable copying and media fee, i.e.. about £2 per disk.
I make no guarantees about the content or reliability of these disks,
especially the install routines, which you are using at your own risk,
although they have all been thoroughly tested. Make sure you use a back up
copy of your program disk if installing to floppy drive.
Skidmarks is copyright Acid Software. These disks are not official or
endorsed Acid upgrades
__________________________________________________________________________
Upgrading Your Car Disks
========================
Upgrading this disk costs just SIX QUID! For this you will receive
a further TWELVE CARS, bringing the total in your Skidmarks
garage up to a massive 24 cars. You will also get details of any further
vehicles that become available, and full support if you have any problems
with the cars or installation. This is cheaper than some PD libraries!
On Car Disk 2 there are icon previews of all twelve cars sent when you
upgrade.
Imagine users who would like copies of the objects used to create all 16 of
my cars just add an extra £2.
Send your name and address together with any comments on the cars,
details of any other vehicles you would like to see in the future, and a
cheque or postal order made payable to: Andrew Bolt,
14 Station Road,
(Please state HD or Floppy Disk Version) Greenmount,
Bury,
Lancashire.
All prices include P&P BL8 4BJ.
__________________________________________________________________________
Installation
============
Note - These cars will not work if you are using the "Skid1meg" version of
Skidmarks 2.
Hard Disk Installation
======================
To install to hard disk first boot Workbench from your hard drive and
insert this disk. Then simply double click on the hard disk installer icon
and the cars will be automatically installed. Make sure that Skidmarks 2 and
the original Skidmarks Car Disks are already properly installed on your
hard drive. You will need just under 2 Mb for the installation.
You will need to have the "installer" utility in the "C" directory of your
hard disk for this to work. I have been unable to distribute it on this
disk as it is over 100k and I think you need to get some sort of license off
Commodore. If you haven't got the utility you'll probably find it on a
disk somewhere. I have found copies on Wordworth 2, Klondike 3 HD, and
RDPrep hard disk installer. Simply copy it into your workbench c
directory and the installation utility will work perfectly.
If you are unable to find a copy of the installer then the installation is
very simple to do manually. Simply open the Skid2 directory on your hard
drive and select "Show-> all files" from the Workbench window menu. A
drawer called "vehicles" should appear in the Skid2 window. Now open the
vehicles drawer on one of my disks and drag the ???.set and ???.aga files
for any cars you wish to install over into the vehicles drawer on your hard
disk.
Using The Extra Cars From Hard Disk
===================================
Simply run Skidmarks as usual and if the cars are correctly installed they
will appear and load as normal.
__________________________________________________________________________
Floppy Disk Installation
========================
To use the extra car disks a few files have to be copied over to your
Skidmarks 2 program disk. They are quite small so there should be plenty of
room for them. Please make sure you are using a BACKUP COPY of your program
disk.
To transfer the files simply double click on the floppy disk installation
utility and they will be automatically copied across.
Using The Cars From One Floppy Drive
====================================
Unfortunately this is a little bit tricky. At first I thought it would be
impossible but it can be done.
If the cars have been correctly installed then the new cars should appear
in the selection screen in the same way as the originals.
If you are using the cars from one disk drive you will be unable to load
a track and one of my cars at once. You will have to first select one of
the original Skidmarks Cars, choose your track, and then when the race
starts, press escape. You will now be able to change your car to one of
mine, but before you select okay it is important the the correct car disk
is already in the drive.
In general never attempt to change a track and car in one go, and always
have the correct car disk in the drive before you attempt to load it.
This is necessary because Skidmarks looks for the car on whatever disk
is in the drive and then if it doesn't find the car it asks for one of the
original car disks. If you don't have the right car disk in the drive at
the right time then at best the car won't load or at worst the game will
crash.
I wouldn't advise trying to use two different cars from different disks
either unless you only change one at once.
Using The Cars From Two Or More Floppy Drives
=============================================
If you have installed the cars correctly they should appear as normal on
the car selection screen.
