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Jan 1

• Overdrijf
  Happy new year and new racing season pipsqueaks!
• Cas
  Happy New Year, folks!
• KyLiE
  Happy New Year!
• afullo
  Happy 2023 to everybody!
• Frieshansen
  Happy new Year. I'm looking forward to this season.
• dreadnaut
  Are you after the title? 🏴‍☠️
• Daniel3D
  happy new year everyone.
• Heretic
  Happy new year!
• Frieshansen
  @dreadnaut certainly not
• HunterBoy344
  Happy New Year everyone!!!!!

Jan 3

• Duplode
  Happy birthday, @DusteD!

Jan 4

• Overdrijf
  I'll try not to make a habit of it, but I'm going to roleplay as an ad now. I've made a forum post about the Riptide GP games before (Riptide GP ), they're good arcade racing fun, and the third one in particular I found pretty challenging as well. For the next 17 days part 2 and 3 (for PC/Steam) are available for combined 1 dollar. See here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/riptide-gp-and-gp-2-double-pack. It's still infinitely more expensive than Stunts, but that's probably because you're paying for having resolution settings or something.

Jan 8

• dreadnaut
  Some last fixes behind the scenes, the next season is coming soon! 🎉

Jan 10

• Alan Rotoi
  3rd and last live race of 2022!

Jan 11

• KyLiE
  Thanks for the great video @Alan!
• Daniel3D
  QUOTE:: Stunts was the game of skill, of extreme skill in carrying out a loop the loop or in avoiding it with a side jump, of forcing the Indy Car out of revs in order to exploit the bug that reset the friction. Oh yeah! --- https://www.rlieh.com/blog/2010/10/06/un-pizzico-di-storia-stunts/

Jan 13

• Stan 286XT
  Doom 1-3 and Quake by id Software Heretic by Raven Software Planet Strike by JAM Productions Operation Body Count by Capstone Descent by Parallax Software Rise of the Triad by Apogee Software Duke Nukem 3D by 3D Realms Star Wars: Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II by LucasArts System Shock and System Shock 2 by Looking Glass Studios and Irrational Games Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri by Looking Glass Studios Blackthorne by Blizzard Entertainment Shadowrun by Beam Software Action Doom by Scuba Steve Spear Resurrection and End of Destiny by MCS Amsterdam and AReyeP Tekkoudan by Ben "dla_one" Blaufarb Endoskeleton, Proto Man and Ubermorder by Majik Monkee Sabaoth 2 by RGamesINC Ultra Zombie by Joshua Moore

Jan 15

• Daniel3D
  Only hours to the start. Who will be the first to set a time? I intent to be quick with a first upload. But will i be quick enough? It most certainly won't last long 😜
• dreadnaut
  Hello and welcome! ZakStunts 2023 opens up today, with a time-travelling track that @Daniel3D picked up for us 💥
• dreadnaut
  A couple of new cars hit the tarmac this year, go grab them from the Downloads section - https://zak.stunts.hu/downloads
• Overdrijf
  Grabbing the symbolic minute marker, driven time. Actually, what are the olden times to beat, and how much is that when corrected for the Indy's current penalty?
  1:02.90
• Overdrijf
  O here, 2003a, times between Bonzai Joe's 0.46.20 and 1:10.60. http://stunts.kalpen.de/contest.htm. At -24% for the Indy that puts their times between 57.29 and 1:27.54 corrected in this month's currency. Sure, it's unfair because our Indy bonus was set by powergear tracks. But still, everyone who goes under 57.29 can semi-reasonably claim to be faster than any pipsqueak from 2003.
• Duplode
  At Kalpen we drive the Indy
  1:05.47
• Frieshansen
  I prefer the Challenge :-)
  1:01.92
• Cas
  Alright... first attempt!
  1:10.09
• Duplode
  Let's see how the Pantera looks on the shoutbox
  1:03.96
• Stan 286XT
  Stunts/4D Sports Driving was developed by Distinctive Software Inc. in 1990(DSI) First versions of Stunts/4D Sports Driving were published by Bríderbund Software as Stunts in October 1990. Later ones were brought to the gamers by Mindscape (a Software Toolworks company) as 4D Sports Driving AND Run vith cgc nec V30 8Mhz +8087 Becouse here we have not a racer wiht a last fast xt machines like IMB ps1 and run whit violet cga and640kb of RAM?!?
• Daniel3D
  and entering at the bottom.. ME. hahaha.
• Stan 286XT
  This is an indy.trk this is an indy year? Biutifoul Dodge Charger!!it'slike make flip whit test drive!!! I am serius Marco do you have an olivetti nec V30 last XT why you do not win here whit yours olivetti PCS86?
• Stan 286XT
  News from Zack stunt crew?
• Stan 286XT
  Daniel 3d whit an xt here!!!!!!
• dreadnaut
  Let's try something new! Scroll down to the bottom of the current track page, and you'll find small single-car scoreboards. It takes three to tango at ZakStunts, so challenge a couple of friends and claim your favourite car! 🏆
• Alan Rotoi
  Single car scoreboards? What a great idea!

