Whatever Happened To That GPaL Thing Anyway?

Oops! Let's try again... I understand that there has been some speculation, but does anybody know whatever happened to that GPaL thing? Thanks in advance. ;) Jack Rambo

I understand that there has been some speculation, but does anybody have know whatever happened to that GPaL thing? Thanks in advance. ;) Jack Rambo

Yeah, but I heard the guy was either beamed away by aliens or was part of some scam to market e-mail addresses to developing third world nations. Go figure.

Well, I think the theory sounds plausible, except for, perhaps, the part about the hair cut. But I have to disagree with you on the latter point. Count me in that minority.

GPaL...of course. The question that remains is when. Sometimes life just gets in the way! But don't start thinking it's never coming until the site goes down. I never have convinced anyone to foot the bill for the site, you know! ;) Apologies to everyone for the silence, but the new job and the major system crash really did bring me to my communicating and developing knees. Nice to be back in the neighborhood. Haven't slipped into a Lotus in months! Can somebody give me a synopsis of what's happened in the sim racing world in the last couple of months? Jack Rambo www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

I picked "He found a girl and lost his perspective" in the "What happened to Jack?" pool...

***ed if i know mate ... some guy called Jack Rambo was working on it. <G> Shane

Well there was this other theory ... but of course no one believed it ... that he got a hair cut & a real job. There are some (a minority for sure) that believe it will one day see the light of day ... don't believe it a minute myself <G> Shane

Really ? do you perchance have some small tidbit of goss you wish to share ? Friends, Romans , CountryMen lend me your Monitors ... or something like that. btw wb jack regards Shane

ok jack i cant stand it no more....gpal yes or gpal no please let us know!! neil canning

Good question... It was coming. And coming. And coming. And then, it was waiting for the 1.1 patch. So, we waited for the 1.1 patch. And waited. And waited. Then, the 1.1 patch came out, and I haven't heard a single thing about Gpal since. -Larry

jack! you came BACK! i knew you would :) i told everyone to have faith...ahhh i love it when i'm RIGHT! good to C U Bo Bruce

> Can somebody give me a synopsis of what's happened in the sim racing world > in the last couple of months? > Jack Rambo > www.RaceLive.com/GPaL Basically,YOU were a hot topic for a while. Everyone had their doubts. (a few had faith in you though). Oh yea, N3 came out. ;-)

bb wrote Right about what? GPaL is still vaporware.

Surpise, surprise, Jack's back! What has happened since you were away? Well, Nascar 3 has been released. Some people like it, some don't. Lots of dicussions about N3. Personally I love it. It could have been better, lots better actually, but it's a big improvement over N2, so I still love it. Patch 1.1 came out, I believe you were still here at that time. Quite some new problems with the patch, slow-motion problems when racing online (like seen in GP2), the timing is not correct anymore under certain circumstances (when timing a replay with a stopwatch, the GPL time differs from real time). Randy is working on 1.2 at the moment. Couple of new racing games coming up. We've seen the first screenshots of GP3, some people allready tested it. Other upcoming driving games or sims: - Spirit of 39 (look excellent) - Driver (demo available, arcade game like Midtown Madness) - GP500 (The GPL of motor racing) - Nascar Legends - propable some more but these games I'm waiting for. Ok, back to business: GPaL! :) The last thing we heard from you was that it was allmost ready, you posted that 'GPaL tonight!' topic. Later that day the topic changed into 'GPal tonight: late'. I was one of the guys who would test it that evening. You mailed me and told me that you had a problem with the installer. If that was the only problem, the final release wouldn't be too far away. You postponed the release date with 2 days, and then we heard nothing from you anymore. No wonder people started to wonder if GPaL ever would be released. I think we're all very happy that you're back (someone even suggested that perhaps you died, he couldn't think of any other reason why you were gone so suddenly :) Bottom line: Is the only thing keeping you from releasing GPaL the installer? Now that you're back, do you have some spare time again to finish that installer problem? No problem if it takes a couple of months or whatever before GPaL is released, but me too started to wonder of GPaL would ever see the light of day. Welcome back Jack! :) Andre

