Old C64 REVS

Hi fellow racers! Do you remember the golden C64 days? Who still knows REVS by MicroProse? I recently dug it out, thinking of the funny names that the computer drivers had. I always wondered what most of the names say; as I'm not a native English speaker, I've some natural difficulties in understanding :) Well, first of all, here they are: Billy Bumper Dan Dipstick Davey Rocket Desmond Dash Gary Clipper Gloria Slap Harry Fume Hugh Jengine Johnny Turbo Max Throttle Miles Behind Percy Veer Peter Out Rick Shaw Roland Slide Sid Spoiler Slim Chance Willy Swerve Wilma Cargo Of course, some of them are very obvious, like Hugh Jengine (huge engine), Max Throttle (sic), Miles Behind (dito) and so on. BUT I'd like you to help me with all of them, as I'm not completely familiar with the technical terms, and I don't want to miss anything, even with the 'Christian names'. Whose fantasy is big enough to help me? :) Juergen. \ / \\ // \\\ U /// ==ELITE== Juergen Athen \\\-/// jAmeson on IRC, NightFall =^= ^

A game I still remember very fondly (great scraps at Brands Hatch) Well, I've had a go at some of them :-) Glorious Lap The English word "Persevere" And English expression meaning to "run out" or "dwindle" Rickshaw (sp). Kind of bicycle/taxi used in the Far East! Roll and Slide? Another English expression meaning "not a hope" or "only a small chance" Will He Swerve? Will My Car Go? _________ ___________________________________________

What a mighty game Revs was ! Here's what I made of some of the less obvious driver names: A play on "Billy Bunter" strange British children's story character from the 1930's Davey Crocket ? Just a bit of aliteration Gary Glitter, sad '70s "glam rock" start I dread to think Fume as in car exhaust fumes Persevere - i.e. to keep trying Peter out = break down Revs was a great game on the C64. I had the plus edition with the extra tracks. I was so mad on the game I wrote a utility to change all the names and hacked it so that it would store all six tracks in the C128's unused video ram and load them sequentially so that you could have a full season's racing on all the tracks instead of just racing on one chosen track. What a misspent youth I had !

Yeah, I remember Revs, Geoff Crammond's first racing game! I never could figure it out, then again, I was only 4 years old! Anyway, I'll try and decipher these names for you m8... Here they are: Billy Bumper - Er, Billy Bumper [as in car bumper I guess] Dan Dipstick - Hmm, Dan Dipstick [as in car dipstick] Davey Rocket - Take off of Davey Crocket Desmond Dash - As in dash, dashing around Gary Clipper - Uh, don't know Gloria Slap - Glorius lap [hahahaa] Harry Fume - Beats me Hugh Jengine - Yeah, we all know this one Johnny Turbo - as n Turbo [some of these are really quite poor] Max Throttle - as in Maximum Throttle Miles Behind - Hmm, I wonder... Percy Veer - as in persavere [to keep trying] Peter Out - as in, well, peter out [to stop working] Rick Shaw - as in rickshaw [but i've forgotten what it means] Roland Slide - whatever Sid Spoiler - as in car spoiler Slim Chance - slim chance [pretty obvious really!] Willy Swerve - as in *s**** 'will he swerve'? Wilma Cargo - as in *roar with laughter* 'will my car go'? Sorry I couldn't help with all of them, but you get the idea. Geoff's latest joke is obviously the release date of GP2. Keeping us*** on the wire... -- --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Actually I understand its not up to Geoff when GP2 is released, and as far as I know the game is now finished!

