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posted by: Jure Zagoricnik
Grand Prix Simulator (known as Virtual Grand Prix 2 on Mac) is a work of Paolo Cattani (main programmer) who is working with Alassoft (simulators of mechanical components for the automotive industry) to produce a Formula 1 simulator. Or, in Paolo's own words, "a realistic one-seater of 600KG of weight, over 850HP of power and lots of grip and downforce". Paolo is a fan of the Papyrus sims, but states that "there is no F1 simulator at the moment". The producers/publishers are likely to be Milestone and Lago, who have a history of promoting racing games and flight sims. History? Originally a project to produce the first Amiga F1 sim since Geoff Crammond's famous Microprose Grand Prix, a demo appeared on the Amiga scene around 1998 called AlienF1. Graphics were stunning for the hardware requirements, with texture-mapped 3d at 20fps on 25MHz CPU with 4MB RAM and 2MB (non-3D) graphics chip. With so little processing power to spare, the physics remained uncompromised... AlienF1 was turned into a full game, called Virtual Grand Prix, and won 4th place for AmigaFlame Game of the Year 1999. At time of writing, the Mac beta demo is at version 1.4, and runs with good frame rate on 400MHz, 64MB, Ati Radeon 8500. The demo supports Force Feedback, reported to work with a PS2 wheel.
link : https://bhms.racesimcentral.net/GPSIM
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Raven93
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 18:56 |
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| I'd love to know on what he's basing his assumption, "There is no F1 simulator at the moment". Geoff Crammond, and a lot of other people seem to think there is. I see this a lot in both flight sims and racing sims. I don't have much in the way of racing experience, but I spent my entire adult life in military aviation. More often than not, attempts to improve on a sim's "realism" produce decidedly unrealistic results and are concocted by people who have no real life experience on which to base their "improvements". They just decide they "know better". If I was offering up screens that look like they were drawn with a crayon, I don't think I'd be criticizing the market, especially with Geoff Crammond's work out there! |
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Jure Zagoricnik
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