rec.autos.simulators

> So I finally get to see LeMans at a friend's house (I never bother to
> ask him where he gets these things anymore). I don't know how final
> this version was, all I got was "I just got it". Here's what I found,
> in no particular order. Ready? Keep in mind I only played it for about
> 20 minutes, which was all I could stomach. I barely fiddled with the
> championship mode, but it seemed cool that you could test drive the car
> before joining a team. I didn't play with the car settings, either.

> No mouse support in menus, kb only. To go to a previous menu, you have
> to scroll down and select "back", hitting esc doesn't always work.

> Controller setup screen: 3 sensitivity sliders to adjust - X axis, Y
> axis, and Deadzone. That's it. Of course the windows joystick was set
> to 2 axis 4 button (TM GP1 wheel). You can reconfigure the buttons,
> however. If I remember correctly, each axis can be configured
> separately as well, but since the GP1 doesn't have split axis I
> couldn't try that out.

> Let's drive! I only chose "Arcade" mode (there is no 'Quick Race'
> selection). I didn't see any options for car physics. To confirm
> previous threads, no, there is no***pit view. I couldn't find the
> bumper view, since I don't know the keys.
> Driving the car was a chore. Auto-reverse meant that hitting the brakes
> would make the car go backwards after it stopped (didn't see an option
> to turn it off, and I did have it on manual transmission). Now I get up
> to speed, turn the wheel slightly and WOAH the car instantly veers off
> to one side. It seems like the steering is just on/off, with nothing in
> between. I barely moved the wheel 10 degrees to one side and it just
> locks the wheels in that direction, even after messing with the
> sliders. Not just that, but when the throttle is jammed, it seems like
> the car has 4 wheel steering and the whole car just snakes sideways.
> Not in a wheelspin way, but the rear end actually steers(remember this
> is viewed from the outside, so I'm not imagining things).
> All 4 tires seem to 'float' over the surface, just like NFS, they don't
> interact with the ground at all.
> Need to reconfigure the controller while racing? Forget it. Press Esc,
> quit the race, then highlight 'Back' a few times just to get to the
> controller setup.
> I didn't race with any AI, but after *trying* to drive this thing by
> myself, why would I even bother.
> Oh yeah, when you quit out of the race, we get the awesome drive-by
> camera that NASCAR Revolution was so proud of! At least you can press
> ESC and skip it in this game.
> Anyways, that's all I could stand at the time. MAYBE I'll give it
> another go later. Infogrames decided to slap the TestDrive name onto
> this for the US, and it's a name it deserves.

> -bum

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> Before you buy.

>On the following date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:51:27 +0100, said person(s)

>>I just played it again for a couple of hours and had a blast.

>You didn't like DTR but you liked this garbage!
>Shoot me.. shoot me now.

>- James "Gunslinger" Wohlever

>Techware Motorsports
>http://techware.gtinsider.com

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> Well actually that's right... I didn't have fun with DTR at all. No
> sense of speed, boring tracks, dull graphics, etc, we've discussed
> this long enough. Driving 30-second ovals just isn't fun for me.
> Lemans is what racing is all about. Speed, twisty tracks, bumper to
> bumper racing. Yesterday an AI car was on the left of me. I steered to
> the left, ramming him. Felt great with ff on. But after that, he
> rammed me back!!! He rammed me into the grass and I spinned.
> This was a really great experience.

> Andre

> PS: BANG!

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:34:34 -0500, James Wohlever

> >On the following date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:51:27 +0100, said person(s)

> >>I just played it again for a couple of hours and had a blast.

> >You didn't like DTR but you liked this garbage!
> >Shoot me.. shoot me now.

> >- James "Gunslinger" Wohlever

> >Techware Motorsports
> >http://techware.gtinsider.com

> >Send ATTACHMENTS (Files) to:

>Ok, now James is going to shoot himself for real!!!!!!!!!!!  You should
>realise how dangerous a post like this could be in a newsgroup like this.

>Marc.

>> Well actually that's right... I didn't have fun with DTR at all. No
>> sense of speed, boring tracks, dull graphics, etc, we've discussed
>> this long enough. Driving 30-second ovals just isn't fun for me.
>> Lemans is what racing is all about. Speed, twisty tracks, bumper to
>> bumper racing. Yesterday an AI car was on the left of me. I steered to
>> the left, ramming him. Felt great with ff on. But after that, he
>> rammed me back!!! He rammed me into the grass and I spinned.
>> This was a really great experience.

>> Andre

>> PS: BANG!

>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:34:34 -0500, James Wohlever

>> >On the following date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:51:27 +0100, said person(s)

>> >>I just played it again for a couple of hours and had a blast.

>> >You didn't like DTR but you liked this garbage!
>> >Shoot me.. shoot me now.

>> >- James "Gunslinger" Wohlever

>> >Techware Motorsports
>> >http://techware.gtinsider.com

>> >Send ATTACHMENTS (Files) to:

> So I finally get to see LeMans at a friend's house (I never bother to
> ask him where he gets these things anymore). I don't know how final