speedvision.com:
? Good news for racing simulation geeks; bad news
for
Papyrus, the big player in that popular industry. My
underground source, J.J. Hunsecker II, tells me that
a Brit
computer genius named Dave Noonan has developed a
program
whereby you can run your 1967 "Grand Prix Legends"
Formula
1 cars on any one of almost 30 road courses and
speedways.
Want to try your V12 AAR Eagle on the Bristol
half-mile? How
about a Lotus 49 at Elkhart Lake, or a BRM at
Suzuka, or
maybe Imola? Its all possible, thanks to ol Dave
and his
skunkworks, surely located in a scuzzy ba***t
somewhere
in the Midlands. Needless to say, this development
is akin to
tearing out the pages of a book and re-arranging
them and
therefore calls into question whether or not
copyrights are
actually infringed; this has to make the guys at
Papyrus nuts.
My man J.J. says that its costing Papyrus over $3m
a year.
Yet to be tried are Winston Cup stockers from the
"NASCAR
Racing" series on great road courses like Spa and
the
Nurburgring, which is of course possible with
Noonans
program. Apparently the stock-car gamers dont care
about
road courses, although the "GP Legends" gang are
having a
grand old time experimenting on all manner of
obscure
tracks.
Johnny Lugnuts