Street Rod Enhanced — SDL3

An enhanced native port of California Dreams' Street Rod (1989). Not an emulator. The original game files are not included; the game is free from the copyright owner: https://www.streetrodonline.com/downloads/.

Features

• Smooth road view in races and drives through town, at your display's refresh rate.
• High resolution (up to 2560 × 1600) with anti-aliasing.
• Separate music and sound effects volumes.
• The game is otherwise the original: garage, opponents, physics, police and screens.
• The Street Rod SE data disk's 25 cars.
• A launcher for cars, switches, picture and sound options.

How to play (Windows)

1. Put your original game files in a folder named Game (for the data disk cars, Street Rod SE in Game\datadisk).

2. Place the program files next to it:

   Street Rod Enhanced\
   ├── Game\                        <- your game files (SR.EXE, LIB1, LIB2, HOT_DATA, datadisk\ ...)
   ├── Street Rod Enhanced.exe      <- the launcher
   ├── streetrod-enhanced.exe       <- the game
   └── SDL3.dll and the other DLLs
   

3. Run Street Rod Enhanced.exe, pick your options and press Play.

• The folder must be writable (saved games and the hall of fame are saved in it).
• Alt+Enter: full screen.
• Launcher settings: %APPDATA%\Street Rod Enhanced\settings.ini.

Requirements

• Game files: SR.EXE (or SRSE.EXE), LIB1, LIB2, HOT_DATA.
• One CPU core draws the road view (about 8.5 ms a frame at the default); lower the resolution or anti-aliasing on slow machines.
• To build: CMake 3.24+, C11, SDL 3; the launcher needs C++17 and wxWidgets 3.2.

Build

In Git Bash or an MSYS2 MinGW64 shell:

export PATH="/c/msys64/mingw64/bin:$PATH"
cmake -S . -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build

• -DSRE_LAUNCHER=OFF builds the game only.
• The build copies the DLLs both programs need beside them.

Run

./build/streetrod-enhanced.exe --game-dir Game

Option	Meaning
--game-dir DIR	Game files folder (default Game)
--scale N	Window size, × 320×240 (default 3)
--fullscreen	Start in full screen
--res-scale N	Resolution, × 320×200 (default 4, 2–8)
--aa N	Anti-aliasing, N×N samples (default 2, 1 = off)
--motion-delay P	Smooth view delay, % of a game frame (default 100)
--town on|off	Enhanced drives through town (default on)
--music-volume P	Music volume, % (default 100)
--sfx-volume P	Sound effects volume, % (default 100)
--classic	Original picture only
--check	Check that SR.EXE loads, then exit
demo, auto, nomouse	The original's switches: self-playing demo, races drive themselves, no mouse

Controls

• Mouse, or arrows / keypad to move the pointer; Space, Ins or keypad 0 to click.
• Races: Up gas, Down brake, Left / Right steer, Space / Ins shift, A / Z gear up / down.
• Esc skips the drive through town and ends the demo. M music, Ctrl sound on / off.

Layout

• src/ — the game (ENGINE.md).
• src/enhanced/ — the enhanced road view (ENHANCED.md).
• launcher/ — the launcher (launcher/README.md).

License

MIT (LICENSE). Street Rod is © California Dreams / Logical Design Works; its files are not included.

Support

https://buymeacoffee.com/krzysztofkania