Muroviper sounds familar. Did you race in val's nightly races? I say about a good 10 years ago. I remember when vrgt first released the monster truck and arena. Had to be 7-8 years ago
I remember getting a disc on my birthday way back in 2004/5 which contained 20 racing games, they were all demo's though. But LFS was the one i enjoyed the most! And still stuck around ever since.
But i still haven't gotten to the point of buying a S2 license, since a S3 license was lurking arround, way back in 2008. That, and the FBM still keeps me busy!
Never really spended much time on racing though, i always messed around with the car's settings. I even remember you could change the wheel track on the XFG and XRG.
Decrease the wheel's track, higher the suspension, soften the springs, and look at the AI's roll!
A recommendation from a friend on a forum which has long since faded away, the forum was a small community of skilled programmers - a sort of hackers bar if you like. It was meant to contain the best programmers on the indi scene at the time but died a death for two reasons:
Firstly, few people in that community needed help so the forums were quiet.
Secondly, games like LFS blew the little sim I had been working on out of the water - and I figured i'd give up writing games and go back to playing them.
I am now writing games again, i'm just not bothering to do a racing sim :P
I started playing LFS by seeing my friend in I.T in school, go on to the LFS.net website, so i did the same and then got the demo, became a cruiser freak.
I have to thank Codemasters for introducing LFS to me. Way back in 2001/2002 I am to old to remember, while looking up the new TOCA, there was a post in their forums pointing me to RSC forums and LFS....yep, still here
Listen to friend about LFS. Starting with keyboard(2years) then i was 2year inactive and coming back in 2012 nov. and starting with mouse. Playing 1month with mouse and doing new pb on FBM 1.12.41. Mouse is good. Thats my story.
Googled around for alternatives to GPL, I think. Came across some LFS info before the first alpha release. Hung around for the first release and stuck with it since. The first years were VERY exciting! It's still the sim I come back to occationally. It's still like coming home