To use cars with two or more floppy drives you should load Skidmarks from
the internal disk drive, and then replace the program disk with one of the
new car disks containing the car you wish to load. (It is helpful to write
which cars are on which disk on the labels). Put a track disk in the
external drive. When a car is loaded from one of my disks a message will
appear saying "Loading from hard disk"
You should now be able to use Skidmarks as normal as long as you remember
to always have the correct car disk in the internal drive before you try
to load a car of it. Things could get tricky if you try to load two of my
cars of separate disks at once, but you should be OK if you only load one
into memory at a time.
I only have one floppy drive so I have been unable to test this. If you
have trouble then follow instructions for single floppy drive users.
__________________________________________________________________________
Cars On These Disks
===================
Disk 1:
=======
Supra
=====
This is a mean, sleek supercar, based on the new Toyota Supra, but it has
turned out looking a bit more like an F40 or Bugatti supercar now rendered.
It features large front air dam, massive wheels shod with ultra low profile
tyres and an outrageously big curved rear spoiler. Looks best in black.
Truck Cab
=========
This solid vehicle is a big truck, minus its trailer. Includes tall
vertical exhaust pipes, 8 litre diesel engine and lots of wheels (6).
Always wins in colisions with cars.
Disk 2:
=======
Land Rover
==========
The classic Land Rover is still going strong today after 20 odd years and
is the ultimate rugged 4x4 off road machine. Includes original two tone
paint work.
Wheel Chair
===========
Not for the faint hearted. Choose this vehicle and you are placed in
control of a crappy 20 year old NHS wheelchair. Very funny when driven
head on into Trucks, Buses, Tanks etc.
__________________________________________________________________________
Extra Car Disks
===============
If you upgrade your Skidmarks Car disks, for the bargain price of just £6,
you will get these extra TWELVE vehicles.
For previews of these 12 vehicles look in the "Upgrade vehicles" drawer
on car disk 2
Cosworth
========
This rally machine is somewhere between an Escort Cosworth and an Aston
Martin Vantage, two of my favourite cars. It features an enormous whale
tail rear spoiler. This car was a winner in the Amiga Format Imagine Built
My Hotrod Competition. Unfortunately it wasn't included in Skidmarks 2, but
it is now.
Dragster
========
A top fuel 2000 HP dragster. Not too good on bends. Engine tends to blow up
after a few laps. Features include parachute assisted braking system.
Tank
====
Literally crush the opposition in this 8 ton, 6 litre, V8 piece of military
hardware. Features include go anywhere capability, and bullet proof
undentable body panels. Cannon shells are an optional extra.
Dick Dastardly Car
==================
I can't remember exactly what his car was like but this is probably the
kind of thing he would drive. Features rocket engine and jet fighter
design, suspended 6 feet above the road on long legs for unfair overtaking
advantage. Muttly not included.
Reliant Robin
=============
Race this classic three wheeler at break-neck speeds. Features include one
wheel drive for extra off road ability, single cylinder 500cc engine for
ease of maintenance, and a highly advanced, light weight, silicon fibre
composite bodyshell (fibreglass) to fight corrosion as you are left on the
starting line.
Bus
===
Now 800 people can participate in a game of Skidmarks! Each double decker
bus comes with 100 passengers free of charge. These are no crumbly old
Routemasters either, but brand new hi-tec, top of the range racing
machines.
JCB
===
Ever wanted to get rid of an annoying bump or re-sculpt your favourite
Skidmarks track? With this authentic JCB earth mover you can now carry out
essential maintenance repairs to your tracks. Features front and rear
buckets, only available in yellow. Max speed, 19 mph.
Roller Scater
=============
Take control of this roller skater with a death wish. High speed head on
colisions with buses are funny, as you watch your maniac on wheels become
a blob of human mess on the windscreen
Go-Kart
=======
Small one cylinder go-kart, very fast, light and manoeuvrable. No room for
passengers though. This is not the Imagine object already supplied with
Skidmarks 2
Convertible
===========
A classic American convertible cruiser, with full interior detail and
driver. Not very good in wet wether.
Fighter Jet
===========
Fly your F-466452/a at Mach 20, 3 feet above ground level. Features twin
20000 hp engines, an arsenal of heat seeking missiles, and machine gun with
5000 rounds of ammunition.
Big Foot
========
The monster trucks already supplied with Skidmarks don't really have very
big wheels. This one does. The ultimate traffic jam beater/ pedestrian
squasher.