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I know, it's only a demo, but I wanted Papy to be aware of some common
things that are happening to folks:

1. It appears that ONLY Intel Pentium processors will work correctly (if
anyone has gotten a P166+ to work, please let me know...I was _just_ about
to buy a P166+ system, but now, I'm switching that over to Intel...)
2. Hercules STB128 Video cards don't seem to work properly
3. On my machine (P100, Trio64, 24MB, SB16), I got no engine sounds at all
(for that matter, no sounds other than the spotter...) I auto detected the
card, and it correctly found it at the proper ports.  I'm using Dos 7.0,
booted to Dos Prompt from Win95.
4. Again on my machine (and this is the only instance I have heard of this,
anyone else?) the brightness/contrast is _way_ dark.  I can barely see the
RPM gauge.

Otherwise, it looks beautiful...though, I hope the physics are gonna change
somewhat (although Adam was just see posting here that the physics engine
is the way it is, and not to expect more until later games).  The Bud at
the Glen is an absolute bang-up job...I love the new textures on the walls.

Keep it up Papy!

John Wehman

The contrast is very dark and the tach, I believe, was not ready (working) for the demo.

There seems to be an improvement in frame rate, (on my machine, anyway) but I need to give it more "burn-in"
time.
For those who are experiencing more serious problems (ie- palette/colors), you may want to check your graphics
card video settings. There is definitely something different with the NAS2 palettes, but I haven't gotten that
"into" it yet.

After three attempts at downloading the demo and finally getting it, I simply used PKWARE to:

CHECK THE INTEGRITY of the ZIP files! This is important! I have (so I had thought) successfully downloaded ZIP
files in the past only to find that 'something' went wrong in the process; some files got corrupted. Subsequent
download(s) fixed the problem(s). From my experience, this is more apt to happen with larger downloads.
Anything in memory, like a screen saver, can disrupt the download process. Especially if memory is already low.

I unzipped all the files to a new NASCAR2 directory, and it basically installed itself! I just added the CFG
files, and the demo worked fine. It even ran (I didn't try to 'RACE', though) from a DOS session in WIN3.11!

I can't say enough good things about PKWARE. This is a fine product!

I especially love the PCX files. I have 'Our Gang's' Bucwheat driving my #96 WC car... Mr. Wheat, The Buc
Man, etc...

Larry Abels
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I remember Adam saying the requirements were PENTIUM.  Folks, that
means Pentium.  My guess is that it was compiled with code to take
advantage of Pentium specific commands.  That ain't a bad thing,
though!

did you pkunzip -d option??  the sound needs to be in the proper
sub-directory.  if you just pkunzip -d agnnas2, you're all set!

the physics are better than the original, more like the multi, which
is important!!

yeah, wasn't it though??  I hope Talladega's tri-oval is fixed in the
release!  ummm, will N.Wilkesboro be in the final release, anyone
know?  or Texas or California?

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Noone has mentioned this yet, has anyone noticed that the calendar file
includes both Daytona and Indy.  If Papyrus included these two tracks in
the calendar file doesn't it makes sense that they are planning to
release those tracks with NCR2 in November?

David Martin

Also, the PCX files that are included were totally unnecessary.
Ommitting them, or including PCX file spacers would have made the demo
much smaller.

David Martin

Bruce

  My guess is that it was compiled with code to take

Ok, now that I've had time to relax.... :-)

I would like to apologize for my above comment, I still feel the same
why, but I could have found a more mature way of expressing myself.

In reality, if they have developed the sim with the pentium code, it's
likely way too late now to take it all out. I just wonder how sound a
business practice it may turn out to be.....

I have a P120, and am generally pleased with the demo, BTW.

I brought this up earlier and somone said the calendar in Nascar1 was the
sam way. I can't verify this becasue my calendar is way modified now.
Maybe someone else who hasn't messed with their cal file could tell
us....

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