Top Speed

Top Speed is the name of the first game of the Playing in the dark team. It is a racing game based on sound. Like any racing game it's goal is to reach the finishline as fast as possible without crashing. The game will run on virtually any computer running Windows 98 or later. It does however require DirectX 8.1 or later. DirectX 8.1 comes with Windows XP, but if you are running an earlier version of Windows and haven't got it yet, you can download it for free from the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/directx.

features

• choose between two racecars or two motorcycles
• choose between 8 racetracks or select one of the 4 streetadventures containing different roadsurfaces, sounds and weather effects
• choose between automatic or manual transmission to maintain your track records and compare them with others
• self-voicing : no screenreader required

Top Speed 2

features

Like it's predecessor Top Speed 2 is a racing game based on sound. It has many advanced features unlike any other accessible racing game. It's features include :

• Racing against up to 7 computer controlled opponents on any of the 8 tracks in any of the 6 included vehicles.
• Support for force feedback steering wheels or joysticks. Feel the car!
• Hear the cars pass by you in surround sound!
• Self-voicing : no screenreader required.
• Download add-on cars, tracks and street adventures made by other players.
• Race against each other online on local networks or the internet with up to 8 players!
• Configure the game to your liking with the extensive options menu.
• It's for free!
• The game will run on virtually any computer running Windows 98 or later. It does however require DirectX 8.1 or later. DirectX 8.1 comes with Windows XP, but if you are running an earlier version of Windows and haven't got it yet, you can download it for free from the Microsoft website.

Top Speed 3

Playing in the Dark and Ruby AccessWare are proud to present Top Speed version 3.0 - the final release of the popular, accessible freeware racing game that uses only audio and an optional force-feedback joystick to communicate with the player. As with the prior version of Top Speed, this new version includes a multi-player mode, up to seven computer opponents to race against, and the ability to create your own tracks and vehicles. However, there are also some exciting new features such as:

features

• You can now use custom tracks in multi-player mode.
• Significantly improved the performance and bandwidth usage of the multi-player mode.
• The port used for Multi-player games is now 25255 instead of 25989, both UDP and TCP.
• You can now use tracks of up to 8192 definitions in multi-player mode. Longer tracks will be truncated.
• The Quick Start option in the Main Menu now picks a random track and vehicle and then starts a Single Race.
• Some menus and menu items have been moved and re-organized. Most notably, the Street Adventure menu item has been moved out of the Main Menu into the various Track Selection menus.
• You can now select street adventures in Single Race mode.
• You can now use the horn when your engine is starting and when you are finished.
• When another player finishes their vehicle will now properly decelerate instead of driving on into infinity.
• Added a new theme song and updated the menu to make use of it.
• Improved the sound of automatic gear switching.
• The vehicles of other players in a multi-player session will now sound (almost) exactly as it sounds to the one driving it.
• Connecting to a server in multi-player mode should be a little faster.
• Replaced the old mini-crash sound.
• Your brake sound will no longer cut out under a certain speed but instead fade away smoothly.
• The default for the Curve Announcement setting has been changed to Speed Dependent.
• The computer player artificial intelligence has been updated to be more realistic.
• The effect of the difficulty setting has been made more noticeable.
• You can now race up to sixteen laps.
• Whenever a sound in the soundpack cannot be loaded it will now be replaced with a generic doing-sound.
• Computer players use their horns a bit more often.
• Added Laps Only to the Automatic Race Information setting.
• The game now accepts considerably more joystick buttons to assign to the various functions.
• The number of laps you raced is now taken into account when reading and writing highscores. This means that if you race a new record on three laps and then race the same track with a setting of two laps, you will make yet another new record.
• Computer players on the Normal and Hard difficulty level will now decrease their throttle when they see a hairpin coming.
• It is now possible to press the slash-key (/) on the name of a track in the menu to hear your highscores for that track.
• Added the Top Speed 3 Configuration Tool. This is an updated version of the classic Server Selector. Besides specifying a server name or IP-address for use in multi-player mode you can now also enable and disable tracing. It is highly recommended that you leave tracing disabled unless you're asked to provide a trace log containing debug information.
• The game now only updates most sounds when necessary.
• Updated Ogg Vorbis decoder.
• Program startup time should now be a little shorter.
• Various optimizations and performance improvements have been made.