Stunt Car Racer running at a super smooth 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 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 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 we've finally got a long list of details about this super smooth Stunt Car Racer that is coming to Amiga at some point in the near future.... Full list follows

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. See below for known issues.
• 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

What is still to be done?

• All the features from the Codetapper & StingRay WHDLoad slave are missing:
• No loading or saving of game progress to the hard disk
• No loading or saving of fastest lap or track times
• No support for different versions
• No trainer
• Fire button will not bypass name entry
• Support for the WHDLoad quit key
• Support for both PAL and NTSC; currently it tries to switch to NTSC and run at 60 FPS
• Car to car collisions may easily cause too much damage
• Rotation when falling off track sometimes acts weird
• The original code has not been optimized in any way - there's probably room for improvement
• Easy installation with all the features of the existing WHDLoad installer

Links 1) Download 2) Source