Jan 16

• Duplode
  Brilliant! Let's get one of them enabled already
  1:02.79
• Stan 286XT
  COOL!!!!!!
• Overdrijf
  Haha, the only car with enough uses to have its own little scoreboard yet is the one at the absolute bottom of the scores. I am wondering a bit, what does it add to have these boards say "2 pipsqueaks missing" or "1 pipsqueaks missing" rather than just listing the one or two times that were driven?
• Argammon
  It is basically the same replay as before.
  0:50.96
• Duplode
  @Overdrijf I think that has some usefulness, as it tells which scoreboards need just one racer to become active, thus tempting people to join. That said, it could make sense to sort the scoreboards so that the currently active ones come first.
• dreadnaut
  As Duplode said ✅ If you are on your own, there's no race, and no podium. A better ordering is needed, and coming soon!
  1:00.17 A
• HunterBoy344
  Oh man, this is crazy! From the replays, I can tell there's a whole host of new cars to try out... I'll update Stunts Online as soon as I can! Stay tuned!

Jan 17

• Argammon
  Somehow I have the feeling my lead is not going to survive very long. :X
  0:48.90
• Alan Rotoi
  😁
• Argammon
  You and Duplode should see if you can beat the Indy times from 2003. ;-) Indy compotetion?
• Alan Rotoi
  I can beat mine for sure. It looks like it was a listfiller. Now BJ's is something else!
• Cas
  Trying the Pantera
  1:08.59
• Cas
  And the P962
  1:06.62
• Cas
  Ah... I had already tried that one
• Alan Rotoi
  Public days duration is 10 or 14 days?

Jan 18

• Duplode
  @AlanRotoi I think it's supposed to be 10, but right now it is set to 13. We probably should ask dreadnaut...
• dreadnaut
  Last year we mostly stuck to "about 10", and I didn't notice any comments about it, positive or negative. I started with 13 on ZCT258, but I might choose a different every track, to see what happend
• Duplode
  Okay -- I probably should have commented, as I feel 10 days is a nice balance... but it's fine to do experiments every now and then, let's see what happens.
• Alan Rotoi
  Oh ok. I like the 10 days for public day. 🙂 What do you think?
• dreadnaut
  Let's stick to 10 days then. One less thing to think about

Jan 19

• Shoegazing Leo
  First
  1:09.91 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Second
  1:09.25 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Third
  1:09.61 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Fourth
  1:04.02 A
• Stan 286XT
  962!!!!!!!
• Daniel3D
  Hmmm. There is only one reason I can think of why Alan would suddenly care about the public days. He has a very strong time with a different car and wants the LTB but not give up his replay..
• Alan Rotoi
  I must admit I have mixed thoughts about public days. As a manager I can see it is useful to make the race a bit more equalized. As a racer I don't like it but manager point of view prevails. Then it's about the duration. Half race (13 or 14 days) I felt it was too much. 10 days (or a full LTB point) I think it is balanced. If @Zak and @dreadnaut implemented the public days and it works perfectly and nobody complains, it is a total win and it must be kept.
• Overdrijf
  I've got the honor of a bit of a premier. Several community members already have Youtube channels on which they share things about the beautiful game Stunts. Daniel 3D has now taken the initiative to launch a community channel, for everyone who might want to publish a few videos on Stunts but does not want the hassle of trying to raise their own audience. And today I'm the first person to go live with a video on this channel. It's a video meant for aspiring competitors and amateur league drivers, teaching how to corner like a pro, and it can be found here: If you also want to make video's for the community channel, or do a collaboration with your own channel, contact Daniel 3D. If you have a lesson you want to teach in Stunts Pro Academy, or you have a suggestion for a topic, a track or a car that I should really totally feature in a future episode, contact me.
• dreadnaut
  This is so professional 😱

