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Been Gone For A While

8 posts by 5 people · 11 Mar 2006 00:20 UTC - 13 Mar 2006 17:03 UTC

Peter Walker 11 Mar 2006 00:20 UTC#12675
Greetings Everyone, I have been gone from computer racing for nearly a year or just over. It's been so long I don't remember. I am thinking about getting back into it all and was wondering if someone could help me get back up to speed. I'd like to take the approach that I don't know anything at all and would like information on where a complete newbie would start. I like all forms of racing. What are the community standard games? What game or games should I consider buying? Peter
Easy list: rFactor GT Legends GTR Grand Prix Legends (still going strong with great recent mods) Nascar 2003 (if you can find it) Richard Burns Rally Live for Speed (pretty fun for the online and interesting features like tire flat-spotting) Most have demos so you can try before you buy. HTH! Kendt
On 10 Mar 2006 20:08:02 -0800, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> wrote: >If you can find it - isn't that still going for alot on eBay when a >copy surfaces? Or has that died down now that the new ISI sims are >out? > >Kendt What ISI sims are you talking about? Like I said, Iv'e been gone for a while and have never heard of ISI. Peter
"Peter Walker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (13 lines)> On 10 Mar 2006 20:08:02 -0800, "[email hidden]" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > >>If you can find it - isn't that still going for alot on eBay when a >>copy surfaces? Or has that died down now that the new ISI sims are >>out? >> >>Kendt > > What ISI sims are you talking about? Like I said, Iv'e been gone for a > while and have never heard of ISI. > > Peter
Rfactor, GTR and GTL for three. Ed
Peter Walker <[email hidden]> writes:
Quoted text (11 lines)> Greetings Everyone, > > I have been gone from computer racing for nearly a year or just over. > It's been so long I don't remember. I am thinking about getting back > into it all and was wondering if someone could help me get back up to > speed. > > I'd like to take the approach that I don't know anything at all and > would like information on where a complete newbie would start. I like > all forms of racing. What are the community standard games? What game > or games should I consider buying?
If you don't mind a hightly controversial copy protection, GTL and GTR from SimBin are popular. I've heard they lack somewhat online, though. rFactor is the newest offering from ISI, who did F1 Challenge for EA. F1C is still around and have a slew of cool mods. Not that popular online either, though. rFactor is all the hype these days. Built for modding and could be all you ever asked for, but aparantly not yet. Good online code, though. GPL is still around. Cool mods, great online and still devilishly difficult to drive. My prefered choice. Another Papy gem, NASCAR2003 is also still around. Competes with F1C for most outrageous price on eBay. The GTP mod is nice and popular. Don't ask me where the online racing is done, since VROC is kind of dead as far as N2003 is concerned. If you don't want a sim, and stil don't mind the Starforce scheme of messing with your computer in order to allow you not to copy a game, Codemasters TOCA3 is around and is a fun acade driver. Richard Burns Rally is the king of the hill in the WRC schene. Rally is great fun. Hope that helped, and completed whatever info everyone else might have posted. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
"Ed Medlin" <[email hidden]> writes:
Quoted text (17 lines)> "Peter Walker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > On 10 Mar 2006 20:08:02 -0800, "[email hidden]" > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > >>If you can find it - isn't that still going for alot on eBay when a > >>copy surfaces? Or has that died down now that the new ISI sims are > >>out? > >> > >>Kendt > > > > What ISI sims are you talking about? Like I said, Iv'e been gone for a > > while and have never heard of ISI. > > > > Peter > > Rfactor, GTR and GTL for three.
Only rFactor is made by ISI. SimBin are responsible for GTL and GTR. /andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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