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Yup, GV may not be as fast as GH, but he does bring a PhD into the equation
(no pun intended!).  And he's even written his own little sim before.
Pretty interesting piece of work, actually.  Not sure if it's still around,
and can't remember where I got it - probably a link from the RL forum.

It has some interesting experimental aspects, like a POV lookahead seemingly
tied to the direction the car's traveling, regardless of whether it's doing
so going forward or backward.  Spins are interesting!  Urrrp... ;-)  Doing
donuts in the bumpy infield with the champcar's a hoot, and going from rwd
to fwd to 4wd is immediately apparent in how the car reacts to the throttle.
Fun little physics experiment!

SB

PS - oh, I forgot.  I'm supposed to say; it's no GPL, dOOd - iT sUcKz!  ;-)

The physics are great, although I probably never tried the latest
version. Given Gregor's record, it's probably spot on though. :)

Ruud van Gaal
Free car sim: http://www.racer.nl/
Pencil art  : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/

I must say, I tried getting my MSFF wheel to work in GP4; couldn't get
it to work in the standard install, applied the patch and that was
better. But while racing, it doesn't handle steering, while that was
ok in the control screen. Also, the control screen is so damn complex
for such a simple thing. Can't really understand how Geoff looks at
all this.
And when I see a Voodoo 'Wheel pulls left' option, hmmmmmmmm! ;-)
Not that any GPx version had a decent UI; if only they hired one man
for one day to design it, it would have been so much easier.

F12k2 is better, but there I have the same MSFF behaving weird; it
starts out ok, until I move on a couple of sessions, and then FF is
turned off, except for kerbs. And *when* it hits a kerb, that force
keeps on pulling. Until I magically press one of 2 buttons on my
wheel; it is then over until I touch a kerb again.
May be too many effects stacked onto eachother.

But what was weird in F12k2 is that I had to set FF to -100%. I've
never had to do that in Racer. Not sure how that could happen.

Perhaps they just use more complex controls than me, or have been
sucked in too much in the DirectX programming rythm; "if it's easy,
make it look complex"! ;-)

But I was surprised at the rendering speed of F12k2 on my PII-400; it
actually runs quite nicely (with a GF3). It's just that loading a
track takes ages (really, minutes). That's a big bummer.

Ruud van Gaal
Free car sim: http://www.racer.nl/
Pencil art  : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/

depends. If it's a subject they enjoy and like, they'll get
good grades automatically. With the shit being fed to them day
by day in school though, a C is fair enough IMO.

You may encourage them, but don't flog them into learning stuff
to flush down the intellectual toilet the hour after the exams.

Cheers,

Uwe

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