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Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

Bruce Kennewel

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by Bruce Kennewel » Sun, 08 Jun 2003 09:39:21

Hell's bells and leaping lizards!
I visited the GPL Track Database site last night and, right at the top of
the "New" category is a German real-life circuit.
Hmmmm, this looks interesting - and it's a longish track on obviously public
roads - just my cup of tea.

So I click on "Screenshots" and - hey, what're these two cars?!! A Lotus and
Ferrari of latter years of the 1.5 litre era!
Well, I'll be ***ed....someone has actually created these things for GPL
AT LAST!! I can't believe it. (Probably ancient history to you all, I know.)

Now - from where are they available? (Scratches head and ponders).
Then I open up Favourites and click on the GPLEA link - if anyone knows
where these things are, they will.

I couldn't believe my eyes - there, at the top of the News section, was
reference to the project and link to a site where a promo AVI could be
sourced. Which I did - sourced it, that is! :)

Very nice promo for what - I hope - will be a very nice mod for GPL.

One question to anyone who might know: are the developers including AI or is
this mod strictly for on-line racing?

Bruce.

Malc

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by Malc » Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:19:59


http://forum.racesimcentral.com/t.php?s=&threadid=81576 should give you a
pretty good idea of the mod, although it hasn't been released yet. The same
group are planning several seasons of which '65 is one, so they are probably
the cars you saw.

As I understand it not only will the cars look different, the physics
(amount of grip, power curves etc) will also be tweaked to suit the season,
something never previously achieved with gpl to my knowledge. None of the
seasons will be post '67 though, since gpl doesn't model downforce.

hth, Malc.

Bruce Kennewel

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by Bruce Kennewel » Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:39:34

Thanks, Malc. I've wandered over there and had a browse. Couldn't see
anything about AI one way or the other, but a lot of interesting
information.
Interesting that they are also planning a 1950's mod - now THAT is right up
my alley too! :)

Regards,
Bruce.

wasso

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by wasso » Sun, 08 Jun 2003 22:05:25

I downloaded the AVI, but can't seem to run it with Windows Media.
What program will run this correctly??

Thanks,

Bob

Aide

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by Aide » Sun, 08 Jun 2003 23:30:19

wasson....all players will play it you are barking up the wrong tree.

if something doesnt play it isnt the player it is the codec(or lack of)

always wise to be updated on DivX codec but there are others used.

AD

Chris Not

Grand Prix Legends: GPLEA 1.5 Litre mod.

by Chris Not » Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:49:30


>I downloaded the AVI, but can't seem to run it with Windows Media.
>What program will run this correctly??

divx does the job

Chris Noto, see Noto at tee dee ess dot net


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