rec.autos.simulators

by **Enrico Calv** » Thu, 07 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Does anyone have been using the GPAnalyser under Win95, I
tried, but it didn't work.

Enrico.

by **David Paul Gym** » Fri, 08 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Paul Kaizar reported that GPPerf didn't work either. Everything works
fine under Windows/NT (except the game itself *sob*). And other suckers
shelled out for Win95 only to discover it doesn't run the favorite
stuff?

Gizmo
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by **Steve Smit** » Fri, 08 Sep 1995 04:00:00

I'd never used GPPerf before, so I decided to try it this evening (V2)
on my 16Mb Pentium 90 running the final version of Windows '95. Every
seems to be fine, it logged my laps correctly and I ran the Windows
program "GPA" to analyse the laps (I loved the way it shows the line
you took through all the corners ... cool!). In short, I didn't
experience any trouble at all. What isn't supposed to work? As a
BTW, I was running GPPerf at the same time as GPGap, GPLapTim and
CCPit, although I can't imagine this would make any difference.

In general, I've found it's easier to get DOS games running under
Windows '95 than my old Dos 6.2/Win 3.11 setup. Maybe those who
can't get it to work need to fiddle with the properties of their DOS
shell?
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by **John Robins** » Wed, 13 Sep 1995 04:00:00

: >Does anyone have been using the GPAnalyser under Win95, I
: >tried, but it didn't work.

: Paul Kaizar reported that GPPerf didn't work either. Everything works
: fine under Windows/NT (except the game itself *sob*). And other suckers
: shelled out for Win95 only to discover it doesn't run the favorite
: stuff?

: Gizmo
: -- http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/
: Linux! 32-bit computing that WORKS!

Hi David,

Do you run GP under Linux in a DOSEMU session? If so, how fast is it?
Anything else you can tell us?

Thanks in advance

John Robinson

by **Carlos Ribei** » Wed, 13 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>Does anyone have been using the GPAnalyser under Win95, I
>tried, but it didn't work.

BTW, what the heck is this GPAnalyser? Is it for F1GP?

For F1GP fans: I wrote a small "telemetry" system for F1. It's a TSR
that captures te current speed and times of the car and sends the
data over the serial port. Works fine. You can save the log using
some comm package (like Telemate). I'm writing an analysis tool
so you can use the info to draw charts of your best laps, determine
the real acceleration and braking distance of your car, and so on.

If someone around knows of some tool send me email. I'm thinking
about releasing the telemetry system by public ftp.

Carlos Ribeiro

by **Michiel Mulde** » Fri, 15 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>For F1GP fans: I wrote a small "telemetry" system for F1. It's a TSR
>that captures te current speed and times of the car and sends the
>data over the serial port. Works fine. You can save the log using
>some comm package (like Telemate). I'm writing an analysis tool
>so you can use the info to draw charts of your best laps, determine
>the real acceleration and braking distance of your car, and so on.

Sounds like re-inventing the wheel; it has already been done (see
the F1GP WC PC Home Page)

by **David Paul Gym** » Fri, 15 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>Do you run GP under Linux in a DOSEMU session? If so, how fast is it?
>Anything else you can tell us?

I only just got DOSemu compiled yesterday. I haven't tried F1GP yet
but I suspect it will suffer from the same slowdown as it does under
Windows/NT. Anyone else tried?

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by **David Paul Gym** » Fri, 15 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>BTW, what the heck is this GPAnalyser? Is it for F1GP?

It's an analyser for logs produced by both GPLap and GPPerf (a
telemetry logging system which saves speed, time, controls, and other
data to disk). You can get them via WWW from
http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/ (follow the utilities link) or via FTP from
didnt.doit.wisc.edu (probably not the latest versions).

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by **Ralf Be** » Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:00:00

: >Do you run GP under Linux in a DOSEMU session? If so, how fast is it?
: >Anything else you can tell us?
If Microsoft didn't manage to make it run in a windows-dosbox in 10 years
why should linux be able to do it...
Keep a little dos partition on your harddrive and play it there !!!

: I only just got DOSemu compiled yesterday. I haven't tried F1GP yet
: but I suspect it will suffer from the same slowdown as it does under
: Windows/NT. Anyone else tried?
I didn't try it, but since linux is a true 32-bit preemtive multitasking
operating system (hear it, Microsoft!!) with a couple of other processes
running at the same time you would no doubt see a reasonable slowdown.

Ralf

by **Jukka Laajarin** » Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:00:00

: >Do you run GP under Linux in a DOSEMU session? If so, how fast is it?
: >Anything else you can tell us?

: I only just got DOSemu compiled yesterday. I haven't tried F1GP yet
: but I suspect it will suffer from the same slowdown as it does under
: Windows/NT. Anyone else tried?

I've tried it with a few versions of dosemu, and lately (0.60.X) the speed has
gotten up to being quite acceptable... BUT ... the keyboard does not
work! :(( At the very second you get into***pit the keys stop working.
If you select no drivers, you can watch it in 'demo' mode - that works
just fine. Have to kill it from another console, though.

This is the LAST reason why I have to keep a dos-partition... F1GP
obviously does something weird with the keyboard-handling routines
(after all, most other action-games do work) : dosemu complains about
not being able to insert key into buffer (or something like that)

That said, go ahead and try, you never know... it just MIGHT be
something in my setup etc. Please, please, if you get it to work, post
the results here!

: -- Gizmo
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by **John Hende** » Tue, 19 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Huh? I've had it run in a dos session on Win 3.1, Win 95, and OS/2. You
can even put it in a window in OS/2 or Win 95. Under OS/2 I had 3 copys
running in seperate windows on the desktop. Rather useless, but it
looked good.

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