rec.autos.simulators

by **David Butte** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:38:41

The Google Usenet archive ( http://www.racesimcentral.net/ ) now reaches way
back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
little timeline of "significant events":

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

* First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
here on ras!:

* First mention of VROC by name on 10th Sept 1998 (by ymenard):

* First mention of Grand Prix 2 (excluding hypothetical posts) on 4th
Jan 1994:

* First mention of NASCAR Racing on 19th July 1994:

* First mention of WSC on 8th Jan 2000:

--
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.racesimcentral.net/

by **Hans** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:13:49

David Buttery heeft geschreven in bericht ...

>The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
>back to 1981,

>That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

>* First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
>fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
>here on ras!:

The first rumors of GPL already started mid 1996

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&threadm=4oji0h%24rsk%40darkstar...
.EDU&rnum=8&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dhistoric%2Bracing%2Bsim%26hl%3Dnl%26btnG%3D
Google%2Bzoeken

Hans van Dam

by **Milhous** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:17:48

Yeah, I noticed that too. It's pretty cool...that, and the fact that I've
never lived in a world without usenet. Heh.

You've also forgotten, though, the first mention of GPL on RAS that I could
find...

(And what was funny was the oldest post that showed before I clicked 'show
all posts' to include 'repeated' posts, turned out to be the 3rd post with
GPL... "only hope it runs as smoothly as ICR2 (nascar2 too choppy on my
system!)"...well...we found that out the hard way, eh? =)

Milhouse

> The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
> back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
> little timeline of "significant events":

> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

> That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

> * First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
> fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
> here on ras!:

> * First mention of VROC by name on 10th Sept 1998 (by ymenard):

> * First mention of Grand Prix 2 (excluding hypothetical posts) on 4th
> Jan 1994:

> * First mention of NASCAR Racing on 19th July 1994:

> * First mention of WSC on 8th Jan 2000:

> --
> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

by **Don Burnett** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:09:21

All the way back to 1981?
Isn't that when the West Brothers first announced WSC?

:)

Don Burnette

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by **Toe_ou** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:13:48

I thought this was interesting to look through:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=author:chris.west%40ukonline....
;)

> The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
> back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
> little timeline of "significant events":

> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

> That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

> * First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
> fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
> here on ras!:

> * First mention of VROC by name on 10th Sept 1998 (by ymenard):

> * First mention of Grand Prix 2 (excluding hypothetical posts) on 4th
> Jan 1994:

> * First mention of NASCAR Racing on 19th July 1994:

> * First mention of WSC on 8th Jan 2000:

> --
> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

by **Stephen Ferguso** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:58:54

Hey, thanks for the nostalgia. It was interesting to see my old messages
from 1993, and the "problems" I had back then (like struggling with
framerate in ICR1)...

Stephen

> The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
> back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
> little timeline of "significant events":

> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

> That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

> * First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
> fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
> here on ras!:

> * First mention of VROC by name on 10th Sept 1998 (by ymenard):

> * First mention of Grand Prix 2 (excluding hypothetical posts) on 4th
> Jan 1994:

> * First mention of NASCAR Racing on 19th July 1994:

> * First mention of WSC on 8th Jan 2000:

> --
> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

by **Digital Lattic** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:11:47

Facinating stuff. I pulled my oldest postings up. First post in Oct '95.
First smart-ass posting Dec 95 :)

Dale.

by **Andre Warrin** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:09:22

>The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
>back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
>little timeline of "significant events":

Thanks for the heads up David, this is really cool!

Andre

by **Andre Warrin** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:13:12

LOL, this was one of my first posts.. notice the last sentence :D

---------------------------
Last night I had a really really great time driving in GPL with the
force feedback on....
only to wake up and realize I had been dreaming.
The patch really has to come very soon now, I think it's not really
healthy now that I even start dreaming about it....

Why all the secrecy about the patch? Why doesn't papy keep us informed
on the status of the patch? We are all waiting months for it now,
surely they can release some kind of expected release date?
Why not keep us informed on the status like Jack does with his GPaL?

Andre

by **Olav K. Malm** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:04:57

> >The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
> >back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
> >little timeline of "significant events":

> Thanks for the heads up David, this is really cool!

CRAP!

I just found my posts from various newsgroups from way back in
september 1993. I had been on the internet for 7 days when I did my
first post.

Let's all hope employers around the world wont find out about this :)

--
Olav K. Malmin
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by **Dave Henri** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:10:46

That sounds like a topic I would have jumped in on and told you to hang
on, be patient, Papy doesn't work hapazardly or quickly. :)
Now, what I really wanna know is....
When was the LAST post concerning folks who took a perfectly functioning
system for GPL and then got a tnt card because it got 3 to 5 more FPS in
Quake.(and of course this topic will include the subnote that none of those
who DID swap out TnT cards ever played Quake.) And then came crying to RAS
because GPL was broken after the swap.
dave henrie

by **Milhous** » Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:35:45

ROFL!!!!! Forgot all about that blasted program...

Milhouse

by **Stephen Ferguso** » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:48:56

Man... this latest addition to the Usenet archive is proving to be a serious
time waster. I was around when RAS started, but then signed off of RAS from
'96 until '98, so I missed the whole ymenard / Indyman thing. Now I've
gained some important insight into Francois' psyche!

Stephen

> The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
> back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
> little timeline of "significant events":

> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

> That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:

> * First mention of Grand Prix Legends (the game, not the shop) - in
> fido7.su.game.news on 25th Feb 1997, a fortnight before its debut
> here on ras!:

> * First mention of VROC by name on 10th Sept 1998 (by ymenard):

> * First mention of Grand Prix 2 (excluding hypothetical posts) on 4th
> Jan 1994:

> * First mention of NASCAR Racing on 19th July 1994:

> * First mention of WSC on 8th Jan 2000:

> --
> Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
> deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

> The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

by **Eldre** » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:19:03

>>The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
>>back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
>>little timeline of "significant events":

>Thanks for the heads up David, this is really cool!

>Andre

And scary. It's strange to look into the way you saw things years
ago...<whew!>

Eldred
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by **David Butte** » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:29:48

2001:

<snip>

I believe the West brothers are negotiating for a WSC version - hence
all the info-stops ;-)

--
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which
deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan

The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com

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