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Post by turtlewise06 on Nov 7, 2008 17:16:10 GMT 2
Was crusing the world of racing sims the other day (wikki-pedia)
and found this little game . RACER "I mean its small "and
its almost never updated . But its creative thinking for the common man (speedfreak, racenut ,) Has anyone here seen this
before. Im sure lots of others didnt see what i saw ........
huge possibillities .... naw just something different thats FREE.......
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Post by Administrator on Nov 7, 2008 19:10:11 GMT 2
RACER is probably one of the longest living free race sim projects out there. Must have started back in the late 90s already. AFAIK once its primary goal was to get some simracing to Linux; with time it was ported to Windows as well
It has never reached a status even remotely close to final, but it's nice as it is. Major problem with RACER is same as with a lot of projects like this: it's speed of development depends one how much time one single specific guy spends on it. And that guys has put more aims to his plate than he's able to manage in a time that a bigger audience would be patiently wait out - especially when there's other projects like this, though commercial like LFS or netCAR, coming up much faster.
So far as I have seen, there's a lot of cars for RACE,R but few, almost none, racing. As most cars ain't racecars, too. And as there's some major backdraws on RACER at least regarding racing.
So IMO RACER is a nice study to play around with and to learn some things from. But hardly some choice to use for simracing. But if you want to get into developing a racing sim, RACER would be top choice
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Post by turtlewise06 on Nov 8, 2008 3:41:08 GMT 2
Wow ! since the 90s?  ?? the Guy who started it must be retired by now." I totally loved the fact 1 person was dumb?,or smart? enough to take on such a task as this , He did it right if you want to see this thing come together , and have a working race sim ? help out with what ever you are able to do ... like create your own cars!!! etc...tracks anyway thanks Cholorix P/S Hats off to the makers of Online racing and shooter games . for us the people who have a need to chase others around a track , for fun . Or blow someones head off if needed for fun |
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