how about the idea that broadcasting via video stream means that someone just has to have a copy of media player to watch, while rebroadcasting via an HL tv style application means that your audience is limited to just sim racers

Someone mentioned sponsors earlier. Sponsors like large audiences. Spectators like things to be easy. Simple means that some of these spectators might be convinced to get into sim racing themselves.

Last edited by KeiichiRX7, Tue 31 Jan 2006, 19:24.

I was thinking along the lines of the program getting all the variables from LFS, then letting the driver define what to do with those variables. this way you could do formula style RPM LEDs or use a servo for an analogue Tachometer.

Anyone interested in making a Phidgets program so that users can use Phidgets to build a functioning dashboard?

Phidgets are ready to use interfaces that one need only write code for
(www.phidgets.com). if we could Tie Servos and LED's to RPM's speeds and system status that would be a huge step in sim building... functional sim cockpits

heres an idea, one computer spectating and using a video out on it's video card, another with a capture card (recognized as a webcam by some programs) streaming teh video it captures

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As two people said here before me, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Kanji contain thousands of letters, so it's a different task, which is best left until the future, when there's no-one left using older versions of Windows, and we all have a later version of DirectX, because Unicode and so on, is supported better with Windows XP.

The only reason we could do a Japanese codepage, is because Japanese has a special text called "Katakana" which is something like an alphabet, containing letters like "KA" and "RO". It's useful for writing words when the Kanji character is not known (because in Kanji, which is based on Chinese writing, each character means a word, and you can't just figure out how to write a word just by hearing it - you need to know the Kanji).

So all Japanese people are familiar with Katakana, it's useful for chat and looks cool, even though in LFS they can't write full Kanji.

Technically incorrect but in the correct spirit. Katakana are actually used for spelling things out that are borrowed from OTHER languages. Hiragana are used for spelling things out in Japanese.

Took japanese in highschool, then went off to join the navy and promptly forgot most of what i learned. However yeah, youve got the character sets backward. not a huge thing, youre just going to have to swap the Katakana with hiragana. Words that would have been in Katakana can be spelled out in Romanji (Roman letters like ours).

Edit:the menu options are probably still fine, but that ability to type properly in japanese will still be lacking

Last edited by KeiichiRX7, Sun 27 Nov 2005, 19:12.