http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the proliferation of
web-boards.
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Same problems as ever. In Dec 1993 I was complaining about framerate
problems with ICR2, bemoaning the artificial steering help in World Circuit,
and starting to solder together my own wheel because nothing decent existed
on the market...
Stephen
ICR2 didn't come out until 1995, and GP2 in 1996.
I recall getting my first Pentium based PC, a 133mhz cutting edge "monster"
that cost $5,000 US as a Christmas present to myself at the end of 1995, and
buying a Thrustmaster T2 wheel and those two games.
It was a few months after that, sometime in early 1996 that I first came
upon this newsgroup.
> > Fun :
> > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.simulators/about
> > Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the proliferation
of
> > web-boards.
> Same problems as ever. In Dec 1993 I was complaining about framerate
> problems with ICR2, bemoaning the artificial steering help in World
Circuit,
> and starting to solder together my own wheel because nothing decent
existed
> on the market...
> Stephen
>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.simulators/about
>Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the proliferation of
>web-boards.
I'm going to check out how some of the other groupsI frequent
have done over the years...
John DiFool
This could have happened in late 95 though.
Mitch
Just a guess, but wasn't that about the time that the West Brothers first came
to the forefront?
Mike
> >Fun :
> >http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.simulators/about
> >Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the proliferation of
> >web-boards.
> Amazing. What happened in the summer of 2000 to cause 12,000
> posts a month? Now we get about 1/4 of the posts we averaged
> back then (~6000 in more normal months vs. 1500 now).
> I'm going to check out how some of the other groupsI frequent
> have done over the years...
> John DiFool
Kendt
Soccer moms at home, brat kids on their college PC, they all prefer web
boards and their cheesiness.
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Of course I meant ICR1. In December 1993, GP1 (World Circuit) and ICR1 were
very much a topic in the newly-formed newsgroup. I remember transferring my
GP1 discussions from r.a.s.f1 over to the new hangout...
Stephen
> > > Fun :
> > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.simulators/about
> > > Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the
proliferation
> of
> > > web-boards.
> > Same problems as ever. In Dec 1993 I was complaining about framerate
> > problems with ICR2, bemoaning the artificial steering help in World
> Circuit,
> > and starting to solder together my own wheel because nothing decent
> existed
> > on the market...
> > Stephen
My typo. I meant ICR1, and it was definitely commercial in late '93 (as was
GP1).
Stephen
p.s. (r.a.s. was formed in December 1993, and I moved there from r.a.s.f1 to
chat about GP1)
It was this event that got simmers to be extremely pessimistic about all
sim releases since - and normally for good reason. So many expected so much.
Some were convinced - some were outraged that some were convinced. Shit was
flying in all directions, threats of legal action (slander) and generally
the internets version of a WWF Smackdown! Good stuff!
Can any of the regs point to a more stirring time? Probably the release
of GPL was the exact opposite.
> >Fun :
> >http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.simulators/about
> >Check out the peak circa summer of 2000. Just before the proliferation
of
> >web-boards.
> Amazing. What happened in the summer of 2000 to cause 12,000
> posts a month? Now we get about 1/4 of the posts we averaged
> back then (~6000 in more normal months vs. 1500 now).
> I'm going to check out how some of the other groupsI frequent
> have done over the years...
> John DiFool
> It was this event that got simmers to be extremely pessimistic about all
> sim releases since - and normally for good reason. So many expected so much.
> Some were convinced - some were outraged that some were convinced. Shit was
> flying in all directions, threats of legal action (slander) and generally
> the internets version of a WWF Smackdown! Good stuff!
> Can any of the regs point to a more stirring time? Probably the release
> of GPL was the exact opposite.
That CART Precision Racing incident was really something indeed. It
was also probably the last time any developers were posting to this
newsgroup. That game was a total waste of a good CART licence, but it
had the first (and only I think) attempt to make a race engineer into
the game. It's too bad that you have to be a setup guru to go really
fast. No professional racing driver has to go through that.
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Olav Malmin
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That may have also been that dreadful period where MHO *** was down.
:)
-Larry
<no comments> ;-D
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