GP2: who makes the best addons?

After reading the review of pre-GP3 at http://www.btwracing.com/games/pc/pre_gp3.shtml , I got pumped up to install GP2 again and modernize it with the latest patches and such (F1RS and MGPRS2 just never seems to catch on with me.) But with so many addon authors out there (listed on GrandPrix2.com) can someone tell me who makes the best (and most up-to-date) carsets? And who makes the best (and most realistic) tracks & track patches? Any other recommendations for addon installations would be appreciated. -J

Essentials: GP2LAP.exe (real time extension with trackmap, standings, etc..) GP2Edit for the carsets Careditor (change carshape) .... Many great tracks, biut you'll have to find out yourself (too many out there) Monaco 98 by Zapparolli is a must to get an idea of what CAN be done. (looks like Crammond based GP3 on this track :-) ) JoH On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:08:52 -0500, "J.Maxwell" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>After reading the review of pre-GP3 at >http://www.btwracing.com/games/pc/pre_gp3.shtml , I got pumped up to install >GP2 again and modernize it with the latest patches and such (F1RS and MGPRS2 >just never seems to catch on with me.) But with so many addon authors out >there (listed on GrandPrix2.com) can someone tell me who makes the best (and >most up-to-date) carsets? And who makes the best (and most realistic) >tracks & track patches? Any other recommendations for addon installations >would be appreciated. > >-J > >

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There's a guy named Juha Viitala that makes some beautiful carsets that get updated a couple of days after each GP. I usually use his carsets and have never been disappointed. It's available at http://www.AlphaF1.com/gp2/ I'm downloading the "Season 1999 Track Pack v1.5" right now by Matti someone... it should be pretty decent as well... Warlock! "J.Maxwell" wrote:

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> After reading the review of pre-GP3 at > http://www.btwracing.com/games/pc/pre_gp3.shtml , I got pumped up to install > GP2 again and modernize it with the latest patches and such (F1RS and MGPRS2 > just never seems to catch on with me.) But with so many addon authors out > there (listed on GrandPrix2.com) can someone tell me who makes the best (and > most up-to-date) carsets? And who makes the best (and most realistic) > tracks & track patches? Any other recommendations for addon installations > would be appreciated. > > -J

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:51:01 -0400, "Matthew M. Lanzer" >There's a guy named Juha Viitala that makes some beautiful carsets that get >updated a couple of days after each GP. I usually use his carsets and have never >been disappointed. It's available at >http://www.AlphaF1.com/gp2/ >I'm downloading the "Season 1999 Track Pack v1.5" right now by Matti someone... >it should be pretty decent as well... I always want to use new car-sets, but also want to keep GP2's original settings (for HP, grip, breakdowns, etc.). Does the carset you mentioned modify these settings? I know this is probably not realistic (a new carset should probably have new HP/grip/etc., stats, etc.) but I like using the original GP2 car settings. Wow, just visited the Alpha-1 URL. GP2 is still "fresh" with new stuff! Now to figure out which track-pack to try, and maybe the track-pack manager? (hmm, here we go again..<g>). Thanks, Matt -Teehole

One thing I'll warn you about, with the track pack on that site, it took, like 1.5 hours to convert jams or jads or whatever the heck they are now, > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:51:01 -0400, "Matthew M. Lanzer" > >There's a guy named Juha Viitala that makes some beautiful carsets that get > >updated a couple of days after each GP. I usually use his carsets and have never > >been disappointed. It's available at > >http://www.AlphaF1.com/gp2/ > >I'm downloading the "Season 1999 Track Pack v1.5" right now by Matti someone...

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> >it should be pretty decent as well... > I always want to use new car-sets, but also want to keep GP2's > original settings (for HP, grip, breakdowns, etc.). Does the carset > you mentioned modify these settings? > I know this is probably not realistic (a new carset should probably > have new HP/grip/etc., stats, etc.) but I like using the original GP2 > car settings. > Wow, just visited the Alpha-1 URL. GP2 is still "fresh" with new > stuff! > Now to figure out which track-pack to try, and maybe the track-pack > manager? (hmm, here we go again..<g>). > Thanks, > Matt > -Teehole

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:01:28 -0500, "J.Maxwell" >One thing I'll warn you about, with the track pack on that site, it took, >like 1.5 hours to convert jams or jads or whatever the heck they are now, [snip] There's something wrong there. I've got a P166 dual booting Win95/NT4.0. I use NT4.0 as my main work environment and do all the downloading and unzipping, JAD/JAM conversion and moving files around in that environment. For the latest 1999 season track update this took only a matter of 10-15 minutes from the moment that the downloads were completed. And then boot into Win95 and enjoy GP2. -- Kulvinder Singh Matharu Website: http://www.matharu.demon.co.uk (note : e-mail header address deliberately mangled)