Guess I'll find out on Friday when I buy my copy from EB.
The most interesting point though is that Jamedit works with GP3 with only
an update to 16 bit textures needed...looks like the tinkerers brigade are
on the case.!!
Time will tell.
Ian.
And how much can they do in 7 weeks? Fix bugs, sure, but a complete overhaul
of the physics and graphics engines? Doubtful. Well, you're right, time will
tell.
I have to say that this whole situation reminds me a lot about the immense
hype and sky-high expectations that were generated in anticipation of the
release of Falcon 4.0 in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sims. For over a year,
people said that it would change the world as we know it, pretty much just
on the basis of the prior version alone. When it did come out, there was
massive disappointment. Not so much with what it tried to do, but in its
totally broken bug-laden state (which people forgot was the same case with
that prior 3.0 version - history was repeated). And the whole development
team was laid off before they every fully fixed it. Anyway, I guess it's
human nature to be e***d about something that's coming out, and that's
fine, but there were lots of really unjustified critical comments made here
in the past few months, for example, how it would compare against F1 2000,
that it would blow it away, etc., with no facts to back it up. It turns out
that F1 2000 has got really good physics and graphics after all. Well,
hindsight is 20/20, but I'm just glad that I didn't participate in this
frenzy. I'll probably still get it, but at least I know what to expect now.
Names aren't enough in this business.
For all of you who have it there is a gp3readme and there's a date in it
I mustsay I am really disappointed by the game, to top all the other
complaitns it doesn't support 3 axis wheels, so don't even think of
tailbraking....NO WAY.
Crammond you let us down this time....
Mitch
Regards Mike
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:43:31 -0700, "Mitch Alatorre"
>Mitch
>> Then how come it says "13 July, 2000" inside the gp3readme.txt file?
>Hmm...
>> And how much can they do in 7 weeks? Fix bugs, sure, but a complete
>overhaul
>> of the physics and graphics engines? Doubtful. Well, you're right, time
>will
>> tell.
>> I have to say that this whole situation reminds me a lot about the immense
>> hype and sky-high expectations that were generated in anticipation of the
>> release of Falcon 4.0 in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sims. For over a
>year,
>> people said that it would change the world as we know it, pretty much just
>> on the basis of the prior version alone. When it did come out, there was
>> massive disappointment. Not so much with what it tried to do, but in its
>> totally broken bug-laden state (which people forgot was the same case with
>> that prior 3.0 version - history was repeated). And the whole development
>> team was laid off before they every fully fixed it. Anyway, I guess it's
>> human nature to be e***d about something that's coming out, and that's
>> fine, but there were lots of really unjustified critical comments made
>here
>> in the past few months, for example, how it would compare against F1 2000,
>> that it would blow it away, etc., with no facts to back it up. It turns
>out
>> that F1 2000 has got really good physics and graphics after all. Well,
>> hindsight is 20/20, but I'm just glad that I didn't participate in this
>> frenzy. I'll probably still get it, but at least I know what to expect
>now.
>> Names aren't enough in this business.
> For all of you who have it there is a gp3readme and there's a date in it
> I mustsay I am really disappointed by the game, to top all the other
> complaitns it doesn't support 3 axis wheels, so don't even think of
> tailbraking....NO WAY.
> Crammond you let us down this time....
> > Just visited www.f1-grandprix3.net and see main headline is that the
> pirated
> > copy is a 7 week old beta version with many bugs.
> > Guess I'll find out on Friday when I buy my copy from EB.
> > The most interesting point though is that Jamedit works with GP3 with
only
> > an update to 16 bit textures needed...looks like the tinkerers brigade
are
> > on the case.!!
> > Time will tell.
> > Ian.
