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Back of the Grid (C5 Sim)
By Chris Young 1996
Quote of the year
"I'm sure this is very interesting, but it's not my particular hobby."
Sir Clive Sinclair, on the subject of aliens
An Introduction
c5sim is the ONLY top-down racing game which allows you to race C5's around
a track, against a friend or computer or on your own in 'time trial' mode.
Who needs fast formula 1 car racing games, when you can race a three speed
(move forward, stop and move backward by reversing the connections to the
battery, pedalling backwards or trying to go uphill. Only the first option
is implemented in this game.) C5 around a track. There's no pitstops,
because the C5 was plastic and would therefore just bounce off of any
obstacles.
It features a 'flat battery' mode (2 player only), and fastest lap/race
times and championship tables (which are all automatically saved) and a
track editor (albeit not a very good one).
Please note that this will not work direct from CD, because it needs to
write to the disk, so if that's where it is now, please drag the c5sim
drawer across to your hard drive or a floppy disk.
About c5anim (the C5 Intro Anim)
By Chris Young 1996
This is an IFF ANIM5 animation (although I can convert to AVI - bit of a
large file, though - or FLC (and some other formats which I can't remember,
mostly ANIM5 variants), if you're a sad PC user.), which has to be manually
run if you want to watch it. I did it this way for two reasons:
a) AMOS Classic (I ain't got no compiler for AMOS Pro) doesn't have any
commands for loading or playing anims.
d) So you can choose whether to watch it or not, without wasting valuable
time accessing disks and things.
b) and c) are a bit irrelevant to this distribution, so I removed them.
This animation, you may or may not have realised, is based on the sort of
intro bit to Lotus III (You know, the one where the car comes up
the road and sort of "smacks" into the camera revealing the Lotus logo).
This one has Sir Clive on a C5, waving to everyone (he's happy because he
thinks it's going to be a big success) and sort of "crashing" into the
camera, revealing a crack and a screen showing "Sinclair C IIIII".
About the C5
The Sinclair C5 was released in 1985. It was (alledgedly) built because Sir
Clive had not passed his driving test. When it failed, he designed the Zike
(zero-emmision bike, or something) because he didn't want to be the only
person actually using a C5. However, the Zike was £500-ish, so no-one
bought it. Now he's designing some other vehicle (a C5-Reliant Robin
cross), so presumably he has now passed his test. Or he just wants more
'fun' poked at him. Personally, I reckon he should go back to designing
computers.
The menu for c5 sim
1UP box: allows you to enter your name. Click on the box and type in your
name, ending with Return (max. 9 chars).
Click on 2UP box to select who you want as player 2.
None: Race against (?) the clock
Computer: Race against a computer player
Human: Race aginst someone using a joystick connected to the mouse port
If you select "Human" for player 2, you then have two further options:
Click on "Enter Name" to enter player 2's name (as described above).
Click on "Battery" to toggle whether you want the "low battery" feature
switched on or off.
When on, whilst playing your c5's battery will suddenly become flat. To
continue racing, pedal (hit the fire button rapidly) as fast as you can.
To start, click on "Play". Enjoy.
If you want to practice a track, or want to load a custom track created
with the track editor, click with the right mouse button
instead.
Playing
Controls: Fire - move
Left - rotate anti-clockwise
Right - rotate clockwise
If a "battery flat" message appears, rapidly hit the fire button to pedal
along to the finish.
Other useful buttons to push:
Esc - Exit back to menu
Ctrl-C - Quit game
Help - Shows you the way around the track by marking points with the
numbers 1-9
Race Results
At the end of each race you will see a screen showing how good you are.
The game disk must be write-enabled, as c5-sim saves these results.
One Player Mode
The race results screen will display two tables: one of fastest lap times
for that race, the other of fastest finishing times.
Two Player Modes
The screen will display the winners name at the top, with the number of
races won, represented by cups, in this game underneath. The loser will be
displayed at the bottom of the screen.
After all races are raced, a table will be shown showing greatest win
difference between the two players. If there is no win difference, you will
not earn a place in the table.
Track editor for c5 sim
Warning: This track editor is "cheap and cheerful" - ie. it's not very
good. Even David Darling wouldn't say "it's absolutely brilliant!" (except,
erm, he probably would).
Move the cursor around with the arrow keys.
The track pieces are displayed round the edge of the screen. Click on one
to place it in the current position (or place the pointer over it and hit
space).
After this, mark sections of the track by positioning the cursor and
hitting numeric keys 0-9.
Note: These are checkpoints to make sure the player's not cheating, and for
the computer to follow.
Position the cursor over where you want the race to start from (over the 9s
is a good idea), and select "save" from the pull-down menu.
To start a new track: Select "new" from the menu
To load and edit a track: select "load" from the menu
All use of this program is at your own risk. No warranty is either
expressed or implied. I do not and will not accept any responsibility for
loss of data, damage to equipment, etc.
Please note that Unsatisfactory Software is not connected to or affiliated
by Sir Clive (or something)
Contact me
I don't have that much time to read emails, so if you do e-mail me please
conform to the following guidelines:
1. Is it really necessary? If not, don't bother
2. Keep it to a minimum
3. Put "unsat" (no quotes) in the subject line (else I might not read it)
4. Don't send bug reports or ideas, as I've lost the source code
5. Be young, female, single and preferably living in the UK (ensures a reply)
Send mail to: Chris Young <unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com>
I'm not trying to be unsociable (as I can't spell it), I just don't have the
time to read and reply to hundreds of messages.