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Pole Position is a 1982 racing arcade game by Namco, released by Atari in North America, and a successor to Namco's earlier racing games like 1976's F-1. ppengine is a mostly-complete 3D remake of Namco/Atari's arcade racer Pole Position, with its game logic reverse-engineered directly from the original arcade ROMs. It's built with SDL2, Open Scene Graph, and the Gorilla Audio library, and has primarily been tested on Linux.
How it differs from the original
Uses a full 3D rendering pipeline via Open Scene Graph rather than the original's sprite-based arcade visuals, while keeping the underlying game logic reverse-engineered from the real ROMs; the title screen itself remains unimplemented, showing only as a grey square before demo mode begins.
Getting started
Press 1 to start a game once the demo mode is running; steer, brake, and accelerate with the arrow keys, and press Space to switch between low and high gear.
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