Airtime changes

v0.9.15 13-NOV-1996NEW

Features

• Added optional usage data sharing (web only)
• New engine sounds for each car
• Track theme songs
• Mud, water and oil stain your tyres (high quality)
• Vans and trucks pull better in mud
• Multiplayer is now enabled
• Improved multiplayer net code
• Specials allowed in multiplayer

Minor changes

• Last lap bell
• M mutes the music in most places
• Faster menus and championship screens
• Faster fades
• Improved special sparks
• Increased wheel detail (high quality)
• Stain detail option: mud and oil on your car (high quality)
• Lap checkpoints are more forgiving when you go wide
• More balancing of cars
• Fix: lag spike at the end of a race

v0.9.14 08-NOV-1996

Features

• Added what's new screen
• New title screen and intro
• Experimental multiplayer (Options > Enable Extra Features)
• Grass slides more and grabs less
• Persistent web saves

Minor changes

• Removed high-res mode (for now)
• Improved acceleration when turning at low speeds
• Improved camera placement for photo finish
• Hay bales are lighter
• Improved prop settling
• Trees produce leaves when hit
• Adjusted difficulty
• Tweaked cars
• Tweaked lap checkpoints
• Recalibrated benchmark
• Menus go back to where you opened them from
• Clearer warnings when running under DOSBox or without MMX
• Faster on the Windows, Linux and Mac downloads (DOSBox-X update)
• Fix: DOS prompt after exit on wide text screens
• Fix: Removed unused sound credit
• Fix: odd-coloured mud trails
• Fix: Cars no longer climb low walls when edging into them
• Fix: Saves from 0.9.10 on carry over: championship, unlocks, paints
• Fix: Replays show stuck cars being rescued
• Fix: An AI car could be rescued over and over and never finish
• Fix: Shallow puddles spray particles
• Fix: Menus no longer pause when the background replay loads

v0.9.13 01-NOV-1996

• Added secret codes
• Added champion mode
• Reset the championship from your profile
• New specials
• Photo finish
• Final lap indicator
• New driver clothes and car paint jobs
• Improved windmill and bridge
• Tweaked car handling
• Auto brake option
• Optimized car select screen
• Fixed 'wrong way' on roundabouts

v0.9.12 31-OCT-1996

• New championship rules
• Always 4 cars per track
• Added car stats
• Updated car colours
• Animated cow
• Optimized water splashes
• Fixed bug with particles

v0.9.11 29-OCT-1996

• Four cars, each with its own handling
• New NOS special
• Oil special lobs oil at rivals
• Oil on your tyres makes you lose control
• New bump physics
• Removed steering ramp
• Less turning at high speed
• Improved particles and smoke
• New sound effects
• Improved water

v0.9.10 29-OCT-1996

• Updated championship game mechanics
• Unlock tracks by winning championship races
• Faster turning in the air
• Improved track previews
• New oil surface type
• More consistent fonts

v0.9.9 26-OCT-1996

• Optimized voxel engine
• Remastered audio to -6db
• Identify player car at start of race
• Notification when you miss a track marker
• Many other small improvements

v0.9.8 25-OCT-1996

• New improved voxel rendering engine
• Updated championship
• Added feedback system
• Improvements to Skidmarks
• Camera defaults to lead
• Improved engine noises

v0.9.7 23-OCT-1996

• New track 1-3: Skidmarks, with a river, a ford and a bridge
• Updated tracks
• Mud: cars throw up mud, leave ruts and carry mud out on their tyres
• Mud and oil sit in the ground, tinted
• Sand traps: wheels dig in and the car crawls
• Smoother collisions: cars climb small steps, and rear wheels clear ramp lips
• AI cars pass islands on the right side

v0.9.6 22-OCT-1996

• Updated tracks, with new names
• Tighter turning at low speed
• Fixed a stutter just after GO
• Faster water, with fewer splashes
• Props collide properly with fences, walls and each other
• AI cars no longer wiggle, and find a way round when stuck
• Uses less memory
• Internal refactor of asset and memory management
• Saves and replays are kept in the game folder

