OpenScreamer 0.4.31b

OpenScreamer: Screamer (Graffiti / Virgin Interactive, 1995, MS-DOS) reimplemented from the original program. New in this release: a Windows build. The Linux build is the same game as 0.4.30b.

Beta. Please report problems in the issues.

What is in it

• The whole game: intro, the 3D menus, six tracks and their reversed versions, normal game, championship, time attack (with ghost), cone carnage and slalom, replays, records, commentary.
• The original's sound, and its FM music played the way the game's own driver played it.
• 320x200 or 640x400 (OPTIONS in the game's menu).
• Keyboard or game controller: analog steering, accelerator and brake, and rumble.
• Reads the original game's files as they are; nothing to unpack.

You need

The original game. Nothing of it is included. Copy the folder that holds its DATA and GFX folders next to the program, named screamer.

Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit)

Unpack openscreamer-0.4.31b-windows-x86_64.zip, put the game's folder in it as screamer, double-click openscreamer.exe. Windows may warn about an unknown publisher: More info, then Run anyway. Settings, saves and openscreamer.log are in %APPDATA%\openscreamer.

The Windows build has been tested under Wine only (same pictures and the same robot lap as Linux), not yet on a real Windows machine: reports are welcome.

Linux (x86-64, 2018 or later, with SDL2 installed)

sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0      # or: sudo dnf install SDL2 / sudo pacman -S sdl2
tar xzf openscreamer-0.4.31b-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd openscreamer-0.4.31b-linux-x86_64
# put the game's folder here as "screamer", then
./openscreamer

./openscreamer --help lists the options, keys and controller buttons. Settings and saves go to ~/.config/openscreamer.

Known limits

• No network game.
• Tested with the retail CD version of the game.
• For the MiSTer FPGA there is a core of its own: openscreamer_MiSTer.