FRANCOCHAMPS!
A downloadable game
CONTROLS:
Joystick in port 2 (port 1 also works) or the keyboard:
JOYSTICK KEYBOARD
FIRE ............ SPACE ...... accelerate
UP .............. Q .......... shift to HIGH gear (HI)
DOWN ............ A .......... shift to LOW gear (LO)
LEFT ............ O .......... steer left
RIGHT ........... P .......... steer right
On the menu pages use the keyboard:
RETURN .......... next page
Y / N ........... answer "PLAY AGAIN?"
There is no brake pedal, just like in the arcade original:
release FIRE to coast, or shift DOWN into LOW gear above
about 190 km/h to slow down hard with engine braking.
Gears:
LO strong acceleration from a standstill, tops out at
about 190 km/h.
HI needed for top speed (about 320 km/h), but sluggish
below 75 km/h. Start in LO, shift UP at around
150-190 km/h.
Download
Install instructions
Read the readme text file very carefully.
LOADING
Emulator (VICE, CCS64, Hoxs64, C64 Forever, online emulators):
- Drag francochamps.prg or francochamps.d64 onto the emulator
window, or use "Autostart" / "Smart attach".
From the disk image (real C64 with SD2IEC / 1541 Ultimate, or
an emulator with the .d64 attached):
LOAD"FRANCOCHAMPS",8,1
RUN
(LOAD"*",8,1 followed by RUN also works.)
After RUN the screen stays black for about two seconds while
the game builds its road graphics, then the WELCOME page
appears.
The game is made for a PAL C64 (50 Hz). On NTSC machines it
runs, but faster and with small colour glitches on the road.
