Visiware GP Sim

Here is the scoope on Visiware's GP game, which looks stunning BTW. > Just one question. > Will this game be a simulation or an arcade game? Simulation > Oh yeah, and what speed of machine will be required. Pentium 60 8 meg fro 320*200 and 133/166 for 640*480 resolution Many thanks the 16 tracks are really really close to the real ones

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> Here is the scoope on Visiware's GP game, which looks stunning BTW. > > Just one question. > > Will this game be a simulation or an arcade game? > Simulation > > Oh yeah, and what speed of machine will be required. > Pentium 60 8 meg fro 320*200 and 133/166 for 640*480 resolution > > P.s The art work looks awesome! I was in Montreal for the race and you have the > > *** down perfect. > Many thanks the 16 tracks are really really close to the real ones

Yep, this one looks good - and it may even beat GP2 to the shelves :) They need to add features that GP2 doesn't have to make it sell well though, eg weather effects, parade lap and pace car, paintkit, driver editor etc. Let's hope they do - I'll email them with my thoughts - they seem very receptive to ideas. Julian _____________________________________________________________________ University of Oxford

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>Here is the scoope on Visiware's GP game, which looks stunning BTW. >> Just one question. >> Will this game be a simulation or an arcade game? >Simulation >> Oh yeah, and what speed of machine will be required. >Pentium 60 8 meg fro 320*200 and 133/166 for 640*480 resolution >> P.s The art work looks awesome! I was in Montreal for the race and you have the >> *** down perfect. >Many thanks the 16 tracks are really really close to the real ones

When will there be new things on your web page? I think i saw a post from a few days ago that said in 10 days you would have movies and new pictures... just wondering that will happen, I want to be the first to see 'em !! :)) See you! (With a P120 - 16 megs and really normal trident svga card (1 mb) can I expect a good frame rate in svga with textures off on asphalt and grass(and maybe sky) ?) Thanks a lot

What/where is this Visiware GP sim? What platform does it run on? I'm growing impateint for GP2 so I'd like to be entertained in the meantime... -r -- Robin Chung Senior Performance Architect, MTI-IV Aspiring F-1 Vehicle Dynamicist AMA#699255 HRC#HM402849 FAX:(510) 642 4769

Just a word to tell you that i finished the Starting Grid video last night, now it's just a matter of transfer time to have it on our web.. The video is MPEG without sound and is 19MB big (ouch...) It was shot in 320/200 on a 120Mhz pentium. As the MPEG file is not timebase encoded the frame rate changes from pc to pc and by no way reflect the frame rate of the real program (20 f/s in this particular case). Things you must consider regarding this video: 1.The shadows of the cars are nearly invisible so the cars do not alway look as being on the track. 2.the track and views are not the best ones to show how good our tracks are, but as we don't have much time right now this is all i can do at the momment. 3.Even if it is not the best videos we could do we decided to post it anyway because of the many request we got. 4.Please do not flame us with remarks like the mirror are ugly or stuff like that :-) Any comments are welcome. either to the newsgroup or to Nicolas Eypert Starting Grid Developer Visiware France

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> What/where is this Visiware GP sim? What platform does it run on? > I'm growing impateint for GP2 so I'd like to be entertained in the > meantime... http://www.visiware.com/ - check it out, it's looking good. Julian _____________________________________________________________________ University of Oxford

Why didn't you make it easier on us and just zip it into parts or as a whole? -- http://www.netins.net/showcase/mpete Nascar..Weather..OnNetCameras..Oddities..and more.. Stop on by, what can it hurt?

