Chancle Christmas: GP2 is out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone! It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands today! Unfortunatelly all other stores will get it on monday due to a special contract between Karstadt and Microprose, but anyway: The waiting is over, so drive to your local Karstadt or wait till next week and enyoj! Who ever thougt that this will happen? Oliver

>Hi Everyone! >It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! >The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands >today! Why didn't you buy it? Are you sure it wasn't another of those empty boxes? Well, todays last boat to Germany leaves Gothenburg in 5 minutes. Fortunately I can't make it. Otherwise I might have done something foolish! /Martin

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> Hi Everyone! > It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! > The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands > today! > Unfortunatelly all other stores will get it on monday due to a special > contract between Karstadt and Microprose, but anyway: The waiting is > over, so drive to your local Karstadt or wait till next week and enyoj! > Who ever thougt that this will happen? > Oliver

This is great for Germans, but when will us Yankee Doodle Dorks in the US of A get GP2? If we are forced to wait longer than the rest of the world, I'm emigrating! If only there were Karstadt stores in San Diego! ****Pants****

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>> It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! >> The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands >> today! >This is great for Germans, but when will us Yankee Doodle Dorks in the US >of A get GP2? If we are forced to wait longer than the rest of the >world, I'm emigrating! If only there were Karstadt stores in San Diego!

Rumor has it that the unveiling of GP2 in the USA will be similar to what's going on at Silverstone this weekend. GP2 will be unveiled at the next F1 USGP. Now, all us USA guys need is a F1 USGP... :-) -- +------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | G. Warren Abao | Official BBL Jacksonville Jaguars Website: | +------------------++------------------------+------------------+ | SPOOOOOOOOOOON!!! | BBL Jacksonville 9-7 | IFL Chicago 10-6 | +-------------------+------------------------+------------------+

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>> Hi Everyone! >> It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! >> The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands >> today! >> Unfortunatelly all other stores will get it on monday due to a special >> contract between Karstadt and Microprose, but anyway: The waiting is >> over, so drive to your local Karstadt or wait till next week and enyoj! >> Who ever thougt that this will happen? >> Oliver >This is great for Germans, but when will us Yankee Doodle Dorks in the US >of A get GP2? If we are forced to wait longer than the rest of the >world, I'm emigrating! If only there were Karstadt stores in San Diego!

Well, from what I've heard from local retail stores here in Orange County, CA is that it is either the 23rd or the 28th of July will we see GP2!! I don't understand why Spectrum Holobyte can't just release the game worldwide at the SAME TIME? Argh.. -- "Let's kick the tires and light the fires Big Daddy!" -dead wingman

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! "Gravity doesn't exist; the Earth sucks!"

> Rumor has it that the unveiling of GP2 in the USA will be similar to what's > going on at Silverstone this weekend. GP2 will be unveiled at the next F1 > USGP. > Now, all us USA guys need is a F1 USGP... :-) > What about the Dutch release? After the Dutch Grand Prix? :) Erik

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> > Rumor has it that the unveiling of GP2 in the USA will be similar to what's > > going on at Silverstone this weekend. GP2 will be unveiled at the next F1 > > USGP. > > Now, all us USA guys need is a F1 USGP... :-) > > What about the Dutch release? After the Dutch Grand Prix? :) > ErikI Live in germany, went to Karstadt this morning ...and saw NO GP2 ....

SO WHO WAS THE GUY WHO PUT UP THIS 'FAKE-NEWS'????? bye

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> Hi Everyone! > It finally happend: Formula One Grand Prix 2 is released in Germany! > The "Karstadt" stores allready have it, I held the package in my hands > today! > Unfortunatelly all other stores will get it on monday due to a special > contract between Karstadt and Microprose, but anyway: The waiting is > over, so drive to your local Karstadt or wait till next week and enyoj! > Who ever thougt that this will happen? > Oliver

So, today is Saturday. Do you HAVE the game in your PC working? I don't think... I think they told you: "There was a problem: we will have GP2 the 19th" But I'm only thinking... I'd be happy if you have got the game! -- Paolo Zanetto

> Why didn't you buy it? I just pre-ordered at a mail company. I was really near at doing something stupid, too - what should I do with two copies... :-)

O Definitive no fake! I wasn't dreamin it!!! But maybe you have got the wrong Karstadt?! Essen has it!!!!

