F1GP II bites the dust

Hi, Check out http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ to see the current news on F1GP II!! I cried myself to sleep last night. Jeff.

Hi, Check out http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ to see the current news on F1GP II!! I cried myself to sleep last night. Jeff.

>Hi, >Check out >http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ >to see the current news on F1GP II!! >I cried myself to sleep last night. >Jeff. I couln't, wouldn't believe that, F1GP II on March, NO !!! Don't forget that, for a software compagnie, it's a shame to miss Christmast, and Microprose have enought troubles to miss this period. The FNAC, the leader software shop in France just told me, this afternoon, that the release date for here is September 4 (1995 of course ;)). I keep the hope and still believe in Geoff. Geoff, please, don't destroy your game to fit with smalls computers ... Vince.

>I couln't, wouldn't believe that, >F1GP II on March, NO !!! >I keep the hope and still believe in Geoff. >Geoff, please, don't destroy your game to fit with smalls >computers ... And if some features really have to be removed to make the game run on smaller PC's than make them optional so user with high-end PC's can enable these features again. It's no problem at all to make more options than any PC can handle, because hardware will catch up soon enough (like Pentium Pro etc.) Bye, Wilfred

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>>Hi, >>Check out >>http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ >>to see the current news on F1GP II!! >>I cried myself to sleep last night. >>Jeff. >I couln't, wouldn't believe that, >F1GP II on March, NO !!! >Don't forget that, for a software compagnie, >it's a shame to miss Christmast, and Microprose >have enought troubles to miss this period. >The FNAC, the leader software shop in France just >told me, this afternoon, that the release date for here >is September 4 (1995 of course ;)). >I keep the hope and still believe in Geoff. >Geoff, please, don't destroy your game to fit with smalls >computers ...

As I've said before, the original F1GP was due out before Christmas and it only just made Easter the following year!!!!!!! Without much hope, Jamie ============================================================================== Oracle Park Oracle Office: joshaugh.uk Bittams Lane, Guildford Road Phone : (44) 01932 872020 ext 2298 Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 9RG Fax : (44) 01932 873273 ============================================================================== The opinions expressed here are my own and do not in any way represent Oracle or its policies.

Boy is Microprose full of it. Not only does no one seem to know when it will be out, but now they say there's no more upgrade pricing. ------------------------ Bob Bruss ------------------------

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>Hi, >Check out >http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ >to see the current news on F1GP II!! >I cried myself to sleep last night. >Jeff.

That's TOO bad!! I had been waiting for this game for months and now they are now announcing that they are not going to release it? I would still buy the game even if they say that the game is unplayable. Please please release it.... Mark Yeung

What do we want? I would LIKE to have GP2 right NOW but I much prefer to have a top quality release. If that means waiting until Geoff finishes a masterpiece (and maybe sneaks a look at ICR2 as well to blow it away!), I'm happy to do that. Be patient and trust Geoff not to disappoint us, he hasn't so far. Cheers! John -- oooO _ _ Oooo John Wallace, Edinburgh (Scotland) ( ) / ) ( \ ( ) CompuServe : 100347,3560 \_)(___) (___)(_/ oooO Oooo

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|> Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators |> Subject: Re: F1GP II bites the dust |> Date: 22 Nov 1995 14:04:50 GMT |> Organization: Asia On-Line Limited, Wanchai, Hong Kong. |> Lines: 20 |> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip108.asiaonline.net |> Mime-Version: 1.0 |> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii |> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit |> X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) |> |> >Hi, |> > |> >Check out |> >http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ |> >to see the current news on F1GP II!! |> > |> >I cried myself to sleep last night. |> > |> >Jeff. |> > |> That's TOO bad!! I had been waiting for this game for months and now they |> are now announcing that they are not going to release it? |> |> I would still buy the game even if they say that the game is unplayable. |> Please please release it....

This is only a bad rumor. Who do you think the designers are when they can bring you stuffs like F1GP/Word Circuit? When they are "real" software designers, do you think they only test the product at the final stage, and find out that it doesn't run well on a Pentium 133? Get real. Good software designers (like Geoff) must code and test along. He must have a very good idea of how well the game should run on present technology, even when the game is only half-finished. This bad rumor must be spread by some jerks who know absolutely nothing about software design, and maybe haven't even taken an elementary programming course before. The game is on its way out, and we should all be patient. Do you think MicroProse/Spectrum Holobyte will slash a project which has gone underway for months, invested a tremendous amount of money, advertised to the general public, just like that? Get real. If I am the company president, I will be real embarrassed and rather kill myself. -- Isaac Wong (613) 763-6127 | Protel Compiler Group (Helpline ESN 395-4009) http://chat.carleton.ca/~iwong | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Dave Bowers

