I’ve been making my way through through the [figurative] pile of mail I’ve received over the last few days, answering questions where possible. Apart from a lot of very nice comments about the look and feel, I note that a few people are interested in the tech [how the curves and shapes are handled] and many more are interested in the source [uh oh]. I will try to post more on both of these subjects in the near future.

The sheer number of downloads means I’m also finding out about a few issues with the demo, like that it doesn’t run well (or at all in some cases) on systems with multiple monitors, and that many people are getting a weird behaviour where the car simply drives in a tight circle.

And yes, it’s pretty clear that a lot of people want it as a screensaver ;)

So I’ve posted an updated demo (0.15) at drivey.com, which fixes a few issues, has saveable color & map configuration and behaves quite well as a screensaver [just rename the EXE to SCR– Thanks to the people who pointed this out!] although it doesn’t quit unless you hit ESC or Alt+F4, so it’s not that well behaved ;) ¹

Note that by default this demo will now drive on the right side of the road, which should please a few of my North American visitors (fear not Rest-of-the-World, this is now a switchable option).

Also note that I have chucked the Coral cache for drivey.com, since it seems to be totally screwing up with Internet Explorer especially, resulting in broken images and even broken or missing downloads! If you tried the demo and got a “Not valid Win32 application” error, it’s probable that you were a victim of this flakiness. Which is a bloody shame, since I really, really love the idea of the Coral CDN. If you try again now and you should be able to download it fine.

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1. Also, where you would normally see a little preview running in your screen saver preferences dialog, nothing will happen. It should still work when activated though. I’m using it as a screensaver for the first time myself, and find it surprisingly well behaved, especially liking the fact that it doesn’t quit when you hit the arrow keys to steer it.