The tracks in the plus edition of Revs were: Brand Hatch Silverstone Snetterton Donington Oulton Park Nurburgring - not, I hasten to add, the mammoth GP circuit Anyone who thinks the AI in Indycar 1 is lousy should see the way the drivers in Revs behave. The game is truly unforgiving in a way which just wouldn't wash these days. Still, it was all we had back then. It almost makes me want to dig my C128 out and play it :) Anyone know of a decent C64 emulator for the PC ?

www.kuru.com (pub/packages/emulators...something) It has the emulator AND a copy of Revs (I've just been playing it!) Have fun ;) Cheers! John _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ _________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |_________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____:/ -=Ayrton Senna=- \.____|::|__| \ /_______:/ \::/ Racing is in my ***, it's part of me \::/ \._______\

Does anybody have the "plus edition" in a form usable by a PC C64 emulator? The C64 Revs I got hold of has only Brands Hatch and Silverstone. I still have, and still play occasionally, the original BBC version. This has an expansion disk called "Revs Four Tracks" with Brands, Snetterton, Donnington and Oulton Park. Us BBC owners didn't have the Nuerburgring, though :-(. What was the justification for that - was there ever a British F3 race there?

I don't think there was a British F3 race there. The blurb in the manual states that it was included because it is "the most challenging drive in Europe". You don't get a lap rundown like with the other tracks so maybe it was something that Geoff Crammond was working on and was put in at the last minute. I always found Brands Hatch to be the toughest cicuit - Nurburgring was fairly easy.

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> >Anyone know of > >a decent C64 emulator for the PC ? > www.kuru.com (pub/packages/emulators...something) > It has the emulator AND a copy of Revs (I've just been playing it!) > Have fun ;) > Cheers! > John

How long would it take to download the game and the emulator, I haven't played it since I was a nipper, and then I couldn't get it working cause I didn't understand the clutch! -- --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------

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|> The tracks in the plus edition of Revs were: |> |> Brand Hatch |> Silverstone |> Snetterton |> Donington |> Oulton Park |> Nurburgring - not, I hasten to add, the mammoth GP circuit |> |> Anyone who thinks the AI in Indycar 1 is lousy should see the way the |> drivers in Revs behave. The game is truly unforgiving in a way which |> just wouldn't wash these days. Still, it was all we had back then. It |> almost makes me want to dig my C128 out and play it :) Anyone know of |> a decent C64 emulator for the PC ?

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!! :-))) Oh, I didn't hope to really find any answers :-) Thank you so much altogether :) Revs was the first racing game that I know that earned the name 'simulation', and I didn't get too skilled only because my C64's keyboard was so bad. And it's new to me that Geoff Crammond really programmed Revs! Perhaps someone knows where to write him to, he should be the best source for the names :) I didn't know that there was a 'plus' edition - you surely can't do the RAM trick on the C64 ;-) and as for the emulators, there are a lot in the mean time! Don't have their locations handy now though. I can look them up if you like, at least their names so you can have archie search. One good site should be ftp.gmd.de though. Juergen. \ / \\ // \\\ U /// ==ELITE== Juergen Athen http://iraul1.ira.uka.de/~s_athen/ja.html \\\-/// jAmeson on IRC, NightFall =^= ^

Do you know how big the ROM was on the C64? We're talking a couple of minutes for the Emulator and seconds for the game (40k or so). Cheers! John _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ _________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |_________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____:/ -=Ayrton Senna=- \.____|::|__| \ /_______:/ \::/ Racing is in my ***, it's part of me \::/ \._______\

Hi! Well I just can't help not to comment. The game is the most incredible game for it's time. I was amazed at the accuracy. I remember taking some of the fastest corners very fast. The car would have a grip until you about reach the apex, and then if you are too fast, the back side just slides our. Fantastic. That was the only game that made my heart race like crazy. My pulse really went way up when another car was chasing me. I have that c64 simulator now, and I guess I will try to find the game and check it out. Does anybody outthere have it? And is it legal to copy it now, as I have isplaced my copy. And to think it was the master (Crammond) behind that game too - well who else :) Well that's enough for now - I really feel sorry for those out there that never had a chance to expirience REVS! Domagoj

I managed to track it down last month together with a C64 emulator and it seemed to work ok. I used to play it to death on the BBC Computer around 1985-86 when it first came out, it sure does show it's age. Have fun, mail me and let me know what you think.# FTP from the following........ www.kuru.com/pub/packages/c64s Emulator is called C64S.ZIP www.kuru.com/pub/packages/cs4s/d64games/ REVS game is called REVS2.ZIP Gary Turner.