You’ve got questions, we’ve got advice that’ll deeply confuse you. Wait, that’s not right. Anyway, here’s the deal, if there’s a question about the site, about the games on the site, about games I’ve talked about on the site, about the world, or if you feel like threatening me in the form of a question, just contact me and I’ll answer it here.
Note that I may correct spelling errors.
You clould remake again a Interstate’82 Page since its no more dead. !
😉 My name is DJ_edyo and i am the founder of the Interstate’82
Vigilante’s association ! www.i82va.comwe have a game patch that works and we still play online ! 😀 haha
have a good day !
Nice! I’ll spread the word.
You have a great website, I mainly visited it for the Battlezone pages, I saw that you allow sites to be added to your link page upon request. I would like to ask if you could add my site, it is located at http://home.kpn.nl/lrother1994/maproom.htm or, if you want the short link http://www.bzmaps.tk
I already have a link to your site up on my links page, you provide some very good information about Battlezone and other games, I really enjoy browsing your site.
It’s up on the site. Thanks for the e-mail and the link!
just want to begin my question with saying thanks to you for having this site set up, its great for the small i76-community, its a special place for small numbe of people out there who like the groove.
Q: im playing on GOG-version of interstate 76 and everythings nice except that the framerate is too high so i wont be able to make the jump in the end of mission 5, even with nitro. any clues on fixing this? can tell you im really not the only one with this problem… basically everyone who buys the gog-version has it.
thank you,
speed is your limit!
Thanks for compliments. This has been a problem plaguing all versions of I ’76 on modern systems. Good news: I do have a fix, at least for NVIDIA cards. Within the NVIDIA drivers, it’s possible to set up a custom game profile and define a max FPS limit. To do so, you’ll need to track down and use a piece of software called the NVIDIA Inspector, which will allow you to set some options that the drivers allow, but do not display.
You can find more info in the Interstate ’76 FAQ.
Hi. I stumbled upon your site looking for some info.
Two things:
1. Why no recent updates? I know there are a lot of “classic” games sites, but you sire have depth of coverage of some of my favorite games found no where else.
2. I will have to test your Clans demo when I get home tonight, but I if it’s truly the “second” one, I believe I have the first. Still on floppy. Played it for HOURS.
Let me know if you are interested.
Great to hear from you! I run the website as a hobby and so I tend to slack a little (sometimes a lot) before I get in gear and update the thing. No worries, though: Mechwarrior Online is coming out soon, so I’ll have a ton of stuff about that coming up when the game is available.
The demo that I’ve posted on the site can be tricky to get running. The last time I ran the thing, I was using Windows XP. Even with XP, I still had to reboot in DOS mode or use DOSBox to get it going. Can’t remember exactly what I did, since it’s been several years ago.
It might be even trickier in Windows Vista or 7. I’d try to run it in DOSBox first and see what happens.
If the demo that you have is even earlier, I’d love to see it and if possible, post it on the localditch.com. That’s a great find.
On the “Powerhits: Battletech” CD, I have uncovered a copy of the original trailer for “Mechwarrior 2: The Clans.” I checked YouTube, and nobody had uploaded it, yet, so I uploaded it myself. I do not know whether or not your site has the original trailer, but if it does not, I can either send it to you or link you to the video that I posted.
I’d definitely like to see it! Either send me the video and I’ll post it on the website or send me the link and I’ll link to it instead.
I haven’t run across it before and it sounds like a great piece of Mechwarrior history.
(Update: Watch it on Youtube or see it while you read Local Ditch Gaming’s deep dive into Mechwarrior 2: The Clans.)
There is a way to play Interstate ’76 online again …
anyone interested?
I think time has me passed me by on I ’76 online, but I’ll throw your message on the site in case anyone else is interested.
To see how, check out this video:
Hello, I was wondering if you could kinda give me some input or opinion on this idea I’ve been planning. I’m planning on building a 1/24 1970 barracuda with slight adjustments to make the body more like the “Picard Piranha,” which should go over well, but I haven’t yet been
able to plan out the paint, Because in the game it has 2 black lines and the 1 on each side that leads up to the engine size (432) But from some research I have found that the black stripes (Across the hood and trunk) were not on the barracudas (that everyone says the car is designed after) and that the 1970 only had the dotted line like the green version of the car.But here is my main question, do you know of the cars they used as inspiration for the proper line on the side of the car, because it stretches up and over the back a little bit, I was planning to take the dotted one and paint it in a solid line and then add my own line on the way up but I fear my hand painting wont be good enough, so I was wondering if you knew more about this paint job, Thank you. 🙂
I don’t believe that the orange and black Piranha paintjob is an exact replica, but instead just inspired by a ‘Cuda. So, just grab some screenshots from the game and base it on that.
Now, painting the line by hand is probably not the best way to approach it. Instead, you’ll want to mask the area with some tape. That should provide much better and straighter lines.
Be sure to send some pictures when the model is done.