> Crap, sure didnt mean to stand here and proclaim that the pits had a track
> that they didnt. So at anyrate, I have the GPL, NRlegends, and all NR2 -
> NR03 CD's. So how do I make sure I get compatable tracks? I infer from
> your reply that I need to buy noonans converter to get the track?
> (obviously omitting dling it from somewhere)
LOL, it was just a tad amusing that's all :-), yes, the fact of the
matter is that the end result you get when running the converter is
copyrighted, it contains Papy code (not distributed with the converter,
it's copied from the tracks you provide) as well as a lot of David's
hard work and knowledge, there's a lot of tricks to get these old tracks
to run in N2003
In my opinion, and quite a few others, the 20 dollars or so that David
is asking for his converter is well worth it for 39 tracks or how many
there's in there now, if you want to see how the latest converter works,
there's a demo converter you can DL from our place, it converts 4 tracks
and has been updated with the latest PTA stuff
The recommended procedure is to convert a "basic" track to ensure online
compatibility, if you have DL'ed some of the rather stunning updates to
the original tracks and want to run on those as well, I suggest
converting the track twice, one with the add ons and one without, one
for offline use and one for online
The basic tracks don't look "bad" when run through the converter, but
obviously it can't compare to such tracks as the special updates they
did for Monaco for instance, but there's on option in the converter to
"include updates" when you convert a track, some tracks, like BullRun
and Nurburgring have been updated for N2003, and a couple of others as
well if memory serves me right, hopefully more tracks will get that
treatment, try DL'ing the latest version of BullRun that was totally
reworked for this year's BR1000 by David "KESSMAN57" Kesterson from
Torn8oalley.com
The "plan" when running converted tracks is to run a "basic" conversion,
you can add updates afterwards if they are available as that doesn't'
affect the track.dat file, but updates before conversion is included in
the track.dat and you end up with a different track.dat than the next
guy who had different updates installed to his GPL track
For new tracks, see the TCG guide I posted link to earlier, it's posted
on several major sites and message boards as a "guide" to a naming
convention for 3rd party tracks
Well, I fully support the editors, which means I don't visit sites that
offers stuff for DL that's not theirs to offer, there is one site in
particular who offers tracks for DL without giving proper credit to the
original author, be it David Noonan or others, they even have the gall
to put things like this in the readme "please do not repost without our
permission", whereas Steve B's SimRacingConnection site, which probably
has a more extensive collection of tracks links than any pirate site,
only links to the author's DL page and not even directly to the files
themselves, this means that the original authors has full control over
his work and has the opportunity to provide some info to the people who
visits his site, maybe get a hit or two that gets him another dollar in
sponsorship ads ot whatever
Most of the time however the author gets nothing but a little kick out
of seeing that yet another person has visited his site and DL'ed his
track, and in my not so humble opinion, all the authors out there
deserve that we at least give them that, the credit they deserve
And yes, I feel strongly about this :-)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
