rec.autos.simulators

I'll one up you. I knew GPL was going to be a commercial failure two years
before it was announced. I was going to write it myself. After thinking
about it for a while I gave up the idea as. . . commercially unviable.

I'm DAMN glad someone wrote it though. DAMN glad!

This usually happens around here anytime there is a new sim released
that generates a lot of posts about it...

There was an official try to split the group a few years ago and it
failed, because most of us like to get all our auto sim info in one
place.

If you are not interested in particular threads about certain stuff,
I'd suggest you either ignore those threads or use a killfile to not see them.

Give it a few weeks and things will die down back to normal, but it will
happen again when N4 comes out or WSC or GPL2.

--John

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No. You must be some Newsgroup newbie lightweight or something.
This is very common when a new game comes out. Expecially one
that everyone was looking forward to. It will die down in a couple of
weeks :-)

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CPR came out with D3D a year before GPL.

GPL didn't have to have D3D when it was released, but SHOULD of had a patch
for it at least a YEAR ago.

David G Fisher

Like I said before, in *** you set your priorities and adjust your
hardware accordingly and therefore accept incompatibilities and/or a
performance cut in non-priority games. With a TNT2 or GeForce2 I would have
higher res and better framerates in certain games, and maybe now in GPL.
However I'm trying to ride out the current confusion and upgrade to the
overall winner come WSC.

Having the D3D patch earlier might have been a bonus for those for who GPL
was not the priority game, but for the "true convert" (tongue in cheek,
don't start, ok?) there would have been an overriding feeling of
"why"? -Runs ok on a V3, dunnit? ;-)

Jan.
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Eldred
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GPL hcp. +69.95

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

% The reason I suggested it was this...

% There's a newsgroup comp.periphs.mainboard for opvious topics,
% BUT,
% that doesn't stop their being 17 further newsgroups ( i.e.
% comp.periphs.mainboard.asus ) for each brand of board?

% Would the same thing not be applicable here to spread the traffic between
% game titles?

Contrary to popular opinion, we do enjoy more than one product.  We are
interested in racing simulations, period.  Also the structure of USENET
requires that the core hierarchies have "lasting" value.  Therefore a
rec.autos.simulators.gpl would not fit this criteria.  However, we could
have a rec.autos.simulators.papyrus, or rec.autos.simulators.f1 - or
.nascar ----  but then again, we generally discuss whatever sim is being
coded, released or played the most.  

The buzz is hot at the moment because we have a new sim to kick around
(GP3).  The same thing happened when f12k came out (or N3, CPR, etc.).
It will die down and things will normalize until the next hot sim is
about to be released.

What I do find interesting in following the threads over the years only
2 companies have ruled the roost, Papyrus and Crammond creations.  The
true test of the metal is how long a sim lasts in discussion here in
r.a.s.  At the moment GPL is coming close to matching GP2.  I highly
suspect that GP3 will soon die out as a hot topic in r.a.s. and GPL will
still remain until WSC arrives.....

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     Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.

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% Another Usenet newbie who thinks he can by himself modify the social laws of
% newsgroup structure.

;-)

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**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
     Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.

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I like laughing at myself from time to time ;-D

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-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

MS

8-)

Every time a new simm comes out!!!

hehe.....

*Peter* -  http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

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