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Game Forum / Simulators / Car Simulators / April 2004GPL - After all these years......
Wow, I'm still impressed and surprised at how well GPL has stood up after all these years. I bought this game right when it came out, and had the pleasure of racing with many of you who prolly still haunt this forum. I still remember racing against Eagle Woman, and even a couple of the devs in some great online races. I'm wondering, from browsing the group, it seems that there is still some support for GPL. Is there still an online program for GPL (damned if I can remember the name of the program we used to find servers and races)? Is there a central website still active for GPL where I could find updates and maybe a discussion group to get up to speed on where GPL is now? After finding my CD of GPL the other day, I've been reminded of what a great sim this was, and the back of mind has been nagging at me to reinstall this thing. After all these years, what/where do I need to go to catch up on what is certainly the greatest racing sim of all time? -Bahnzo > After all these years, what/where do I need to go to catch up on what > is certainly the greatest racing sim of all time? > > -Bahnzo VROC http://www.vroc.net -- Ian P <email invalid due to spammers> >>After all these years, what/where do I need to go to catch up on what >>is certainly the greatest racing sim of all time? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > VROC > http://www.vroc.net Soon to be iGOR. > > VROC > > http://www.vroc.net > > Soon to be iGOR. Do you have a link to this ? rms >>>VROC >>>http://www.vroc.net [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > rms It should be out on friday. >> VROC >> http://www.vroc.net > >Soon to be iGOR. Who's Igor? :-) Details, please. Eldred  Signaturehttp://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East >>Soon to be iGOR. > > Who's Igor? :-) Oh, how the mighty heroes of GPL have fallen ;) PS. Good luck in 'getting out of the doldrums' Eldred. Regards, Rudy >Oh, how the mighty heroes of GPL have fallen ;) "Mighty"? Who lied to YOU? Mighty SLOW, maybe... >PS. Good luck in 'getting out of the doldrums' Eldred. Thanks... Signaturehttp://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East >>>VROC >>>http://www.vroc.net [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Eldred iGOR was the name that Phil Flack gave it. To date, he won't let on what it stands for :-) It's very nice though. Does everything that VROC does and some extra little bits. Kevin Clark <kevin.clark@imm.ox.ac.uk> wrote here on 28 Apr 2004: > iGOR was the name that Phil Flack gave it. To date, he won't let > on what it stands for :-) *blinks* How very bizarre of him... unless, of course, he just thought of the iGOR name without actually *knowing* what it might stand for! In which case, I'm sure someone will come up with something - "interactive GPL Online Racing" or the like. > It's very nice though. Does everything that VROC does and some > extra little bits. Sounds very interesting. It's about time I did some online GPLing again, and this might just be the spur for that. :) SignatureAbove address *is* valid - but snip spamtrap to get me to *read*! Support the world's oldest motorsport venue! http://www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk/future.html > Kevin Clark <kevin.clark@imm.ox.ac.uk> wrote here on 28 Apr 2004: > >> iGOR was the name that Phil Flack gave it. To date, he won't let >> on what it stands for :-) "I've gone online racin'" the little post-it note on your racing room door? ;-) uwe Signaturemail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61 >Kevin Clark <kevin.clark@imm.ox.ac.uk> wrote here on 28 Apr 2004: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >which case, I'm sure someone will come up with something - "interactive >GPL Online Racing" or the like. I'd have gone with "improved", if it's supposed to be a newer version... -- __________ ____---____ Marco Antonio Checa Funcke \_________D /-/---_----' Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru _H__/_/ http://machf.tripod.com '-_____|( remove the "no_me_j." and "sons.of." parts before replying "Bahnzo" wrote... > Wow, I'm still impressed and surprised at how well GPL has > stood up after all these years. <snip> > After all these years, what/where do I need to go to catch > up on what is certainly the greatest racing sim of all time? GPL "all-in-one" patch and add-on circuits at: http://trackdb.d2g.com And, like Kev said, '65 mod and new online tools due on Friday. You have some catching up/driving to do! ;-) Jan. =--- What exactly is the 65 mod? Has GPL been redone or is it just