GPL in Germany on TV

GPL was announced to be out on Oct. 9th, but I did not find it today. BTW: A short GPL commercial is aired after some "Oldtimer" reports on the German sports TV channel DSF, usually in the middle of the night .. -- _____ /_______\ .\\ a t t h e a d I XT /~~~~ I 500\_____ 1977' Yamaha XT.Rex 500 Enduro \____/\__I_I http://matthead.home.pages.de/

> GPL was announced to be out on Oct. 9th, but I did not find it today. > BTW: A short GPL commercial is aired after some "Oldtimer" reports on > the German sports TV channel DSF, usually in the middle of the night If you prefer English versions as I do, call Joysoft and order an import version of GPL. Got mine last Friday. l8er ronny -- Toys'R'Us '99: "So, would you like a hand gun with that action figure, kiddo?" |\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather, ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car, '---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!

>GPL was announced to be out on Oct. 9th, but I did not find it today. >BTW: A short GPL commercial is aired after some "Oldtimer" reports on >the German sports TV channel DSF, usually in the middle of the night >.. I found it yesterday (Oct. 13th) at my local "Media Markt" (which had it announced as "available Oct. 9th" in its latest flier. It became available only yesterday, though - I kept checking once a day since then. :) There are some minor bugs in the German localization, but nothing really grave. The worst part is the "4-wheel-drift" book: It's ably translated, but sloppily edited, and there are some lines missing. The worst "bug" I've found in the game itself so far is in the replay screen: the indicator that shows time compression in the lower right hand corner is labeled "Steifheit" (stiffness) ???? What have they been thinking, I wonder? The German version shares the UK versions "CD has to be in drive for single player" protection. This is annoying, especially since you have to completely restart the game after inserting the CD. I was about to congratulate Sierra for not insisting on copy protection (apart from the checksum thing that prevents copying the CD, which is ok since it doesn't bother legitimate users), but this is the usual annoyance... Apart from that, GPL is all I hoped for so far. I'm sure I'll find *something* to complain about, but so far I haven't. :) The sim runs perfectly on my iP250 w/ 32MB RAM and Monster 1. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:36:56 +0200, Ronald Stoehr >> GPL was announced to be out on Oct. 9th, but I did not find it today. >> BTW: A short GPL commercial is aired after some "Oldtimer" reports on >> the German sports TV channel DSF, usually in the middle of the night >If you prefer English versions as I do, I do 2. They showed a "sold out " sign recently, but GPL seems to be available again, for 10 DM less than the German version (which apparently has some mistakes in the translation, as usual) -- _____ /_______\ .\\ a t t h e a d I XT /~~~~ I 500\_____ 1977' Yamaha XT.Rex 500 Enduro \____/\__I_I http://matthead.home.pages.de/

% >call Joysoft and order an import version of GPL. % They showed a "sold out " sign recently, but GPL seems to be available % again, for 10 DM less than the German version (which apparently has % some mistakes in the translation, as usual) I hope this doesn't mean that GPL is selling well! As this would certainly upset some the doomsayers here in r.a.s. <G>. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

That's not completely true. I usually make a copy of all games I buy. I do this for two reasons. 1. If anything happens to the original cd I can still continue to play. 2. I always make a multiplayer copy to play over my network at home. This is not illegal since it is copy for personal use. // Johan

lol (x2) Image, this could mean that they did not only use GPL to TEST the engine as all those nascar freaks were claiming. :-) I'd like to see GPL sell more than nascar. // Johan

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> % >call Joysoft and order an import version of GPL. > % They showed a "sold out " sign recently, but GPL seems to be available > % again, for 10 DM less than the German version (which apparently has > % some mistakes in the translation, as usual) > I hope this doesn't mean that GPL is selling well! As this would > certainly upset some the doomsayers here in r.a.s. <G>. > -- > **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* > Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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>Path: >> ... I was about to >> congratulate Sierra for not insisting on copy protection (apart from >> the checksum thing that prevents copying the CD, which is ok since it >> doesn't bother legitimate users), but this is the usual annoyance... >That's not completely true. I usually make a copy of all games I buy. I >do this for two reasons. >1. If anything happens to the original cd I can still continue to play.

Quite legal. You may make one backup copy of media under most countries law Actually this is illegal. Your license grants you to run and install on one machine only at anny one time. You may not install and run multiple copies. See above Z.

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>> ... I was about to >> congratulate Sierra for not insisting on copy protection (apart from >> the checksum thing that prevents copying the CD, which is ok since it >> doesn't bother legitimate users), but this is the usual annoyance... >That's not completely true. I usually make a copy of all games I buy. I >do this for two reasons. >1. If anything happens to the original cd I can still continue to play.

This is of course a legitimate reason for making a copy. Yet, I still have to see the first CD go bad, while I threw away countless old floppy disks with corrupt data. Hmmm, I'm afraid it is illegal. When you "buy" software, you usually only buy the right to use this software on one machine at a time. Unless the law in your country forbids such restrictions (which I doubt), making a copy for other than archival reasons is illegal. But then, most multiplayer games allow *joining* (as opposed to hosting) an ongoing game without having the CD in the drive. If they don't, it's not a problem in a private LAN anyway: start game on machine 1, take out CD and bring it to machine 2, then start the game there. That's what I always do - it's not as if *this* would be legal, though. :) -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

uhm, oops.