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Papy -- still resting on their laurels?

David Butte

Papy -- still resting on their laurels?

by David Butte » Wed, 28 Jun 2000 04:00:00


Hmmm. There seem to be healthy attendances at Donington for the
Thoroughbred & BOSS F1 series, at Combe for the various classic caloon
championships, and at the hills for the VSCC meetings.

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: +39.92)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

ymenar

Papy -- still resting on their laurels?

by ymenar » Wed, 28 Jun 2000 04:00:00


According to your age-old CART feature, you would need Rendition, not D3D
<vbg>

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Jan Verschuere

Papy -- still resting on their laurels?

by Jan Verschuere » Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:00:00

I think "CART sim" is starting to take precedence over technicalities with
him. ;-))

Jan./CART, CART, CART, CART, CART, ....
=---

ymenard wrote...

> > or how about a new CART sim that already includes D3D?

> According to your age-old CART feature, you would need Rendition, not D3D
> <vbg>

Andre Warrin

Papy -- still resting on their laurels?

by Andre Warrin » Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Let's buy Grant a Shifter and a SB Live card so we will get a shifter
and EAX patch :)

Andre



>So what your saying is we had to wait for a Papyrus employee to replace his
>Rendition card with a D3D card before we could get a patch.

>Not very good after sales service.



>> Err... no, the GPL and N4 renderers are completely different beasts.
>> The GPL Direct3D patch came about because Grant Reeve wanted to be able
>> to run GPL on his Geforce at home.

>> --
>> Eric



>> > Now, that said, I hope you all realize that Papy did NOT give us that
>> > D3D patch as a labor of love alone -- they most likely produced the
>> D3D
>> > patch for the GPL engine because it is a required part of the NASCAR 4
>> > package that they are working on.  Once they got D3D working with GPL
>> > in-house, they then released that "unofficial" add-on for GPL in order
>> > to get the D3D support exposed to a VERY broad cross-section of beta-
>> > test platforms prior to the release of N4 -- meaning US, the members
>> of
>> > the GPL community at-large.  And, like the rest of you, I have no
>> > problem with that at all -- WE benefit, and Papy benefits, and
>> > ultimately, N4 will benefit as well.  To that I say, thanks for
>> > including us, Papy!


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