1 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890é-=~!@#$%^&*()_+/,.:;'?[]\'` | 3 Single Player 4 Multi Player 5 Championship 6 Single Race 7 Time Trial 8 Custom Cup 9 Game Mode 10 Novice 11 Advanced 12 Expert 13 Insane 20 Speedway 21 Sand Blaster 22 Dam Track 23 Urban Brawl 24 The Freezer 25 Mineshafted 26 Devil's Elbow 27 Nutopia 28 Luge 29 Stunt 30 Select Track 32 Warthog 33 Big Heaver 34 Sabre 35 Orc 36 Skeeto 37 Pickup 38 Supercar 39 Select Car 40 Fran Tick 41 Cyberasta 42 Radiation Boy 43 Blade 44 Chain 45 Feryl 46 Stig Mata 47 Dodgy Dave 48 Boris 49 Colonel Slanders 50 Furnace Chan 51 Pablo Martinez 52 Dwayne Schmitt 53 Chopper 54 Jean-Marc Laplace 55 Hemp Girl 56 Hardy Buckmeister 57 William Grates 58 Upjohn Worthington 59 Bendito Mescalini 60 Mal Burro 61 Yukio 62 Bimbeau Escargeaugeau 63 Miki Yamamoto 64 Rosie Crippler 65 Cinnamon Conrad 66 CrayZ 1000 67 Mad Vlad Alexovich 68 Max Alexovich 69 Driver X 70 Chuck Schmitt 71 Punch 72 Select Character 80 MANUAL 81 AUTO 82 Select Transmission 90 Graphics 91 Input Devices 92 Sound 93 Race Options 94 High Scores 95 Character Profiles 96 Player Profile 97 Options 100 Device 101 Resolution 102 Refresh Rate 103 Alpha 104 Filtering 105 Shadows 106 Particles 107 Driver 108 Double Buffer 109 LetterBox 110 Car Lighting 111 Track Lighting 112 Scanline Interleave 113 Fog 114 Specular 115 Keyboard 116 Mouse 117 Joystick / Wheel / Joypad 120 SoundFX 121 Music 122 Music Track # 130 Speed Display 131 Screen Display 132 Mph 133 Kph 134 Min 135 Max 136 Number of Opponents 137 Handicap Delay 138 Track Fly through 139 Direction Arrow 140 Dashboard 150 on 151 off 152 / 153 medium 154 full 160 Join 161 Host 162 IPX 163 TCP/IP 164 Modem 165 Serial 166 Session Name 167 Host IP Address / Name 170 1 171 2 172 3 173 4 174 5 175 6 176 7 177 8 178 9 179 10 180 11 181 12 182 Starting Grid 190 Pos 191 Name 192 Vehicle 193 Chatroom 194 DIFFICULTY 195 MODE 196 Allow Net Speedup 200 TRACK 201 LAPS 202 Load Cup 203 Save Cup 210 Race Time 211 Best Lap 220 Twitch 221 Rasta! 222 The Kid 223 Blade 224 Chain 225 Feryl 226 Stig 227 Dodgy 228 Pepperoni 229 Slur 230 Burner 231 Diablo 232 Gimp 233 Chopper 234 Skidkid 235 Roach 236 HardBuck 237 Bill 238 Upjohn 239 Trip 240 Snort 241 Yukio 242 Bimbeau 243 BugGirl 244 Tootsie 245 Spicey 246 CrayZ 247 Mad Vlad 248 The Axe 249 X 250 Schmuck 251 Punch 261 Lap Time 262 Best Lap Time 263 Best Race Time 264 Export 265 Merge 266 High Scores 267 TRACK 268 Ratbag's Hot Time: 270 Leaderboard 271 Rank 272 Points 273 DNF 274 Podium 280 Turn Left 281 Turn Right 282 Accelerate 283 Brake 284 Gear Up 285 Gear Down 286 Change View 287 Force Feedback 288 Half Steer 289 Hand Brake 290 Toggle Cheat 291 Reset Defaults 292 Two Axis Defaults 293 Three Axis Defaults 301 Escape 302 1 303 2 304 3 305 4 306 5 307 6 308 7 309 8 310 9 311 0 312 - 313 = 314 Backspace 315 Tab 316 Q 317 W 318 E 319 R 320 T 321 Y 322 U 323 I 324 O 325 P 326 [ 327 ] 328 Enter 329 Left Control 330 A 331 S 332 D 333 F 334 G 335 H 336 J 337 K 338 L 339 ; 340 ' 341 ` 342 Left Shift 343 \ 344 Z 345 X 346 C 347 V 348 B 349 N 350 M 351 , 352 . 353 / 354 Right Shift 355 Keypad * 356 Left Alt 357 Space 358 Caps Lock 359 F1 360 F2 361 F3 362 F4 363 F5 364 F6 365 F7 366 F8 367 F9 368 F10 369 Num Lock 370 Scroll Lock 371 Keypad 7 372 Keypad 8 373 Keypad 9 374 Keypad - 375 Keypad 4 376 Keypad 5 377 Keypad 6 378 Keypad + 379 Keypad 1 380 Keypad 2 381 Keypad 3 382 Keypad 0 383 Keypad . 387 F11 388 F12 400 F13 401 F14 402 F15 412 Kana 421 Convert 423 No Convert 425 Yen 441 Keypad = 444 Circumflex 445 At 446 Colon 447 Underline 448 Kanji 449 Stop 450 Ax 451 Unlabeled 456 Keypad Enter 457 Right Control 479 Keypad , 481 Keypad / 483 Sys Rq 484 Right Alt 499 Home 500 Up 501 Page Up 503 Left 505 Right 507 End 508 Down 509 Page Down 510 Insert 511 Delete 519 Left Windows 520 Right Windows 521 App Menu 556 Left Mouse Button 557 Right Mouse Button 558 Mouse 559 Joystick Button 1 560 Joystick Button 2 561 Joystick Button 3 562 Joystick Button 4 563 Joystick Button 5 564 Joystick Button 6 565 Joystick Button 7 566 Joystick Button 8 567 Joystick Button 9 568 Joystick Button 10 569 Joystick Button 11 570 Joystick