[GPL] Just A Day-dream

Yes, I know this is stupid. Maybe if I wasn't really tired and hadn't just spent an hour putting together a video CD for a guy at work who wants to know why a sad bastard like me gets a little misty-eyed about GPL, then maybe I wouldn't be writing this. But you know what? The fact there's never going to be a GPL2 *really* f*cking winds me up! Yes, I know we've got LFS on the horizon and the distant dream of RL, but it's not the same *at* *all*. I shall now be going off to bed to sulk and possibly sleep. I will wake later, partially refreshed, put the kettle on, then take it off and put on a shirt instead, and then I'll remember I wrote this... at which point I will groan out loud and trap my finger in the nearest door as punishment for being such a whiner. But right here and now I have the hump. Thanks for listening. Normal service will be resumed shortly... though maybe only after I've set up a site selling GPL2 teddies (and matching suspender belt). Andrew "why go to bed when you can scribble a pointless rant?" McP

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:05 +0100 (BST), [email hidden] (Andrew MacPherson) wrote:

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> >Yes, I know this is stupid. Maybe if I wasn't really tired and hadn't just >spent an hour putting together a video CD for a guy at work who wants to >know why a sad bastard like me gets a little misty-eyed about GPL, then >maybe I wouldn't be writing this. > >But you know what? The fact there's never going to be a GPL2 *really* >f*cking winds me up!

<snip> Don't read http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 I told you not to read it. There you go, you've got all excited about (probably) nothing. I told you. >Andrew "why go to bed when you can scribble a pointless rant?" McP Ian "why work when you can perpetuate a pointless thread?" Riches -- Ian Riches GPL Rank +1.76 Monsters of GPL +284.19

The software industry is very fluid. GPL2 will be made one day, might not be papyrus, might not be called GPL2. Anyway besides the sound engine and a couple effects. GPL2 would not be anywhere as fullfilling as GPL community edition is it might actually splinter and kill it like the Papy Nascar crowd. Man I've got 140 tracks most authentic, drivers faces, a dozen utility. The fact that the game can be played without the cd means I can listen to my tunes while I drive. Just shut up and drive you sad bastard . That's what I loved about these guys back then :) "Ian Riches" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:05 +0100 (BST), > [email hidden] (Andrew MacPherson) wrote: > > > > >Yes, I know this is stupid. Maybe if I wasn't really tired and hadn'tjust

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> >spent an hour putting together a video CD for a guy at work who wants to > >know why a sad bastard like me gets a little misty-eyed about GPL, then > >maybe I wouldn't be writing this. > > > >But you know what? The fact there's never going to be a GPL2 *really* > >f*cking winds me up! > > <snip> > > Don't read > http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 > > I told you not to read it. > > There you go, you've got all excited about (probably) nothing. > > I told you. > > >Andrew "why go to bed when you can scribble a pointless rant?" McP > > Ian "why work when you can perpetuate a pointless thread?" Riches > -- > Ian Riches > GPL Rank +1.76 Monsters of GPL +284.19

"Ian Riches" wrote... > <snip> > > Don't read > http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 > > I told you not to read it. Summary for those who've actually got something to do at work and can't afford to spend time trying to piece together the arguments from two forum threads: some speculation about possibly work progressing on GPL2 and some name calling. Jan "I hate web-based forums" Verschueren. =---

"Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:qAfn9.145195$[email hidden]...

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> "Ian Riches" wrote... > > <snip> > > > > Don't read > > http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 > > > > I told you not to read it. > > Summary for those who've actually got something to do at work and can't > afford to spend time trying to piece together the arguments from two forum > threads: some speculation about possibly work progressing on GPL2 and some > name calling.

Yes, and it's also apparent that Mark Beckman has some inside information on David Kaemmer: "A man is well advanced with a "GPL2", I am led to believe its 1973 not 72. He started Papyrus and his initials are DK, but I cant tell you who he is other than he has been doing it in his own time, more or less as a hobby so there is no set finish date or even if it will ever be released, although I'm betting it will be depending on what Racing Legends ends up being all about."

There's always someone who thinks they have 'inside information'. Must be an ego thing Dave Cook <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Fegn9.8168$[email hidden]...

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> "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:qAfn9.145195$[email hidden]... > > "Ian Riches" wrote... > > > <snip> > > > > > > Don't read > > > http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 > > > > > > I told you not to read it. > > > > Summary for those who've actually got something to do at work and can't > > afford to spend time trying to piece together the arguments from two

forum > > threads: some speculation about possibly work progressing on GPL2 andsome > > name calling. > > Yes, and it's also apparent that Mark Beckman has some inside informationon > David Kaemmer: > > "A man is well advanced with a "GPL2", I am led to believe its 1973 not72. > > He started Papyrus and his initials are DK, but I cant tell you who he isother > than he has been doing it in his own time, more or less as a hobby sothere is > no set finish date or even if it will ever be released, although I'mbetting it > will be depending on what Racing Legends ends up being all about." > > >

Yeah like Martha... :)

>"Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote > Jan "I hate web-based forums" Verschueren. Yeah, I guess it was just at troll post to start with. Fran�ois "How I agree with you" M�nard. =---

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Ian Riches) wrote: > Don't read > http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44065 Glad I did actually! Not for the rumour-mongering and wishful thinking, but for a link that pointed me at... http://jaqson.m4driving.sm/others_movies.htm ...where I discovered a whole heap of movies I didn't know existed. I stopped looking for movies after watching Kev Clark's Just A Day (repeatedly and regularly even now :o) but I've been freshly inspired by some equally impressive efforts. I don't want to knock any of the other excellent efforts there, but the three movies that have really impressed me so far are two by Kevin Durber (bl2.wmv and keepitreal.wmv) and one from the dutch sim racing zone (dsz_the_movie.wmv). These are so cleverly edited and "video processed" that they look like real life footage at times... amazing work. So this morning I'm in glass-is-half-full mode. Thanks to everyone whose hard work continues to inspire those of us who occasionally lose the faith ;o) And of course, unlikely though it may be, if anyone is sitting in a back room somewhere working on a GPL2 add-on for N2002 (or whatever form such a project would take) then you have my permission to continue work and continue keeping quiet about it. There's nothing worse than a sim prick tease :o) Andrew McP