rec.autos.simulators

GPL has been named Game of the Year by one magazine and runner-up by
another.

Steve Smith has added a new chapter to his Advanced Setup Guide.

New sound samples created by a GPL fan named Patrick (and available at
his site) transform GPL's audio environment.  Patrick processed actual
vintage racing engine sounds to make them suitable for GPL.  With
Patrick's sounds, you can hear every cylinder fire.  The BRM shrieks,
the Murasama bellows and howls, the Coventry moans and whines, the
Ferrari wails, the Brabham roars, the Lotus and Eagle snarl.  The result
is a raw, visceral experience that evokes the sensations I've previously
experienced only at real race tracks.  If you're a GPL fan, you have
*got* to try these sounds!

Spurred by Achim Trensz' suggestion, I've installed a SoundBlaster Live!
Value in my racing computer.  The result is much better than I expected,
better than I would have believed.  I can run 16 cars heard in GPL, and
frame rate is better than with a SB 16 running four car sounds!  Sound
quality is much improved, and online racing is dramatically better.

I've added links to a number of sites which offer graphical
enhancements, including complete carsets, and alternative sound samples
for GPL.

See the News page at my site for details on these and other
developments:

  http://www.racesimcentral.net/~alison/gpl/

Alison

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Don Burnette
Dburn on Ten

And Patrick's sounds are amazing (just like his F1RS and MGPRS2 sounds).  I
have sent him a private message with a couple of suggestions how to improve
a couple of the sounds, but anyone with ears' first impression will be
WOW!!!  If you care at all about sound you must at least try these new
creations!  And they are dead simple to install--you can even pick and
choose which sounds to use if there are some you do not like as well as the
originals!!  It doesn't get any better than this, folks.

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~expatjen/gpl.htm

Marc.

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These 5 new wav files are sensational.....the 5 in one file (PD_GPL) appears
to be corrupt, so just grab the individual files.....The ferrari sounds
INCREDIBLE thru my 80watt amp and headphones, as do all the other cars...GPL
just got even better !
Phil

Here's a direct link.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~expatjen/gpl.htm