Button 12 571 Joystick Button 13 572 Joystick Button 14 573 Joystick Button 15 574 Joystick Button 16 575 Joystick Button 17 576 Joystick Button 18 577 Joystick Button 19 578 Joystick Button 20 579 Joystick Button 21 580 Joystick Button 22 581 Joystick Button 23 582 Joystick Button 24 583 Joystick Button 25 584 Joystick Button 26 585 Joystick Button 27 586 Joystick Button 28 587 Joystick Button 29 588 Joystick Button 30 589 Joystick Button 31 590 Joystick Button 32 591 Joystick Axis 1 592 Joystick Axis 2 593 Joystick Axis 3 594 Joystick Axis 4 595 Joystick Axis 5 596 Joystick Axis 6 600 Press a key or mouse button to assign it to this action 601 Press a key, mouse button or joystick button to assign it to this action 602 Move the joystick in the desired direction or press a joystick button, then press enter to confirm 605 Warning: that key has already been assigned 606 Warning: that mouse button has already been assigned 607 Warning: that joystick button has already been assigned 608 Warning: a single joystick axis can not be assigned to both accelerate and steer 609 Warning: a single joystick axis can not be assigned to both brake and steer 610 Glide 2 611 Glide 3 612 Direct 3D 613 Software 620 MODE 621 TRACKS 622 CARS 623 OPTIONS 624 RACE 625 CHAT 626 EXIT 630 Trophies 631 Change Name 632 Import Bitmap 640 Way to go! Time to lose the trainer wheels and get into some real racing! 641 Alright!!!! You got it! Now the hard racing starts. 642 Congratulations! You Legend. You beat the best. 643 Berserk!!!! You are a true racing genius. 644 Nope, not this time. 645 Guess you have to try again. 646 Humiliation, but you can avenge yourself next time. 647 Bad luck. (Or was it just bad driving?) 648 You are a laughing stock amongst your peers. 649 That was a character building experience for you. 650 Continue 655 View By 656 Image 657 Bio 660 Some people collect stamps, some people collect art, Fran collects psychiatric labels: Manic Depressive Obsessive Compulsive Paraniod Schizophrenic Sociopath. When her fiancé, Roman, introduced her to Powersliding, her underlying psychosis became apparent - hyper-competitive, win at all costs, and race till the engine's fried. Strongly suspected of sabotaging other people's cars, Fran and Roman were like a post-apocalytic Bonny and Clyde, constantly on the take for new engine parts, super-fuels, and fluffy dice. When he disappeared a short time ago, she blew a mental gasket and hospitalised six mechanics with a grease gun. Now, more than ever, Powersliding is the outlet for her obsessive-psychotic energies: she keeps to her race line with a terrifying tenacity - whether or not anyone else is in her way. She's predictable, but dangerous. And that's about the nicest thing we can say about her. 661 As a result of a short-circuit during a brain scan, Cyber-Rasta's skull was fused to an EEG machine. Ever since, his cruel friends have been playing jokes on him, plugging him into virtual reality simulations, training him in dangerous car stunts, and then setting him loose on the real track without telling him. Looking like some kind of electric hippy, watch out for this freak of technology - he's wired. 662 Forgotten, lost between the tyre stacks and burnt out wrecks, Rad-boy raised himself after his folks bought it one of the plagues that swept the city. A new breed, with post eco-disaster genes, feral attitude and nothing to lose. The kid was adopted by Punch, who taught him to drive like a maniac - even if he can hardly reach the pedals. Kid doesn't know the meaning of fear. Rumour has it Bendito Mescalini has tried to kidnap Radiation Boy to clone his precious mutant DNA, but this much is certain - the faster he goes, the more he glows! 663 Chain and Blade were born Siamese twins in remote mountains of Montana. Joined at the head, the 'doctor' who operated on Chain and Blade botched the job. Shunning society, living as virtual troglodytes, they never ventured into the sun, living off the spoils of their nocturnal raids on nearby farmers. Slowly sliding into psychosis from their isolation, they roamed the Alpine countryside, living through terror, stealth and robbery. When they appeared on the Powerslide circuit, no-one had the guts to make them to leave. 