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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 22:26:48 -0700
From: John Moore <jmoore5@uswest.net>
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Christer! I haven't seen your name in months, at the apex since gpl was a demo.
I agree, viper is gpl'ish in it's physics and quite fun!
It also sounds pretty good too.
John Moore


Christer Andersson wrote:

> I picked it up yesterday and was driving for hours. I immidiately picked the
> career mode, which I so far think is a brilliant way for the sim racer beginner.
> At first there is very little you can setup in the car, but after you get better
> you earn money and can buy stuff which you can modify in the setup. Brilliant,
> cause this gives you a very good idea of how each modification affects the car
> behaviour :o). It's too early to tell something about the physics in detail, but
> they seem to have done a very good job. You can for example force oversteer in
> mid corner by lifting the throttle. The physics is GPLish :o).
>
> I have over 1000 hours in racing sims and still enjoy it a lot :o).
>
> /Christer, had a lot of fun last night :o)
> --
> http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-41236/ (Read all about the "Global online
> racing"-proposal under "For developers". Read it a couple of times, cause noone
> has understood it the first time they've read it yet :o)).
> If there's a six in my email replace it with the digit instead.



