As far as making GPL go on the PII 350...
Overclock it (most will...mine does 466! :)
Add a $30 Diamond Stealth II S220 (not G460, an i740 board) and watch GPL
scream
Then, WAIT on the Dreamcast
Ever heard of the Sega Saturn?
If you haven't, my point exactly. Saturn was Sega's failed attempt at a
32-bit CD system (much like the Playtstation) that came out too late in the
US, and had no support...It did get all of the Sega Arcade ports, but that's
not enough....
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Kirk Lane
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>Have you ever considered that a lot of players are now using notebooks just
>as I am. I need to travel a lot for working and having two different email,
>documents, .... is a pain. Today, my notebook is a PII-233 with 64Mb but,
>guess what, there is no 3D video board.
>I have bought every single Nascar game from Sierra/Papyrus and they play
>great in my machine. My son has a PII-350 with an Intel I740 video board
and
>96 Mb of main memory. It is amazing that, with all this horsepower, GPL
>crawl in it.
>The main problem is that, we keep needing to upgrade our machines (and
>spend a lot of $$$$$) just to be able to run our games. I personally had
>stoped this. I am waiting for the US release of the Sega DreamCast and I
>will buy one. It will be cheap (around $250), powerfull (RISC), easy to
make
>games (Windows CE with DirectX, maybe even migrating will be not that
>difficult), internet playing (standard 56K V.90 modem), 3D Video(PowerVR2),
>3D Sound (Yamaha) and has both Sega and Microsoft behind it.
>And, for another reason, no company is in the market to lose money, not
even
>a single one. They will do what sells well, not what we think is best. The
>normal player will buy GPL, try it for some time and put it away as being
to
>difficult. It it is great? Of course it is! But, the ROI (Return of
>Investment) is very low. With the same investment they can get a lot more
>money with "not 100% simulator" games, just like N2, N99, N???.
>A question to you. It you where in Sierra position, i.e, if it where your
>money, in with one you would invest? In the one you think is the best or
the
>one that will generate the biggest revenue?
>Just my 2 cents on this.
>Roberto
>> I'm sure all of you have read the Papy Nascar N3 GPL stuff and most of
>> you feel let down like I do. This stuff about CPU etc. just doesn't
>> wash with me, and of course the profit issue, learning curve. Christ
>> the game has been in development darn near 3 years, did they just WAKE
>> UP to this? Stop yanking on my **** Papy/ Sierra! Its starting to
>> hurt and I'm getting stretch marks <G>.
>> My proposal is this....Use the Nascar 2000 title for the NROS BGN
>> series for those whom don't have or wish to upgrade their CPUs and or
>> spend the time to learn that high tech GPL type engine.
>> Bring out the N3 high tech sim for those of us that desire the finest
>> in our sim experience and are willing to upgrade our systems (or already
>> have) and use it for the NROS Winston Cup series.
>> Get this NROS thing rolling!!!!! NROS will never be NROS until we
>> have the bomb sim software and get the bugs worked out of the format/
>> system. Two sims, two series, two servers (TEN and Papy) equals forward
>> progress FINALLY.
>> Doug Straley
