TEN and Nascar2

Just a few days to July. The expected date for NRO on TEN. Will it be delayed again? We have all been waiting a long time for this. Does anyone have a clue if it will actually happen? Karter

> Just a few days to July. The expected date for NRO on TEN. Will it > be delayed again? We have all been waiting a long time for this. > Does anyone have a clue if it will actually happen? > Karter The latest update on TEN (June 10 I think) says they are SHOOTING for late July. There haven't been any updates since then, so you can take that for what its worth. Here's hoping late July will happen!!

> The latest update on TEN (June 10 I think) says they are SHOOTING for > late July. There haven't been any updates since then, so you can take > that for what its worth. Here's hoping late July will happen!! Here's what I found on TEN.

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> Subject: Re: NROS > Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 05:28:36 GMT > Organization: Total Entertainment Network > Newsgroups: TEN.games.simulations.nascar > References: 1 , 2 , 3 > Just got this on the news site: > by Sean Butcher, NROS Producer at TEN > May 15, 1997 > First, let me welcome you all to the TEN and to NASCAR Racing > Online Series. My name is Sean Butcher, and I am the producer at > TEN working on the NASCAR project. I'm the guy at TEN responsible > for getting NASCAR Racing Online Series up and running, > and in this Project Updates section I'll be giving you updates on > where we currently stand on the project. > I know the question you all want answered is, "When will it be > ready?" Well, both TEN and Papyrus have been working on this > project since October last year. This has been a large project for > both groups. On TEN's end, we've made major changes to our software to > support the specific needs of the NROS. Papyrus has had the > Herculean task of getting NASCAR Racing 2, which was originally > designed to run as a "peer-to-peer" network game under MS-DOS, > running on a Solaris Server as a "client-server" application. Both > efforts are progressing rapidly. So my answer to your question is that > we are aiming to release in late July of this year. There are still a > lot of things left to iron out, but both Papyrus and TEN are putting a > lot of effort into getting NASCAR Racing Online Series up and running > as soon as possible. > Until next time, > Sean Butcher > Mickey-POPS-Kerkes

Now we haven't really seen an update for a month and a half. Now this is almost verbatim of what the message dated June 10th on TEN. The only problem I have with it is the message was almost a month old when it was given the June 10th date on the web site. What does this tell you? Based on the comments made on TEN they are either good actors, or beta hasn't really begun yet. This is almost as bad as some web sites I've seen lately claiming to have been last updated in July of 1997. Is there some reason for giving older information a newer date? mykey

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> > Just a few days to July. The expected date for NRO on TEN. Will it > > be delayed again? We have all been waiting a long time for this. > > Does anyone have a clue if it will actually happen? > > Karter > The latest update on TEN (June 10 I think) says they are SHOOTING for > late July. There haven't been any updates since then, so you can take > that for what its worth. Here's hoping late July will happen!! > Subject: Re: TEN, NROS, and Rendition? > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:20:17 -0700 > Organization: Total Entertainment Network > Newsgroups: TEN.games.simulations.nascar > References: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 >> I have a Renddma.bat which runs Nasrend.exe with the parameters that >> enables dma. >> And yes Renddma.bat is the one that flies. > Ah, okay....The short story is that we shoudl be able to support thsi > just fine as long as Papyrus does a version of nasrend.exe that is TEN > enabled ( I HOPE the code is close enough that thsi should be a no > brainer for them once the first vesion is done.) > Jeff Kesselman > Snr. Game Intgeration Engineer > TEN

What does this say to you? The Sr. Game Integeration Engineer were not to clear on the operation of the Rendition version as of June 24th. Sounds like Late July is at best a beta start date. mykey

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> >> And yes Renddma.bat is the one that flies. > > Ah, okay....The short story is that we shoudl be able to support thsi > > just fine as long as Papyrus does a version of nasrend.exe that is TEN > > enabled ( I HOPE the code is close enough that thsi should be a no > > brainer for them once the first vesion is done.) > > Jeff Kesselman > > Snr. Game Intgeration Engineer > > TEN > What does this say to you? > The Sr. Game Integeration Engineer were not to clear on the operation > of the Rendition version as of June 24th. > Sounds like Late July is at best a beta start date.

He works for TEN, not Papyrus. TEN doesn't need to know the details about the video cards supported directly by Papyrus sims to make the TEN part of NROS work... ---Jim