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>Apologies to everyone for the silence, but the new job and the major system >crash really did bring me to my communicating and developing knees. Nice to >be back in the neighborhood. Haven't slipped into a Lotus in months! >Can somebody give me a synopsis of what's happened in the sim racing world >in the last couple of months? >Jack Rambo >www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:26:45 -0700, "Kenny L." >I picked "He found a girl and lost his perspective" in the "What happened to >Jack?" pool... Hmm, I find the alien adduction story very likely too ;-) Well now, since Jack has got his news working again, is he also going to pick up programming (the need for GPal hasn't diminished), or is he going to GNU the source for others to pick up and finish? Ruud van Gaal MarketGraph / MachTech: http://www.marketgraph.nl Art: http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery

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>jack! >you came BACK! >i knew you would :) >i told everyone to have faith...ahhh i love it when i'm RIGHT! >good to C U >Bo Bruce

Jack,welcome back. Nice to know that you're still alive. Now the great debate on whether or not GPaL will ever be finished can come to an end. Joel Willstein

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>>gpal yes or gpal no< >GPaL...of course. >The question that remains is when. Sometimes life just gets in the way! But >don't start thinking it's never coming until the site goes down. I never >have convinced anyone to foot the bill for the site, you know! ;) >Apologies to everyone for the silence, but the new job and the major system >crash really did bring me to my communicating and developing knees. Nice to >be back in the neighborhood. Haven't slipped into a Lotus in months! >Can somebody give me a synopsis of what's happened in the sim racing world >in the last couple of months? >Jack Rambo >www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

Wha...? You're ALIVE?!? Glad to hear it... SOME people here were worried about you... Not ME, of course...<g> Eldred __ Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>Jack,welcome back. Nice to know that you're still alive. Now the great >debate on whether or not GPaL will ever be finished can come to an end. >Joel Willstein Actually, until it's OUT, a debate is still possible...<g> Eldred __ Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

So I guess you WEREN'T captured by a bunch of Peruvian rebels and forced to fix their 286's... :) So what's the latest on 'it'? :D -- Kirk Lane ICQ: 28171652 BRT #187 "I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time I write everything down except what's on my mind 'Cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound And then I know I'll never get back out" -'Narcolepsy', Third Eye Blind

Nice to see you back. Main events: Everybody was shouting for GPal ;-) GPL patchpatch not yet out (and the papy-crew stays quite this time) People got used to slomo/turbo I converted my logi to ball bearings Jens <snip>> >Can somebody give me a synopsis of what's happened in the sim racing world >in the last couple of months? >Jack Rambo >www.RaceLive.com/GPaL --------------------------------------------- Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address

Hey Jack! I'm glad you're back. Nice to see you again. I hope you have time to take that Lotus for a "spin" sometime. :) Hmm, have you tried NASCAR 3 yet? AMA Superbikes was just released. GP500 demo was released a while ago. But GPL is still the king. :) -- Greger Huttu

I assume that you, Greger, Ian, and a select few others are still the heirs to King of GPL throne? :) Nice to hear from you! Hope all goes well! Jack www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

Jack is being just a *bit* coy. DK > >gpal yes or gpal no< > GPaL...of course. > The question that remains is when. Sometimes life just gets in the way! But > don't start thinking it's never coming until the site goes down. I never > have convinced anyone to foot the bill for the site, you know! ;) [snip]

Greger *is* perhaps the GPL king these days :-) -- Cheers! -- Graeme Nash

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> Surpise, surprise, Jack's back! > Bottom line: Is the only thing keeping you from releasing GPaL the > installer? Now that you're back, do you have some spare time again to > finish that installer problem? > No problem if it takes a couple of months or whatever before GPaL is > released, but me too started to wonder of GPaL would ever see the > light of day. > > Welcome back Jack! :) > > Andre

Ok, its been almost a month since this question was asked and I haven't seen the answer yet. While I hate to get my hopes up again, does anyone know what the real story is?