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chance420

08 Jul : 06:26

Yooo it’s been a phat minute. Hope y’all are doin good. Saw that test drive is makin a comeback which is so dope. Cant wait to see what they come up with

Nobby76

06 Jul : 17:41

Cool

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New game being announced on July 7th! Exciting times. Finally a return to the series!

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i must admit that when i entered this site i thought it was dead, but a few brave souls like you are still here, it is amazing!

fo0k

26 Mar : 21:17

not a clue sadly.. nobby more likely.

FerrariFan599

25 Mar : 20:33

So... apparently TDU2 can't update to the most current build with DLC2 anymore? I get the "Error 01" crap.

Maybe the original gang of @Nobby or @fo0k could help me out?

fo0k

19 Mar : 11:00

and.. its no longer flagged.

the thread regarding the tducam tweak was the reason. and the rar file with the tducam.exe
It flagging as malware.. its not.. but Ive deleted it so we should be good now.

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why is this site flagged again as an 'unwanted software site'?

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TheJax

Mon Jan 21 2013, 11:12AM

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Joined: Tue Jun 12 2012, 06:05PM
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he U.S. branch of Atari has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as a means of separating its financials from its French parent holding company Atari S.A., and in turn securing a fresh start.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy is often used to allow large companies to restructure their business affairs, although it is usually only put into motion after careful consideration of alternative options.

Atari Inc. and its other U.S.-based companies, including Atari Interactive Inc., Humongous, Inc. and California US Holdings, are looking to sell all of their assets within the next 90-120 days, as the collective looks to shift business from traditional retail games to digital and licensing.

Assets due to be sold include Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Battlezone, Tempest, Test Drive, Backyard Sports and Humongous.

Atari was bought out by French developer Infogrames back in 2008, and in 2009 Infogrames changed its name to Atari S.A., as it looked to make use of the Atari name.

However, the U.S. branch of Atari now wants to separate itself from Atari S.A., as it says that its new focus on digital games has turned it into "a growth engine," yet this has gone "unrealized while under the control of Atari S.A."

This move will allow Atari to pull away from "the structural financial encumbrances" of its parent company, it said in a statement.

As part of the filing, Atari is looking to obtain $5.25 million in debtor-in-possession financing from financial investment company Tenor Capital Management.

source: [Clickety Click]

Nobby76

Mon Jan 21 2013, 07:13PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

something was bound to give at some point.

Asg16_4

Mon Jan 21 2013, 08:31PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

lol

Prepsi

Tue Jan 22 2013, 01:37AM

Registered Member #698
Joined: Thu Oct 04 2012, 02:41AM

Crap, jax you beat me to it. Oh well. This certainly means that TDU2 will be sold, let's hope it's to someone who gives a crap about the players.

FerrariFan599

Tue Jan 22 2013, 01:52AM

Registered Member #795
Joined: Fri Nov 16 2012, 02:06AM

Prepsi wrote ...

Crap, jax you beat me to it. Oh well. This certainly means that TDU2 will be sold, let's hope it's to someone who gives a crap about the players.

Lol, put the post twice XD

And has anyone ever played "Test Drive"? By Accolade i think.

[Clickety Click]

Asg16_4

Tue Jan 22 2013, 04:01AM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

nope probably 2d graphics and i really do hope that if its getting sold for more and better dlc

Nobby76

Tue Jan 22 2013, 04:23PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

FerrariFan599 wrote ...

And has anyone ever played "Test Drive"? By Accolade i think.
[Clickety Click]

YES i have. I had Test drive 1,2 and 3 on the Commodore Amiga. You drove up a mountain side road in all 3, so it was basically a giant spiral. The only real difference between each game was the cars you got, you only had like 5 or 6 cars in each game. Usually a ferrari, a lambo, a lotus and a porsche and one out of place car (in TD1 it was a corvette i think ). Very good and damn hard games for their time..

@Asg16_4 If i remember correctly they weren't actually 2d games, i think the road was 3d, well as 3d as you could get back then...

(so probably 3d vector graphics) and the cockpit of your car and the traffic cars were sprites overlaid on top (back then we knew how to drive properly in cockpit view, none of this playstation style driving from outside hehe)

Brings back good memories, i might break out the old amiga again one day ( we have fully working versions of both the amiga 500 and amiga 1200) with half a MB of ram and 1MB of ram respectively. ( a whole computer with half a megabyte of ram lol) Mind you i remember and still own a sinclair ZX81 (1kb of ram although you could get a 16kb ram pack) A sinclair spectrum 48k ( 48kb ram, rubber keys) and a spectrum+2 (which had 128kb of ram, proper hard plastic keys like we have today and built in tape deck on the side) You could get a whole game for 48kb, you need more than that just to compose an email to someone these days ....... Im old......

Asg16_4

Tue Jan 22 2013, 07:14PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

ha ha ha thats so funny games sucked back then

Nobby76

Tue Jan 22 2013, 07:25PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

No they didnt, Games were awesome back then. Most of the basic ideas for modern games comes from games we had back then. There is STILL a huge Sinclair spectrum and Commodore 64 following.

No half games because they wanted to save the rest for DLC, hell of a lot less games has the same kinds of bugs and screw ups that games seem to get today ( so no updates needed) and best of all games didnt cost £45-£60. At worst a brand new game would cost you £6.99 most were under £5 though.

Asg16_4

Tue Jan 22 2013, 07:26PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

lol floppy disk time!

Nobby76

Tue Jan 22 2013, 07:34PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

floppy disks pffft those silly modern inventions, we used cassette tapes (regular audio cassettes) We were hardcore, our stuff was recorded as sound

Made it easy as hell to pirate stuff, you just had to have a double cassette deck stereo, put the original tape in one deck, and a blank cassette in the other and record.

Asg16_4

Tue Jan 22 2013, 10:22PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

oh crap dude thats so cool lol save you a couple bucks or so

DonnieBrasco

Tue Jan 22 2013, 10:33PM

Joined: Tue Dec 20 2011, 08:03PM

Nobby76 wrote ...

floppy disks pffft those silly modern inventions, we used cassette tapes (regular audio cassettes) We were hardcore, our stuff was recorded as sound

Made it easy as hell to pirate stuff, you just had to have a double cassette deck stereo, put the original tape in one deck, and a blank cassette in the other and record.

Oh Yeah i remember that too.

This was the little sweat thing i called my first "computer" in 1988.

(Robotron KC87)

Today collectors pay up to 1.000 Euro for this antique technology. ...and my dad threw it in the garbagecan a couple of years ago.

Asg16_4

Tue Jan 22 2013, 10:39PM

Registered Member #856
Joined: Mon Dec 03 2012, 07:25PM

damn that must suck for you and besides thats so legit how used to be able to do that but now i don't really know how to do it i think you burn the files on it right?