rec.autos.simulators

Still raced in offline leagues on the Amiga and PC today! I'm not sure
even the original NASCAR Racing or maybe even GPL will last that long.

DTR blaggers need not reply :)

--
Rob Swindells
"Add life to your days, not days to your life."
"The greatest substitute for talent is hard work."
"Doing it, is better than watching it, is better than simulating it."
"I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

My brother had F1 GP on his ST.  Was really good fun and considering other
games that were available maybe better for its time than GP2 was when it
came out.

I would have to go with GPL though due to the fact that it is so realistic.

Hehe:)

Brian

GPL - no doubt. For all the reasons mentioned in countless previous
posts.

- Michael

Rick.

MS

What puts it over the top?  It was programmed entirely in assembler.
So it was ***y fast.  It ran on my 8086 (8 MHz) with no problems. I
really think it revoluationized racing simulations and thus F1GP et al
were born.  The physics were outstanding considering it ran on an
8086.

...Some people may remember, way back in the mists of time when an IBM PC
came with 64K of RAM and a tape interface as standard a program called Revs.
This was a simulation of the British Formula 3 championship, had all the
major UK circuits in, benefitted from the input of a real life, sucessful
(in
British F3 anyway) racing driver, and was held in awe for the accuracy of
both its physics and circuit layouts. It ran on a BBC Micro (32K or 64K RAM,
1MHz
6502 processor - say about the same level of technology as an Apple II).

The author?

One Geoff Crammond...

--
JG

I think that F1GP was written before Indy 500 (it was released on the Amiga
& Atari ST long before it made it to the PC).

If we're talking about ground breakers though, then Geoff Crammond's first
racing sim, Revs, should get the award IMO. This was the first attempt to
actually simulate a form of racing (British F3) rather than produce a
racing based arcade game.

Cheers,
Richard

TIME Magazine would probably pick "Pole Position".

"Racing Sim of the Century".

Give me a break.

Hey, I don't use that phrase, but you made me do it!!!

I wonder what the racing sim of the previous century was?

Oh well, still one more year to go...

Maybe Gran Turismo 2000 will be the racing sim of the twentieth century.

Adrian.

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Simon

No, TIME magazine would find that GP2 had a huge number of
votes, so they'd remove it from the list altogether.
(based on what they did with the person of the century)

cheers...

PC Powerplay voted GPL number 5, in the game of the century, GP2 was
11. Gpl outscored some big time games, unusual for a games mag, with
Quake no. 1. GPL will always get my vote though, even though GP/GP2
were both great.

Rafe Mc

Well, I'm not familiar with the particular sequence of events at TIME,
so I would assume TIME forgot to specify anything in the requirements
that indicated a requirement that the person be "positive", and so a
lot of people voted for one of the most visible noted people in
twentieth century history--often considered an embodiment of evil,
known for his manipulation of the masses through the media.

And so TIME was forced to explicitly make Bill Gates ineligible for the
vote.

Adrian.