Jan 20

• Cas
  Congratulations, @Overdrijf! That one really does look very pro! I'm definitely going to contribute to the channel too!
• KyLiE
  @Overdrijf, that's an excellent video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!
• Daniel3D
  Thanks Overdrijf for making an awesome first video. I am in the background working on verifications (selling my soul to Google on behalf of the community) so we can build a solid platform. And with that hopefully more fresh players in our competitions and community. A topic on the forum will come so anyone can contribute with ideas or content.

Jan 21

• Duplode
  Here is another blast from the past: @ZakMcKracken's tribute to @Ayrton's legendary 2008 season, now back on YouTube!
• Overdrijf
  If the channel reaches a 100,000 subscribers I will make a video on how to do those tricks. Because that's absolutely a thing I can do and I'm not crossing my finger behind my back right now (man, typing with one hand turns out to be pretty hard).

Jan 22

• Alan Rotoi
  Happy birthday @sebastianali302!!
• Duplode
  Happy birthday, Sebastián!
• Shorty
  Congratulations @sebastianali302

Jan 23

• Erik Barros
  Happy new year!!
  1:02.66
• Duplode
  Hello @ErikBarros, and hello @Shorty! With a 13th racer on the track, we now get to see the update to the point system in play.
• Overdrijf
  Why are slow cars so hard? Alternatively, why are you guys all so good with them? I drove this first lap and was kind of disappointed, so I redrove it more seriously and came up a second slower. I'm going to have to do actual section time analysis using your replays aren't I? One quarter of the time into the race. Can someone do like a video on how to drive the Lancia on ZCT258 or something? I'd watch that.
  0:52.69
• Argammon
  @Overdrifj: The trick is to use replay handling ;-).
• Overdrijf
  At least this car makes sense.
  0:51.51

Jan 25

• Erik Barros
  Yeah!!
  0:55.01

Jan 26

• Argammon
  :-)
  0:57.10
• Duplode
  And there it is! BJ's 2003 record has fallen 🫡
• Alan Rotoi
  My z258 replay REVEALED!
• dreadnaut
  Time to try the Lancia
  0:50.81
• dreadnaut
  And a rapid test with the Challenger. I like this car!
  1:04.39
• dreadnaut
  Can you find it? Hint: it's yellow! — https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=y2tFO3

Jan 27

• Duplode
  It's a very nice car, isn't it? (And so is that yellow on the Rambo )
  1:01.63

Jan 28

• Argammon
  Seems like I suck driving the GTO. Slower than with the Lancia.
  0:56.52
• Duplode
  Can't resist the GTO
  0:56.48

Jan 29

• Shorty
  And I thought I can't make it. :O
• Argammon
  Breakfast lap. This is getting boring. :/
  0:47.66
• Alan Rotoi
  Take it easy! No more shots from me. I can't race from my vacations.
• Frieshansen
  @dreadnaut Beautiful redesign of the current-race box! Really like the SVG-Speedometer.
• Duplode
  All right, here we go!
  0:55.30
• dreadnaut
  Thank you @Frieshansen! A few more tweaks are coming
• Stan 286XT
  Hey Pisqeek 2,658 bytes!
  1:26.10 A
• Stan 286XT
  NOW 3,575 bytes who is better Pesqeek? 3KB YEEEEE!!!!!!
  1:09.08 A
• Stan 286XT
  ANY XT racer here?
• Alan Rotoi
  No XT. If I build an old PC I would a Pentium 200mhz with win98. Just to play everything from XX century.

Jan 31

• Stan 286XT
  how may bites is ZCT258.trk whit a pc xt nec V30 8087 640kb ram? _ can you answere?
• Duplode
  @Stan286XT Maybe 3307?
• HunterBoy344
  Sorry it's taking so long to get Stunts Online updated for the 2023 season! I've had a lot of responsibilities to handle as of late, and I recently broke my ankle snowboarding, so I haven't had much time to work on my personal projects. I will update it as soon as I can!!
• Duplode
  No worries @HunterBoy344 -- take your time, and have a speedy recovery!
• dreadnaut
  Oh no, get well soon! Stunts can wait 🏂

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