American Tracks

I just found a repackaged AMA Superbike at Wal Mart... :) I was looking for Easter cards and boom there it was...hehe. The jewel box only title is now packaged by Value Soft($9 us). It has the last version of AMA that was released v1.5. There is a manual but I haven't looked at it yet...I'm guessing it's pdf format. BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ARE... the Tracks...these are simply the BEST re-creations of American racing courses that I have seen. Road America...Mid Ohio...are awesome...even Road Atlanta which has a fairly modern competitor in the SCGT version of Road Atlanta and the SCGT effort pales in comparison. THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME WAY TO PORT THESE BABIES over to the CART Heat patch or GPL or other sims... Track meisters!!! You need to look at the file format and figure out a way... dave henrie

>"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote > BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ARE... > the Tracks...these are simply the BEST re-creations of American racing > courses that I have seen. Road America...Mid Ohio...are awesome...evenRoad Atlanta > which has a fairly modern competitor in the SCGT version of Road Atlantaand the SCGT > effort pales in comparison. THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME WAY TO PORT THESE > BABIES Oh hehe another that has seen the light :) I've been stating that since the beta release of AMA SBK. Ignoring every problem it might have, the 3d modeling game engine is incredible. It shouldn't be held up only because the title wasn't successful. The tracks are the best you can have in the industry. Motorsims should sell their 3d modeling of those tracks to other simracing developers. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

If you want to see some incredible eye candy with shadows and accurate track layouts, check out EAs SBK 2001. This is by far the best and most realistic I've seen. One thing about the sim though, you should not be able to ride as fast on the grass as you are able to. I'd swear it was hard packed putting green. Wayne Dave Henrie wrote:

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> I just found a repackaged AMA Superbike at Wal Mart... :) I was looking > for > Easter cards and boom there it was...hehe. The jewel box only title is now > packaged > by Value Soft($9 us). It has the last version of AMA that was released > v1.5. There is a manual but I haven't looked at it yet...I'm guessing it's > pdf format. > BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ARE... > the Tracks...these are simply the BEST re-creations of American racing > courses that > I have seen. Road America...Mid Ohio...are awesome...even Road Atlanta > which has a > fairly modern competitor in the SCGT version of Road Atlanta and the SCGT > effort pales in comparison. THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME WAY TO PORT THESE > BABIES > over to the CART Heat patch or GPL or other sims... > Track meisters!!! You need to look at the file format and figure out a > way... > dave henrie

I've heard teh SBK 2001 tracks were good... But the big allure of AMA is the AMERICAN tracks that either aren't represented in other sims or are HOPELESSLY out of date. The old ICR2 tracks not only are inaccurate, or up to date, but their graphic detail is woefully antiquated. Granted there are still many of the newer CART tracks not represented in AMA either, but the presence of Laguna, Mid Ohio, & Road America would really flesh out the CArt Heat patch and Cart 2000. Dangit...they 'should' be used somehow.. dave henrie "Wayne Stelly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > If you want to see some incredible eye candy with shadows and accuratetrack > layouts, check out EAs SBK 2001. This is by far the best and mostrealistic > I've seen. One thing about the sim though, you should not be able to rideas > fast on the grass as you are able to. I'd swear it was hard packedputting

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looking > > for > > Easter cards and boom there it was...hehe. The jewel box only title isnow > > packaged > > by Value Soft($9 us). It has the last version of AMA that was released > > v1.5. There is a manual but I haven't looked at it yet...I'm guessingit's

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> > pdf format. > > BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ARE... > > the Tracks...these are simply the BEST re-creations of American racing > > courses that > > I have seen. Road America...Mid Ohio...are awesome...even Road Atlanta > > which has a > > fairly modern competitor in the SCGT version of Road Atlanta and the

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> > effort pales in comparison. THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME WAY TO PORT THESE > > BABIES > > over to the CART Heat patch or GPL or other sims... > > Track meisters!!! You need to look at the file format and figure out a > > way... > > dave henrie >

>"Wayne Stelly" <[email hidden]> wrote > If you want to see some incredible eye candy with shadows and accuratetrack > layouts, check out EAs SBK 2001. This is by far the best and mostrealistic > I've seen. One thing about the sim though, you should not be able to rideas > fast on the grass as you are able to. I'd swear it was hard packedputting > green. There is a difference here. SBK 2001 is more of a "eye-candy" realism. AMA SBK is completely different. The tracks are open, they are unique. They are modeled as you would expect, not a simple wall-grass-track-grass-wall realism. Of course, in that aspect SBK 2001 does it incredibly well, but AMA SBK really has more fully realistic tracks. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...