(From 3DFX Mania)

You only realise your mistake after you’ve shifted up into fifth gear and accelerated to 200 mph, your approach to the imminent corner is way to fast and you slam down on the brakes. The crash wall’s staring you in the face the car goes into a skid and impact is imminent. To make matters worse your pursuers are gaining, threatening to overtake. Time seems to stand still you brace yourself for the crash but at the last moment, you hit the barrier with your rear wing. The car jumps but you’re back on the road and still in the race. Downshift to 2nd and hit the gas, making a note to remember that one next time. You are either joy-riding in an F1 MacLaren or playing Motorhead.

Motorhead is a game where speed makes the difference. Set in the near future, all the action takes place at the six venues of the Transatlantic Speed League™. Venues range from downtown highways to abandoned mining facilities and success is rewarded with additional cars and courses.

Along with the spectacular crashes and breath-taking speed, the most impressive thing about this game is the AI. Unlike traditional racing games, there are no fixed paths or static patterns in the Motorhead engine.

Enhanced with Full D3D support for PC, giving fantastic visuals on PowerVR™, 3DFX and Riva 128 based cards.

These screenshots are not from the 3D version, but the software only version.

(From Operation 3DFX)

"After posting our recent screenshots of Motorhead, an upcoming racer from Bonnier Digital Illusions, we were informed that those dazzling screenshots are actually from the software version, and a 3dfx is in the works, and screenshots from that version will be available soon, thanks to Steve McKevitt from Virgin Interactive, publisher of the game. Stay tuned soon for 3dfx screenshots of Motorhead!"

DEMO

New Multiplayer Demo

File Size: 13.2 Megs
http://www.dice.se/ftp/projects/motorhead/MotorheadDemo.exe

Newer Demo (Only contains a different logo, but may also support different 3D cards Such as Power VR, Riva and 3dfx)

Requirements:
P133, 24 Megs

Download Sites: 10.5 Mb
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfiles/games/mh_demo2.exe
ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/games/3dfiles/games/mh_demo2.exe
http://ftp.telepac.pt/pub/3dfiles/games/mh_demo2.exe
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/3dfiles/games/mh_demo2.exe
ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/3dfiles/games/mh_demo2.exe

The following is the 10 Mb 3DFX version of the Game, there is also an 8mb Software Rendering demo version of the Game, which I will add links to.

Download Sites for 10mb version:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfxmania/games3/motordemo_3dfx.exe
http://ftp.telepac.pt/pub/3dfxmania/games3/motordemo_3dfx.exe
ftp://ftp.iol.it/3dfxmania/games3/motordemo_3dfx.exe
ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/3dfxmania/games3/motordemo_3dfx.exe
http://www.dice.se/ftp/projects/motorhead/motordemo_3dfx.exe
ftp://ftp.op3dfx.com/pub/game_demos/motorhead/motordemo_3dfx.exe

8 Mb Software only Version

http://www.dice.se/ftp/projects/motorhead/motordemo_soft.exe
 
 

CHEATS

(Thanks to Cheeky Machine)

• In personal options, enter SUPERCARS for your name and GREM for your team.  You will have access to Supercars mode.
• In personal options, enter DEMON for your name and GREM for your team. You will now have super bouncy suspension.

"Hi, some more cheats for Motorhead. Only tryied the R Pettersson one and it worked fine. Regards

Motorhead
Avenger : Hardware acc only.
Player name = Avenger
Team = Zx

The map sprite should not be in the form of the Avenger sprite (from the spectrum game).

R&D scroll : Hardware acc only.
Position the car on the Roof to the left of atlantika station.
A scroll + bobs should appear.

Hell mode : Hardware acc only.
Name = Lemmy
Team = Ace

The sky should become redish and scrolling wildly + lightning.

Under water mode : Hardware acc only.
Name = Ramlosa
Team = H2O

All geometry should wave nicely and the cars should drive in slowmotion.

Supercars mode :
Name = Supercars
Team = Grem

The camera should now look down on the car.

Ignition mode :
Name = Ignition
Team = UDS

The camera should now look down from behind the car.

