HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GPL
Thanks to the programers who gave us that masterpiece.
And at least the same portion to all those guys, who keep GPL alive by creating
cars, tracks, utilities...
JensSchumi
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JensSchumi
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:36:32 +0100, "Ashley McConnell"
>> N2k is a better game for online play and it is a more realistic sim given
>> the lack of a tire model in GPL ...
>But...its brick-racing :)
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JensSchumi
BTW: Understand German? Je oller, je doller :-)
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> N2k is a better game for online play and it is a more realistic sim given
> the lack of a tire model in GPL ...
Needless to say, that was a tad frustrating after I'd done all that work in
the previous 10 laps to catch up with you, but I was even more amazed to see
you run out of fuel on the last lap!
Congratulations on nursing the car round the last half of the circuit with
no fuel, anyway! ;-)
> > > (See Malc's post for the solution to your problem.) Yep - in fact
> > > I'm just off to Spa now!
> > ...where I had the best, closest, cleanest multi-car fight in ages...
> > until I punted off Axel Linther by locking up at the last La Source
> > of the last lap :/
> I joined a Rouen Int-Long race just after writing my last post.
> I took the Honda because according to GPLRank I hadn't raced that
> combination, put together a workable setup in praccy & qualified about
> half-way down the grid.
> I got off the line well, putting me in about 4th or 5th for the first
couple
> of laps, with Lotus' ahead and behind, and had a pretty busy time
> maintaining position.
> After a half dozen laps of the 18 lap race the field had thinned out a bit
> and although I hadn't passed anyone, by the half way point of the race I
was
> in the lead, simply by driving consistently & not going off. Rouen is good
> for that ;-)
> With three laps to go the fuel pressure started to drop and the Lotus in
2nd
> started to close the 20 second margin I'd managed to build up.
> He almost caught me in the braking zone at the end of the back straight
with
> just over one lap to go, and I had 40psi of fuel left, but fortunately
(for
> me) he went off & I crossed the line to start the final lap about 10
seconds
> ahead.
> As I did my final lap, the fuel dropped below 15psi as I accelerated down
> the back straight, and the Lotus caught & passed me, again at the end of
the
> straight.
> The engine was spluttering as I short-shifted up the front straight,
finally
> dying as I went through the right kink at about 40mph and I coasted the
> final half mile to the finish-line getting slower & slower...
> I was jumping up & down in my seat trying to egg the car on, and I crossed
> the finish line in 2nd place at 5mph!
> Not the fastest race I ever did, but it's never the same twice ;-)
> Malc.
I set my screensaver for 2 hours now for exactly that reason.
Apparently once you have set any screensaver in win2k (powersave doesn't
seem to count) it'll do this in games (like gpl I guess) that don't disable
the screensaver, even if you disable it.
My monitor is set to go into standby after 20 minutes or so at the desktop,
but not in gpl. I set the screensaver to 2 hours then disabled it, but
presumably if I didn't touch the keyboard or mouse while in gpl for that
long it would still go blank.
hth & thanks for the race ;-)
Malc.
> Needless to say, that was a tad frustrating after I'd done all that work
in
> the previous 10 laps to catch up with you, but I was even more amazed to
see
> you run out of fuel on the last lap!
> Congratulations on nursing the car round the last half of the circuit with
> no fuel, anyway! ;-)
> > > 2002:
> > > > (See Malc's post for the solution to your problem.) Yep - in fact
> > > > I'm just off to Spa now!
> > > ...where I had the best, closest, cleanest multi-car fight in ages...
> > > until I punted off Axel Linther by locking up at the last La Source
> > > of the last lap :/
> > I joined a Rouen Int-Long race just after writing my last post.
> > I took the Honda because according to GPLRank I hadn't raced that
> > combination, put together a workable setup in praccy & qualified about
> > half-way down the grid.
> > I got off the line well, putting me in about 4th or 5th for the first
> couple
> > of laps, with Lotus' ahead and behind, and had a pretty busy time
> > maintaining position.
> > After a half dozen laps of the 18 lap race the field had thinned out a
bit
> > and although I hadn't passed anyone, by the half way point of the race I
> was
> > in the lead, simply by driving consistently & not going off. Rouen is
good
> > for that ;-)
> > With three laps to go the fuel pressure started to drop and the Lotus in
> 2nd
> > started to close the 20 second margin I'd managed to build up.
> > He almost caught me in the braking zone at the end of the back straight
> with
> > just over one lap to go, and I had 40psi of fuel left, but fortunately
> (for
> > me) he went off & I crossed the line to start the final lap about 10
> seconds
> > ahead.
> > As I did my final lap, the fuel dropped below 15psi as I accelerated
down
> > the back straight, and the Lotus caught & passed me, again at the end of
> the
> > straight.
> > The engine was spluttering as I short-shifted up the front straight,
> finally
> > dying as I went through the right kink at about 40mph and I coasted the
> > final half mile to the finish-line getting slower & slower...
