Test Drive
2 ports
Test Drive (Enhanced)
kylofon/testdrive-enhanced
An enhanced version of Test Drive (Accolade / Distinctive Software, 1987) in EGA, native on Windows with SDL3. The game is the faithful C reimplementation from test-drive-sdl3, so driving, traffic, and police work as in the original; on top of that, the view through the windscreen is redrawn at four times the resolution by default, with 120 road rows instead of 40 and 60 frames per second instead of 8, with a horizon with mountains, smoothly scaled objects, and a distance and time readout. It removes the copy protection, the TD.EXE launcher password, and the Hercules and CGA modes. The latest version, 1.0.4 (September 25), is a 64-bit Windows zip of about 2.6 MB. 15 of its 17 commits list Claude as a co-author.
You needYour own files of the DOS Test Drive in a folder named Game next to the program: TDEGA.EXE, CARS.TXT, SCORES, TDSND.SND, the *.PES archives, and the car *.BIN and *.SS files. Plus Windows and, for the default resolution, a multi-core CPU.
Test Drive (SDL3)
kylofon/test-drive-sdl3
A native Windows port of Test Drive (Accolade / Distinctive Software, 1987), rewritten in C with SDL3 from reverse engineering of the original program; it is not an emulator. It includes the DOS versions in EGA, CGA, and Hercules and the Amiga version, each with its own executable, and a launcher to pick the version, game folder, options, and keys. It keeps the original’s drawing speed of 8 frames per second while driving, reads keys while they are held, and fixes bugs of the original (the Amiga ones can be kept with --original-bugs). The repository holds no game data. The latest version, 0.3.0 (October 1), is a 64-bit Windows zip; 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 came out on September 16. All 16 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.
You needYour own files of the DOS Test Drive in a folder named Game: TDEGA.EXE (or TDCGA.EXE for CGA and Hercules), CARS.TXT, SCORES, TDSND.SND, the *.PES (EGA) or *.CMP (CGA and Hercules) archives, and the car *.BIN and *.SS files. For the Amiga version, the .adf disk image (or its extracted files). The folder must be writable. Plus Windows (the published builds are 64-bit).
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Questions
What projects are there for Test Drive?
The catalog has 2 ports for Test Drive, all on this page with their status.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Test Drive (DOS). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.