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Motor Sport magazine GPL offer

Peter Ive

Motor Sport magazine GPL offer

by Peter Ive » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00




>> An editorial in the mag would be even better

>In the issue of Motorsport with the Eagle and Lotus 49 on the cover (Feb
>2000 I think) the following was included in the editorial:

>"Following my mention of the Grand Prix Legends computer game, we have
>been
>swamped by letters about it.  Now I know the depth of feeling, I feel it was
>remiss of me not to mention it sooner. For those of you who don't know,
>GPL
>is a game based around the 1967 world championship where you get to
>drive
>all the cars on all the tracks visited that year save Le Mans which wouldn't
>play ball so Rouen was included instead.

>The bad news is you need a reasonably powerful PC to make it work
>properly
>and without a steering wheel and pedals it is a waste of money.  properly
>equipped however, it is the most thoroughly researched, brilliantly
>conceived and thrilling PC game I have ever played.  Your set-up options
>are
>limitless, your room for improvement without bounds.  Best of all, you can
>piggy-back on Jim Clark's Lotus 49 and see how it really should be done."

>It looks like we have a well positioned fan of GPL who could promote the
>sim
>to the right target audience.  I think the ideas of a short article or
>letter pointing people to all right web sites and this NG would be a
>worthwhile effort.

Come on someone.  I think it's well worth the effort, even if it fails,
to send this guy/mag a letter all about the GPL community.  You just
never know your luck. :)

Whoever is willing to do so - as our representitive - we need to know
first as we don't need several 'spokespersons' all writing in at once.
What we need is one individual who is willing to write on behalf of us
all, extolling the virtues of our l'il 'ol community.  
--
Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington)

No person's opinions can be said to be
more correct than another's, because each is
the sole judge of his or her own experience.

Gaul

Motor Sport magazine GPL offer

by Gaul » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00


IMO, having a paragraph about GPL on page 3 of MotorSport magazine is quite
an honor already.  The editor had some nice things to say about it and also
mentioned that (and I quote) "...we have been swamped by letters about it.
Now I know the depth of feeling, I feel it was remiss of me not to mention
it sooner."

I'd love to see a spread about GPL with screenshots and all in MS, maybe
even mixed with actual period photos for comparison.  But I really doubt
it'll ever happen.  Call me a defeatist, but I'm satisfied with just the
mention of it.  After all, how many other simulations get ANY kind of
attention from what is probably the best historical racing magazine around?


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