> > I was jumping up & down in my seat trying to egg the car on, and I
crossed
> > the finish line in 2nd place at 5mph!
> > Not the fastest race I ever did, but it's never the same twice ;-)
> > Malc.
I doon't know if it works with XP or even win2k but enditall2 has a
button to the screen saver and the power saver features. That alone might
be worth using the utility, even if you left all the other processes
running.
dave henrie
> > I set my screensaver for 2 hours now for exactly that reason.
> > Apparently once you have set any screensaver in win2k (powersave doesn't
> > seem to count) it'll do this in games (like gpl I guess) that don't
> disable
> > the screensaver, even if you disable it.
> > My monitor is set to go into standby after 20 minutes or so at the
> desktop,
> > but not in gpl. I set the screensaver to 2 hours then disabled it, but
> > presumably if I didn't touch the keyboard or mouse while in gpl for that
> > long it would still go blank.
> I doon't know if it works with XP or even win2k but enditall2 has
a
> button to the screen saver and the power saver features. That alone
might
> be worth using the utility, even if you left all the other processes
> running.
> dave henrie
Malc.
>> > (See Malc's post for the solution to your problem.) Yep - in fact
>> > I'm just off to Spa now!
>> ...where I had the best, closest, cleanest multi-car fight in ages...
>> until I punted off Axel Linther by locking up at the last La Source
>> of the last lap :/
> I joined a Rouen Int-Long race just after writing my last post.
> I took the Honda because according to GPLRank I hadn't raced that
> combination, put together a workable setup in praccy & qualified about
> half-way down the grid.
> I got off the line well, putting me in about 4th or 5th for the first
> couple of laps, with Lotus' ahead and behind, and had a pretty busy
> time maintaining position.
> After a half dozen laps of the 18 lap race the field had thinned out a
> bit and although I hadn't passed anyone, by the half way point of the
> race I was in the lead, simply by driving consistently & not going
> off. Rouen is good for that ;-)
> With three laps to go the fuel pressure started to drop and the Lotus
> in 2nd started to close the 20 second margin I'd managed to build up.
> He almost caught me in the braking zone at the end of the back
> straight with just over one lap to go, and I had 40psi of fuel left,
> but fortunately (for me) he went off & I crossed the line to start the
> final lap about 10 seconds ahead.
> As I did my final lap, the fuel dropped below 15psi as I accelerated
> down the back straight, and the Lotus caught & passed me, again at the
> end of the straight.
> The engine was spluttering as I short-shifted up the front straight,
> finally dying as I went through the right kink at about 40mph and I
> coasted the final half mile to the finish-line getting slower &
> slower...
> I was jumping up & down in my seat trying to egg the car on, and I
> crossed the finish line in 2nd place at 5mph!
> Not the fastest race I ever did, but it's never the same twice ;-)
> Malc.
> >> 2002:
> >> > (See Malc's post for the solution to your problem.) Yep - in fact
> >> > I'm just off to Spa now!
> >> ...where I had the best, closest, cleanest multi-car fight in ages...
> >> until I punted off Axel Linther by locking up at the last La Source
> >> of the last lap :/
> > I joined a Rouen Int-Long race just after writing my last post.
> > I took the Honda because according to GPLRank I hadn't raced that
> > combination, put together a workable setup in praccy & qualified about
> > half-way down the grid.
> > I got off the line well, putting me in about 4th or 5th for the first
> > couple of laps, with Lotus' ahead and behind, and had a pretty busy
> > time maintaining position.
> > After a half dozen laps of the 18 lap race the field had thinned out a
> > bit and although I hadn't passed anyone, by the half way point of the
> > race I was in the lead, simply by driving consistently & not going
> > off. Rouen is good for that ;-)
> > With three laps to go the fuel pressure started to drop and the Lotus
> > in 2nd started to close the 20 second margin I'd managed to build up.
> > He almost caught me in the braking zone at the end of the back
> > straight with just over one lap to go, and I had 40psi of fuel left,
> > but fortunately (for me) he went off & I crossed the line to start the
> > final lap about 10 seconds ahead.
> > As I did my final lap, the fuel dropped below 15psi as I accelerated
> > down the back straight, and the Lotus caught & passed me, again at the
> > end of the straight.
> > The engine was spluttering as I short-shifted up the front straight,
> > finally dying as I went through the right kink at about 40mph and I
> > coasted the final half mile to the finish-line getting slower &
> > slower...
> > I was jumping up & down in my seat trying to egg the car on, and I
> > crossed the finish line in 2nd place at 5mph!
> > Not the fastest race I ever did, but it's never the same twice ;-)
> > Malc.
> You could've just done a shift_r at the hairpin(where you'd lose the
least
> time)...unless shift-r's weren't allowed in this particular race.
The car slid for quite a while but I shift-R's about 50 feet from the finish
line & just beat the 2nd place driver ;-)
Nothing like a bit of drama to spice things up ;-)
Malc.
