ICR2 Demo - Available and Awesome!!

It's Here!!! Available on the Papyrus BBS at 617-926-7599. Be prepared to get a few busy signals though. Took about 45-50 min. at 28.8 - worth the wait. Almost 7 meg compressed - extracts to over 14 meg!! Get ready for a memory hog if you run it entirely from hard drive (if possible?). Anyway, about the game..... Awesome - seems like the AI is extremely better, more fluid movements of opponents. More realistic spins when the car gets away from you. Demo is only VGA, but definitely more detail there. Two tracks, Michigan and Laguna Seca. (BTW, I've never been this good at LS - is it mental or what?!?) And like Rick posted, head down the backstraight at Michigan BACKWARDS to see some incredible carnage from a wreck!! Must look killer in SVGA! I know the product will be shipping soon, but if you've got the time, grab it while you can! You'll love it. If the demo is any indication, my hats off to Rick and the entire staff for what must be an incredible game. Job well done! Now back to racing...

> Demo is only VGA, but definitely more detail there. << NO it is SVGA as well. indycar -h. Mike

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> It's Here!!! Available on the Papyrus BBS at 617-926-7599. Be prepared to get > a few busy signals though. Took about 45-50 min. at 28.8 - worth the wait. > Almost 7 meg compressed - extracts to over 14 meg!! Get ready for a memory > hog if you run it entirely from hard drive (if possible?). Anyway, about the > game..... > Awesome - seems like the AI is extremely better, more fluid movements of > opponents. More realistic spins when the car gets away from you. Demo is only > VGA, but definitely more detail there. Two tracks, Michigan and Laguna Seca. > (BTW, I've never been this good at LS - is it mental or what?!?) And like Rick > posted, head down the backstraight at Michigan BACKWARDS to see some incredible > carnage from a wreck!! Must look killer in SVGA! I know the product will be > shipping soon, but if you've got the time, grab it while you can! You'll love > it. > If the demo is any indication, my hats off to Rick and the entire staff for > what must be an incredible game. Job well done! Now back to racing...

ARGH PEOPLE STOP BRAGGING ABOUT IT AND GET IT TO A FTP SERVER AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE!!!!! (Look I'm begging here, people, will you be good and upload or whatever it to a ftp site, some people _do_ live in Europe, too) Tommi Pajari weeps pitifully, breaks your heart so you just can't resist and you have to put it up on a anonymous ftp site

: It's Here!!! Available on the Papyrus BBS at 617-926-7599. Be prepared to get : a few busy signals though. Took about 45-50 min. at 28.8 - worth the wait. : Almost 7 meg compressed - extracts to over 14 meg!! Get ready for a memory : hog if you run it entirely from hard drive (if possible?). Anyway, about the : game..... I won't phone from Italy to the USA to get the demo. When will it be also available by ftp? I checked on ftp.std.com:/vendors/papyrus and it isn't there. ftp.papy.com hasn't an anonymous login. Not very friendly to oversea customers... Paolo Montrasio

that I try starting Incredible demo, absolutely "Incredible demo"???? Seeing as how you cant change any setups in the garage (at least not me), I found it a waste of download time.

: > opponents. More realistic spins when the car gets away from you. Demo is only : > VGA, but definitely more detail there. Two tracks, Michigan and Laguna Seca. wrong, type indycar -h It ran SVGA for me. : ARGH PEOPLE STOP BRAGGING ABOUT IT AND GET IT TO A FTP SERVER AS QUICK AS : POSSIBLE!!!!! I got it off of ftp.std.com/vendors/papyrus last night. On another note, I may be demented, but I want to drive Nascars at Laguna Seca. The directory structure is the same, and the files are the same names, but when I made a Laguna dir in Nascar, it came up as an option in the game, but wouldn't load. Thought maybe some of you hackers out there might like a chanllenge. Also noticed that there are all of the standard settings (ace, easy, fast,etc) in the directory, even though you cannot load it, so if you want a better setup, simply copy the ace file over the default file. -- ============================================================================ | | | '56 Ford F100 --> '78 Cutlass Salon --> '86 Mustang GT | | "thgir peek ciffart rewols" | | | ============================================================================

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>says... >>It's Here!!! Available on the Papyrus BBS at 617-926-7599. >Duh, Hello?!? I guess it wouldn't have been to much to ask that I try starting >the demo with "-h" for SVGA mode!! I guess you can't fault me for wanting to >go racing instead of checking out the readme.txt! Incredible demo, absolutely >INCREDIBLE.

