Just a question to see if any1 is interrested

Hi everybody, I really enjoy playin racing sims, I even enjoy playing the older games every now and then, Like Grand Prix Circuit(accolade) and Indy 500(papyrus). These games are pretty old already (classical race sims). recently i was thinking that i would be pretty cool if Accolade would release an updated version of Grand Prix Circuit(my first racing sim on a PC, i think i played pole position before that but that is available again). Maybe this is just a stupid idea but i might be wrong. Personally i would suggest that they keep all the original options and dont ad anything like options to setup a car, even leave the original cars and tracks(maybe ad the rest of the year they based it on). Only change the graphics. Please let me know what u people think of this and maybe they will do it. Micha de Wals

That was the first racing sim I bought, I think it would be a good idea. But they would have to do alot more than just upgrading the graphics. Better controls, more compatabiltiy with the faster machines out now. But what other racing sim came with a TRACK EDITOR! And that was roughly 4 or 5 years ago. Greg Scharf

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> Hi everybody, > I really enjoy playin racing sims, I even enjoy playing the older games every > now and then, Like Grand Prix Circuit(accolade) and Indy 500(papyrus). > These games are pretty old already (classical race sims). recently i was > thinking that i would be pretty cool if Accolade would release an updated > version of Grand Prix Circuit(my first racing sim on a PC, i think i played > pole position before that but that is available again). Maybe this is just a > stupid idea but i might be wrong. > Personally i would suggest that they keep all the original options and dont ad > anything like options to setup a car, even leave the original cars and > tracks(maybe ad the rest of the year they based it on). Only change the > graphics. > Please let me know what u people think of this and maybe they will do it. > Micha de Wals

Thanx for your ideas, maybe they should have a choice to play the original(with upgraded graphics) or to play the fully upgraded version Micha de Wals PS. if anyone from Accolade reads this please respond

Why the hell would someone want to upgrade that dog? It would be terrible. Of course, it was the only thing that would run on the EGA 286s and 386s at that time, and I will admit to spending countless hours at work trying to better my friend's lap time at Detroit without understeering off at the tunnel entrance, but if you were to load it up again, you would be sadly disappointed. Then again, if you mean produce an up- to-date sim with 3dfx, proper renderings of the courses from 1987, all of the cars from the end of the turbo era and drivers based on Mansell, Prost, Senna and Boutsen....well, maybe not Boutsen, than I'd agree. You certainly would not want to play the original. Don't even get me started on Grand Prix Unlimited, the one "endorsed" by Road and Track released in 1992. I felt ripped off the minute I loaded it up. Sure, it had cute***pits that represented Benetton, McLaren, Williams, Ferarri and the mighty Tyrell, and you could edit tracks, but the actual tracks looked nothing like the read world versions and were nothing more than a series of 90 degree bends. the driving "model" was awful and to get a fast lap, one just threw the car into the corner, listened to it make a terrible "ching-a-ching-a- ching" noise, and then pressed the "go" button at the appropriate time. Sad. Very sad. luckily Microprose's GP1 came along quickly thereafter and made us all forget these horrible predecesors. Stephen : Thanx for your ideas, maybe they should have a choice to play the original(with : upgraded graphics) or to play the fully upgraded version : : Micha de Wals : : PS. if anyone from Accolade reads this please respond :