GP2 Release date 29th March 96 ???

I walked into my local Game today to see if anything interesting had been released - no, unless you count the new film from Origin - Wing Commander IV. But then I checked out their release list - Grand Prix 2 - 29th March 1996. Can anyone confirm/deny this or say how solid it is (Microprose?) Greg -- Greg Booker, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

I guess they can be believed, when I was waiting for Grand Prix Manager (whoops) , it came out the day they had on their release list. Also Special Reserve, a UK mail order company, also have the 29th down as the release date on their web page, so I guess it comes from at least the distributors if not Microprose. Cheers, Ant. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | /__ Anthony Holloway, Astronomy Group, Univ. of Manchester, UK. \ \|/ Phone : +44-161-275-4228 Fax : +44-161-275-4223 \--?--\ / | WWW : http://axp2.ast.man.ac.uk:8000/~ajh/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

>I walked into my local Game today to see if anything interesting had been >released - no, unless you count the new film from Origin - Wing Commander IV. >But then I checked out their release list - Grand Prix 2 - 29th March 1996. >Can anyone confirm/deny this or say how solid it is (Microprose?) When is the start of the 1996 F1 season? Something timed for that perhaps? That IS a question rather than an answer by the way! Stuart -- Stuart Booth ... Somewhere in Epsom, England, UK. You are welcome to distribute this message on the Microsoft Network. Why do some silly folk say you can't do so with their messages?

: When is the start of the 1996 F1 season? Something timed for that : perhaps? : That IS a question rather than an answer by the way! Well, the start of the season is March 10th, so it can't be that! And thats an answer! ;-) -- But Looks can be Deceiving

: >I walked into my local Game today to see if anything interesting had been : >released - no, unless you count the new film from Origin - Wing Commander IV. : >But then I checked out their release list - Grand Prix 2 - 29th March 1996. : > : >Can anyone confirm/deny this or say how solid it is (Microprose?) : When is the start of the 1996 F1 season? Something timed for that : perhaps? The season starts in Melbourne on March 10th. Neither Spectrum Holobyte in the US nor Microprose in the UK will disclose a precise release date to mere mortals at this time (although Microprose UK at least say "March" instead of "Spring"), and Microprose UK are not yet taking pre-orders. I was asked to call back at the beginning of March for further info.

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>: >I walked into my local Game today to see if anything interesting had been> >: >released - no, unless you count the new film from Origin - Wing Commander IV. >: >But then I checked out their release list - Grand Prix 2 - 29th March 1996. >: > >: >Can anyone confirm/deny this or say how solid it is (Microprose?)> >: When is the start of the 1996 F1 season? Something timed for that >: perhaps? >The season starts in Melbourne on March 10th. Neither Spectrum Holobyte >in the US nor Microprose in the UK will disclose a precise release date >to mere mortals at this time (although Microprose UK at least say "March" >instead of "Spring"), and Microprose UK are not yet taking pre-orders. >I was asked to call back at the beginning of March for further info.

HMV also have the release date at 29th March, so I guess someone has told the stores/mail order companies a date. Ant. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | /__ Anthony Holloway, Astronomy Group, Univ. of Manchester, UK. \ \|/ Phone : +44-161-275-4228 Fax : +44-161-275-4223 \--?--\ / | WWW : http://axp2.ast.man.ac.uk:8000/~ajh/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

: When is the start of the 1996 F1 season? Something timed for that : perhaps? : That IS a question rather than an answer by the way! The first Grand Prix will take place in Melbourne, Australia the 10th of March...

Interesting. I went to "Electronic Boutique" (sp?), Indianapolis, this weekend, and the first thing I saw there (is my eyesight too biased?) was the GP-II box. Of course no software inside. When I asked "when", the answer was "March 11". Of course I didn't believe it ... Felipe ============================================================================= Department of Computer Sciences Phone : (317) 494-0361 Purdue University Fax: (317) 494-0739 (CS dept) West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398 USA WWW: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/knop =============================================================================

I think (well, hope!) that GP2 will come out at some point in March. Ideally for Microprose the best time would be just before the first race on March 10th as the game could then ride on the hype of the start of the F1 season. Jamie

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>I walked into my local Game today to see if anything interesting had been >released - no, unless you count the new film from Origin - Wing Commander IV. >But then I checked out their release list - Grand Prix 2 - 29th March 1996. >Can anyone confirm/deny this or say how solid it is (Microprose?) >Greg >-- >Greg Booker, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, >University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Electronics Boutique have a release date of 15th March, so I guess March sometime might be possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -mm------ Philip Baker - MIS Analyst Tel: (+44) 1252 555293 ---mmm----- Pyramid Technology Ltd Fax: (+44) 1252 555333 -----mmmmm---Solartron Road -------mmmmmm--- Farnborough GU14 7QL -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If this is true then Microprose are cutting it *very* fine indeed. I know everyone slags Microprose off in this group (me included), particularly after the GPM fiasco, but it would take a particularly staggering lack of foresight for them not to have made absolutely sure that it would be out by the 10th. Maybe they only have to officially announce the software by this date ? Then again, this is Microprose were talking about !!!