Yes, not to mention that somehow they managed to actually SPEED up the SVGA mode so that it is actually VERY playable on my DX2/66 VLB. Hats off to the whole Papyrus crew for another great game, definite must-buy. -- John -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Booze is the answer... I forget the question." -- Humphrey Bogart | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | http://www.wolfe.net/~kludger | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The demo people at Papyrus wanted a fully playable demo as small as it could be for downloading. The demo would be like 10-15 MB if you had full garage and pitting options. I'm suprised they put 2 tracks in there, AND you can do a real race with 10 gallons of fuel. Have you played the NASCAR demo? If so, need I say more? This is the most freedom I've ever gotten in a demo. It's great. Great game too. I'm going to go buy ICR2 whenever the stores get some! -- ______________________________________________________________________________ I Love Cars, Auto Racing, And The Red Hot Chili Peppers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IndyCar: Go Penske Team! Al Unser Jr., Paul Tracy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASCAR: Go Rusty Wallace and Jeff Gordon! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis: Vocals Dave Navarro: Guitar Flea (Michael Balzary): Bass Chad Smith: Drums - I Hope Your Broken Wrist Heals Soon!

>says... >>It's Here!!! Available on the Papyrus BBS at 617-926-7599. >And again, I forgot to log on under my name, Tim Dixon, and not my wife's! Tim, In case you haven't figured it out, you can run it in SVGA, simply use the -h command as in NASCAR. Looks great, but they could have given us a TAD more fuel. ;) Andy

For SVGA type indycar/h. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>"Incredible demo"???? Seeing as how you cant change >any setups in the garage (at least not me), I found it >a waste of download time. You should ask....no demand for your money back!! On second thought, "It's free ! ! ! ! ! ! ! " Catch a clue and enjoy life a little bit.

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> >Duh, Hello?!? I guess it wouldn't have been to much to ask > that I try starting > >the demo with "-h" for SVGA mode!! I guess you can't fault > me for wanting to > >go racing instead of checking out the readme.txt! > Incredible demo, absolutely > >INCREDIBLE. > "Incredible demo"???? Seeing as how you cant change > any setups in the garage (at least not me), I found it > a waste of download time.

If that was a waste of your precious time,***you, you ungrateful shit! No one asked you to dl it! -- Terje Wold Johansen "I am your inferior superior." Speaking -- -- Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway myself! --

>Awesome - seems like the AI is extremely better, more fluid movements of >opponents. More realistic spins when the car gets away from you. Demo is only >VGA, but definitely more detail there. The demo runs in SVGA - be sure you type "indycar -h" at the prompt (h is for "hi-resolution"). Agreed, the demo looks and sounds great. John -- John C. McCanless Department of Electrical Engineering University of ***ia

<<< If you run indycar -h, you get SVGA. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

: "Incredible demo"???? Seeing as how you cant change : any setups in the garage (at least not me), I found it : a waste of download time. You can edit all setup values by changing the values in the default.st1 with a hexeditor (e.g. debug.exe, if you have MSDOS 5.0 or lower) or use the easy, fast and ace setup by copying it over the default.st1. The fuel value is limited to 12 gallons, though, but can be set to a smaller value. It's being reset to 12 if you set it higher in the default.st1. Enjoy, Ralf

RD>a few busy signals though. Took about 45-50 min. at 28.8 - worth the wait. >Almost 7 meg compressed - extracts to over 14 meg!! Get ready for a memory >hog if you run it entirely from hard drive (if possible?). Anyway, about th >game..... Why call the BBS? If your reading this, search for it in an FTP site. <g> Personally, I d/l'ed it from AOL. <gasp, AOL!?> RD>Awesome - seems like the AI is extremely better, more fluid movements of >opponents. More realistic spins when the car gets away from you. Demo is on >VGA, but definitely more detail there. Two tracks, Michigan and Laguna Seca >(BTW, I've never been this good at LS - is it mental or what?!?) And like R The demo is SVGA, and actually, the VGA mode is horrendous in my opinion. The VGA graphics in IndyCar 1 look better. Nothing beats SVGA mode, and it seems to run faster than NASCAR in SVGA. --- * TLX v4.10 * "Suicide Hotline...please hold for the next available..." --- * OLX 2.2 TD *

>"Incredible demo"???? Seeing as how you cant change >any setups in the garage (at least not me), I found it >a waste of download time. Excuse me? This is one of the best DEMO's I've ever tried. Not the game (which is, frankly,awesome!) but the fact that the demo is soooo playable. I was very pleased at how much I can play it until the release version comes out soon. Superb. Stuart. -- From the bedroom of Stuart Booth, Somewhere in Guildford, England...

The directory structure is the same, and the files are the same names, but when I made a Laguna dir in Nascar, it came up as an option in the game, but wouldn't load. <<< It won't work; you can't even hack it. NASCAR wants different data in the .DAT file than IndyCar II. Sorry. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

I still say it was a waste of download time. If you want to complain about me...Call 1-800-EAT SHIT.

Hello ! I want to get the ICR2 Demo in Germany ! There ist a bad Performance on ftp.std.com ! Can anyone tell me another FTP-Server witch will mirror the ftp.std.com ? Or will have the Demo to download ? Please - quick !!! Hansjrg Beck