I've always liked 3-wheelers, ones with 1 wheel at the back. I remember a nice one from a while ago but never knew the name, it looked vaguely something like this:

http://www.ccpc.net/~jaho/images/jmp/pic19.jpg

But a single-seater maybe. I'm sure it was on top-gear. Kinda line an old-style F1 ferrari shark-nose, but one wheel at the back. Mmmm.

Whilst searching I found this though;

http://www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=1117
http://www.cartype.com/images/page/vw-GX3_wheel.jpg

Rather cool, but again it's a 2-seater.

Last edited by mr_spoon, Sun, 6 May 2007 14:21. Reason : added bits.

I just found these (Tiger Racing ERA HSS) & think they would be fun to race in LFS:

http://www.tigerracing.com/cars/era-main.php

That wheel should work under Linux; common devices get drivers (even if they are made by MS) and that wheel must be pretty common. This says it does have drivers:
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/hardware.html

And this suggests it should work also:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/ ... 138/sort/2/cat/443/page/1

I have yet to get LFS to work on newer veresions of WINE, but I did play LFS on the pre-beta wine versions (without force-feedback), but I may try again from source as I was using Slackware .tgz packages for the betas thus far. I also have toasted my Win98se system after upgrading as it can't handle my new hardware, so may give Wine a bash, otherwise I may 'need' to buy WinXP.

However unlikely, I still wish the devs would make a Linux client
I asked devs from netkar pro and they aren't going to do it.

I just got Trigger for my Linux system, worked straight away... makes a change It's not that bad, just driving around a checkpointed terrain map, kinda weird steering, but easy enough to blast through the quick rally series, it took me 3 attempts to find out where to go on the Old MacDonald track, I can't be bothered going through it all again though. Good effort.

The other game I look forward to on Linux/cross-platform is Motorsport-Sim;
http://www.motorsport-sim.org/

mr_spoon.

It was all in British pounds. £££££ moneh! I just spent over that on my AMD X2 system upgrade, arrives on monday... cant wait!

£584.73 British pounds = $1030.64 US dollars.

Maybe stuff is cheap in America, quite possibly. eBuyer is a pretty cheap place here in the UK, to my knowledge anyway. But it is probably now always the case that buying a pre-built system is cheaper, the above list is all for separates to do a self-build with. I prefer to self-build my own PCs. Fingers crossed my new one will work ok...

But, using the ibuyingpower ValuePro configurator thing-ama-jig to make up a similar system to my one comes to $1016 USD, and that's with a 6800XT rather than a 6800GT, so my system was similar in price, but the mobo I chose maybe wasnt quite as good. But then there's VAT...

Anyway, I hope Leifde has some fun with his new PC.

mr_spoon

Last edited by mr_spoon, Sun, 5 Feb 2006 13:33.

No problem. The motherboard on your system is MicroATX, but that's not a problem I suppose.

I have recently just ordered a bundle of stull to upgrade my PC, so here's my suggestions for a half-decent gaming system:

Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4-F SKT939 nForce4 chipset Dual DDR400 PCI-E ATX
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=98137
£51.99

CPU: AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3500+ 939pin 512Kb L2 Cache 90nm Retail Boxed Processor With 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=88107
£119.87

RAM: Corsair (VS1GBKIT400) 1024MB (2 x 512MB Matched Pair), DDR400 / PC3200, non-ECC, Unbuffered, CL2.5, Lifetime Warranty
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=52057
£48.92

Graphics: Gainward 6600GT 128mb Powerpack! Ultra/1960PCX TV-DVI PCI-E
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=94363
£80.84

HD: Western Digital WD1600JS Caviar SE 160GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 8MB Cache - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=94406
£46.94

CD RW: Sony CRX320E 52x32x52x16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM COMBO Internal IDE (Black) - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=59332
£18.69

DVD RW: NEC ND3550A 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=98443
£24.29

Floppy (Black): Sony OEM 3.5 Floppy Drive Black
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=74629
£3.67

Case + PSU: Asus TA-210 Mid Tower Case Black/Silver with 360W PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=98548
£29.77

Keyboard: Logitech OEM Value Keyboard Beige PS2
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=59175
£3.20

Mouse: Logitech Black Pilot PS2/USB Optical Mouse
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=66603
£10.62

OS: Microsoft OEM Windows XP Home Edition inc SP2 - 1Pk
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=66489
£50.20

Screen: Samsung Samtron ST78E 17" CRT 0.25dpi (1280 x 1024) Ivory Monitor 3 years Warranty
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... V3&product_uid=103110
£59.99
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£548.99 ex. VAT.
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£645.07 inc. VAT.
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I'm not promoting eBuyer or anything, other good shops I've used before: Dabs, Savastore, Chillblast. Delivery would likely be £8, seeing as my recent order included two ATX tower cases and it was £8.

