rec.autos.simulators

When using multiplay in N2 it was easy enough to set up the
multi list to allow each player to drive the car of their choice.
No matter what we try in N1999 we always end up driving the
same car, albeit on one machine not both. Typically we set the
list up so our preferred car is at the top of the list on our PC.
When we copy our own .car files in and use them, we cannot
seem to get it squared away. Do we have to use the two players
cars as given to us with N1999?  We've  had it work for a minute
or so, but then one car disappears and reappears as a duplicate
of the other one.

On my nephews PC, he has two of his cars.  I have two of mine
on my PC. I don't believe it happened when we used the "Player"
cars as provided within N1999 but I wasn't really paying attention
enough to be sure.  I prefer not to re-paint the "Player" cars unless
absolutely necessary. The strange thing is that the connection screen
says "Howdy to so and so in the 17 car" (his), "You are Rich Koehler
in the 80 car" but that's not what we actually see on the screen.

Thanks
--
Rich Koehler
rgkoehler(at)lucent(dot)com
rgkoehler(at)worldnet(dot)att(dot)net

All expressed opinions are mine and mine alone!

Ok here's the deal on the Nr1999 Multi List.   My neighbor and I spent
hours figuring this out.  In both List The cars T_Player
should be first and T_Play2 should be second.  The Host should use the
1st car  the dialer uses the second.  Although the dialer must have his
name on the first car in his list as well.  Basically both list are
Identical except The Dialer has his name on both of the first two cars.
You may import you own decals onto these cars but we found another bug
with that when importing the T_Player cars pcx you have to rename the
Pcx to  Xt_Playe <----(NOTICE THERE"S NO R ON THE END) Other than that
everything else is normal  t_play2 = Xt_Play2.pcx  Hope this helps.

Gregg Barnett