cars/tracks? Mitch > "Bahnzo" wrote... > > Wow, I'm still impressed and surprised at how well GPL has [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Jan. > =--- > What exactly is the 65 mod? Has GPL been redone or is it just cars/tracks? No tracks but basically there seem to be three elements. Most crucially, there is a new version of GEM which changes the physics parameters (grip, weight etc) to reproduce the 1965 F1 season. Apparently they have tweaked the tyres to help reduce understeer & improve feel. It should make the learning curve a little shallower I guess. There is also a complete carset for the '65 cars and some updated menu graphics etc. Then there is iGOR, which is apparently intended to entirely replace VROC. In addition to the 'normal VROC features it will also allow for restrictions to which set of physics you can join a server with, presumably like the F1/F2/F3 options in VROC. iGOR should allow further mods to gpl (different years etc) in the future & is intended to prevent cheating the physics, although time will tell I guess. It's been in development for several years now, and with luck should be released in a few days. Malc. >Then there is iGOR, which is apparently intended to entirely replace >VROC. In addition to the 'normal VROC features it will also allow for [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >It's been in development for several years now, and with luck should be >released in a few days. Damn. I was in the VROC beta testing group, and I had hoped to be included in the testing for its replacement. Guess not. :-( Eldred Signaturehttp://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East >>What exactly is the 65 mod? Has GPL been redone or is it just > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Malc. That's pretty much spot on. The mod will come in 3 download sizes. Full (37Mb) , Midi(20ish) and Lite (8.7). The full install has absolutely everything, the midi one leaves out the hi-res cars and the lite version is just the physics and iGOR to get you online. You can race just fine with '67 graphics. All the missing components from the smaller downloads will be available separately so 56k users can get the rest of the mod as and when they want. ESSENTIAL items for your GPL install are the carsound patch (if you want to use the provided mod car sounds) and the 1.2.0.2 (cpu/speed fix) patch. Also, GEM has some neat movies of the cars in the selection screen. You will need the free divx 5.11 codec to see them. You can turn them off in the options though. Still on course for release sometime on friday. Kev > What exactly is the 65 mod? Has GPL been redone or is it just cars/tracks? Here's a (p)review: http://forum.rscnet.org/articles.php?aid=1&page=1&topic=GPL1965 Thanks guys. Looks great and Ill be in line trying to d/l it friday. In fact Ive dug out my GPL CD and am going to install the addons today. First time this century Ive run GPL :) Mitch > > What exactly is the 65 mod? Has GPL been redone or is it just > cars/tracks? > > Here's a (p)review: > > http://forum.rscnet.org/articles.php?aid=1&page=1&topic=GPL1965 >From: "Jussi 'Igor' Koukku" no@spam.com Hey - we found Igor...<g> Eldred Signaturehttp://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East "Jan Verschueren" <jan.no_spam.verschueren@pandora.be> wrote in news:e% pjc.88010$X92.5676058@phobos.telenet-ops.be: > "Bahnzo" wrote... >> Wow, I'm still impressed and surprised at how well GPL has [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Jan. > =--- Yeah, I sure do. Just the thought of having to relearn "The Ring" is daunting enough, not to mention the loads of new tracks out there now. One cool thing I would hope to find nowadays is that hopefully the caliber of drivers would be much better in the sense that people driving this sim now online would be those who are commited to having fun, instead of those who just picked up the game and haven't taken the time to learn how to drive. I guess I'll see some online action soon, but I need time to relearn the driving and tracks. Thanks for the links from all of you! -Bahnzo > Wow, I'm still impressed and surprised at how well GPL has stood up after > all these years. I bought this game right when it came out, and had the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > -Bahnzo Cars from http://gplea.racesimcentral.com track updates from http://fredfaster.m4driving.sm/index_eng.htm 65mod due on friday. http://forum.racesimcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36 Is there a central website still active for GPL where I could find updates and maybe a discussion group to get up to speed on where GPL is now? |
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