GPL Return

Ye Gods! Always had GPL, always played it to the exclusion of all other driving sims, even bought a new PC in 99 so It'd run, got introduced it when two race mechanics I worked with preferred it to sleeping at nights. I recently got GP4 and it runs like treacle unless I bin the scenery, a disapointment considering how well GPL runs at full belt. Anyway, whats got my enthusiasm up is refinding all the GPL sites and this NG, going stronger than ever after all this time. Just got ADSL and have started to download new stuff. After just one day I've got a superdetailed Ferrari to drive, superdetailed Spa and Watkins Glen, and just 2 new tracks local to me, Aintree and Oulton Park. I've raced at both for real on bikes, at Aintree bikes use half the GP track, the paddock is on the Sefton Straight now, and having fallen off at Country Corner in June, I can say there is NOT a glass wall when you run off into the field, it hurt enough without! What gets me about Aintree is it's accurate even down to the leaden sky which is always there when I am! Oulton has silly chicanes now, like the GPL Monza it's great to see what the track was like before it was emasculated. That reminds me, anyone done the Monza banking yet? I've got SOS which has half the banking and half the road track. My favorite GPL track is Spa, just love howling thru Burneville wide open, there's a little right after two flat lefts on the second half of the lap that messes me up though, I run up the bank if I dont brake and shift down. I struggle to get under 3.30 in the Ferrari (using Alison Hine's setup). My best is the Glen, 1.07 on a joystick. I can qualify on pole at Monza, but only by riding the barriers! Enough of this waffle, just came on to ask if you can watch on line races, or just practice with other cars? Would like a go but not to jump in at the deep end. Point me at a good article. Cheers, Mr Davo

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> Enough of this waffle, just came on to ask if you can watch on line races, > or just practice with other cars? > Would like a go but not to jump in at the deep end. Point me at a good > article. > > Cheers, > Mr Davo

Course you can! Assuming you know about Vroc www.vroc.net, monza races are usually a good starting point for people new to it, and you'll be around people better and worse than you, but you certainly wont be out of your depth. In general, as long as you are respectful to other drivers and sportsmanlike, then it doesn't really matter how fast you are online (example at monza the online lap times range from 1m26 to 1m35ish), and of course practice practice practice! BTW, rail-riding is frowned upon greatly! :)

Dave Woods wrote: > > Enough of this waffle, just came on to ask if you can watch on line races, > or just practice with other cars? > Would like a go but not to jump in at the deep end. Point me at a good > article. Easiest way is to load up VROC and join a race but not drive. You'll be taking the place of a driver but I don't have a problem with that. Alternatively there's a thing called GPL proxy but it's a bit tricky to set up. BTW, check out the GPLEA web site. There's a new BRM out too. Kev

"Dave Woods" wrote... > Ye Gods! Always had GPL, always played it to the > exclusion of all other driving sims, even bought > a new PC in 99 so It'd run, got introduced it when > two race mechanics I worked with preferred it to > sleeping at nights. > <snip> Monza track including the banked section of the track is called "Milano", you can find it at the GPL Track Database or GPL++. http://magnust.d2g.com/ http://www.gplpp.com Cya online sometime... Jan. =---

> Monza track including the banked section of the track is called "Milano", > you can find it at the GPL Track Database or GPL++. > > http://magnust.d2g.com/ > Yes and no. The fantasy-track-like Milano is just a placeholder. A proper GPL-Monza -> Monza+oval project is going strong; a screenshot was posted in GPLEA:s forum about a week ago. -- Mika Takala

"Dave Woods" <[email hidden]> wrote on 15 Oct 2002: <snip> > Enough of this waffle, just came on to ask if you can watch on > line races, or just practice with other cars? > Would like a go but not to jump in at the deep end. Point me at a > good article. As far as practising goes, there are quite often VROC sessions set up specifically for that, rather than racing - read the descriptive text in the right-hand pane, and look for long qualifying sessions. As for watching, just crash into a tree at T1 - if it's Monza, no-one will notice ;-) However, I strongly urge you to "jump in at the deep end". Your times are quite fast enough, though I don't think you'll be very popular if you railride! -- 1) The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard 2a) Bits'n'Bob-stones: http://www.geocities.com/daveb75 2b) See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/watershipdown 2c) Associated blog: http://frith.blogspot.com [Ta-da! 4-line sig!]

David Buttery <[email hidden]> wrote on 15 Oct 2002:

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> As far as practising goes, there are quite often VROC sessions set > up specifically for that, rather than racing - read the > descriptive text in the right-hand pane, and look for long > qualifying sessions. As for watching, just crash into a tree at T1 > - if it's Monza, no-one will notice ;-) However, I strongly urge > you to "jump in at the deep end". Your times are quite fast > enough, though I don't think you'll be very popular if you > railride!

Now I come to think of it, I wrote a short guide to VROC survival a while back. A little of it's out of date now, but there are still some useful pointers in there: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard/vrocguide.html -- 1) The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard 2a) Bits'n'Bob-stones: http://www.geocities.com/daveb75 2b) See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/watershipdown 2c) Associated blog: http://frith.blogspot.com [Ta-da! 4-line sig!]

"David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Now I come to think of it, I wrote a short guide to VROC survival a > while back. A little of it's out of date now, but there are still > some useful pointers in there: > > http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard/vrocguide.html I found this very useful reading a year or so ago when I first ventured online! Thanks David! Malc.

Thanks everyone, got so much info it looks like work and GPL are going to fight each other for my time. Looking forward to driving the new Ferrari round the Milano banking later for a start! At the moment Ive got Vroc working OK, but GPL cant see my Ethernet card which is connected to my router, I put the line in the core.ini file to disable the modem, but dont see where to go next - sure the answer's out there in the info. So pleased that GPL has acheived the immortality it deserves, as it feels and looks so real. BTW I can lap quite fast in GP4 with a wheel missing - well thats realistic innit! Dave

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> > http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard/vrocguide.html > > I found this very useful reading a year or so ago when I first ventured > online! > > Thanks David! > > Malc. > >

In article <3dad271a$0$13374$[email hidden]>, "Dave Woods" <[email hidden]> writes: >At the moment Ive got Vroc working OK, but GPL cant see my >Ethernet card which is connected to my router, I put the line in >the core.ini file to disable the modem, but dont see where to go >next - sure the answer's out there in the info. > Isn't there something in there about "lookup ip addresses"? Don McCorkle

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> > In article <3dad271a$0$13374$[email hidden]>, > "Dave Woods" <[email hidden]> writes: > > >At the moment Ive got Vroc working OK, but GPL cant see my > >Ethernet card which is connected to my router, I put the line in > >the core.ini file to disable the modem, but dont see where to go > >next - sure the answer's out there in the info. > > > > Isn't there something in there about "lookup ip addresses"? > > Don McCorkle

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