rec.autos.simulators

:>(Sorry, this is getting seriously off-topic now, but I just had to get
:>it off my chest!).  ;-)

: I find those tales from ancient times highly interesting. When men
: were men and electrons had to be herded up and driven on on horseback.
: :) Say something about 'Revs' every once in a while to reset the
: off-topic counter and simply go on. I at least am enjoying this.

Speaking of Revs, thanks to whoever it was who posted the keys for it.
Pressing "T" to start the motor was the problem.  Having grown up in
Canada and never having seen the game, I was quite impressed with its
quality for something running on an 8-bit computer.  Of course, I didn't
get past the first three corners without a spin as I am spoiled by current
sims, but it has some nice touches I would like to see back in current
sims, like having to put it into neutral (or put a clutch in for current
sims) if you spin off, or else you kill the motor.

Stephen

  How can you blip the throttle properly when changing gear without
swerving off the straight?  Sounds like you have an uncanny degree of
motor control.  :-)  What do you mean by "original track records" - what
sort of time are you getting at Monza and the Glen?

  My impression is certainly that for normal mortals it's unplayable
with a single joystick.  

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Richard G. Clegg     Only the mind is waving
Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York.

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Of course, split axis are impossible with a joystick but I always considered
the fact that this was countered somewhat by the advantage of almost
instantaneous lock to lock on the steering if required. With a wheel, I
sometimes feel that I am catching up with the car's position on the road
rather than placing it where I want it to be.

Mark

I bet they could sell another 40,000 by doing a linux port and a
decent server version. I am not kidding. CivCTP has been a huge
seller on the Linux platform, and fact is we will buy *anything*
decent that gets ported to our platform of choice. I'd even buy GPL
again if they did a Linux port.

Cheers,

Uwe

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My current best for Monza is 1:29.5 and the Glen 1:06.8, however I don't
race on those tracks any more often than on all the others.  What I
enjoy doing is a full race season and so each track gets a fair share of
my time.  Because of this I'm still improving every time I return to a
track.  For instance I've just started a full "grand prix" season
setting new PBs at Kyalami of 1:20.8x and today in practice at Monaco of
1:30.4x, this being with my now not so trusty Logic 3 joystick as the
wheels are starting to stutter noticably when I turn to the right. So
anyway,  I would expect to improve on my times at Monza and the Glen
when I get back round to them. ;-)
--
Peter Ives

M

So at what number of units sold can a software title be considered
as a hit? A while back 100,000 sold copies was quite near that mark,
but it might have shifted to a million... Anyone from the industry
knowledgable on this issue?

Thanks,

Uwe

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However, you can assume fairly large wage bills at a big developer and as
such they need to shift large numbers of units. I think, for example,
Daitakana needs to sell half a million units to make money. I'd laugh but
it's tragic really.

Papyrus really need to sell lots of units to make up for the relative lack
of success of GPL and as such will have to concentrate on the
moneyspinners, aka, the US racing sims like NASCAR and Indy.

M

: So at what number of units sold can a software title be considered
: as a hit? A while back 100,000 sold copies was quite near that mark,
: but it might have shifted to a million... Anyone from the industry
: knowledgable on this issue?

  It's bound to shift all the time.  10 years ago, owning a computer
wasn't that common.  20 years ago I strongly suspect that if you sold a
million copies then everyone with a home computer must have bought
several.

--
Richard G. Clegg     Only the mind is waving
Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York.

www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

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I thought I was the only one with a shelf FULL of games that I've never
played...?  I feel so much better now...<g>

Eldred

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