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> > > Rumor has it that the unveiling of GP2 in the USA will be similar to what's > > > going on at Silverstone this weekend. GP2 will be unveiled at the next F1 > > > USGP. > > > Now, all us USA guys need is a F1 USGP... :-) > > > What about the Dutch release? After the Dutch Grand Prix? :) > > ErikI Live in germany, went to Karstadt this morning ...and saw NO GP2 .... > SO WHO WAS THE GUY WHO PUT UP THIS 'FAKE-NEWS'????? > bye

HI! I went to Karstadt in ESSEN. There was a hugo ammount of gp2 boxes for sale at 99,95DM. Sorry guy, i bet you live in the wrong city! Bye

>> ErikI Live in germany, went to Karstadt this morning ...and saw NO GP2 .... >SO WHO WAS THE GUY WHO PUT UP THIS 'FAKE-NEWS'????? >bye It's really true, I had read the news about F1GP2 available at Karstadt shops saturday, jumped into my car, drove to the next Karstadt shop in Lbeck (germany) and it was there. It is a "Limited Edition" with mousepad and it is really great. I have a Pentium 133 with Hercules Dynamite 128 and it runs with all textures without sky on and some textures in mirrors with 18 fps. The feeling of driving is fantastic and the sound is very nice. F1GP without steering help is very hard to drive, on F1GP2 it works so much better. I have Thrustmaster T2 with shift buttons on the wheel and the feeling of driving ist very realistic. bye and many hot laps Karsten Karsten Hoffmann, 23717 Griebel Schleswig Holstein, Germany

> > > ErikI Live in germany, went to Karstadt this morning ...and saw NO GP2 .... > > SO WHO WAS THE GUY WHO PUT UP THIS 'FAKE-NEWS'????? > > bye > Definitive no fake! I wasn't dreamin it!!! But maybe you have got the > wrong Karstadt?! Essen has it!!!! It is true, indeed. The Karstadt in Altona here in Hamburg certainly has it. After reading the news from this news group, I went there early yesterday (Saturday, July 13) morning and found what seemed to be the last copy left. It is a "limited edition" with a complimentary mouse pad. I just grabbed it. The trouble is, the new P166 I ordered two weeks ago has not yet arrived. :-( But it is still a blast on the old 486DX4/66, running in SVGA with detail set to automatic. Needless to say, this machine cannot do justice to the graphics, but the driving is so much fun! The only problem I have is that I don't know German. Why do they make an exclusive German version while putting several other languages on another disk? I guess they must have their reasons. I only wish they had included English as an option, but that is probably too much to ask. Maybe I should just start learning German again. Or maybe anybody want to trade? Can't wait for my new machine. Have fun, everybody! Mike

This has to be bollicks I live approx 30 miles from microprose and have been in constant touch it is being relised on the 19 july i do not for 1 min think they would have pre released it in Germany why would they. if you do have a copy please give me some positive prof (Scaned images of you playing it on your pc ect ) So as i can sue thankyou vic

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> This has to be bollicks > I live approx 30 miles from microprose and have been in constant touch it > is being relised on the 19 july i do not for 1 min think they would have > pre released it in Germany why would they. if you do have a copy please > give me some positive prof (Scaned images of you playing it on your pc ect > ) So as i can sue > thankyou vicI have bought it yesterday at Karstadt, in Karlsruhe, germany, ITS

TRUE!!! ITS GREAT!!! I cannont send you scanned images because i have no time ... i have to deal with f1gp2 ....hehe U can trust me...it is sold as A 'limited version with mousepad' , its fully in german, even***pit , everything ....even menus.... box is german, on the back of the box, there is the info, that the game was produced in GB (Great-brittain)!!!! Sorry for you , but you can be sure, it WILL BE RELEASED BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!! ( I dont know why its released here first !)

