Beetle Buggin demo

Anyone tried the Beetle Buggin demo ? Its a massive 49.3M download ! Would like to hear if its any good before starting a download that size ! Sounds like its more fun than a simulator ? Joergen

Hi, well i'm on cable modem (chello) and have some bookmarks of servers wich give me good download speeds so i download all new racing demos wich looks even a litle bit interesting. I downloaded beetle buggin demo by the end of last week and it's ok just depends on what you like. It's def. no gpl. Its more of an arcade like racer with some realistic physics. Al togheter its a fun drive inbetween those gpl sessions wich require the uppermost of your skills and concentration. The demo was pretty easy to beat though. You get two tracks enabled. 1.cross- race indoor auto cross. Its fun but the second try around i finished first already way to easy. 2. Monstertruk. Ride around an indoor track thru and over obstacles without try to hit the cones within an specified time. This one was a bit trickier since every time you hit a cone you get a time penalty and hitting two or three cones and you can shake it. I had a lot of fun trying but within a half an hour this level was beaten as well. I sure hope the real game is a bit more challeging. Cause it seems like fun to me. i hope this helps Andre Amsterdam

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:18:24 +0100, "J Skantse"

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>Anyone tried the Beetle Buggin demo ? >Its a massive 49.3M download ! >Would like to hear if its any good before starting a download that size ! >Sounds like its more fun than a simulator ? >Joergen

It's just pure fun. There is also no way to set up a wheel in the demo from what I could find. Just keyboard.

In article <8ajd0e$moo$[email hidden]>, Andre Hanegraaf <[email hidden]> writes

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>Hi, >well i'm on cable modem (chello) and have some bookmarks of servers >wich >give me good download speeds so i download all new racing demos wich >looks >even a litle bit interesting. > >I downloaded beetle buggin demo by the end of last week and it's ok just >depends on what you like. It's def. no gpl. Its more of an arcade like racer >with some realistic physics. Al togheter its a fun drive inbetween those gpl >sessions wich require the uppermost of your skills and concentration. The >demo was pretty easy to beat though. You get two tracks enabled. 1.cross- >race indoor auto cross. Its fun but the second try around i finished first >already way to easy. >2. Monstertruk. Ride around an indoor track thru and over obstacles without >try to hit the cones within an specified time. This one was a bit trickier >since every time you hit a cone you get a time penalty and hitting two or >three cones and you can shake it. >I had a lot of fun trying but within a half an hour this level was beaten as >well. I sure hope the real game is a bit more challeging. Cause it seems >like fun to me. > >i hope this helps > >Andre >Amsterdam

This seems to have 2 names. I saw it on tv under the guise of Beetle Crazy Cup and downloaded it from infogrames under that name. All 49.3Mb in 3 hours on 56k and you need to be running DirectX 7 to play it. I've had problems though. Firstly, the race locks up. I've not been able to last more than a couple of minutes. This may not be entirely the games fault though, as my system can be temperamental now and again. Though, at the moment my other 3d card games seem to work fine. It's only this one where the problems reoccurs every time. Secondly, I can't get the game to work with my joystick. When I first ran this game and changed to game controller and then tried to modify the inputs for acceleration, braking, gear up/down etc, it wouldn't even recognise the up movement of my stick at all. So I recalibrated my stick in windows and tried the game again. This time it recongnised my inputs, but when I tried to race only moving my stick backwards or to the left seemed to have any effect on my buggy. I could reverse like crazy, but not go forward and steer left, but not right. So all in all I could go backwards in a straight line or in a clockwise circle. I've since tried several times to modify the inputs for my controller, but it just won't fix this problem. This is a shame because the game does look like it would be fun and graphically it looks fine. On the tv proggy that they showed this game on the presenter said something about a graphic technique was being used to avoid the draw ahead that sometimes shows up in other games and indeed the screen updates, from what I've managed to see, seem pretty smooth. Maybe this new technique is taxing my system. Who knows. :)

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> >J Skantse <[email hidden]> schreef in berichtnieuws >8ajbrb$7i5$[email hidden]... >> Anyone tried the Beetle Buggin demo ? >> >> Its a massive 49.3M download ! >> >> Would like to hear if its any good before starting a download that size ! >> >> Sounds like its more fun than a simulator ? >> >> >> >> Joergen >> >> > >

-- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

I got my MS wheel going no problem in the demo. I can't remember exactly how, but if you can't figure it out I can try again and let you know. It is fun though. Marc

My nascar force gt from thrustmaster worked without trouble. You can change in the options from keyboard to wheel somewhere. Don't know from scratch where but you could. andre

I was able to use my logitech wheel no problem.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:04:28 GMT, "Marc Goldstein"

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>> It's just pure fun. There is also no way to set up a wheel in the demo >> from what I could find. Just keyboard. >I got my MS wheel going no problem in the demo. I can't remember exactly >how, but if you can't figure it out I can try again and let you know. It is >fun though. >Marc

I must have missed it then. I went into the controls section under options or wherever it was and clicked on modify but nothing happened so I just dove right into the demo and used the keys. The demo wasnt really worth the effort anyway. :)