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>> Just a word to tell you >> that i finished the Starting Grid video >> last night, now it's just a matter of transfer >> time to have it on our web.. >> The video is MPEG without sound >> and is 19MB big (ouch...) >Why didn't you make it easier on us and just zip it into parts or as a >whole? >--

If you take the time to look at the web site you will see that it is in something like12 parts

From Visiware site,I've Downloaded all files of the Starting Grid MPEG Movie. These files are... ------------------------------------------------------ SGVID A06 1,461,918 07-04-96 12:29p sgvid.a06 SGVID A02 1,461,917 07-04-96 11:56a sgvid.a02 SGVID A03 1,461,842 07-04-96 12:05p sgvid.a03 SGVID A04 1,461,995 07-04-96 12:13p sgvid.a04 SGVID A05 1,461,995 07-04-96 12:21p sgvid.a05 SGVID A01 1,461,899 07-04-96 11:48a sgvid.a01 SGVID ARJ 1,462,015 07-04-96 11:58p sgvid.arj SGVID A10 1,461,890 07-04-96 11:26p sgvid.a10 SGVID A08 1,461,991 07-04-96 11:00p sgvid.a08 SGVID A09 1,461,928 07-04-96 11:08p sgvid.a09 SGVID A07 1,461,959 07-04-96 10:52p sgvid.a07 SGVID A11 1,461,876 07-04-96 11:34p sgvid.a11 SGVID A12 26,575 07-04-96 11:34p sgvid.a12 ------------------------------------------------------ Then I tried to uncompress the files, But a error occurs, like this. =============================================================================== E:\movies\sg>arj e sgvid.arj ARJ 2.50a SHAREWARE Copyright (c) 1990-95 ARJ Software. Dec 12 1995 *** This SHAREWARE program is NOT REGISTERED for use in a business, commercial, *** government, or institutional environment except for evaluation purposes. Processing archive: SGVID.ARJ Archive created: 1996-07-03 12:23:20 Extracting RES.MPG Bad file data, Continued on next volume, CRC error! Bad header ============================================================================== How can I uncompress the files correctly? Is the file "sgvid.arj" broken? Please Help me! Thanks.

kochi.or.jp> writes I downloaded the MPEG yesterday and had exactly the same error. Looks like a problem with the .arj file when it was created? Anyone managed to get this to work correctly? _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____/ * Sim Racing News * \____|::|__| \ /______:/ \::/ http://sneezy.dcn.ed.ac.uk/simnews/index.htm \::/ \._____\ http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~harmon/simnews

>kochi.or.jp> writes >>Then I tried to uncompress the files, >>But a error occurs, like this. >I downloaded the MPEG yesterday and had exactly the same error. Looks >like a problem with the .arj file when it was created? Anyone managed to >get this to work correctly? Yep. You should extract the MPG with arj e -v -y sgvid. Then it will work. Looks great, but i had trouble with the frame rate. <<Ring ... Ring ... Allo? Tuut ... Tuut .. Tuut ...>>

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>Then I tried to uncompress the files, >But a error occurs, like this. >=============================================================================== >E:\movies\sg>arj e sgvid.arj >ARJ 2.50a SHAREWARE Copyright (c) 1990-95 ARJ Software. Dec 12 1995 >*** This SHAREWARE program is NOT REGISTERED for use in a business, commercial, >*** government, or institutional environment except for evaluation purposes. >Processing archive: SGVID.ARJ >Archive created: 1996-07-03 12:23:20 >Extracting RES.MPG Bad file data, Continued on next volume, CRC error! >Bad header

I think that you should use the -VA parameter of ARJ, like this: E:\movies\sg>arj e -VA sgvid.arj

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>>kochi.or.jp> writes >>>Then I tried to uncompress the files, >>>But a error occurs, like this. >>I downloaded the MPEG yesterday and had exactly the same error. Looks >>like a problem with the .arj file when it was created? Anyone managed to >>get this to work correctly? >Yep. You should extract the MPG with arj e -v -y sgvid. Then it will >work. Looks great, but i had trouble with the frame rate.

Thanks for writing. I tried that command... hmmm, still the same error occurred. I doubted the file crash, so I downloaded sgvid.arj once again, but the result was same. Can anyone solve this problem ???

I've downloaded the 4 first files only to discover that (maybe my browser did it, netscape) all files were corrupted... I think Visiware should make a movie a little smaller available or many little movies because a movie that huge takes pratically too much time to download...still I'd like to heard your comments on it if you saw it. thanks >Thanks for writing. >I tried that command... hmmm, still the same error occurred. >I doubted the file crash, so I downloaded sgvid.arj once again, >but the result was same. >Can anyone solve this problem ???