Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Easy. I prefer so many Mac programs to windows programs, it's not even funny how horrible windows is for usability after you become accustomed to OSX. Windows feels like trying to use a condom with barbs on the inside, compared to OSX being an ultra-thin condom. The feelings are totally full-circle opposite.

I use both Mac and Windows. And I am the opposite of you, the usability for Mac's suck in Finder as compared to Explorer. One can't even do a cut and paste files. And the marquee is not as easy in the detail view. The Mac requires more cliking to get the same job done for a lot of things in Finder.

For applications that come in both platforms, the usability of these programs were no difference to me. Either platforms were fine with me.

DDmak

From the west coast...Vancouver, BC.
Very hard for us west coasters to race with ppl from eastern canada because of the 3 hours difference in time zone.

DDmak

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Arg, sorry if this comes across as being harsh toned, but Bootcamp is the same as Dual-Booting XP/Vista and Mac OS X on your Mac, so EVERYTHING!! will work as it does on a Windows PC, becuase at that point in time, your 2000$ Macbook is simply an amazing looking Windows Laptop.

Cool, thanks for the info.

Cheers,
DDmak

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Bootcamp is simply running XP or Vista as the OS, like on a normal PC, so if it's supported by XP/Vista, it will work just like on a normal PC. Thru Parallels and VMWare Fusion, 3d applications struggle, and CPU applications have issues too. LFS is simply unplayable on my iMac thru Virtualization(VMware Fusion/Parallels), but running it in Vista on my iMac (Boot Camp), it runs lovely, like 100 FPS on average.

Thanks for the info, that's good to know the Bootcamp works better than Parallels. I was thinking trying Parallels with my MacBook, but I think I will skip it and use Bootcamp instead.
But how about hardware such as a Logitech steering wheel...will the FFB through Bootcamp as good as on a Windows PC?

Cheers,
DDmak

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I'm using actually the latest Vista drivers for ATi Cards (7.2 are the last to support mobility cards) on my 20" iMac.

I assumed you are using Vista thru Bootcamp on your iMac. But have you tried running LFS S2 on your iMac thru Bootcamp or thru Parallels? If so, does S2 run smoothly at all?
Also, will a FFB steering wheel (lets say it is a logitech wheel) works thru bootcamp?
The reason I am asking is that if S2 will work on Bootcamp, then it's a safe bet that AutoCAD will work thru Bootcamp too.
I am a Windows user for a long time, but recently I added a Macbook for myself to take it for travelling. And I would love to bring these two applications with me in the MacBook on a trip.

Cheers,
DDmak

Quote from nikimere :

If someone gets fully along side you and is on the inside there is no reason why you shouldn't give them the right of way or even proceed to go side by side through if you trust them.

I agreed with you. But a lot of drivers that were doing the passing forgot that on the exit of the turn (after the apex), they don't leave you room, they just drift back toward the outside, leaving the slower driver no where to go, either he has to hit the passing car or go into the dirt.

DDmak

Quote from Skodik :

Hi racers,
I would like to buy S2 licence, but I am little worried if it is possible on system Vista, because, I heard, that on Vista is problem with registration, because there is another type of HW number or something that.

Do you have some experience with it?
Is registration and ussing full version possible?

I have S2 W, thank you very much for your answers, Dominik Skoda

I have been running S2 in Vista Premium online and offline since February. No problem at all. And you don't have to run it as Administrator either.

DDmak

Hi Niels,

I will have a go at it as I drive both sims.
I currently racing in the CTRA (formally STCC) working towards my Silver licence and racing in Guru, Atle is the founder which he posted a couple of messages back. I am also racing in a league using rFactor Caterham.

DDmak

I always try my best to practice on what everyone says. But sometimes honest mistake do happen, and I understand it, whether it was by me or someone else.

But the two things that irk me are:

First, when someone did know that they made a mistake that caused you to go off the track or something, they don't stop and wait for you to pass them back, they gave you the standard "Sorry" as if everything will be alright and kept on going.

Second, it usually happened on T1, T2 or T3 on the first lap. Here we have a bunch of racers very closed together. There might be a car in the front slightly lost control in the turn, I am in the mid pack, slowing down to avoid hitting him or avoid getting hit. But the morons at the back just kept on charging into the turn like they were hot lapping. No respect for the people in front of them.

DDmak

I am sorry, but Team Zamboni for saturday race will be pulling out. We will not be racing for the season.

Happy racing to you guys.

DDmak

Quote from Cue-Ball :

I'm stating my opinion (it's fine the way it is) AND i'm stating fact (a cars wheel doesn't magically change the number of degrees it rotates). Each car is setup to have a specific lock-to-lock and that's that. The only way it should ever change is if we, in the future, are able to change the steering ratios on the cars.

Making the wheel turn less so that it matches the users external wheel just makes no damn sense at all. If having the "real" wheel and the "game" wheel not match is so bothersome there's a nice little option to turn the game wheel off. Or, he can just buy a wheel with at least 720* rotation and then it's a moot point since both wheels will always match up.

I believe he wanted the graphical thing, not actually changing the car steering ratio or lock to lock. I think everyone agrees not to change the lock to lock or the steering ratio.

In rFactor, you can change the graphic of the ingame steering wheel to match the rotation of your desk wheel, and the steering ratio or lock to lock stays the same.

Great post with excellent idea, Gimpster.

DDmak

Here's an article from Macworld magazine, http://www.macworld.com/2006/03/firstlooks/xpmini/index.php, the author has installed WinXP onto the new Intel Mac Mini. According to the article, getting a display driver is the only problem if you want to run Windows graphics in accelerated mode. But I've heard display drivers are already can be found in Internet.

Cheers,
DDmak

Quote from ThunderBoy :

Hi.

Just wondering if anyone tried to run LFS with VirtualPC on an MacOS X system? Or any other PC emulating software that I am aware of? I know there are Linux users doing it so it would be interesting to see how it fared on the new Intel-based Macs...

And before you start asking why when it works so well on PC (which it does), the reasons for moving (back) to MacOS are my own and noone elses thankyouverymuch

Being a programmer, I am also a bit curious as to the hassle of porting LFS to Macs. There are lots of interesting talk about porting PC games to Intel-based Macs and based on the little knowledge I have on how LFS is architected it seems like an excellent candidate for porting. The amount of good racing sims/games on Macs are fewer than few...