Also note: I've not researched any of these parts to see how good/compatibe they are.

mr_spoon.

Edit:

I just saw you would like a better graphics card, so here's one:

Point of View 6800GS 256mb TV/DVI PCI-E
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=99318
£116.58 ex.VAT.

This takes the total to £584.73 ex.VAT, £687.06 inc.VAT.

I didnt include that crazy floppy/multireader thing, and I also wouldnt advise two optical driver, unless you copy stuff like CRAZY! I doubt anyone needs to write to DVDs! and 160GB HD is rather a lot also; you can easily get a second one at a later date when necessary.

PS: If I'm doing anything wrong/disallowed by posting links to a shop on this forum, please let me know/delete them.

Last edited by mr_spoon, Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:46.

WOOOHOOO!!!

Thanks bLaCk VaMpIrE!

Quick recap;

1. Load Blender,
2. Delete the cube (don't need to remove the camera & light),
3. Import .3ds model,
4. Scale 's' to '0.00001',
5. Rotate 'r' around the 'x' axis '180' degrees,

See the attached render if you want.

Thanks again!

mr_spoon.

I found the 3Ds models in another thread, but fome some reason it wont work when trying to import them, but it opens an other example 3ds file i have. weird.

Quote from v4forlife :

in the same place as so many hi end names in the lfs world

and of course me... :icon23:

Splendid, thanks Frags!

Hi,
I only have blender (the free 3D render program), but it cannot import/open the .max files (I think from Ian.H's website). Could anyone provide the models or scenes please, which would work in blender so I could play around with making my own renders from my skins? If this is even possible. I'm not in linux at the moment so i can check what file types it can open if anyone needs to know.

Natively it opens and creates '.blend' files. Here's what it can import:

3D Studio (.3ds)
AC3D (.ac)
COLLADA (.dae)
DEV Object File Formats (.off)
Lightwave + Materials (.lwo)
MD2 (.md2)
Motion Capture (.bvh)
Nendo (.ndo)
Paths (.svg, .ps, .eps, .ai, Gimp)
Pro Engineer (.slp)
Radiosity (.radio)
Raw Triangle (.raw)
TrueSpace (.cob)
Wavefront (.obj)
Wings3D (.wings)

I use the latest version 2.40.

Thanks,

mr_spoon

Last edited by mr_spoon, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:15.

hi, if someone has time could they render my Williams FW18 skin please. i made it a while ago, but it was quite an effort.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9626/fo8williamsfw185sa.jpg

thanks,

mr_spoon

Last edited by mr_spoon, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:44.

i'll be there in an XFG.
hi-res file attached.

Last edited by mr_spoon, Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:24.

I spent some time compiling this list as I liked the trip down memory lane:

FPS:
- Doom 1 & 2 (and much fun creating levels with DEU).
- Dark Forces.
- Quake2 (especially the ActionQ2 mod, best mod ever). Virtually skipped Q3 as AQ2 was so good. Quake1.
- Unreal (ooh, pretty graphics).
- Doom3 (play it alone in the dark, scary... aah, hehehe).

Adventure:
- Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max (both abosolutely brilliant).
- Broken Sword 1 (got BS2 but still not played it).

Racing:
- Lotus Challenge, F1GP & GP2, Micro Machines, Skunny Kart (MarioKart clone for PC), SuperKarts.
- NFS 2,3,4 & Porsche 2000 (all just multiplayer/split-screen).
- Live for Speed, S1 & S2.

Other Sims:
- Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, MiG-29 Falcrum, TFX.
- X-Wing, Tie Fighter.

Others:
- Sensible Soccer (a demo with an exploding football, hilarious).
- Scorched Earth (multiplayer magic).
- Utopia (ancient obscure strategy game).
- Warcraft 2.
- One Must Fall (probably still the best fighting game on the PC).
- Worms (not any later versions as they aren't as 'pure').

Sorry for the long list, it isn't just all the games I've ever played and I did have to edit some rather good ones out, it really is just the most enjoyable/memorable ones. I got into Linux a few years ago so my gaming isn't quite so prolific now.

Last edited by mr_spoon, Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:22.

I'd like to see something like this:
http://www.rageoffroadbuggies.com/Gallery/pages/en2.htm

here is a quick attempt. i've not bothered checking if its all ok in, game, ive not even loaded it in the modeller or anything.

made in The Gimp.

enjoy.

mr_spoon.

xfr do you mean? i might give it a bash.