v0.9.5 19-OCT-1996

• Reduced memory
• New asset manager
• Improved ace AI lap times
• Added a new track

v0.9.4 17-OCT-1996

• Added camera modes
• Less drag while in the air
• Added racing lines for different skill levels
• Better collisions with walls
• Added a pause menu to races

v0.9.3 16-OCT-1996

• New physics engine, running 120 steps a second for smooth motion on 60 and 120 Hz displays
• Reduced gravity
• Collidable props
• Smarter AI: better lane finding, keeps off the grass, and faster on the straights
• AI cars caught off the road are lifted back onto it
• Much smaller replay files and network traffic
• Track tweaks
• Ramps now accelerate cars
• The glide and the backward trick are gone

v0.9.2 13-OCT-1996

• New track: Track 1-2
• Improved keyboard steering, with adjustable ramp and initial strength
• New title quips, with daily rotation and special dates
• Support for larger maps
• Higher-precision height maps
• New drivers: Michael, John and Matthew
• Edge anti-aliasing and soft shadows
• Track selection with previews
• Updated splash artwork
• AI steers around marked hazards
• Practice returns to track selection

v0.9.1 11-OCT-1996

• Each rival drives their own car
• Landings throw up clods of dirt
• Improved water splashes, with a new wading sound
• Race assets load before the start
• High-res mode goes back to the original scale
• Tournament carries on the round you saved
• Fix: Replays now show each car as it was raced
• Fix: Cars properly drop onto the grid in every mode

v0.9.0 07-OCT-1996

• Tournament mode: a round of races against rivals, ending on the podium
• Define your player: name, driver and car colours
• Rival drivers with portraits, reactions and their own colours
• Rivals get better as the tournament goes on
• Tournament saves after every race, with Continue / New
• Results page, final standings, and victory / defeat screens
• Track records, with medals and fireworks for a new one
• New screen backgrounds and title wipe
• Floppy disk loading sounds
• High-res mode keeps the same scale
• Faster loading

v0.8.5 04-OCT-1996

• AI drivers in multiplayer rooms
• Difficulty setting for challenge mode
• Faster GUI scrolling
• Optimized lighting
• Network games go through a relay (TURN) when players can't connect directly

v0.8.4 03-OCT-1996

• Added a console
• Frame rate capped at 120 by default
• Improved high-res mode
• Web settings are kept between visits
• Updated split screen
• Optimized GUI

v0.8.3 03-OCT-1996

• Multiplayer rooms: make one, join one by its code, or pick one from the rooms on the network
• Added keybindings
• Updated music
• Updated fonts

v0.8.2 29-SEP-1996

• New music: Dance Truc (CHiPs, the theme) and chiptest1000 (M4kachu)
• Faster menu navigation
• Optimized GUI
• DOSBox-X uses the S3 Fast renderer automatically
• Cars brake on the starting grid while still settling onto the ground
• Removed skid mark fading for most races
• Improved fireworks, particles, sound effects
• F2 holds slow motion, F7 restarts music, F9 shows upload regions
• FPS stays above menu replay transitions

v0.8.1 28-SEP-1996

• Better network play support (a multiplayer lobby, player names and pings)
• Added options menu (lighting, voxel tracer, etc.)
• Built-in benchmark, scaled so a Pentium 200 scores 200
• Mode to (attempt to) run on 16MB machines
• Optimized loading
• Added Extras menu (about, replays, benchmark and changes)
• Improved shadows
• Improved jumps
• AI steers away from nearby cars

v0.7.0 26-SEP-1996

• AI opponents, with skill levels
• Race now has countdown, laps, places and a staggered start
• Added a few new cars
• Updated the tracks, with ramps, water, cliffs, kerbs and bumps
• Suspension, jumps and car collisions
• Race recordings and a replay viewer
• High scores and a score board
• First network play over IPX
• Depth buffer, shadows, skid marks, dirt particles and anti-aliasing
• New music, blended engine sound and new sound effects
• Splash screen and a title menu