Tally to Daytona

When I try to copy and rename the Tally folder to Daytona, I get a message when I try to load Daytona that say "complete track description not found". How would I fix this problem? Thanks

Rename everything that says talladega to daytona in this follder. -- Cowen Wilson http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/7137 -------------------------------------------------------------------

Make sure that you use the same number of charcacters in the name as the file you're copying... Taladega becomes daytonax ; taladega.txt becomes daytonax.txt; taladega.dat becomes daytonax.dat. Then open the daytonax.dat file with Wordpad and search for everywhere it says taladega and change it to daytonax. Open daytonax.txt and change the name of the track and location and such (do leave the track length the same as it will change how N2 reports your speeds). That should be it. Modify your calendar file to include Daytona (there are several copies floating around) and you're off! ChrisP

Subject: Re: Tally to Daytona Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Lines: 27 Chris, You do not have to change the Daytona directory to Daytonax. It works just fine with just plain Daytona. I have no problems when i change everything over from the Tal. Track. Just don't switch them up like putting the .dat file as daytona.dat and the text file as daytonax.txt, and you will be fine. Don't confuse these people with stuff that is not needed. John O.

If not mentioned earlier, you'll need to hexedit the names inside the dat file, or you can use one of the utilities to extract, rename the files, and then recompile. Sound complicated, but it's really a piece of cake. :) Best Regards, Marc Marc J. Nelson Sim Racing News - USA http://members.aol.com/simracing

Can someone please email me the URL for the Taly->Daytona patcher? Thanks! Matt p.s. Papyrus...GREAT job on N2!!

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>Subject: Re: Tally to Daytona >Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators >X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 >Lines: 27 >Chris, >You do not have to change the Daytona directory to Daytonax. It works just >fine with just plain Daytona. I have no problems when i change everything >over from the Tal. Track. Just don't switch them up like putting the .dat >file as daytona.dat and the text file as daytonax.txt, and you will be >fine. Don't confuse these people with stuff that is not needed. >John O. >> Make sure that you use the same number of charcacters in the name as the >> file you're copying... Taladega becomes daytonax ; taladega.txt becomes >> daytonax.txt; taladega.dat becomes daytonax.dat. Then open the >> daytonax.dat file with Wordpad and search for everywhere it says taladega >> and change it to daytonax. Open daytonax.txt and change the name of the >> track and location and such (do leave the track length the same as it >will >> change how N2 reports your speeds). That should be it. Modify your >> calendar file to include Daytona (there are several copies floating >> around) and you're off! >> ChrisP

-- -- Matt

AFAIK, unless the file is unpacked (which I saw no mention of), you'll get a heap-error if the character string length is different. This is why when editing the file via a hex-editor, that references to TALADEGA be renamed to DAYTONAB (or X)... If I walked into the middle of something, please kindly tell me to stay home... ;) Best Regards, Marc Marc J. Nelson Sim Racing News - USA http://members.aol.com/simracing