imola on GPL ?

I was wondering when Imola at san marino started being used a track in f1? Being my favourite track in F1 Grand Prix on the amiga, I was wondering if development was in the pipeline for a conversion to GPL. if we're lucky maybe someone will have a blast at the gp3 tracks when it's released. anyway food for thought.... Rich http://come.to/rs-shifter

| if we're lucky maybe someone will have a blast at the gp3 tracks when | it's released. Yeah but Imola post '94 is ruined -- Cheers, Robin Lord - Trance DJ & Sim Racer. http://www.oppositelock.co.uk N�rburgring and Grand Prix Legends

What track wasn't ruined lately? Andre On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:59:14 -0000, "Robin Lord" <[email hidden]> wrote: > >Yeah but Imola post '94 is ruined

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> "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote > > What track wasn't ruined lately? > > Montreal. Magny-Cours. Interlagos. Suzuka. > > Those are mostly the only tracks that are still "intact". Well the term > "lately" can be took in a very vague way. If you consider 20years "lately", > then I would also have to exclude tracks like Spa.

Well, that god-awful chicane at Suzuka, right before the last turn, mars an otherwise great track. Although, looking at the track maps on Forix, it seems that it has been there since at least 1987. Dave Ewing -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing Xilinx Boulder [email hidden] *****************************************************

"Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote > What track wasn't ruined lately? Montreal. Magny-Cours. Interlagos. Suzuka. Those are mostly the only tracks that are still "intact". Well the term "lately" can be took in a very vague way. If you consider 20years "lately", then I would also have to exclude tracks like Spa. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- 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.

ymenard wrote:

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> "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote > > What track wasn't ruined lately? > > Montreal. Magny-Cours. Interlagos. Suzuka. > > Those are mostly the only tracks that are still "intact". Well the term > "lately" can be took in a very vague way. If you consider 20years "lately", > then I would also have to exclude tracks like Spa.

Interlagos was once a huge track Frank...at least that's what I hear Derek Bell say every F1 race there. Magny-Cours? What the hell is that doing on the list, it's a lame track...no need to ruin it since it's always been bad. What about Indy, Malaysia, or Melbourne? Those tracks are still intact. ;-) Legit question: Has Hungaroring been changed any? Jon

I know, I only wanted to say that a lot of tracks have been ruined. Just compare most GPL-tracks to their current version... Spa, sigh... Monza... oh no... Andre On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:01:59 GMT, "ymenard" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>"Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote >> What track wasn't ruined lately? > >Montreal. Magny-Cours. Interlagos. Suzuka. > >Those are mostly the only tracks that are still "intact". Well the term >"lately" can be took in a very vague way. If you consider 20years "lately", >then I would also have to exclude tracks like Spa. > > > > >-- >-- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> >-- May the Downforce be with you... >-- http://www.WeRace.net >-- 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. > > >

"Jon Van Ginneken" <[email hidden]> wrote > Interlagos was once a huge track Frank...at least that's what I hear DerekBell > say every F1 race there. Yes it was almost the doublt in lenght, but it wasn't for the best. It was mostly more twists and turns like the middle portion of the current circuit. Nothing interesting, simply slow and long corners. > Magny-Cours? What the hell is that doing on the list, it's a lametrack...no > need to ruin it since it's always been bad. I like it, Jon :) Turn 3 is a blast to watch, and there it's actually a good passing track with at least 2place for passing (before the backstretch 180 and going into the last chicane). Might be a modern track but at least it's a fast modern track. I would still prefer Clermont-Ferrand, Rouen, Paul Ricard or <sigh> Reims to Magny-Cours :) > What about Indy, Malaysia, or Melbourne? Those tracks are still intact.;-) Well yeah :) Not much history there I say. > Legit question: Has Hungaroring been changed any? There was once slow esses exiting T3 (where now you have a little stretch going uphill). Forix.com says that the track also differed a couple of meters in it's history, but that could simply be some little corner differences or new track measurements. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- 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.

Hungoraring was ruined while it was being built. Originally intended to be a much longer and faster track, the constructors suffered subsidence every time they surfaced the track. The problem was eventually traced to an underground spring and the offending section was abandoned before completion. MS "Jon Van Ginneken" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > ymenard wrote: > > > "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote > > > What track wasn't ruined lately? > > > > Montreal. Magny-Cours. Interlagos. Suzuka. > > > > Those are mostly the only tracks that are still "intact". Well the term > > "lately" can be took in a very vague way. If you consider 20years

"lately", > > then I would also have to exclude tracks like Spa. > > Interlagos was once a huge track Frank...at least that's what I hear DerekBell > say every F1 race there. > Magny-Cours? What the hell is that doing on the list, it's a lametrack...no > need to ruin it since it's always been bad. > What about Indy, Malaysia, or Melbourne? Those tracks are still intact.;-) > > Legit question: Has Hungaroring been changed any? > > Jon > >

Only problem with converting any non-Papy tracks is that most of the time it isn't converting, it's rewriting the whole thing... ALL of the track converters for ANY Papy sim work on the principle that the track format has changed little from game to game...in most situations (excluding GPL) all that is necessary is a pallete change and good AI. GPL brings in a few more things IIRC and the format in GPL has too much data for the older N2/3/L engine so converting down is harder... -- Kirk Lane [email hidden] [email hidden] ICQ: 28171652 BRT #187 "Yeah you won't find me I'm going MIA Tonight I'm leaving Going MIA Getting lost in you again Is better than being known" -Foo Fighters, "MIA" Rich <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I was wondering when Imola at san marino started being used a track in > f1? > > Being my favourite track in F1 Grand Prix on the amiga, I was > wondering if development was in the pipeline for a conversion to GPL. > > if we're lucky maybe someone will have a blast at the gp3 tracks when > it's released. > > anyway food for thought.... > > Rich > > http://come.to/rs-shifter

>Well, that god-awful chicane at Suzuka, right before the last turn, mars an >otherwise great track. Although, looking at the track maps on Forix, it seems >that it has been there since at least 1987. Exactly that, the chicane was put in place in time for F1's first visit to Suzuka in 1987. Before that it was pretty much the same apart from that last turn, which would be amazing in GPL :-) -- Cheers! Graeme Nash