Usmovers_02: One of my favorite games of all time and I scratched the CD :( I don't trust any of the "free" downloads out there and definitely wouldn't mind paying for it again.
I still have the 3Dfx version of Fatal Racing on a CD (it came with my Orchid 3Dx Voodoo card back then), and I recently tried to get it to run 3D accelerated on the special DOSBox version (gulikoza's?) that is supposed to support Glide.
It worked, kinda, but two problems still:
- The joystick support was iffy, I couldn't get it to calibrate correctly, so I had to try to play it with keyboard only.
- the Glide emulation was very slow, so it ran at like 10 fps at best on a pretty beefy PC. Apparently there is some game specific problem with it:
http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza/glide.html
Incompatible (won't work unless hardware emulation is written):
EF2000
Fatal Racing (Whiplash)
But at least it seems it should probably be possible to play even the 3D accelerated version at some point on modern PCs. Anyway, I also set up an old Pentium retro-PC with my original Voodoo card, I should try sometime how well the game runs on it...
But in the meantime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW53laHM6Pg