Mega springs mode :
Name = Demon
Team = Grem

The car should now have mega springs.

Boncy springs mode :
Name = g-ride
team = west

The car should now be bouncy.

Tron mode : Glide only
Name = Tribute to Tron

All geometry should now be rendered with hidden line vector graphics.

Moon gravity :
Name = Buzz Aldrin
Team = NASA

The gravity force should now be less than normal.

Batcave :
Drive through the track on olympos A marvelously texture mapped cave ;)

All tracks + cars :
Name = R Peterson (could also be r pettersson)
Team = SWE

Start a track and then exit to F/E all the tracks + cars should now be available.

(From Operation 3DFX)
Rhys Cash sent us some info on how to play the demo track in the Motorhead demo.

I've just downloaded the motorhead demo (very nice indeed) and have found a way to access the track shown in the non-playable demo, it's a little complicated but well worth it

Step 1: in tracks/track4 rename Atlantika_move.lws to goldbridge_move.lws
Step 2: Copy the contents of tracks/track8/Data/halos to
tracks/track4/Data/halos
Step 3: in tracks/track4/data rename  Okksea0.dta to Gold0.dta
     Okksea1.dta to Gold1.dta
     Okksea2.dta to Gold2.dta
     Okksea3.dta to Gold3.dta
     Atlantika.FLG to Goldbridge.FLG
     Atlantika.TGA to TrioSky.TGA
     okksea.iff to gold.iff
Step 4: in tracks/track4/Hardware rename ATLANTIKA.MYW to GOLDBRIDGE.MYW
Step 5: in tracks/track4/Motions rename okkcscam.MOT to extcam.mot
     okksea2.mot to trioval.mot
Step 6: in tracks/track4/Objects rename Atlantika.col to goldbridge.COL
     Atlantika.lob to goldbidge.lob
     Atlantika.srf to goldbridge.SRF
Step 7: move tracks/track8 to desktop (or anywhere)
Step 8: rename tracks/track4 to tracks/track8
Step 9: Run the game and play on new track!

Rhys Cash aka lout

ps This should work but I'm not responsible for any damage caused pps This is in no way a substitute for buying the game its only to give a slightly larger demo

PATCHES

Patch version 2.1

• PowerVR native rendering support.
• Force feedback support.
• New sound systems: NoSound, DirectSound, DirectSound3D HW, Creative Labs EAX(SB Live), Aureal3D 1.2, Aureal3D 2.0 (occlusions, reflections).
• Choice between KMH and MPH.
• New carshading mode for the D3D renderers, Glenz, it looks good but slows down a bit :/
• Added support for following D3D modes if supported by hardware. These are all configurable from the options/graphic menu (Triple buffering, 32 bit texture format, 32 bit rendering, Trilinear filtering)
• Fixed the famous RedRock infinite loop bug. Thanx JeePen, Trix and Drunk_Driver :)
• Fixed single player AI infinite loop bug
• Multiplayer ghostout time now set to 8 seconds instead of 2 earlier. This means you have to lose connection to the server for 8 seconds before your car will turn to a ghost(freeze).
• Improved DI's LAN/INET connection phase.
• Multiplayer prediction bug fixed.
• Multiplayer max packet length now 1200 bytes.
• Multiplayer guaranteed packed bug fixed. This bug resulted in corrupt player data when connecting during heavy packet loss and lag.
• Demo recording works with 12 players now.
• Multiplayer demo recording bug fixed.
• Set multiplayer default settings for varius connections, type /modem, /ISDN, /T1, /LAN in the lobby
• Now name over car 9 - 12 in a 12 player multi race.
• Now up to 13 players in a ghost race.
• Added mouse sensitivity options to the control setup.
• Control setup changed to make some assignment problems more understandable.
• Benchmarking of demo races to file "fps.txt".
• Screenshot option now available in the lobby by pressing F12.
• If you abort a single race the results screen will not be shown.
• Text pitch on the results screen is now correct.
• Motionblur 16-bit rendering bug fixed.
• Minor spritebank bug fixed.

