rec.autos.simulators

Hi!

Get my program "Ringtrainer" from this link:
http://www.joachimblum.de/ringtrainer.htm
What the program does is to simply change the position of your car as
it is deployed onto the track. This position is defined within
the "track.ini"-file. Ringtrainer now lets you chose between 11
different positions along the Nurburgring, each at the beginning of a
particular section of the track. The main advatage of this is, that you
can now drive through this sections multiple times in series without
having to complete a whole lap inbetween. By this you can remember
tricky corners faster.
Because it's written in German, I will give some installation
instructions right here:
1. Download the file called "Ringtrainer.zip"
3. Download the file called "Ringtrainer_Audioupdate.zip"
2. If you don't have the VisualBasic Runtime Modules 6.00, you must
also download the file "vbrun600.exe" and execute it.
4. Extract the two Ringtrainer-zips into a single folder.
5. Make a backup of your original "track.ini"-file that is in
the "\tracks\nurburg"-folder of your GPL-installation.
6. Copy the "track.ini"-file of the Ringtrainer-folder into
the "\tracks\nurburg"-folder.
7. Ready to rumble ;). Fire up Ringtrainer by double-clicking the exe-
file.
8. Now you can choose a particular section from the dropdown-list and
the program will show you the part of the track redlined in a trackmap
and the deploy-point of the car via a little sceenshot.
9. You now have two possibilities to go on:
Either you start GPL normally and can start driving from that deploy-
point over and over again.
Or you check the option "F4 als Hotkey aktivieren" and launch GPL via
the "Start GPL"-Button. This will enable the hotkey-feature of
Ringtrainer. This feature enables the F4-key as hotkey. Every time you
press F4 during playing GPL, Ringtrainer moves you one point forward on
the track and gives the actual positioning via voice-output so you
don't have to quit GPL to choose another part of the track for
training - it can be done while in GPL. Unfortunately this requires
some computing-power so I left it optional for those who don't have the
big PIII or Athlon under their desk ;).
OK, try the program. If you have questions or problems, you can reach
me by the mail-address given on the Ringtrainer-page.
If there is further interest in this program, I'll maybe make an
English version.
Sorry for my bad English btw.

Regards
Crash

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Subject: Re: GPL:Anybody got any tips for taming the Nurburgring
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:12:06 +0200

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Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators

Hi!

Get my program "Ringtrainer" from this link:
http://www.joachimblum.de/ringtrainer.htm
What the program does is to simply change the position of your car as it is
deployed onto the track. This position is defined within the
"track.ini"-file. Ringtrainer now lets you chose between 11 different
positions along the Nurburgring, each at the beginning of a particular
section of the track. The main advatage of this is, that you can now drive
through this sections multiple times in series without having to complete a
whole lap inbetween. By this you can remember tricky corners faster.
Because it's written in German, I will give some installation instructions
right here:
1. Download the file called "Ringtrainer.zip"
3. Download the file called "Ringtrainer_Audioupdate.zip"
2. If you don't have the VisualBasic Runtime Modules 6.00, you must also
download the file "vbrun600.exe" and execute it.
4. Extract the two Ringtrainer-zips into a single folder.
5. Make a backup of your original "track.ini"-file that is in the
"\tracks\nurburg"-folder of your GPL-installation.
6. Copy the "track.ini"-file of the Ringtrainer-folder into the
"\tracks\nurburg"-folder.
7. Ready to rumble ;). Fire up Ringtrainer by double-clicking the exe-file.
8. Now you can choose a particular section from the dropdown-list and the
program will show you the part of the track redlined in a trackmap and the
deploy-point of the car via a little sceenshot.
9. You now have two possibilities to go on:
Either you start GPL normally and can start driving from that deploy-point
over and over again.
Or you check the option "F4 als Hotkey aktivieren" and launch GPL via the
"Start GPL"-Button. This will enable the hotkey-feature of Ringtrainer. This
feature enables the F4-key as hotkey. Every time you press F4 during playing
GPL, Ringtrainer moves you one point forward on the track and gives the
actual positioning via voice-output so you don't have to quit GPL to choose
another part of the track for training - it can be done while in GPL.
Unfortunately this requires some computing-power so I left it optional for
those who don't have the big PIII or Athlon under their desk ;).
OK, try the program. If you have questions or problems, you can reach me by
the mail-address given on the Ringtrainer-page.
If there is further interest in this program, I'll maybe make an English
version.
Sorry for my bad English btw.

Regards
Crash

<snip>

It can be done, by changing the location of the pit stalls in track.ini
(in the tracks\nurburg directory), but it's not for the faint hearted,
and you need to keep a copy of the original somewhere.

There is a kludge, however. As GPLRank accepts race laps, the obvious
thing to do is to qualify at the back of the grid, wait a couple of
minutes for the field to get out of the way, then make your first race
lap a hot one. In a race, of course, you start *before* the start line!

--
David. (GPLRank handicap: +45.28)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

Andre

cheers,
Alex

P.S.  For anybody interested, I just ran my personal best of 8:48.xx.  What
a great feeling to dip below 9:00.00!!

Keith, thanks for posting the link and installation instructions. I loaded
it up last night and can already see an improvement. Looks like a long
weekend at the Ring for me!

--
don

New Programmes for the Converted GPL Tracks
http://www.ianparker1.freeserve.co.uk/gpl/index.html

Hi don!

I wish you a lot of fun taming this mostertrack ;)).

Regards
Crash