| Posted by: Whidden | | Aight Bradshaw, I'm waiting on ya. No one else at Inreview plays Grand Prix Legends, you are going to have to show up and get this thread rolling dude.
Maybe this will help.....
I race Mike on a regular basis. I get better and better, but that poor guy never grows. I like to call him Skid Master, cause he can't keep it on the track.......  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | Allright skid master!
Well, to anyone else who's watching, all I can say is that the newspapers don't lie. They report the truth as it happens.
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Mike, did you see the new video on the Gplea website? Download that one if you can with the highspeed modem....I want to see that. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | allright homey spice. Thanks for plastering my awesome driving all over the net. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | hey, where is your fat kid with gas article? I don't want to wade through your 985 posts to find it. What's the title? Where is it? My precious. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Mike there is a huge Lord of the Rings section in here. I have learned a lot.
Wes might not learn nothing...... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | maybe not. I've been reading the fat kid with gas section!!! That was hilarious. Well, I'm going to go to Bill and Amy's now and help Bill with his songleading - don't tell anyone. I wouldn't want to embarass him at all. See youse tomorrow. I may be online later. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Grand Prix Legends was released by Papyrus/Sierra, in 1998.
It was a formula one racing game set in the year 1967. Cars back then were far different from the Formula One cars of today.
The reason I like the cars so much is that they are just plain fun to look at. In 1967, there was no advertising on the cars. So you had a clear clean paint job. The tires were huge and fat. For the most part, the engines were not covered, but exposed to the open air for the eye to see.
The game itself, graphics wise was super lame. If you popped in a brand new copy of Grand Prix Legends into you computer today, you would eject it right away and trash the c.d.
The game had something else that computer race sims of today do not have.....a realistic physics. I don't know how they did it, but it feels like you are driving the real car.
And it's hard to do. Even after 6 years of driving the cars in this game, I still spin off the road from time to time. It feels like you are in a real car though and it's addictive.
You can peel out, do 180's, feel the power of the engine turning the tires, drift, and crash the car with extreme prejudice.
Did I mention that I love this game?
Then something wonderful happened. While Sierra pretty much abandoned the game, the GPL community took over the game and started making massive graphics updates. These were just normal people making no money off of the game, they simply loved the cars and the feel of the ride, and put their own time and effort into making it a better game.
Hundreds of websites sprung up on the net, some giving the cars a better tire, some a better cockpit. Some did entire remakes of the whole car.
Graphics wise, the cars are the best in the world of computer sims at this point in 2004. (The tracks and scenery are still sub par, but the cars more than make up for it.)
Here is a shot of the a typical car cockpit from 1998:
http://www.intelligamer.com/sports/gpl/gpl02.jpg
Here is the typical car in 2004:
http://home.clara.net/denizen/myimages/gpl06.jpg | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | That article rocks!
I wholeheartedly agree in every way.
Camera Control Master, another labor of love done for the GPL community, enables anyone to edit a saved game replay so it looks like it was professionally filmed. With CCM you can fly high above the race action or fly close to a car to see the awesome suspension detail that is absent from the race simulations available today. A favorite camera location can be fixed and made one of the 9 default camera angles to cycle through when watching a replay.
The amount of graphics and sound additions that have been made available by those who love the game is staggering!
Some of the best places to find enhancements or links to them are: Grand Prix Legends Editor's Association (GPLEA), the Grand Prix Legends Track Database, and also the Racesimcentral Forums.
If you are tired of all the race sims or driving sims that are way too easy and cheat you out of a real driving experience, get on ebay and get Grand Prix Legends.
A word of caution though, once you play it in all its updated glory, you probably won't have much use for your old racing games. Also, don't try to drive a real car right after you play a GPL game, you might end up in a ditch. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Well, this is sad, but I had to post it.
This is a black and white photo of myself crossing the finish line. Notice that GPL Master is in the back behind me in the other car.
Sorry to have to post proof like that for all the world to see...... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Yeah Gpl Master, I hated to have to show a pic of you getting smoked on the race track of the best racing sim ever devised, but I had to show the people.
You know? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | That article said that gpl master lost and that Bradshaw won. It proves my point that Gpl master loses almost every race. Thanks for the pic! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Some members can see them and some can't. No one knows why.
If you click on Whidden, you should be able to see it in my user profile.
Download almost done. 3 minutes till new Lotus. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It had corrupted files. Darn it.
I got a phone call I ignored while they were downloading, have to do it all over again.
I'm ready for a new Lotus, this one is supposed to have some awesome tires on it. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Wow! It is an awesome car. I will post a pic.
It looks better than the pic. The his res dash and hi res skins and engine and his res wide tires.
The dash mip went from 197 to 850 kilobytes, that's almost a meg!
It looks sharp dude! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | How the HECK!®'d you manage that after having an accident? 
And you played for 3 hours? Seriously? I am so totally missing something  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | Yo, I still haven't soldered your joystick but will this week. The dude at Radio Shack said to just solder it to the board inside since the cord attached to it is only 5" long. Luckily, I have access to 2 individuals who have done lots of soldering on much more critical circuitry so it shouldn't be a problem. After that, you got a race comin; comin today!
Nice typical pictures of your Lotus with the normal amount of flames and wheels missing. It's also in it's typical orientation, sliding, making sparks, and flipping. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | My victory is coming. Even with your reworked joystick, your car will need nitrous and steamroller tires to hang with my ride. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | |
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gplmaster said this in post #36 :
Yo, I still haven't soldered your joystick but will this week. The dude at Radio Shack said to just solder it to the board inside since the cord attached to it is only 5" long. Luckily, I have access to 2 individuals who have done lots of soldering on much more critical circuitry so it shouldn't be a problem. After that, you got a race comin; comin today!
Nice typical pictures of your Lotus with the normal amount of flames and wheels missing. It's also in it's typical orientation, sliding, making sparks, and flipping. |
Wow, I'm surprised you are still subscribed to this thread!
I got GPL re-installed and fought a video problem for hours and hours. In the cockpit view, it would shimmer and stutter.
I ran all the updates and patches and even tried open gl, but to no avail.
I was about to give up, and found a forum on it. I had to change a line in the core ini file, to make it work with my ATI card.
After that it worked fine.
I installed VROC and hosted an online game, so once I get my joystick back, I should be ready to go chump.
I been trying to call you all week, but you won't answer the phone, GPL crash master.
regards, Whidden
P.S. Yeah, sorry about blowing my engine so much, I know you get a lot of smoke effects in your eyes and stuff, since you are always behind me.
Very rude of me. 
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| Posted by: gplmaster | | Ok home splice, you're going to have to do some off roading to catch up with me this time. I'll put some resistors in your joystick so you have a delay. Ha ha! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | |
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gplmaster said this in post #39 :
Ok home splice, you're going to have to do some off roading to catch up with me this time. I'll put some resistors in your joystick so you have a delay. Ha ha! |
Ok mister "been a member for a year and 4 months and has 15 posts",
This is my back.
This is my back.
This is my back...
get used to it, it's all your gonna see.
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