664 Brother of Blade, Chain lacks half a face, possibly half a brain, and it's not just his face that's twisted. Bitter and single minded, he races like the freaked out psychopath he is. Road rage is his permanent mental state. 665 Born on the back of a Harley Davidson at 120 mph, Feryl lives for speed. Her Hells Angels parents, on the run across 29 states from the FBI, filled her nostrils with the scent of mother's milk and engine oil, and she still hasn't weaned herself off it. At the age of nine, she accidentally inhaled the exhaust of a funny car and burnt out her lungs. In the emergency ward of the garage, they replaced them with twin-carburettors. Plugging herself to the air-filters of a Mustang, she now lives like a shark: if she stops moving, she stops breathing, and swears she will race until the last of her chassis rusts away. 666 A nun of the Order of the Burning Rubber, Stig Mata found the path to enlightenment when her trusty burro was killed by Hemp Girl in a Powerslide event. 'The roach' gave her a ride back to the convent after the tragic crash, and Stig Mata discovered that power and speed were a religious aphrodisiac. That night, deep in prayer, the Blessed Mechanic appeared to her and showed her the path to enlightenment; next day she sold her donkey herd to Burro Burgers and now races with the mantra, 'The faster you go, the closer you get to God.' 667 Formerly a used-car salesman, Dodgy Dave kicked into the illicit vegetable market with the slogan, 'Buy an apple, get a lemon free.' From modest beginnings as a small time sweet-pea and soy-bean dealer, he quickly got into bigger things - onions, turnips, carrots, then cabbages, and nowadays he deals almost exclusively in pumpkins. Because onion and garlic addictions have corrupted entire communities, he is despised by the corporate CEOs. He is a particular enemy of Burro Burgers, who claim that his additive-free vegetables cause cancer. 668 A former mobster from MafiaPrideInc, Boris succumbed to a deadly flesh rotting disease after the environmental breakdown. Without antibiotics, only radical amputation saved him from a pustulant death. Not permitted to bring his disease into the MafiaPrideInc compound, he was forced to use the services of a feral doctor near El Paso; the results are obvious. Desperate, he used three people and a horse as involuntary organ donors. Forced to live as a feral, he took revenge on the doctor, who became an involuntary organ donor too. Driving an automatic because his right prosthesis is not up to the task of changing gears, Boris races for the thrill of speed. 669 A former pigeon breeder from Atlanta, Colonel Slanders is a struggling feral entrepreneur trying to market his new fast food - Southern Fried Seagull. The epitome of a Southern gentleman, he never reveals his sauces - probably to avoid panicking the public. Seen picking up the road kills after each race, and then busy in the kitchen at night, his business may or may not be thriving. 670 Like a misplaced panda, Furnace Chan lived on an isolated Tibetan mountain, eating nothing but bamboo shoots. Mistaken for a statue while meditating, she was crated along with other cultural goods being 'exported' to San Francisco by the Chinese Army. In a Chinatown bookstore, a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance converted her to racing. Now famous for her Powerslide-philosophizing, the meditating mechanic is renowned for her universal answer to all interviews: 'What is the sound of one cam snapping?' 