Game Release: 8bit-Slicks Online Racer for Apple, Atari, C64

[8bit-Dude]

It was 18 months in the making... but finally I am pleased to announce the release of 8bit-Slicks for the Apple//e, Atari XL, and C64, just in time for the Xmas holiday!

The game supports up-to 4 players, local or online (using the Uthernet, DragonCart or RR-Net). 13 games servers are available, and results are recorded for competitive Ranking. So make sure to download the game and join us for some racing fun this holiday season!

I am now porting the game to the Atmos and Electron (which are also 6502 computers). After that, I will also make ports for 6809 and Z80 computers, so keep tuned!

Cheers, Tony (aka 8bit-Dude)

P.S: Feel free to repost this news and spread the word, the more players online the merrrier!!!

[web8bits]

Hi Tony and welcome to Retro Wiki

First of all, its your first post here, we dont know who are you and what do you do, so, please, introduce yourself first to our audience.

Regards

[8bit-Dude]

Hi Web8bits!

I was rushing this morning trying to announce the game release on various forums, thus the lack of self introduction. Sorry for that!

So I am a regular of the AtariAge forum, where I got a lot of support throughout this project. I am French, but I live in Kyoto Japan, and love developping games for 8bit era computers. My first computer was a Thomson MO5, and I hope to port this game also to the MO5/TO7 (and other 6809 based computers).

Cheers,
Tony

[masteries]

Greetings 8bit-Dude,

I am glad to see foreign retro-lovers here,
also prior to forgot it... ¡Congratulations for your online multiplayer game for these 8 bit machines!

[ron]

Congrats 8bit-dude. Thanks for sharing !
Welcome aboard !

[jltursan]

¡Bienvenido al foro y gracias por hacernos saber de tu desarrollo!

Welcome to the forum and congrats for such an multiplatform effort!

Nice to hear about you being an old MO-5 user, the machine has been covered sometimes in the forum; but there's not a strong user base here. Speaking from myself, being a 6809 lover, I've most of the Thomson machines, I simply like them

[DyLucke]

Great work!
Thank you for sharing and welcome to the community.

[Quickie]

Hi 8bit-Dude!

First of all welcome to Retrowiki!
Congratulations for finally bringing to reality what some of us were hoping to become reality since long time ago: a multiplayer game with real cross-platform support.
I even though once to start a project like this, but being restricted to have minimum skills on AGD this seemed a titanic job for me although I knew that someday somebody will bring a solution like yours
I love the idea of having more developments like this 8-bit slicks with the tools you're developing (covering Z80,6502,6509 processors is simply amazing: wow!)

Félicitations!

[makinavaja]

Online gaming for my c=64....
Im in love with you guys!! thanks!!! this weekend will be great!!

By the way... any z80 versión? msx, zx48, cpc...

[8bit-Dude]

If you check the download page, you will see a list of future platforms to which I plan to port the game.
Besides, I am also developping a universal ethernet adapter that plugs into any standard joystick port...

[makinavaja]

If you check the download page, you will see a list of future platforms to which I plan to port the game.
Besides, I am also developping a universal ethernet adapter that plugs into any standard joystick port...

Oh my god... that can be fantastic, really!, its a very good idea.
On MSX computers, We've got 3 different ethernet cards, and only 1 online game, connect 4. Also, we've got those mini games available for symbos. With that universal ethernet adapter, this stuff must be muuuuuch easier!!