This may not quite be true. Remember, there are several 3D texture-mapped graphics cards being designed (some even released) at the moment. It's not unreasonable to assume that Mr Crammond is using one or more of these boards in development. If so, a very large amount of rendering work is taken away from the processor, leaving it 'coasting along' calculating physics. Obviously, at this stage, Microprose would like it to run wothout a 3D accelerator, and this may be giving problems with the rendering load being shifted back to the CPU. On the plus side, these boards are in the 100-250 price range, so we'll probably all have one by March, when they'll be even cheaper... Just my opinion. Cheers, Darren. -- Darren S. Hague WiSH Media Solutions ---- PGP Public Key available on request ----

I agree on that. I am pretty anxious to play it on my P-120 but I prefer to see the game finished without any cuts, downgrades or bugs. I can handle the waiting even if the game is only released in March. I have great expectations about it. One last thing. It has to have good network/cable support. It will be 10 times better that way. Good work Geoff. Miguel ********************************************** Carlos Miguel Santos Cordeiro **********************************************

I read in a magazine article some time ago that GPII supported the Glint-3D standard. Fraser

Yeah, PC Zone said it! -- Dave Bowers

>Munro) writes: >> I read in a magazine article some time ago that GPII supported the >> Glint-3D standard. What is this ? Vince RAYMOND

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> Path: factltd.demon.co.uk!news.demon.co.uk!demon!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!francenet.fr!usenet > Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators > Subject: Re: F1GP II bites the dust > Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:00:16 GMT > Organization: Francenet -- Paris, France > Lines: 29 > NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp22.micronet.fr > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 > >Hi, > >Check out > >http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ > >to see the current news on F1GP II!! > >I cried myself to sleep last night. > >Jeff. > I couln't, wouldn't believe that, > F1GP II on March, NO !!! > Don't forget that, for a software compagnie, > it's a shame to miss Christmast, and Microprose > have enought troubles to miss this period. > The FNAC, the leader software shop in France just > told me, this afternoon, that the release date for here > is September 4 (1995 of course ;)). > I keep the hope and still believe in Geoff. > Geoff, please, don't destroy your game to fit with smalls > computers ... > Vince.

It cant be true, how would Mr Crammond be so stupid as to program a game that no one could run on their PC, I mean dont ya think he would realise the FPS was ***at 1 FPS on his P133, its industrial espionage thats what It is, the comp software bussiness has become so big rumours easily start, dont believe that F1GP2 is not going to be out for AGES, I will stick my neck out and say it will arrive no later than the start of March '96, and who cares as long as Mr. Crammond produces YET ANOTHER brilliant game not just in graphics but, and more importantly, gameplay. I believe GP2 will be awesome, do your stuff Crammy, we await the second coming! ---------- Steve Hood "Is this testing whether I'm a replicant, or a ***, Mr Deckard?" "I'm not in the business... I am the business." BLADERUNNER.

> Good work Geoff. We all say "Well done Geoff", "Good one", or "Geoff, Geoff, Geoff", don't we? (Me included) But he never answers. When was the last time anyone heard anything from him anyway??? Geoff "Rushdie" Crammond - is missing! :-/ Go for it Geoff! ... Geoff??? :) -- ~~_______~~ _______________[__]=[_(-)_]=[__]_______________ V I S O R --

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>>Hi, >>Check out >>http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ >>to see the current news on F1GP II!! >>I cried myself to sleep last night. >>Jeff. >It gets worse I'm afraid. I just visited the Microprose site and they >have set up a noticeboard there and several people have been asking >the question WHEN??? >Someone called Tim (very anonymous) from Microprose has answered >"Spring". Pleas for Microprose to be a bit more precise have not been >answered yet. >I reckon Microprose marketing dept need a good kicking. Anyone got the >emial address. Let's mailbomb the bastards. I'm fed up with their >lies. They promised a release date last september and they still won't >even name the day. And they did the same thing with F1GP version 1. >It's either deliberate hype or they have no idea what they are doing.

I didn't see anything there. What was this about?? Jeff

>Hi, >Check out >http://hyper.com.au/games/buzz/ >to see the current news on F1GP II!! >I cried myself to sleep last night. >Jeff. It gets worse I'm afraid. I just visited the Microprose site and they have set up a noticeboard there and several people have been asking the question WHEN??? Someone called Tim (very anonymous) from Microprose has answered "Spring". Pleas for Microprose to be a bit more precise have not been answered yet. I reckon Microprose marketing dept need a good kicking. Anyone got the emial address. Let's mailbomb the bastards. I'm fed up with their lies. They promised a release date last september and they still won't even name the day. And they did the same thing with F1GP version 1. It's either deliberate hype or they have no idea what they are doing.