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From: Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au>
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Yeah, but you can't drive around the whole track with your foot to the floor Andrew!
Terrible physics! :)

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> 
> > Yes Andrew, that's a very popular comment to make at r.a.s. Unless
> > you worked at Ubi Soft's and Papyrus's offices, how would you, or
> > anyone else here, know exactly how the two sim's physics models compare?
> 
> You're absolutely right. But I have this weird idea that Papyrus have actually learned
> something about programming over the years. Either their code is twice as inefficient as
> Ubi's team, or GPL's doing more work somewhere. My instinct, based purely on years of
> driving sims/games, is that GPL has the best driving model around, and good models don't
> come cheap.
> 
> Your experience and opinion obviously differ.
> 
> Andrew McP... saving up for  Elle McPherson

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 Byron Forbes
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