rec.autos.simulators

by **Steve Smit** » Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:39:59

Sim racing is now recognized by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

(Note the plug for AutoSimSport at the bottom!)

by **Dan Leac** » Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:46:22

GPL doesn't get a mention?
jeez

by **artie beame** » Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:29:23

so edit it

by **Steve Whitt** » Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:11:53

>> Sim racing is now recognized by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia:

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_racing

>> (Note the plug for AutoSimSport at the bottom!)

> GPL doesn't get a mention?
> jeez

GPL gets its own page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_Legends

cheers

steve

by **Steve Smit** » Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:53:43

Thx, Steve!

> >> Sim racing is now recognized by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia:

> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_racing

> >> (Note the plug for AutoSimSport at the bottom!)

> > GPL doesn't get a mention?
> > jeez

> GPL gets its own page

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_Legends

> cheers

> steve

by **Tony Rickar** » Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:21:54

> > Sim racing is now recognized by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_racing

> GPL doesn't get a mention?
> jeez

That's cos "GP4 does remain though the game of choice for most leagues in
the world"

No mention of online racing...

Cheers
Tony

by **John DiFoo** » Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:07:10

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:39:59 GMT, "Steve Smith"

>Sim racing is now recognized by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_racing

>(Note the plug for AutoSimSport at the bottom!)

It does seem very provincially oriented to the GP series for some
odd reason (obviously the work of a fanboy). Just how popular is
GP nowadays? [Checks RSC's GP subforum] About 20 posts in
this month, compared to over 10,000 (guess) for the GPL
subforum (F1C et al. also dwarfs GP's posts, even NR2003 after
the First controversy died down). Someone with less of a bias
should go and edit it-in particular we've had a lot of sports car
titles come out lately so:

"One particular feature of sim racing is its emphasis on Formula 1, as
opposed to other open-wheel racing series, sports and rally cars, and
most of all NASCAR..."

Got a chuckle out of that one...

John DiFool

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:04:50

>>http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> GPL doesn't get a mention?

Hmmm, I think GPL got a separate mention a while ago. This general
write-up seems to made by a rather obvious GP2/3/4 user, however.
(Although Crammon's Revs basically started the simracing genre I wonder
how many simmers would count those titles to be *** "sims", btw..)

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -24)

by **Piet** » Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:59:36

rofl: Strangely enough, there are no English sim racers.

by **ist..** » Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:48:56

just a thought.

in a few years, how many people would consider GPL, NR2003, etc to be
*** "sims" ?

it's all relative, i guess.

Revs gave me more than enough goosebumps to rank as a *** sim of
its day.

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:00:58

> in a few years, how many people would consider GPL, NR2003, etc to be
> *** "sims" ?

Well, given that even in twenty years it will *still* take yer average
Joe several months to learn GPL enough to stay on the roads at racing
speed (NR, being mostly about ovals, bit less so), I'd say that would
still be seen as pretty *** - outdated, sure, but still pretty
'core I guess.

Nothing very relative about the ***, sweat, tears and lots of
swearwords it takes to get a 67 wingless F1 car under control!

(Unless mankind evolves into something alien-like in the upcoming
decades, of course...)

Amen, brother. I still have the original disk somewhere.

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -24)

by **flightlessvac..** » Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:25:54

> GPL doesn't get a mention?
> jeez

Quit *** a dead horse.

by **schoone** » Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:47:16

Did someone mention NSR? ;-)

>> GPL doesn't get a mention?
>> jeez

> Quit *** a dead horse.

by **jason moye** » Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:52:33

I'm kinda wondering what EA F12003 is.

by **jason moye** » Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:59:29

At some point someone needs to correct all the glaring errors on that
page. Sim racing did not magically start with GP2 (one wonders what
GP1 was in that case). Someone should write up a good history going
back to the early projection system from the 70's and working it's way
through the early arcade games and the crammond and papyrus and ISI
titles.

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