Mr Genter - A question or two re NASCAR

<<How about a section on your WWW pages for 'most spectacular crash of the week'? I have a lovely replay of a 200mph+ head on at talladega...and I walked away...>> Funny... so does Mark Martin ; ) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #6, #94 & #16 in the REAL quest for the Cup! Go Ford!!!

I have a P90 and i'd like to know whether I will ever be able to turn the asphalt on ? <<< Sure. However, whether or not you want to turn it on is a different question. Seriously, though, in IndyCar Racing II the priorities of the details are user settable, so if you want grass textures to turn off before asphalt, for example, you can set it up that way. As far as performance on your machine goes, well, as they say, "Your mileage may vary." Are there any Card specific SVGA drivers available for Nascar which would improve frame rates ? <<< Not really for DOS. How easy would it be to re-design the car bodies ? <<< While doing a car body is less complicated than doing a track, it's not THAT much less complicated. How does Win95 compare as both a development environment and a 'running' one? Do you get any performance advantages due to the native 32-bitness ? <<< As we were already using 32-bit code on DOS (which is why we bind the DOS/4GW DOS extender into the executable), there isn't a difference in the code model for DOS and Windows 95. You don't see a *decrease* in performance, however, and that is a good thing. Are you suprised at the success of Nascar and Indy-car racing outside of the U.S.A ? <<< Me personally? With IndyCar Racing, no, since IndyCar Racing is an international sport. With NASCAR Racing, yes, since NASCAR is pretty much purely American. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II/NASCAR Racing for Macintosh/Windows Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

: Are there any Card specific SVGA drivers available for Nascar which would : improve frame rates ? I have a Diamond Stealth 64. Not card specific, but card independent! If Papyrus were using the VBE 2.0 standard with linear framebuffering for the dos version, you probably could see a small increase in framerate. At least it wouldn't be slower than even the best card specific windows driver. FYI (and Papyrus), Univesa 5.1 has the above features implemented. Ralf

Well I'm not surprised. I think it's the 'setupablility' (is there such a word?) that makes it so cool. Of course the graphics do have a bit to do with it....... -TFW \\\\\ The speed does not kill. O/O|| The crashing part kills <_ | '-'/ .TFW.

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>Are you suprised at the success of Nascar and Indy-car racing outside of >the U.S.A ? ><<< >Me personally? With IndyCar Racing, no, since IndyCar Racing is an >international sport. With NASCAR Racing, yes, since NASCAR is pretty much >purely American.

I'm really pleased that Nascar's been successful for you! Especially outside America!!! Coming from the UK I knew absolutely nothing about Nascar before you launched Nascar (which I bought as soon as I found it on CD-ROM). I now wish we could catch some of it on our TV channels, but ... we can't! Why did I buy it? I loved the 'realism' of Indycar and knew your followup games would have to be at least as good. IMO Nascar surpassed Indycar thanks in part to its SVGA mode. I'm thinking that ICR2 should leapfrog Nascar though, when its released. What prompted the rest of the non-American customers to play Nascar? Stuart. Stuart Booth

Quoting stuart from a message in rec.autos.simulators st>Path: st>news2.delphi.com!news.delphi.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.cloud9.net!news.s st>Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators st>Subject: Re: Mr Genter - A question or two re NASCAR st>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 07:18:59 GMT st>Organization: Garage Block Software st>Lines: 32 st>NNTP-Posting-Host: garage.demon.co.uk st>X-NNTP-Posting-Host: garage.demon.co.uk st>X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99b.112 st>What prompted the rest of the non-American customers to play Nascar? Well I'm American, but just decided to try Nascar for the hell of it. I had just gotten my pentium and wanted to see how it would stack up. I HAD every intention of returning it within 10 days. (that's the "trial" period at the local software store.) Needless to say I was hooked real quick. This is the first game that has gotten me hooked on the real sport! I watch ever Nascar race on T.V. and if I can't watch it, I tape it. <G> Andy

You can, too. Eurosport shows Nascar on a slightly irregular basis, but most of the races are shown... I bought Nascar _BECAUSE_ and my intuition was right :) Tommi Pajari the Indycar, now also Nascar, junkie

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>>Me personally? With IndyCar Racing, no, since IndyCar Racing is an >>international sport. With NASCAR Racing, yes, since NASCAR is pretty much >>purely American. >I'm really pleased that Nascar's been successful for you! Especially >outside America!!! >Coming from the UK I knew absolutely nothing about Nascar before you >launched Nascar (which I bought as soon as I found it on CD-ROM). I >now wish we could catch some of it on our TV channels, but ... we >can't! >... >What prompted the rest of the non-American customers to play Nascar? >Stuart. >Stuart Booth

I don't know for sure, but I suspect Australia has the biggest NASCAR scene outside of USA. A new racing season will be starting on Oct 14, with Kevin Schwantz making his NASCAR debut in Sydney in November. Greg Hingerty

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>> Coming from the UK I knew absolutely nothing about Nascar before you >> launched Nascar (which I bought as soon as I found it on CD-ROM). I >> now wish we could catch some of it on our TV channels, but ... we >> can't! >You can, too. Eurosport shows Nascar on a slightly irregular basis, but >most of the races are shown...

Only if you've got Sky/Cable or whatever it comes on! I'm stuck with the 4 standard UK terrestrial channels where I live d8-(( Stuart. Stuart Booth

GH> A new racing season will be starting on Oct GH> 14, with Kevin Schwantz making his NASCAR debut in Sydney in GH> November. That could be pretty interesting - the guy is something SPECIAL. Hope he'll be driving #34! Cheers! --- * RM 1.3 U0414 * Panther v. _._ will be released in the _rd qtr. of 19__!

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> >> Coming from the UK I knew absolutely nothing about Nascar before you > >> launched Nascar (which I bought as soon as I found it on CD-ROM). I > >> now wish we could catch some of it on our TV channels, but ... we > >> can't! > >You can, too. Eurosport shows Nascar on a slightly irregular basis, but > >most of the races are shown... > Only if you've got Sky/Cable or whatever it comes on! I'm stuck with > the 4 standard UK terrestrial channels where I live d8-(( > Stuart. > Stuart Booth

Poor you... I see Eurosport for free in finland.... *shrug* Tommi Pajari

>What prompted the rest of the non-American customers to play Nascar? I'll have to say that I liked the realism too. The brilliance of being able to crash at 200mph makes me dribble with anticipation!!! -TFW \\\\\ (~~~~~~~~~) O/O|| The new french letter => ( ( ) ( ) Stop the bomb! <_ | \|||||/ '-'/ .TFW. ||| /|||\ ~~~~~~~~~~~

>>What prompted the rest of the non-American customers to play Nascar? >I'll have to say that I liked the realism too. The brilliance of being >able to crash at 200mph makes me dribble with anticipation!!! >-TFW Yeah, and don't forget the SOUND!!! Harald