rec.autos.simulators

    I can't honestly remember. Charlie Heath was "the man" when it came
to network and MP coding.
    I remember discovering networking code in Nascar 1 and asking the
powers that be why it wasn't enabled. They denied it was in the game. I
said well someone is hacking your software then. Charlie had put it
into the game on his own time and not told anyone. They used it in the
future
when they had their road shows with the pods they had made up.
    I did find away to enable it for my own enjoyment though. :-)

    Pete

Thanks for the offer, Goy, but I just remembered that my last copy of DOS
6.2 disappeared ages ago and I'm ***ed if I can remember all the lines
for Autoexec.bat and Config.sys in order to configure the Conventional
Memory requirements! :)

I had several boot-up configurations, depending on which game I was about to
play!

Oh boy......those were the days, orright. :)

Bruce.

Oh yeah [menu item] etc.....btw, I have DOS 5.0, 6.0, 6.2 and 6.22 as
well as Win 3.1, 3.11 and 3.11 for workgroups or what the hell they were
called, I also have Win95 on floppies, let me know if you change your
mind

And no, I'm not a pack rat, I run a PC shop and it goes with the
territory, the Win95 on floppies actually came in handy not too long ago

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

I opted out of the retail profession in May of 1998; up to that time I had
been operating a PC rental/service/supply business, as well as having my
finger in the pie of computer entertainment retailing.
So of course I have no hardware (other than the Gravis) at all to remind me
of those times....only the software (except, as mentioned, for DOS!)

I recall installing Windows 3.11 from about twenty floppy disks! :)

Thanks for the offer, Goy.
Any idea of the shipping charges to Canberra?

Bruce.

I'd buy it...

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Yeah, that's pretty much what we do as well, except that we don't do
rental, but we do build our own line of PC's, which is handy for someone
with a computer interest, building a 2.8 with a Radeon 9800 PRO on
Monday, which means I will have just enough time to put the R9800 in my
own rig to compare it with a "modded" 9500 PRO, just checking to see if
it's time to upgrade again :-), before delivering the PC to the customer

Yeah.....those where the days, I really hated when people ordered Office
as well, came on another 35 floppies, and floppy 32 always had a CRC
error

Waaay too much, just had a quick browse on the postal service, anything
between 100 and 200 Aussie dollars, just write this off as a trip down
memory lane :-), if you're serious about it, I'd rather look around for
an old P200 something like that, throw in one of the original Rendition
cards and you would have a nice rig for those older sims

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

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"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

No, I wasn't really serious, Goy. If I can find some bits and pieces down
here I might do something about it as my son and I are revisiting some old
games at the moment - stuff that we enjoyed a decade ago. It's quite fun and
highlights the fact that gameplay - not graphics and sounds - is the core to
all decent games.

One is Microprose's "X-COM: Enemy Unknown" (also sold as "UFO Defence".)
The graphics are chunky SVGA but the gameplay is as excellent today as it
was back in, what, 1995?
A modern version has been released (not programmed by the original duo) and
within the space of three days it has accumulated more grief messages than
you can poke a stick at.
All they needed to do was simply update the graphics and leave the core of
the game alone. But no, they had to "improve" it.

Sometimes the original doesn't >need< any "improving"! :)

Bruce.

I couldn't agree more, I find most games released today utterly boring,
once you've looked at all the pretty screens, it gets boring fast, this
is one of my pet peeves

I never actually played that series, but Microprose....that was a ***
company, the games came with manuals thick enough to pass for a bible
and contained enough material to be worth the price of admission on it's
own

This is true, I'm currently poking around a little bit with Homeworld 2,
I can't seem to put my finger on it, but something has changed and it's
not nearly as much fun as the original Homeworld, which I played through
for the 2nd time only a couple of months ago and then played through
Homeworld Cataclysm as well, just to prepare myself for the sequel,
didn't enjoy Cataclysm much and I'm not too thrilled about this one
either

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--