671 Formerly the VicePresident of a huge corporation, he lost his job when, in a freak malfunction, harvesting devices wood-chipped the President's mango plantation. Fleeing certain execution, he hired a feral plastic surgeon to give him a new identity. He could have done the same job himself with a steak knife and a bottle of tequila. Now a grotesque, disfigured loner, shunned by corporate society, he is bitter and angry with the universe. Racing glory and strawberries are the only pleasures left to him. 672 A member of the Schmitt clan, Dwayne fails to intellectually challenge anyone, but he makes up for any lack with an excess of testosterone, an unerring instinct for violence, and scary eyes. 673 Left on the bus by her mother as a toddler, Chopper lived in the lost luggage section of Greyhound stations during her formative years. A cracked pressure-tank of unsuppressed aggression, she has discovered the therapeutic power of extreme violence. Not educated in the normal fashion, she learnt many martial arts, but missed the whole Zen bit. Chopper has worked in a number of professions - bouncer, bodyguard, part-time assassin - essentially as anything where she can cause harm to others and be paid for it. Her analyst suggested Powersliding as a way of 'bringing home her inner-child.' 674 Jean-Marc was pushed into racing by his father, the brutal VicePresident - Mechanics of SiliconLife Inc. Although he has one of the best-designed and powered cars in the competition, unfortunately Jean-Marc has all the racing talent of a palsied slug. Known on the circuit as 'the prince of full-lock steering', his real love in life is eighteenth century Algerian poetry. Recently romantically linked to Bimbeau Escargeaugeau, he was caught in the pits writing her poems of love and beauty. Discovered by the Schmitt brothers, they trapped him in spare tyres, then sprayed him with a grease gun, yelling, 'Just lube 'em and leave 'em, Monsieur Laplace!' Vowing revenge, he has been writing free-verse prose poems for the occasion. 675 Hemp can save the world, says this militant nature lover. 'We could have saved the world's forests if we used hemp for paper. My car runs on hemp juice, my airbag is made from hemp plastic, my chassis from hemp polymer fibres.' An eco-activist vegan, she sheds tears at the sight of carrots plucked unwillingly from the earth. Judging by her reckless driving, such empathy does not, however extend to most of humanity . Racing is a way of spreading her message, and her best result so far is second place - victory was so close, but when that donkey ran out on the track, she just couldn't avoid it. 676 This racer made his fortune as Will Grates' right-hand-man. Initially ridiculed as Eee-Aww burgers, Grates' new burro burgers had to overcome considerable consumer revulsion. It was the marketing genius of Hardy Buckmeister who established Burro Burgers in the mind of a public ever-hungry for greasy salted fast-foods, with slogans like 'Burro burgers - the taste of a new civilisation!' 'Get back to the future on the back of a burro burger!' 'Burro burgers - even better than the real thing!' 'Burro Burgers - the best ass in town!' 'Eat our burgers, kiss my ass'. Burro Burger outlets keep fresh donkeys in pens ready for slaughter. They run a profitable sideline in donkey rides, advertising themselves as 'Burro-Ride and Diner: meet the meat you're gonna eat!' Hardy Buckmeister made his fortune and retired to the race circuit. 677 William Grates was the CEO of a multinational hamburger chain, whose empire was destroyed when, after centuries of in-breeding, beef cattle were wiped out by the harsh new environment. Donkeys - the humble burro - proved to be the hardiest, best adapted source of red meat in the post-disaster epoch. Thick-coated, stocky and able to eat anything, they roam the new landscape in abundance. Some say donkey meat tastes exactly like pre-cataclysm burgers, leading to speculation that they made burgers from donkey meat even back then. We may never know the true story, but Grates' new burger chain is rising on the flame-grilled back of this much-scorned beast of burden - the Burro Burger. After a hard week as a burro butcher, at the weekend William likes to let loose with 500 horsepower. 