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by **Michael La** » Sun, 05 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Hi all,
The Official GP3 site has been updated with a FAQ and some press reviews
from the ECTS expo in September.
New things the FAQ has either confirmed or are new news to us are that:
1) The target minimum specification is a PII 266.
2) The menu system for GP3 has been overhauled, making it easier to access
all areas of the game, including the quick race option.
3) Realistic weather effects are in the game.
The FAQ suggests that GP3 will not have internet multiplayer either, from
the fact that under the "multiplayer options", all they have is: "As well as
supporting hot-seat and direct serial link, GP3 will also support a minimum
of 4 players via LAN."
The comments from the press include:
"While every game boasts never seen before realism, a quick glance at these
screenshots is proof that Geoff [Crammond]'s latest F1GP is indeed a bit
special."
Games Master - December 1999 - UK - Preview
"F1 Grand Prix3 is a serious proposition that has negotiated its first
public appearance with aplomb."
Edge - November 1999 - UK - Preview

The GP3ZONE server is temporary down. I apoligise for any inconveniences
caused.
Thanks,
Michael
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by **ymenar** » Sun, 05 Dec 1999 04:00:00

In the next century, Im simply not sure anymore that I will want to buy that
has no Online racing via the Internet. I mean.. what's the real reason?
Hot-seat who gives an arse ? it's "start-of-the-90's" technology like
direct-serial link.

Geoff should be ashamed of the FIA. I want a DVD support for GP3,still !

***y Bernie.

-- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting in
2001 eh).
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

by **Leaky_Valv** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

The new millenium starts in 2001.
That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting in
> 2001 eh).
> -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>

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by **Todd Dr** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

So then, the 1990's started in 1991?

> The new millenium starts in 2001.
> That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> > -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting
in
> > 2001 eh).
> > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>

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by **Outshin** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Everyone keeps telling me that, but they also say that 2000 is the end
of the old one. What happens from 2000-2001. Are we in some sort of
limbo for that year? A sort of calender purgatory?
--

Scott aka Outshynd
The driver formerly know as Outshined
"33" in N3
27 in NL

"And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel,
is just a freight train heading your way."--No Leaf Clover....Metallica

by **David A. Ewin** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

>The new millenium starts in 2001.
>That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

Mulder: "No one likes a math geek, Scully".

Dave Ewing

P.S. I agree with you, but I've been waiting to use that line since watching
the X-Files last week ;-).

by **Jon Van Ginneke** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting in
> 2001 eh).

There's no need to even pick apart you comments since we all know GP3 is coming
on October 3rd, 2003...you heard it here first! :-)

Jon

by **David Kar** » Mon, 06 Dec 1999 04:00:00

The new millenium--like the old one--is a cultural construct, and starts
when people (or rather, those who use the western calendar) *experience* it
as starting. The "fact" to which you refer is human-made, and
humanly-adjustable. It doesn't exist outside of the social world in which
it's lived.

Or at least that's my take.

--DK

> The new millenium starts in 2001.
> That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> > -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting
in
> > 2001 eh).
> > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>

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by **Leaky_Valv** » Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Yup.
We use the Gregorian calendar. There is no "year zero" in that calendar.
Therefore a decade starts with '1' and ends with '10'.
A century starts with '1' and ends with '100'.
A millenium starts with '1' and ends with '1000'.

Simple.

> So then, the 1990's started in 1991?

> > The new millenium starts in 2001.
> > That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> > > -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting
> in
> > > 2001 eh).
> > > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>

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by **Michael Veldma** » Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:00:00

And what about the decade:-

1980s 1990s 2000s
eighties nineties naughties?

Michael

by **Leaky_Valv** » Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:00:00

And a lovely line it is, Dave. I'm glad that it was I who gave you an
opportunity to use it!! :o)

> >The new millenium starts in 2001.
> >That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> Mulder: "No one likes a math geek, Scully".

> Dave Ewing

> P.S. I agree with you, but I've been waiting to use that line since watching
> the X-Files last week ;-).

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by **Leaky_Valv** » Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Oh. Orright then.
I just *experienced* the onset of next Friday afternoon at 5:00PM. Do you think
my boss will accept this as my reason for not attending work tomorrow or the
next day?

Or should he join this cultural construct (whatever the hell a *construct* is: I
always thought it was a verb) too?

> The new millenium--like the old one--is a cultural construct, and starts
> when people (or rather, those who use the western calendar) *experience* it
> as starting. The "fact" to which you refer is human-made, and
> humanly-adjustable. It doesn't exist outside of the social world in which
> it's lived.

> Or at least that's my take.

> --DK

> > The new millenium starts in 2001.
> > That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

> > > -- (please no smart-arse comments about the millenium century starting
> in
> > > 2001 eh).
> > > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>

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by **Woodie** » Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:00:00

>So then, the 1990's started in 1991?

Exactly

by **Michael Knephe** » Wed, 08 Dec 1999 04:00:00

So the only year in the 20th century with a "20" in it will have been 1920?

Apples and oranges. Nomenclature for decades ("90s", "80s", etc.) doesn't (traditionally) follow the same convention as that for centuries. Popular usage seems to be rapidly changing that, however, for better or ill.

>> The new millenium starts in 2001.
>> That's not a smart-arse comment. It's fact.

by **Michael Knephe** » Wed, 08 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Some cultural constructs have bigger sticks. ;o)

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