Eat The Whistle

Eat The Whistle is an opensource soccer game originally developed by Hurricane Studios as commercial product for the Amiga platform. It has a lot of features never seen in other soccer games.

The original Amiga version has been made portable with the help of the SDL library, now ETW runs on a wide range of machines, the site will keep precompiled binaries for Win32, Linux, MacOSX, AmigaOS, but it's possible to adapt it to run on every platform supported by SDL.

Features:

• System friendly. Run in a window or fullscreen, can be played also on old machines (runs pefectly on a P200).
• World cup, leagues, cups with real teams (with slightly modified names).
• Time synchronized, faster CPU get faster framerate but not faster gameplay.
• Can be played through keyboard or joypad/joysticks (USB or Gameport).
• Network playing through TCP/IP (not yet finished).
• Very intuitive control method with acceleration/deceleration.
• More than 550 frames of animations for the players, 300 for the goalkeeper, 100 for the refree and a lot of other graphics.
• 30 different fields, including muddy, frozen and wet (actually only one included in the demo version to contain the archive size).
• Fouls, corners, throw-in with an intuitive control system.
• Role playing. (You can play a match as the whole team or only as a player).
• About every thing in the game is configurable via intuitive menus.
• Game Tactics and tactic editor.
• Heading and other special shots with intuitive controls.
• Team players (with individual stats) and team editor (the editor is actually available only for AmigaOS).
• Import SWOS teams.
• Arcade-like actions for "arcade mode" (powerups, bonuses... something like speedball II).
• Replays (with load/save option).
• Spoken comment (actually broken).

Requirements:

• The SDL runtime (1.2.0 or better) matching your configuration