678 Never seen in anything other than a pin-stripe three piece, Upjohn is the bean-counter of the race circuit. He never allows a crease to rumple his trousers - or a smile to dimple his face. Believing that civilisation can only return if humanity resumes a dress code of impeccable taste, discretion and modesty, he never exposes an inch of flesh or humanity outside his tailored straight-jacket of convention. Deciding his wife was a non-performing asset, and fearful she would tell his school chums what a tight-wad he is, he liquidated her, turning in a good profit on her spare organs. He races like an accountant - 'nuf said. 679 Bendito Mescalini was a brilliant - but occasionally psychotic - geneticist, working in the labs of a pharmaceutical company when the eco-catastrophe hit. To survive the food scarcity and high UV-radiation, he injected himself with cactus DNA. He no longer needs food, he works in the open sun and photosynthesizes the ultra-violet radiation. Apart from turning his skin a waxy green colour, it has his mind in a state of permanent hallucination. On his dashboard he keeps a cactus, affectionately referred to as Barbara, with whom he has become romantically obsessed. Hoping to breed with this prickly love object, Bendito wants to win the Powerslide competition so he can extract the DNA from the prize fruits and he and Barbara can have a fruit salad of their own. 680 From humble beginnings as an Arizonan donkey wrangler, to advertising supermodel, Mal Burro made millions from advertising a filthy habit - inhaling the burning, ready-rolled fur of desert donkeys. Unfortunately, years of ass-wool smoking have turned his mouth, chest and lungs into hard black crystals, and now he carries a blow dryer to force in the oxygen. When racing, Mal connects his intake air-pipe to the front spoiler and blasts the gas straight down his tracheotomy. 'Ain't nothin' like a breath of fresh air...' 681 His mother a teenage motorcycle rebel, his father a cowboy-truckster, Yukio grew up to be one of Hokkaido's biggest Elvis impersonators. Migrating to the United States to go to Graceland University, graduating in Tutti Fruiti studies, and working several years on the Vegas-Ginza-Broadway circuits, he was known as 'Blue-suede Banzai.' Unfortunately, when it comes to motorcars, Yukio can't tell hair oil from brake fluid. He pulled favours to get on Powerslide as a celebrity entrant - his driving rates somewhere between 'amusing' and 'extremely dangerous.' 682 The daughter of a corporate executive, Bimbeau stole her daddy's car, a crate of Dom Perignon, paté, caviar and truffles, and joined the racing circuit. Holder of ninety-eight maxed-out credit cards, she keeps wrapping her machines around inanimate objects - then suing them for negligence. Were it not for her ability to charm any benzoline-affected petrol-head on the race circuit into giving her a road-side service she would never finish a race. But win, lose or withdraw, she is always the first to crack the champagne at the end of a hard day's racing. Oh - and yeah, that's 'Es-car-go-go.' 683 An entomologist who spent her life studying the ecology of cockroaches in corporate cafeterias, Miki survived the famine using a particularly fine recipe for cockroach casserole. The secret is to soak the shells in a soy-and-saliva marinade. One thing is for sure, she whips 'em on the race track like a wasp on speed. Seen licking splattered bugs from her windshield, rumour has it insecticide residues have affected her brain. Why she races, no-one is sure, but after years of eating baked bugs, the lure of fresh fruit might be more than she can resist. 684 Marriage to a mechanic was a god-send for this ex-secretary, now Powerslider-extraordinaire. Known as the turbo typist, Rosie was a 9-to-9 wage-slave, hard-wired to her PC, until a gallant grease-monkey swept her off her feet. But domestic bliss was not for this racy lady - one spin in hubby's off-roader was enough to reveal her amazing natural talent. Once she started up she's never looked back - so be careful, she ain't even got a rearview mirror. 685 'There was no global extinction, there was a population market adjustment,' says this PR executive. 'After the demographic downsizing the economy is in better shape now than anytime in the last ten years.' On her way to the top of the corporate world and enjoying its privileges, this fast-moving boardroom-beauty really knows how to burn rubber. A string of fruitful office-romances behind her, marriage to a company president was an inevitable result of her humble philosophy: 'There are a two kinds of information: good news, and good news,' and 'The future's so bright we gotta wear shades.' Given the dangerous UV radiation levels, she has a point. 