I'll actually be disappointed if this happens.

I liked Champ Car because of the fact that it was an international series, which meant I could relate to it a bit better than IRL, which spends all it's time in the US. It also means a whole load less road and street circuit racing for the US, which is a bad thing. Oval racing can get terribly boring.

You'll probably need to relaunch Finder for it to apply to everything, in the same way that Windows would relaunch Explorer.

Take some time to learn and after a few months you'll realise they're much more than over-priced gimmicks. Approach things with an open mind, rather than telling yourself in advance they'll be crap.

What's the old BMW 02 like in Enthusia? Every time I see it I'm tempted to buy an old PS2 and a copy of the game, just so I can compare it to my old one.

It's not anti-aliasing, it's OS X rendering fonts as they were intended without any alteration, rather than optimising them for screen. Microsoft renders them within the boundaries of the pixel grid. Microsoft's technique looks better on small monitors, but up the size and it appears sharp and blocky. It looks weird until you get used to it, then Windows looks terrible and basic.

edit: Sounds like you're on an eMac. I can imagine it looking a bit too blurry on there. My parents use a tiny CRT monitor with their PowerMac and it drives me nuts, but my 20" iMac is fine.

I'm glad to hear you're not being jailed, and hope things work out a bit better for you.

I'm with Bob on this, I don't think it would be a good idea to release the source code. It could cause a lot of damage to LFS.

Quote from herki :

Errr...
What if you are in the middle of the desert and feel the urge to convert your movement speed?

Download Convertor for your iPhone, duh. It's probably the best convertor I've come across.

Vista is mediocre! I'd much rather have XP on my boot camp partition.

With regards to the F1 car vs the truck; say the truck had a downward force of 10000N and the F1 car (including downforce) had the same net force of 10000N. In a straight line they would be exerting the same force downwards, but at a corner the greater mass of the truck acts sideways, the F1 car has a much smaller sideways force due to its smaller mass.

For Richy; imagine a wing ON IT'S OWN moving through the air at 100mph, say that wing generated a downwards force of 100N. That 100N would be downforce.

Now imagine a car, when it moves at 100mph say it generates an upwards force of 1000N. That 1000N is lift.

Now attach the wing to the car. The wing is acting downwards with 100N, but the car is acting upwards with 1000N.

This gives a total force of 900N LIFT.


Now imagine the wing generates a downwards force of 1000N and the car generates 800N of upwards force.

The total force is 200N DOWNFORCE

I went today to try to spread my CV around a bit, not been before so I've got nothing to compare it to but it seemed OK.

I posted an idea about the HUD a while back, I'd still love to see it put in LFS, it includes seeing pitstop numbers.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=10485

Quote from duke_toaster :

Yes, but the engine would blow up after a minute or so at 19,000 RPM (the current rev limit)
Ignoring that, an F1 car would deffo lose to an IRL car on an oval. F1 cars just aren't built for ovals. Some bits could be done for that, however it's at the edges of the physics so it's not particularly worth bothering with.

On a road course, however, the IndyCar would get pwned.



From 1950 to 1960

The engine could run for a surprisingly long time at 19k rpm. The whole idea of limiting them to 19k is so they never blow up like they used to in the past.

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

Those ''terrorists'' (just a few random weirdo's most likely, not a perfectly organized group if you ask me) are now going: "WTF!? They cancelled it??" Giving them reason to try more of this stuff because it worked this time....

They didn't want to stop it, they wanted to kill people. Everybody loses (apart from the people who don't die)

If you don't have any room for a wheel, a joystick is the next best thing. On some tracks I'm still a lot faster with my joystick because I can change direction so much faster than with my wheel.

This has happened to me for quite a long time. I think it's my ISPs traffic shaping.

20" screen
Core 2 Duo 2GHz
Radeon HD2400XT
2GB RAM
250GB HDD (200GB Tiger, 50GB Vista)
Logitech X540 speakers
320GB external HDD
Bluetooth Intellimouse
Piggy bank!

Not pictured is my crappy Formula Force EX wheel or Wingman Extreeeeeeeeme joystick.

I've never liked Autocar. There is very little news and a lot of speculation. The writers seem to come up with cars that they want companies to make, and then report about them as if they're real. A lot of their exclusive pictures are simply promo pictures from other manufacturers photoshopped to feature a new car.

I'd always been taught that the purpose of flashing one's lights was to alert other road users to your presence. In many countries it's illegal to flash people to get them to move out of your way, and while it's probably not illegal in the UK, it's certainly bad manners.

Like many others, the sight of flashed headlights in my mirror will cause me to slow down to as slow as I can possibly go without the person behind being able to pass. I travel at or slightly above the speed limit anyway (compensating for an under-reading speedo), so there's no need to be hassling me.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

And on the note of lighting, I'd suggest making the rear lights also light up when flashing the headlights. Always found it very odd they don't light up.

Because they don't in real life. In LFS we're just flashing the lights, not turning them on. If there was a switch to turn the lights on constantly then I'd expect the rears to come on.

I really like EVO and Car, for the photography Car can be absolutely amazing and they have some great articles.

With regards to Redline and Max Power I'd say that Max Power is as bad as ever, but Redline is almost a tolerable read (if it's free). When I used to work at Halfords, it would be the only one of the "tuner" magazines I could bring myself to read, and they really do seem to be trying to go for function over form with their car selection.

I don't remember much of the community until not long before S2 was announced. I was lucky if I could connect to the internet at 13kb/s so I could never play online. I played the demo that came with PC Gamer for months, then when I finally paid for LFS I spent my time racing AI on FE Black in the beautiful old FXO with the wing.

Quote from xaotik :

I guess so - I obviously have alot to improve on. What weirds me out is the fact that I'm faster coming out of the chicane but seem to run out of steam on the straight. So I guess it might be my shifting from 4th all the way to 6th... or something.

Do your pedals go all the way to 100% acceleration? For a long time my top speed was slower than everyone I came across online because I couldn't quite accelerate 100%.

This game has proved a good way to pass the time on my iPhone in lectures.

It probably means it'll be like old games like Flight Unlimited. Clicking on different objects in your "house" will open different things. For example, clicking on your key cabinet lets you choose the plane you want to fly.

Quote from evilpimp :

Yup would be cool if someone opened a Evil Knieval stunt server :P
With ramps n jumps and all.

There used to be some stunt racing/huge autox servers. They were an absolute blast. I'd love to see them back up consistently.

Looks good, I guess I'll have to get round to reinstalling Windows on my iMac after it decided to kill itself.

One can hope that this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship with BMW. I'd do anything for a 2002 Turbo in LFS.

Now the AI is finished are we going to see LFS dropping the "alpha" tag? LFS is more mature than many sims out there, and the "alpha" status can put a lot of people off. Personally I think LFS is ready.