Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine

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169 points·fidotron··12 comments

The author of this project blogged about his experience making it the whole time. It’s a pretty entertaining read: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/search/label/cannonball

I assume he’s clipping hidden surfaces?

This is great.

If you're into these retro games there's a couple of others that have been fun:

Descent 3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3 (if you own the original, or on other platforms if you want to buy)

OpenRCT2 is amazing as well. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 was an absurdly entertaining game, and this wrapper makes it even better.

Is not a wrapper, it's a whole new engine.

Also Turbo OutRun Reimagined

The top end of OutRut type tech was Power Drift and Rail Chase

It's probably more a reference to The Cannonball Run film[1], which the designer of Out Run mentioned[2] inspired the original game.

If anyone has an M1 binary…

Use RetroArch: