Racing pseudo 3D road effect in MSX 1

Actually, 'Enduro' is already created for MSX 1, see this news post.

Another thread which might be interesting is this one. Although that is about a MSX 2 version, it is also referring to the same url.

Well done for finding a site that exists for like, 10+ years?

While the algorithm presented there is really interesting, the code is not very useful on an 8-bit machine.

Fortunately we have lots of Spectrum racing games that can do these things already, even in the 80s.

If I remember there have been racing games released on the Spectrum recently, so you could try those in the meantime.

From the top of my head: Enduro Racer, Chase HQ, Nightmare Rally, Power Drift, OutRun, Buggy Boy, WEC Le Mans, Hard Drivin', Space Harrier, Road Blasters. There are probably hundreds of racing games on 8 bit computers that you can choose as inspiration and research.

Enduro Racer does not have hills. I think that WEC Le Mans has the best and the fastest algorithm of rendering of pseudo 3d roads on MSX. About the Lou's pseudo 3d Page, I am more optimist. Some solutions proposed there are suitable to be implemented with fixed point math and have been used by Asmusr on TI99

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/251540-formula-18a-formula...

This is the version with plain TMS9918, where a pimped version with F18A also exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdYd_1-Coo

True, even if all turns and animation frames are pre-computed, thus in order to limit the memory usage, there is no "transition" between two type of road segments.
The scenarios are awesome but the lack of transitions makes the road animation unrealistic (but those games do not want to be realistic after all).

Probably using modern cartridges, even using pre-computed scenes, it could be possible to do much more to keep the illusion of a continuous road, but as everything in life it will be a matter of trade off between rom space and number and accuracy of possible scenes and transitions

Sorry, I am having a bit of internet connection problems lately, so I can't reply very often (or even replying things at all, sorry.) xD

"Outdated" wouldn't be the term I'd used. I'd probably say it's too modern. It's also not really big news. I've seen that site a very long time ago and the code is really good if you want to use things like javascript; in that case you can probably just copy and paste the code.

Now I could write an essay here, but with my spotty internet connection right now, I'll just say that perhaps you should at least try it out yourself and then figure it out yourself? Perhaps I'm wrong, but you will gain lots of assembly experience while figuring things out.

PS. I have been watching videos of Buck Rogers before. Unless I was watching the wrong videos, I haven't seen any hills in that game. I am also wondering why you are trying to post pictures of roads with hills if you're just trying to make Buck Rogers.