Version 1.4 patch:

All 8 tracks now available in reverse-mode, single- and multiplayer-mode. 12 players Internet play to the dedicated server version 1.5.

Motorhead version 1.4 is NOT compatible with the dedicated server version 1.4.

Download Sites: (1.7 Mb)
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe
http://ftp.telepac.pt/pub/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe
ftp://ftp.iol.it/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe
ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/3dfxmania/patches2/motorp14.exe

Patch 1.3

Digital Illusions has released a v1.3 patch for Motorhead which fixes all sorts of problems. Changes in v1.3:

• Save recorded race dialogbox when returning from a multiplayer race now removed
• Race replays/ghostraces of multiplayer-races sometimes resulted in an incorrect number of players racing
• Many multiplayer fixes to make the internet play more solid
• Completely new multiplayer protocol "DI's LAN/INET" based on WinSock UDP with support fora dedicated server, better performance over the internet aswell as LAN.
• Fixed a bug in the multi elimination mode finish
• In multiplayer the finish sign could sometimes show incorrect position
• Added /minpredict and /maxpredict values to the lobby commands, enables you to adjust the car prediction, default values 2 and 6, range 0 to 10, the higher the values are the more "lagged" the other cars will be on your machine. If you have a very good LAN connection you should set the values to /minpredict 0, /maxpredict 2. If you set the values to the same like /minpredict 0, /maxpredict 0, you will have no prediction at all and will have "jerky" cars. Feel free to fool around with the values as you like You can join a "DI's LAN/INET" session by typing motor.exe. If a port is not specified it will default to 16000.
• The /rate, /minpredict, /maxpredict and your latest carview will be saved in the motorhead.cfg
• Now support for a third axis on joysticks and mouses, usually a throttle conrol or a wheel
• Fixed a GLIDE texture format bug
• Removed some debug info stuff that will give you a bit more memory
• Software motion blur screen pitch fix
• Loading screen pitch fix
• The renderer now allocates textures in system memory if necessary. Not all cards support textures in system memory though. This will allow users with RIVA 128 based cards to run in higher resolutions.
• The game now remembers your last camera mode, inside or outside car
• Removed the modem status dialog that could popup in some cases when doing a TCP/IP connection

ftp://ftp.op3dfx.com/pub/game_patches/motorhead/motorp13.exe

LINKS TO OTHER MOTORHEAD SITES

http://www.avault.com/previews/motor.asp (Preview)
http://www.dice.se/motorhead/ (Official Site)
http://www.gremlin.co.uk/games/motorhead/screenshots.html (Screenshots)
http://www.digitalsports.com/pc2/motorhead/preview.html (Game Preview)
http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/previews/3566_1.html (Game Review)
http://voodoo.torget.se/shots/motorhead_new/index.htm (Screenshots)
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/p_motorhead.html (Game Preview)
http://www.gremlin.co.uk/games/motorhead/index.html (Official Homepage)
http://www.op3dfx.com/screenshots/motorhead/motorhead.shtml (Screenshots)
http://www.psychogamer.com/news (go to the 27th Jan 98 news section for screenshots)
Virigin Interactive (US)
Virigin Interactive (UK)
http://www.avault.com/reviews/mhead.asp (Game Review)
http://www.gagames.com/games/reviews/REVmhead.html (Game Review)
http://www.dice.se/motorhead/buildguide_cars.asp (Motorhead Car Buider Guide)
http://www.dice.se/motorhead/buildguide_tracks.asp (Motorhead Track Builder Guide)
http://www.ricomon.com/ (Cyrptic Writings Motorhead site)
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/gdr.cgi?zones/reviews/pc/jul98/motor.html (Game Review)
http://www.3dgaming.net/demos/sims/motorhead/ (Demo Review)
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/games/gremlin_motorhead_r/ (Review)
http://www.playdevil.com/pdevil/reviews/mtrhead.html (Review)
http://www.digitalsports.com/pc2/motorhead/preview2.html (Preview)
http://www.pcsportsgames.com/racing/previews/motrhead.html (Preview)