rec.autos.simulators

> This was posted by Bill Tillman a bit ago:

> "In Turn 1's forum a message was posted about Papy including a hidden cheat
> code in GPL to make your car faster! Too bad if this is so because a lot of
> Hot Lappers will have to do it all over again! Somehow when these things are
> discouvered an unfair advantage exists for a while but the playing field
> gets leveled again in short order."

> A few replied, making out like this was impossible and generally making fun
> of the inquirey.

> Now listen up, as this happened last nite, and I was there and saw it.

> I was hosting a kyalami race between 3 of us, not VROC. All logged on and i
> and another racer had not yet pushed the green to go practice. ONE racer
> did. He was waiting on us to enter so we could all start together.

> He started typing in chat to tell us to get our A** in. He never finished.
> a second later, while the 2 of us were still "outside", A message appears on
> the chat board to the effect " how do u stop it?" ????????, i asked "stop
> what? " He said my car. It's running on auto.  It's driving its self.
> FAST.....
> I replied that i had no idea to get out and see if that stopped it. He let
> it drive itself a while longer. and got out and it quit and was not in that
> mode when he re-entered.

> He said that the car drove itself, shifted at the proper points braked at
> the proper points, and generally drove like hell, squealing the tires around
> the corners, and generally eclipsing the world record.

> THIS IS NO BS......I saw it and the fella don't BS around. Something took
> place. I saw it roar by on the replay screen. He was shaken and astounded.

> He apparanly hit a sequence of keystrokes in typing in chat to initiate
> this, and he has no idea what, as he wase'nt paying real good attention.

> But its there, waiting to be found again, OR prehaps its allready been found
> as the fella said u could'nt tell whether he was drivin or the "robot".

> Like lookin for the lost dutchman i guess.

> This happened.....last nite...for reals.............

> chipper

> This was posted by Bill Tillman a bit ago:
> "In Turn 1's forum a message was posted about Papy including a
> hidden cheat
> code in GPL to make your car faster! Too bad if this is so because
> a lot of
> Hot Lappers will have to do it all over again! Somehow when these
> things are
> discouvered an unfair advantage exists for a while but the playing
> field
> gets leveled again in short order."
> A few replied, making out like this was impossible and generally
> making fun
> of the inquirey.
> Now listen up, as this happened last nite, and I was there and saw
> it.
> I was hosting a kyalami race between 3 of us, not VROC. All logged
> on and i
> and another racer had not yet pushed the green to go practice. ONE
> racer
> did. He was waiting on us to enter so we could all start together.
> He started typing in chat to tell us to get our A** in. He never
> finished.
> a second later, while the 2 of us were still "outside", A message
> appears on
> the chat board to the effect " how do u stop it?" ????????, i asked
> "stop
> what? " He said my car. It's running on auto.  It's driving its
> self.
> FAST.....
> I replied that i had no idea to get out and see if that stopped it.
> He let
> it drive itself a while longer. and got out and it quit and was not
> in that
> mode when he re-entered.
> He said that the car drove itself, shifted at the proper points
> braked at
> the proper points, and generally drove like hell, squealing the
> tires around
> the corners, and generally eclipsing the world record.
> THIS IS NO BS......I saw it and the fella don't BS around.

> i was able to do the same thing on and off line,, first time was online
> under the same circumstances as you discribed  and i have reliable witnesses
> and the second time was off line when i decided to try and recreate it and i
> was successfull after about two hours of trying to rember  what i had been
> atempting to say in chat on line with out activating the chat by hitting the
> enter key after i had already typing my message,, i am really disappointed
> that it can be accomplished to make the car drive itself

> Barry


> >This was posted by Bill Tillman a bit ago:

> >"In Turn 1's forum a message was posted about Papy including a hidden cheat
> >code in GPL to make your car faster! Too bad if this is so because a lot of
> >Hot Lappers will have to do it all over again! Somehow when these things
> are
> >discouvered an unfair advantage exists for a while but the playing field
> >gets leveled again in short order."

> >A few replied, making out like this was impossible and generally making fun
> >of the inquirey.

> >Now listen up, as this happened last nite, and I was there and saw it.

> >I was hosting a kyalami race between 3 of us, not VROC. All logged on and i
> >and another racer had not yet pushed the green to go practice. ONE racer
> >did. He was waiting on us to enter so we could all start together.

> >He started typing in chat to tell us to get our A** in. He never finished.
> >a second later, while the 2 of us were still "outside", A message appears
> on
> >the chat board to the effect " how do u stop it?" ????????, i asked "stop
> >what? " He said my car. It's running on auto.  It's driving its self.
> >FAST.....
> >I replied that i had no idea to get out and see if that stopped it. He let
> >it drive itself a while longer. and got out and it quit and was not in that
> >mode when he re-entered.

> >He said that the car drove itself, shifted at the proper points braked at
> >the proper points, and generally drove like hell, squealing the tires
> around
> >the corners, and generally eclipsing the world record.

> >THIS IS NO BS......I saw it and the fella don't BS around. Something took
> >place. I saw it roar by on the replay screen. He was shaken and astounded.

> >He apparanly hit a sequence of keystrokes in typing in chat to initiate
> >this, and he has no idea what, as he wase'nt paying real good attention.

> >But its there, waiting to be found again, OR prehaps its allready been
> found
> >as the fella said u could'nt tell whether he was drivin or the "robot".

> >Like lookin for the lost dutchman i guess.

> >This happened.....last nite...for reals.............

> >chipper

>There is absolutely positively no way possible for any keystroke
>combination to cause the car to drive by itself.  Are you sure you
>didn't just change the focus car by pressing V or Shift-V (these keys
>will allow you to 'ride' along with any other car on the track)?

>Eric

>>i was able to do the same thing on and off line,, first time was online
>>under the same circumstances as you discribed  and i have reliable
>witnesses
>>and the second time was off line when i decided to try and recreate it
>and i
>>was successfull after about two hours of trying to rember  what i had
>been
>>atempting to say in chat on line with out activating the chat by
>hitting the
>>enter key after i had already typing my message,, i am really
>disappointed
>>that it can be accomplished to make the car drive itself

> I was just practicing at Kylami with my uncle and Joe dawson the race had
> just started i was in a honda joe was in a lotus and i believe my uncle was
> in a cooper, i clicked the green button was sittting in my car in the pits,,
> started typing  a message and hit enter then i noticed i had not hit enter
> to activate the chat and at the same time the car was rolling out of the
> pits didnt think anything about it til the gears started shifting  and the
> gas started working itself then the car went into t1 and negotiated the turn
> on its own,, at this point i started typing to the joe and rick stating that
> the car is driving itself immediatley they started chating back so i dont
> think they were driving and this was at the very beginnning of the session

> > I was just practicing at Kylami with my uncle and Joe dawson the race had
> > just started i was in a honda joe was in a lotus and i believe my uncle was
> > in a cooper, i clicked the green button was sittting in my car in the pits,,
> > started typing  a message and hit enter then i noticed i had not hit enter
> > to activate the chat and at the same time the car was rolling out of the
> > pits didnt think anything about it til the gears started shifting  and the
> > gas started working itself then the car went into t1 and negotiated the turn
> > on its own,, at this point i started typing to the joe and rick stating that
> > the car is driving itself immediatley they started chating back so i dont
> > think they were driving and this was at the very beginnning of the session

> Apparently the cheat is not using the "period" key. ;-)

> Dave Ewing