writes Look on Sim Racing News - we have detailed reports from some of the German guys. Either they have VERY fertile imaginations, have been smoking something they shouldn't, or the game really is released in Germany - and it REALLY is. Cheers! John _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| 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

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>This has to be bollicks >I live approx 30 miles from microprose and have been in constant touch it >is being relised on the 19 july i do not for 1 min think they would have >pre released it in Germany why would they. if you do have a copy please >give me some positive prof (Scaned images of you playing it on your pc ect >) So as i can sue >thankyou vic

Microprose probably had very little control over where the game was released first. Perhaps it is their distributor who is to blame. (Two caveats. 1. Maybe there is no-one to blame. 2. Microprose might distribute their own software.) Just my thoughts. Mike

: : Microprose probably had very little control over where the game was : released first. Perhaps it is their distributor who is to blame. (Two : caveats. 1. Maybe there is no-one to blame. 2. Microprose might : distribute their own software.) : Hey, maybe they released in Germany first so that Micheal Shumacher can, at last, drive a full race in a Ferrari ;-) He wasn't able to get a full race distance in the last three races combined! Hehehe, no Micheal bashing, but Ferrari just stinks! -Dennis. -- Ing. D.M. Joris, Software Specialist, Philips CE/ASA Lab, tel: +31 40 27 33826 Building : SFJ-7 +31 40 27 35365 Homepage : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/gto ==================================================================== Butt-Head: That SUCKS, uh uhu uhu. Beavis: Yeah.... and it SUCKS too, uhuhu uhu uh. --------------------------------------------------------------------

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> : > : Microprose probably had very little control over where the game was > : released first. Perhaps it is their distributor who is to blame. (Two > : caveats. 1. Maybe there is no-one to blame. 2. Microprose might > : distribute their own software.) > : > Hey, maybe they released in Germany first so that Micheal Shumacher > can, at last, drive a full race in a Ferrari ;-) He wasn't able to get > a full race distance in the last three races combined! > Hehehe, no Micheal bashing, but Ferrari just stinks! > -Dennis. > -- > Ing. D.M. Joris, Software Specialist, > Philips CE/ASA Lab, tel: +31 40 27 33826 > Building : SFJ-7 +31 40 27 35365 > Homepage : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/gto > ==================================================================== > Butt-Head: That SUCKS, uh uhu uhu. > Beavis: Yeah.... and it SUCKS too, uhuhu uhu uh. > --------------------------------------------------------------------

The only way to find out that a Ferrari stinks is to drive behind it. That is something that the entire Formula 1 field is gonna do real soon, just give them some time. Btw, did you ever drive a Ferrari?.... I thought so. For a moment I thought the gto in your homepage-adress was referring to one of the most beautiful cars ever build. Enjoy F1GP2, Alard

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> > : > > : Microprose probably had very little control over where the game was > > : released first. Perhaps it is their distributor who is to blame. (Two > > : caveats. 1. Maybe there is no-one to blame. 2. Microprose might > > : distribute their own software.) > > : > > Hey, maybe they released in Germany first so that Micheal Shumacher > > can, at last, drive a full race in a Ferrari ;-) He wasn't able to get > > a full race distance in the last three races combined! > > Hehehe, no Micheal bashing, but Ferrari just stinks! > > -Dennis. > > -- > > Ing. D.M. Joris, Software Specialist, > > Philips CE/ASA Lab, tel: +31 40 27 33826 > > Building : SFJ-7 +31 40 27 35365 > > Homepage : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/gto > > ==================================================================== > > Butt-Head: That SUCKS, uh uhu uhu. > > Beavis: Yeah.... and it SUCKS too, uhuhu uhu uh. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The only way to find out that a Ferrari stinks is to drive behind it. That is something > that the entire Formula 1 field is gonna do real soon, just give them some time. > Btw, did you ever drive a Ferrari?.... I thought so. > For a moment I thought the gto in your homepage-adress was referring to one of the most > beautiful cars ever build. > Enjoy F1GP2, > Alard

Yeah, as if a "inhuurkracht" can buy a ferrari! Erik