Who remembers: Carmageddon

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I was quite surprised not to find a thread (no matter how old) for the original Carmageddon on PC.

I can still remember playing the demo (uncensored version) over and over again. It was the best thing ever back then. But when it came to its release it was censored and humans were changed to zombies here in the UK. Even the intro movie was changed to show zombies and not humans, I think the best edited part is the 'start flag' guy right at the end of the intro before he gets mowed down, they've blatantly done a quick colour palette change from human skin colour to zombie green. (Why a zombie would be starting a race is just comical).

It didnt take long for a patch to come out and rectify that.

I did some searching around and have managed to find my original Carmageddon CD (Carmageddon 95 - Windows 95 version) and get it to run 100% on Windows Vista and XP, with the blood patch and no CD required in the drive.

Some links:

Intro movie (uncensored): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWFX0FPhOA

Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon

Carmageddon Wiki : http://carmageddon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Box covers: http://www.mobygames.com/game/carmageddon/cover-art

How to fix the timer (it runs too fast on modern machines) : http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/324

And...

http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/337

And...

http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/ (This is to download a small .dll file that allows you to run Carmageddon - and C&C weirdly - smoothly, it has an ini file you can edit to change settings)

Great website with mods and the Blood Patch : http://rr2000.toshiba-3.com/

If anyone needs any help with getting it to run using the above links / downloads, I may be able to help as it took me a while to get it to run as it was back in 1997.

In a nut shell, for a Carmageddon 95 installation and not need the CD to play, you do not need a No CD crack or anything like that. Just simply copy all the contents from the CD to a directory, now eject the CD and install Carmageddon to a new directory from the files you copied. (run setup.exe). Once installed you can play the game and it will think the directory you copied all the files to is the CD. However, it does not play the music and you cannot delete the directory you copied all the files to.

I havent tried using a Glide Wrapper to run Carmageddon in 3DFX mode with the patch.

So, who else remembers the classic Carmageddon and roll on Carmageddon Reincarnation!
 
I remember this, also had the expansion pack (think it was called splat pack and it had 3dfx support)

Think I still have the cd's in storage somewhere :D

I never bought TDR2000 or any of the later ones tho :(
 
Great game. I have it running in 3DFX using the glide wrapper. I couldn't play it without 3dfx as the graphics were just too terrible - even on release!

What a game, one of my all time favourites. The sequels sucked though :(
 
Omaeka said:
I swear Carmageddon was a GTA 1 clone? What am I thinking of here? :confused:
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No. It was Doom with cars ;) GTA1 was top-down. The authorities suggested (strongly) that they changed the people for zombies in order for it to get a certificate.

I've still got a launch day copy somewhere in the parents loft. Worked in a big PC shop at the time - we sold out within a couple of hours.
 
Oh man, remember playing this at my mates house on his ancient PC years back when we were still in Primary School. No idea what we were doing so we just used to drive about killing everyone, good times and I also remember it having an amazing soundtrack.
 
MagicBoy said:
No. It was Doom with cars ;) GTA1 was top-down. The authorities suggested (strongly) that they changed the people for zombies in order for it to get a certificate.

I've still got a launch day copy somewhere in the parents loft. Worked in a big PC shop at the time - we sold out within a couple of hours.
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I'm definitely thinking of a game with a similar name to Carmageddon that was birds eye and controlled like GTA 1! I aint gonna be able to think straight until I find out what it is now. :(

HINT: It wasn't GTA 1. :p
 
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