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by **Eldre** » Sat, 01 May 2004 13:08:27

Few hundred - just for entry level? Man, I *definitely* need a better paying
job...

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by **Andre** » Sat, 01 May 2004 15:28:41

Don't you mean Wine? I don't think VMware runs 3d acceleration.
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by **J. Todd Wass** » Sun, 02 May 2004 01:04:08

>Date: 4/29/2004 8:09 PM Central Daylight Time

>Todd
> Any chance of having 1/10 electric cars as well as the nitro. It's
>what I race and would make a really useful practice tool.

>Peter

I can't promise anything... :-(

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by **J. Todd Wass** » Sun, 02 May 2004 01:18:37

>Date: 4/29/2004 8:43 PM Central Daylight Time

>>>10%? Youre being very generous ;)

>> Hehe, I wonder what the % really is..

>About 4 to 5 per cent of the personal computer share is Mac, I gather.

>However, that's still about 22 million people though.

>Also, note that "Mac" with OS X is BSD Unix these days.

>A lot of code could be ported relatively easily if a project supported
>"Unix" (Linux/BSD/OS X) in the broad sense.

>> Seriously though, we'd have to rewrite basically the whole thing from
>scratch
>> to support another OS. I see now why devs frequently write for Windows
>only,
>> even if they don't really like the OS.

>For games, maybe - given the need to optimize code. However, things like
>Office or OpenOffice or PhotoShop are most often written as largely
>platform-independent programs in things like C++.

>Still, a Linux version, at least? (Hey, GPL runs thru VMware, I
>gather..) That's another 20+ million people you know! ;)

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We'll have to see what happens with the 95% crowd first. If that last 5%
seems worth spending a year or two rewriting it, well...
Anyway, it's not my call ;-)

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by **Eldre** » Sun, 02 May 2004 01:29:52

Oh, man...
Sure, once I win the lotto and do some world travelling...<g>

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by **J. Todd Wass** » Sun, 02 May 2004 02:11:13

>Date: 4/30/2004 11:29 AM Central Daylight Time

>>Stay away from gas cars for awhile then, hehe. The 2002 World Champ told me
>>the top of the line cars with all the bells and whistles can cost well over
>>$3,000 (more than my last real car!). A top end .21 engine for 1:8 scale
>>alone
>>can cost over $800. At the world championships a lot of the guys had three
>>or
>>four engines and a barrel full of tires that last about 20 or 30 minutes at
>>the
>>most.

>>This one went on eBay for $1025:

>Oh, man...
>Sure, once I win the lotto and do some world travelling...<g>

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Hehe, you and me both. I do have a nice Zip-Zap with working head and tail
lights, fully modified with tall gears :-) I can't remember where I put it
though. Probably stuck between the couch cushions :-)

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by **Uwe Sch??rkam** » Tue, 04 May 2004 20:21:29

I run 1/18 scale electric F1 / Formula Nippon at times with a friend
on a local parking lot, great fun. Cost me around 250 Euros for the
car, controller and a couple of spare rechargeable packs.

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by **Ruud van Ga** » Thu, 06 May 2004 03:38:16

>>That looks really neat, are you working on that project?
\>
>Thanks, Jasper. Yes, this is my little baby. It uses my physics engine and I
>do all the data gathering and consult with the engineers on handling and so on.
> It's been a very interesting project. Got to go to Holland three times in the
>past year to work on it and will go back again at the end of June

Ah shame, that's a little late. Otherwise you should have visited a
certain theme park with a certain motion platform and virtually driveo
on Zandvoort. ;-)

Looking good, your RC project. Hope it gets big!

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by **J. Todd Wass** » Thu, 06 May 2004 06:27:55

>Date: 5/4/2004 1:38 PM Central Daylight Time

>>>That looks really neat, are you working on that project?
>\>
>>Thanks, Jasper. Yes, this is my little baby. It uses my physics engine and
>I
>>do all the data gathering and consult with the engineers on handling and so
>on.
>> It's been a very interesting project. Got to go to Holland three times in
>the
>>past year to work on it and will go back again at the end of June

>Ah shame, that's a little late. Otherwise you should have visited a
>certain theme park with a certain motion platform and virtually driveo
>on Zandvoort. ;-)

I thought to call you when I was there last, Ruud, but was so busy with this I
didn't really get much of a chance. I'll be back at the end of June (probably
stay in Haarlem again, hopefully). I don't know how long they'll keep me for
this time, but in June/July you can bet I will find time to visit Zandvoort :-D
Beautiful town. Last time was early May 2003 so it was a bit cold and not so
busy. Bring on the beach :-)

Thanks, me too :-D

Todd Wasson
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by **Jaspe** » Thu, 06 May 2004 11:42:06

I know it says Summer on the site, but is that for the launch of the game
and web site or can we expect the site to be open a week or so ahead (more
even) so one can learn more about Virtual RC, maybe a movie :)

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by **J. Todd Wass** » Fri, 07 May 2004 03:24:02

>Date: 5/4/2004 9:42 PM Central Daylight Time

>I know it says Summer on the site, but is that for the launch of the game
>and web site or can we expect the site to be open a week or so ahead (more
>even) so one can learn more about Virtual RC, maybe a movie :)

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Well, things are not finished yet so I won't speculate either way. The goal is
to release the game this summer. Hopefully we can make it. Please keep in
mind that really I just leaked that ad in a couple places before anyone was
really supposed to see it :-) We demo'd the game at a couple places already
(including the 1/8 scale 2003 World Championships in Cinci) and got good
responses so I didn't see any harm in showing the ad to a couple of folks at
this point :-)

Todd Wasson
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