Author:

• Name: Chris King
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make

There is an alternate version with vi(m) key movements. See Alternate code below.

To use:

    ./ctk

Alternate code:

This alternate version adds to the movement keys l for right, h for left and k for straight.

Alternate build:

    make alt

Alternate use:

    ./ctk.alt

Judges’ remarks:

No matter how careful you are, this guy eventually crashes. Most people can make at least one successful road trip without crashing.

This is, of course, another of the retro games.

Author’s remarks:

This is a game based on an Apple II Print Shop Companion Easter egg named ‘DRIVER’, in which the goal is to drive as fast as you can down a long twisty highway without running off the road. Use ,./, [ ], or bnm to go left, straight, and right respectively. Use 1234 to switch gears. q quits. The faster you go and the thinner the road is, the more points you get. Most of the obfuscation is in the nonsensical if statements among other things. It works best on the Linux console: you get engine sound (!) and the * Lock keyboard lights tell you what gear you’re in (none lit=4th). The q argument (no leading -) will silence the sound. It won’t work on a terminal smaller than 80x24, but it works fine with more (try it in an XTerm with the “Unreadable” font and the window maximized vertically!).

Primary files

• ctk.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• ctk.alt.c - alternate source code
• ctk.orig.c - original source code

Secondary files

• 2001_ctk.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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