LikeTheWind 1.4

LikeTheWind 1.4 - a native PC recompilation of Power Drift (Sega, 1988).

Fixes

• Fixed the Windows 0xC000001D illegal-instruction crash on CPUs without GFNI/AVX.
• Root cause: the release was compiled using the build machine's native CPU features. The binary contained a vgf2p8affineqb (GFNI) instruction, which crashed on older CPUs such as the AMD Ryzen 5 1600.
• Windows and Linux are now built for baseline x86-64.
• Verified that the released executables contain no GFNI/AVX instructions.
• Fixed uneven frame pacing at 120/144 FPS: presentation now runs on a fixed clock grid instead of picking up each frame's work time, so motion is steadier. 60 FPS output is unchanged.

Downloads

• Linux: LikeTheWind-1.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - extracted folder with the AppImage, ROM folder and README.
• Windows: LikeTheWind-1.4-win64.zip - extract and run LikeTheWind.exe.

Put your own pdrift.zip (World, Rev A) in the roms folder created beside the executable or AppImage. The release does not include game ROMs.

LikeTheWind 1.3

LikeTheWind 1.3 - a native PC recompilation of Power Drift (Sega, 1988).

Changes

• Female driver voices now use a -0.5 dB post-gain trim.
• Male passing and enemy passing voices reduced further for a more even mix.
• Dedicated ANNOUNCER and PASSING mixer channels, separate from the original 16 SFX channels.
• 16 virtual voice lanes per category so overlapping announcers and rapid passes do not cut each other off.
• Mixer SFX page reflowed to 18 channels without label overlap.

Sorry this one took so long. I kept going back and forth on the audio mix longer than I should have. The voices should sit much better now.

Downloads

• Linux: LikeTheWind-1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - extracted folder with the AppImage, ROM folder and README.
• Windows: LikeTheWind-1.3-win64.zip - extract and run LikeTheWind.exe.

Put your own pdrift.zip (World, Rev A) in the roms folder created beside the executable or AppImage. The release does not include game ROMs.

This build uses the checked-in native translation entry seeds: a 1,200-frame verification run reports 100% native dispatch, 0 fallback instructions, 0 fallback PCs. The mixer is locked behind an explicit Enter confirmation.

LikeTheWind 1.2

LikeTheWind 1.2 - a native PC recompilation of Power Drift (Sega, 1988).

Changes

• Male driver voices reduced by 1 dB.
• Dedicated ANNOUNCER and PASSING mixer channels, separate from the original 16 SFX channels.
• 16 virtual voice lanes per category so overlapping announcers and rapid passes do not cut each other off.
• Mixer SFX page reflowed to 18 channels without label overlap.

Downloads

• Linux: LikeTheWind-1.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - extracted folder with the AppImage, ROM folder and README.
• Windows: LikeTheWind-1.2-win64.zip - extract and run LikeTheWind.exe.

Put your own pdrift.zip (World, Rev A) in the roms folder created beside the executable or AppImage. The release does not include game ROMs.

This build uses the checked-in native translation entry seeds: a 1,200-frame verification run reports 100% native dispatch, 0 fallback instructions, 0 fallback PCs. The mixer is locked behind an explicit Enter confirmation.

LikeTheWind 1.1

LikeTheWind 1.1 - a native PC recompilation of Power Drift (Sega, 1988).

Downloads

• Linux: LikeTheWind-1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - extracted folder with the AppImage, ROM folder and README.
• Windows: LikeTheWind-1.1-win64.zip - extract and run LikeTheWind.exe.

Put your own pdrift.zip (World, Rev A) in the roms folder created beside the executable or AppImage. The release does not include game ROMs.

This build uses the checked-in native translation entry seeds: a 1,200-frame verification run reports 100% native dispatch, 0 fallback instructions, 0 fallback PCs. The mixer is locked behind an explicit Enter confirmation.

LikeTheWind 1.0

LikeTheWind 1.0 - a native PC recompilation of Power Drift (Sega, 1988).

Downloads

• Windows: extract LikeTheWind-1.0.zip, put your own pdrift.zip (World, Rev A) in roms/, then run LikeTheWind.exe.
• Linux x86_64: use LikeTheWind-linux and libSDL2-2.0.so.0 from the same zip. Keep the SDL library beside the executable and make the game executable.

The release does not include game ROMs. The game verifies the required pdrift ROM files and prepares them on first launch.

This build includes the checked-in native translation entry seeds, so the released game runs without interpreter fallback. The mixer is locked behind an explicit Enter confirmation.

Source

The repository starts at the Version 1.0 commit. Development history before 1.0 is kept locally as an ignored git bundle.