rec.autos.simulators

by **Luvrsme** » Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:40:49

Anyone here like digging out the old 1st generation pentium box, blowing off
the dust and firin' her up for some old racing games? I decided to do that
last week and actually had some fun with Nascar2 (DOS), Nascar1, Need For
Speed SE, and the surprisingly fun Network Q RAC Rally Championship (1996)
by *** Interactive....all running on Windows 95 and Dos. Hmm maybe I have
just too dam much time on my hands lol..

by **jeffarei** » Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:10:29

Some videos:

http://jeffareid.net/nfs1/n1rsld.wmv

http://jeffareid.net/nfs1/n1ttld.wmv

http://jeffareid.net/nfs1/n1lvwp.wmv

by **Luvrsme** » Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:06:50

lol thanks for videos! I love that patch and that track on the third one.
I was just playing that one yesterday...

by **Gary** » Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:12:10

I'm just about to EBay a system I put together just for old sims. PIII
600, VooDoo 5 video, Windows 98, Saitek X36 (?) HOTAS, Longbow and
Falcon 4.0 (1.08) loaded on it...

>Anyone here like digging out the old 1st generation pentium box, blowing off
>the dust and firin' her up for some old racing games? I decided to do that
>last week and actually had some fun with Nascar2 (DOS), Nascar1, Need For
>Speed SE, and the surprisingly fun Network Q RAC Rally Championship (1996)
>by *** Interactive....all running on Windows 95 and Dos. Hmm maybe I have
>just too dam much time on my hands lol..

by **pjgtec** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:04:09

by **pjgtec** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:07:03

> Anyone here like digging out the old 1st generation pentium box, blowing off
> the dust and firin' her up for some old racing games? I decided to do that
> last week and actually had some fun with Nascar2 (DOS), Nascar1, Need For
> Speed SE, and the surprisingly fun Network Q RAC Rally Championship (1996)
> by *** Interactive....all running on Windows 95 and Dos. Hmm maybe I have
> just too dam much time on my hands lol..

Dosbox and DFend are your friends.....

8-)

by **jeffarei** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:41:00

There's also the free Microsoft virtual PC that runs other operating systems
insice a virtual machine such as Windows 98 SE (you'll need a copy of
of Windows 98 to install it). The virtual PC has a virtual floppy and cd-rom
and images for these are avaliable like boot floppy image to install Windows 98.

The issue with virtual PC is there is no USB support, so USB based
controllers don't work. I don't know about DOSBOX. Also when I tried Need
For Speed Special Edition, the frame rates from the Windows 95 version were
less than 1 per second, and the DOS version didn't work at all).

Does DOSBOX allow the USB controllers to work?

by **Adamo Contadin** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:12

Not really. Cars feel glued to the tracks compared to today's sims.

by **pjgtec** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:37:55

>> Anyone here like digging out the old 1st generation pentium box,
>> blowing off the dust and firin' her up for some old racing games? I
>> decided to do that last week and actually had some fun with Nascar2
>> (DOS), Nascar1, Need For Speed SE, and the surprisingly fun Network Q
>> RAC Rally Championship (1996) by *** Interactive....all running on
>> Windows 95 and Dos. Hmm maybe I have just too dam much time on my
>> hands lol..

> Not really. Cars feel glued to the tracks compared to today's sims.

Net Q RAC rally (once the grip patch had been applied) was a great rally
sim.

Obviously GPL was great too. Wow, has it really been TEN years since it
was launched?

by **P Ga** » Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:58:00

AFAIK dosbox will allow any attached controller to be used (via the DFend
frontend program which has many, many options which can be tweaked)

by **Larr** » Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:56:24

Give Sun VirtualBox a try. Faster than VirtualPC, AND it supports USB,
etc... And it's free now :)

I installed Ubuntu on it in about 15 min.

-Larry

by **Adamo Contadin** » Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:26:58

Is that the British one that we call Mobil1 Rally over here? I have that
one if it is what you are talking about.

by **APLe** » Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:03:46

Actually for adjustability (real word?) and realism, Viper Racing beats
GPL IMHO. The only limitation really is the state of the add-ons - buggy
and not very good. It's 16 bit graphics though. Try Sports Car GT too if
you have a GL card. Viper *really* needs over 200Mhz to work half decently
though.

by **murph101** » Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:13:33

Better make sure the caps are good (Rubycon's) or you will most likely be
getting a NEG for your efforts.

by **murph101** » Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:24:53

A posting line wrap could be your friend.

I know of several games that won't work on any processor that is faster than
500-600MHz.
Some games will just freak out running on a faster processor than they were
coded for.
GPL is one & then there is the DirectX issue.