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by **Steve Garrot** » Thu, 27 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Monitor? For $3595 you can get a Compaq MP1600 projector and display
it on the wall for as big as you want in 1024*768. The color and
brightness are clear enough to leave the lights on. Now take this and
a kart chasis, ff-wheel, and surround sound (in a helmet) and you
would be set. The cool thing about this Compaq MP1600 is that you can
also play TV/VCR/DVD thru it and not have to buy a big screen TV and
it is under 6 pounds (US) and tiny, so it is portable. So I am
thinking for about $10,000 dollars (this price includes the new
computer) you could get an really nice simulator.

What this does not get you is a version of GPL that works with an ACT
Labs shifter!!! Still waiting on that. I really do not think it would
help my times, but I think it would assist in the
'getting-into-the-sim' feeling that is sometimes missing.

SLG

>I have thought for a long time that if an out-of-date racing kart
>chassis were bought and the gamer's wheel and pedal wiring were
>incorporated into the kart and the monitor lcated correctly, one
>actually WOULD be seated in a racing device. I can't see how a plywood
>mock-up would be convincing for me. Someone clever could surely come
>up with something that would look and feel right and still not cost
>several thousands of dollars the way some of the more elaborate
>simulators do.
> I used to have a bookmark from "Tova" a young man from Italy, I
>believe, who had made a pretty realistic mock-up and mounted his
>controls and monitor to it.
> I wonder why we couldn't use PVC tubing to simulate the interior
>of a so-called "space-frame" chassis. Remember the "Birdcge" Maserati,
>anyone? Glen Priest

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by **Glen Pries** » Thu, 27 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Fantastic, Steve! I had no idea such a thing existed! And our danged
53 inch TV has been down for over a month; something amiss in the
"regulator" circuit, whatever the heck THAT is! I don't know ANYONE
who is rich and influential and also a sim enthusiast who I might
encourage/beg to set up such a system, and *I* surely don't have
thousands of bucks lying around that I could put to such use! I
suppose if I were 20 years younger I could look forward to the time
when such a set-up will be available for a fraction of today's cost,
and I'll bet that time will come. Thanks again for your post! Glen
Priest

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by **Steve Garrot** » Fri, 28 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Now lets look at this in a better way to convience the others in the
house hold.

A real race car would cost much more than $10,000, would require a
crew of people to assist in tuning/fixing/ETC.
The expense of the tow vehicle and trailer.
Is there a place to race close by?
The simulator is more eco friendly.
No chances for personal ingery, well nothing major.
One of the biggest problems is that, well how do I say this, I am not
the greatest racer . . . so I would just be like a speed bump in the
track, kinda like Lynn St James at the Indy 500 this year. :-O

SLG

>Fantastic, Steve! I had no idea such a thing existed! And our danged
>53 inch TV has been down for over a month; something amiss in the
>"regulator" circuit, whatever the heck THAT is! I don't know ANYONE
>who is rich and influential and also a sim enthusiast who I might
>encourage/beg to set up such a system, and *I* surely don't have
>thousands of bucks lying around that I could put to such use! I
>suppose if I were 20 years younger I could look forward to the time
>when such a set-up will be available for a fraction of today's cost,
>and I'll bet that time will come. Thanks again for your post! Glen
>Priest

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by **Glen Pries** » Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Ya' got me thinkin', Steve! :-))) Obviously I already have the
computer, the Logi wheel and pedals, and if you could project on a
large bedsheet, the costs might seem fairly reachable!! Glen Priest

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by **Steve Garrot** » Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Sure almost any wall surface works great, so I dare you to do it!!!!

SLG

>Ya' got me thinkin', Steve! :-))) Obviously I already have the
>computer, the Logi wheel and pedals, and if you could project on a
>large bedsheet, the costs might seem fairly reachable!! Glen Priest

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by **CLUTCH** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Woodrow,

Yoiu might want to take a look at TSW's pedals. They are very well made and the
spring tension is quite adequate. You might find this article helpful.
http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/hardware/features/wheels/index2.shtml

Regards,

Victor DiCosola
Contributing Editor
www.simhq.com

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