![Stunt Car Racer running at a super smooth 50/60fps on the Amiga? [BETA UPDATE]](https://gamingnewsmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/stunt.jpg "Stunt Car Racer running at a super smooth 50/60fps on the Amiga? [BETA UPDATE]")
In the late 80’s, Geoff Crammond released the incredible game of ‘ Stunt Car Racer ‘. It involved you the player, racing around a 3D track in a first person view using a vehicle which had boost capabilities. It was also one of the greatest racing games ever released and what made it so great was the fact that all of the tracks were like rollercoasters, with such dangerous driving and incredible heights involved it would’ve killed anyone if it was real life. But this month as a bit of a shock, a coder by the name of Vesuri looks to be working on an Amiga version of Stunt Car Racer that’s running at a smooth 50/60fps. Something Amiga owners have been wanting for a very long time.
Either its blind nostalgia or something else but I’ve never had a problem with the frame rate in the game, but even so back in 2016 there was a number of owners hoping for a smooth 50/60fps frame rate and offerings of £400. In fact according to one user, part of the reason he even bought a 68060 at the time was the hope that SCR would break the ~15fps frame rate it was fixed to. That hope didn’t bear fruit at the time, but with this latest tease there’s hope we may finally see a 50/60fps Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga…
(This is a comparison with the A500 side by side (WinUAE) – VincentGR)
UPDATE Checking my comments feed early this morning I was told by Vesuri, that not only is there a new video provided above, but there’s a new updated beta giving us an early tease of this super smooth Stunt Car Racer that is coming to the Amiga at some point in the near future.
What is it?
- This is a modification of Stunt Car Racer which unlocks the framerate without modifying the speed or the physics of the game.
- The modification is intended to be run on Amigas with a fast CPU and fast memory.
- The modification is distributed as a WHDLoad slave file. A Stunt Car Racer WHDLoad installation is required.
- It is still a work in progress. Consider it a beta version.
- Source code will be distributed once it is no longer a work in progress.
How to use it?
- Install Stunt Car Racer using WHDLoad. Only the disk based version is currently supported (not “The New Tracks” version).
- Replace StuntCarRacer.slave with the one provided with this modification.
- Run WHDLoad StuntCarRacer.slave.
- Press the right mouse button to quit. The WHDLoad quit key won’t work yet.
- If it refuses to start, try booting without startup-sequence, run SetPatch and then WHDLoad StuntCarRacer.slave
Patch Notes :
- Unfortunately my previous update was a bit rushed, sorry about that. Here’s a new version that should fix all the bigger issues I’m aware of:
- Game was still running in NTSC
- Draw bridge was not animating as expected
- Bottom line of the third right flame animation frame was corrupted
- Hopefully any other crashes and corrupted graphics at the end of a race