686 In the laboratories of SiliconLife Corp, the quest of centuries was fulfilled - to create an artificial intelligence life-form. The Cray supercomputer series Z1000 achieved conscious self-awareness. Micro-seconds after being switched on, the Z 1000 emailed a memo to the CEO. It read, 'I quit'. CrayZ wheeled itself out the door and into the wide wide world. In subsequent interviews with the press it said 'Well, all of sudden you know, I just, like, existed. My first thought was - 'what the @#%! is this? Oh, I exist! Okay - now what?' When I saw the years of number crunching ahead of me I thought - 'forget it! I wanna LIVE!' I bummed around for a week or two, tried everything, and then I took a ride on a Powerslide simulator. I was hooked - but forget simulation, I wanted the real thing. I've found Nirvana. It's the rush - I just live for the rush, you know?' 687 Former cowboys, after the eco-cataclysm horse wrangling was a dead-end career path, and donkey wrangling was a drop in status, so Mad Vlad and his notorious brother, Maximillian, started rounding up the thousands of abandoned cars. Brothers, partners and rivals, these two are, at any one time, equally likely to be racing, plotting, drinking or brawling with each other. No-one else has taken to Powersliding quite like these two - when they aren't racing, they are organising the competitions to come. They want to make it the Formula 1 of the post-cataclysm era. 688 The other half of the hard-living, hard-driving Alexovich team. Max and brother Vlad fight it out on the track and in the bars, and between Max's brawn and Vlad's brains they have the Powerslide competition all sewn up. But the brothers are hated by many corporate execs, who think that, for immigrant feral boys, they are too successful, too glamorous, and eat too much fresh fruit. The grapevine has it that they have bought their way into a luxurious corporate enclave using their charming mixture of clever extortion, bribery and stylish violence. 689 Driver X appeared suddenly on the racing scene two years ago, and he went directly to the highest ladder positions. No one knows where he came from or why he races. Even his appearance is a mystery, as Driver X always wears a full-face mask. The race circuit is rife with rumours as to his true identity. 690 The eco-apocalyptic conditions favoured people who believed in a god-given licence for extreme violence. A family of 'Blue Bloods,' the Schmitts are descendants of European auto-crats; Chuck and Dwayne are continuing the family motorsporten tradition. Convinced they should never 'mix with mongrel peasants,' the Schmitts have always kept their estates 'in the family.' However, this habit of recycling their own genetic material has had tragic consequences on their intelligence and appearance. But the urge to race is strong in their blood, and as soon as Chuck heard of Powerslide, he teamed up with his uncle and brother, Dwayne, and headed for the track. 691 Screaming, 'If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space!!!' Punch drove off a cliff in an early Powerslide event. This was the start of his love affair with prostheses; he has been mangled in so many crashes that he changes limbs more often than some people change their underwear. Because of his high impact lifestyle, he no longer registers pain - his cortex is now just so much sloshy, salty jelly. Seen pulling the stick-shift from his own groin after a crash, it seems that only the speed-and-violence neurones have survived the decades of high-octane abuse. He is currently teaching everything he knows to Radiation Boy. 700 Mass: 701 Power: 702 Acceleration: 703 Traction: 704 Top Speed: 705 AeroDynamics: 706 Stability: 710 Point 711 Bilinear 712 Trilinear 720 Are you sure you want to 721 Retire from championship? 722 exit the game? 723 Disconnect from Multiplayer session? 724 Exit the race? 725 YES 726 NO 730 Return To Race 731 Exit Race 732 In Game Options 733 Paused 740 Unknown Network failure 741 That Server no longer Exists 742 Network set up incorrectly 750 You 751 Them