Damn, going for two today!? Impressive.
WS

"David G Fisher's Left Testicle" <dfg.myass@aol> wrote in message
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> Brill! I shall check this out as soon as I've had my daily wank.
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> "Ruud Dingemans" > wrote in message
> b.home.nl...
>> Well, to some of you this will certainly be old news. However, since I
>> haven't seen it mentioned in R.a.s. so far, I'll make a mention of it
>> since I believe it's worth knowing about.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, main point is, late last year Strava (praise be him) made a
>> really nice free little mod for rFactor called Vintage Formula Vee. The
>> name should be self-explanatory, and it's available he
>>
>> http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=23475
>>
>>
>> Turns out this one is real, *real* fun to drive. Several former real-life
>> Vee drivers gave it the nod for being close to the real thing and having
>> a ball with it, too.
>>
>> The car model visuals are simpler than most large-team mod wizards manage
>> for most sims, imho it's the only thing that could do with a V2.0 update,
>> but they're still decent - simple but effective.
>>
>>
>> Now, like real vintage Vees, being based on a VW Beetle engine this only
>> has 60ish BHP and a top speed of about 180 kph / 105 mph max, but it
>> certainly doesn't *feel* slow on anything but the fastest of tracks.
>> Mosport, Zandvoort, Rouen, Lakeside, the Ring and dozens of other tracks
>> are a blast having close racing with this one (if you turn down their
>> aggression level the AI isn't bad, too).
>>
>> After tearing through several tracks, I realised: This is rather like
>> "GPL Lite", really.
>>
>> Not as fast, not as on-edge, but similar - having to squeeze every mph
>> out of a tiny Beetle engine drifting through tight corners in a little
>> Formula car makes for some real good racing. It reminded me of the best
>> bits of the 65 Mod. (Some leagues are running it at the moment, but I'm
>> hoping more servers will do so. How about a worldwide Formula Vee
>> 'Vroc'?)
>>
>>
>> As an added bonus, it also runs fine on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Which for me means that I don't have to fire up the old PC every time I'd
>> like to do some laps in between work hours. Thanks to an 'rMactor' guide
>> by Daniel Parsons (up on Google Docs) it was pretty easy to get rFactor
>> to run on OS X thru a Wine-derived program called CrossOver Games 8 - I
>> only had to set the rFactor Config utility to DX8 instead of 'auto'.
>> Runs fine, too, and though I didn't dare hope that rFactor mods and
>> tracks would work as well, turns out it all runs fine. Can't drive it at
>> the highest gfx settings on my 2 GHz early-2009 Mac mini, but that's not
>> really a bother. I'm too busy trying to outbrake those other Vee racers
>> in the streets of Hitchin or into Moss Corner at Mosport!
>>
>>
>> So, there you have it, FYI.
>> If you haven't checked it out yet, it's definitely worth doing so and in
>> my opinion, is fun enough to justify getting rFactor for it. Rarely have
>> I bumped into a simulator mod that's such a blast and captures the thrill
>> of racing old Formula cars as well... Hence, here we have, in my view,
>> 'GPL Lite' - tho less the speed, no less the fun!
>>
>> Regards, Rudy
>> (GPLRank: -40)
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