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still one of my favorite driving games, with the best keyboard control
I have ever seen on a PC simlation/game.  The ability to actually have the
steering wheel stop at, say 3/4 turn for long corners was so good.  
I wonder why none of the current games have this (I think it stems to
limitations in the PC keyboard, which cracks the wobblies with more than
one key held down at a time...

Unfortunately I lent my BBC to a 'friend' to do an assignment on
and he broke it :-( grrrr.  I want my revs fix

(btw, it was also available on the C64, but the height of it's eyboard meant
you got sore wrists after prolonged use.

Scott.

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Jim

Funnily enough, I got to drive a Formula Vauxhall Junior at Donington Park
recently, and Revs was handy for learning the circuit (it's pretty accurate,
although I think Coppice is a bit too tight in the game).

No it doesn't.  Yes it was.

And even before that I believe that Geoff was responsible for
Aviator. An excellent flight-sim where you shot down big triangular
aliens whilst flying a spitfire :-) It was WAY ahead of other flight-
sims of the time; you could fly between buildings in the (very small)
town and fly under the bridge to get extra points. You even damaged the
propeller if you landed with the undercarriage up (For people who
remember the BBC micro joysticks and the need for fine control with
Aviator - I used pencils taped to the top of the stick to increase the
sensitivity :-)

Revs is a brilliant game (in fact I have an old beeb with the Revs
floppy permanently installed (that I haven't booted in about a year)).
I cannot remember lap-times, but I can remember getting my car stuck
on top of others... and having them drive you very slowly around the
track! and I can also remember the excellent programming tricks used
to squeeze it onto a machine with only 32K of RAM (most of which was
eaten by the video); the best being the use of a carefully timed
interrupt, and a bit of palette bashing, to hide the track data in the
blue sky part of the screen :-)

Ahh! When I was a lad...
-- Jamie

YES!!! In its time it was revolutionary.

Hehhehe, I remember that too!

We had a bunch of friends playing it competing FIERCLY about who had the
best lap time in various circuits. We would shave off a tenth of our friends'
best lap time during the evening and then brag all about it in school the
next day only to lose the "title" tomorrow for someone else :)

                                -TPP

I Hear
Stunt car racer will be released on the 20th of October (No mention of year)
looks cool.. you can drop off the track and everything

Was it ever on the PC ????

Yeah, but in like EGA -- not a patch on Amiga version, although you can link two
different machines for a cool race with a chum. (providing they're OK at the game)
you can buy it for like five UKPounds on Kixx label (or something) that has duel
format PC/Amiga versions on same disk!

Rich.

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Of course, one of the best bits about REVS was that it used the OLD
Silverstone track layout.  This was pre- Becketts left/right/left,
pre - Vale, and most importantly, pre - Brooklands complex (at the end
of the lap).  It was always a real thrill to come screeming down the
final straight at top speed in an F3 car, and - if you got it *just* right
you could go thought the minimal Woodcote chicane with the pedal still
to the met, carrying all that momentum on to the pit straight.  Course,
if you *didn't* get it "just right" the car would be lauched into the
air at top speed mid-woodcote chicane, and land where the Grandstand
should have been.
A *truly* great game - amazing that anybody could squeeze that much out
of a BBC Micro.  I was *so* pleased when I saw that Sir Geof had done
F1GP(1), and am *gaggin'* to get my hands on F1GP2.  I'm sure Mr Crammond
will do us proud - he always does!
--
Andrew Jackson (Bracknell, Berkshire, England).  Laissez le bon temps roulez!

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[Understandable eulogy about Silverstone on REVS snipped]

Fastest lap anyone?

Mine on a Commodore 64 was 1m22.5s.

From what I remember the BBC and C64 versions of the game, while
outwardly looking the same, were different, because of CPU speed
differences, so the lap times aren't directly comparable between
machines *except* for Silverstone.

Mine and a friends time (if your on the net yet Richard C. then mail
me) were almost identical on Silverstone but varied on other tracks.
And of course the C64 version had the new Nurburgring on it, which
the beeb never had.

Rich.

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