carterrain-1.1 FINAL
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     By Benny Kramek
       http://benny.kramekweb.com
       benny@kramekweb.com

* This is the LINUX release. To get the windows version go to my website.

In this game, you drive a four wheel drive ground vehicle through a
race track.

This is the final realease. The game isn't complete, but I have decided
to stop working on it.


Instalation & Running
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First unpack the archive:
  % tar -zxvf carterrain-1.1.tar.gz

Then to play the game:
  % cd carterrain-1.1
  % ./carterrain

NOTE: You must run the game from the directory where the exacutable is!


Information
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The game is programmed in C++ and uses these libraries:
  ODE (Open Dynamics Engine)     http://www.q12.org/ode
  Allegro                        http://www.allegro.sf.net
  AllegroGL                      http://www.allegrogl.sf.net
  OpenGL                         http://www.opengl.org


The Controls are:
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+--------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+---------------+---------------+------------+
| Player | Forward  | Reverse    | Left       | Right       | Brake         | Change Camera | Fly        |
+--------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+---------------+---------------+------------+
|  1     | Up Arrow | Down Arrow | Left Arrow | Right Arrow | Right Control | Right Shift   | Return     |
|  2     | W        | S          | A          | D           | Left Control  | Left Shift    | Caps Lock  |
|  3     | Y        | H          | G          | J           | B             | T             | U          |
|  4     | P        | ;          | L          | '           | .             | O             | [          |
|  5     | KeyPadUp | KeyPadDown | KeyPadLeft | KeyPadRight | KeyPadEnd     | KeyPadHome    | KeyPadPGUP |
|  6     | Home     | End        | Delete     | Page Down   | Backspace     | Insert        | Page Up    |
+--------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+---------------+---------------+------------+


Development Enviroment
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ECS K7S5A
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1200mhz CPU
512MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Inno3d Geforce 2 Pro 64MB
slackware linux 8


Information on the source
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In the src/ directory you will find the game source. A sample makefile is included.
To compile it you will need all of the libraries mentioned above.
Please read the file COPYING before using the source code. If you make any interseting
improvements to the game please tell me.
WARNING: The source is very messy! 

Changes
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1.1 - The source is now compatible with AllegroGL 0.1.2, fixed the README, corrected
      my homepage in the game credits.


Bugs
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- If there are 6 players then the steering is kindof messed up. I'm not sure why.
- There are major memory leaks


Thanks to
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Russel Smith, for ODE
Shawn Hargreaves, for Allegro
Jeff Moloffee, for helping me learn OpenGL
My family, for trying to keep me away from my computer.
Linus Torvalds, for Linux
& Bill Gates, for uh..

























