Sierra CART RACING vs ICR2. Any differences?

Martin Wigginton wrote Little changes in the palette AFAIK... From what I remember there's a new N2<>Icr2 converter that is ok for Cart Racing. Try to email David Noonan or somebody at ThePits. And the additional book. That's mostly all (oh and it's out-of-the-box patched). - Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard! - Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. - Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) - Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ - "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

When Sierra replaced ICR2 with CART RACING what did they do other than to change the start-up screen and the box graphics, because I can't get the ICR2 > N2 track convertor to work. I've sent a message to Jan wondering if he has any ideas, but I wonder if anyone has experienced any weirdness with this sim when trying to convert N2 tracks to ICR2 etc, etc, etc. I also can't get the EDITRPY utility to extract car set data, making it virtually useless.

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> When Sierra replaced ICR2 with CART RACING what did they do other than > to change the start-up screen and the box graphics, because I can't get > the ICR2 > N2 track convertor to work. I've sent a message to Jan > wondering if he has any ideas, but I wonder if anyone has experienced > any weirdness with this sim when trying to convert N2 tracks to ICR2 > etc, etc, etc. > I also can't get the EDITRPY utility to extract car set data, making it > virtually useless.

Martin, I can't claim to be the expert on this subject, but I'd guess they did quite a bit different. The main obvious reason is that ICR2 is DOS and Cart Racing is a Win executable. Correct me if I'm wrong guys. I know the tracks and everything is pretty much the same, maybe it's just a Win shell/splash screens over the original DOS stuff. Good luck, all the best, Mike -- Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works Computer/Audio/Video Convergence "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." http://www.creativemedia-works.com Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org

I have used the N2/ICR2 convertor on two tracks, Bullrun and California with no problems. About the only thing I can think of, you need to purchase the N2>ICR2 convertor from The Pits. If you have a demo, it might not convert many tracks. works great though for me. (also if you purchased the ICR2 > N2 convertor, then the newer N2>ICR2 should be included in that price. And....for all the above ICR2 equals Cart Racing. same except for some minor 3d tweeks and pallete changes...Road America looks bluish....:) ) dave henrie

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>When Sierra replaced ICR2 with CART RACING what did they do other than >to change the start-up screen and the box graphics, because I can't get >the ICR2 > N2 track convertor to work. I've sent a message to Jan >wondering if he has any ideas, but I wonder if anyone has experienced >any weirdness with this sim when trying to convert N2 tracks to ICR2 >etc, etc, etc. >I also can't get the EDITRPY utility to extract car set data, making it >virtually useless.

I haven't ever used that utility so I can't help you there. dave henrie #99 b TPTCC

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> Martin, > I can't claim to be the expert on this subject, but I'd guess they did >quite a bit different. The main obvious reason is that ICR2 is DOS and Cart >Racing is a Win executable. Correct me if I'm wrong guys. I know the tracks >and everything is pretty much the same, maybe it's just a Win shell/splash >screens over the original DOS stuff. Good luck, all the best, Mike >-- > Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works > Computer/Audio/Video Convergence > "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." > http://www.creativemedia-works.com > Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org

Almost right Michael, THE CART cd has a dos, win95 and Rendition version all on the same disk. The biggest problem with this is the setup file. If you try to setup from win95 the program will automatically install all THREE versions of the game, so you get three folders, three sets of tracks, three sets of cars etc. huge hard drive hog. The best way to install them is to go into the indidual folders to install only the version you want. dave henrie

The converter only works with the DOS/REND versions of CART. It won't work with the windows version. But If you installed it via the Sierra install program, you already have all three versions on your HD. Look under c:\sierra\CART\DOS(the old dos version)\REND (the version with 5 rentition tracks)! There is a bug in the install program and three complete versions of CART install! buzard

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>When Sierra replaced ICR2 with CART RACING what did they do other than >to change the start-up screen and the box graphics, because I can't get >the ICR2 > N2 track convertor to work. I've sent a message to Jan >wondering if he has any ideas, but I wonder if anyone has experienced >any weirdness with this sim when trying to convert N2 tracks to ICR2 >etc, etc, etc. >I also can't get the EDITRPY utility to extract car set data, making it >virtually useless.

Perhaps it's searching for the file "indycar.exe"...copy the cart.exe to a new file called indycar.exe, and then run the converter. Cheers! Marc

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> When Sierra replaced ICR2 with CART RACING what did they do other than > to change the start-up screen and the box graphics, because I can't get > the ICR2 > N2 track convertor to work. I've sent a message to Jan > wondering if he has any ideas, but I wonder if anyone has experienced > any weirdness with this sim when trying to convert N2 tracks to ICR2 > etc, etc, etc. > I also can't get the EDITRPY utility to extract car set data, making it > virtually useless.

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