I use Vi on Linux, and notepad on Windows. Well, for small things and hacks. For big projects usually some bloated IDE like Eclipse.

IMO for beginners it is best to use simplest tools (simple text editor) to learn the build process.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Maybe worth contributing to http://www.racer.nl/.

from the page:

There have been misunderstandings about the source code in the past time. This project is NOT OpenSource. The source code IS and will REMAIN for the oncoming time copyright (c) of Ruud van Gaal / Dolphinity BV. The source code is provided for general interest, and to build platform-specific versions (for Linux mainly) in case the provided binaries don't work.
All suggested changes to the source code will be reviewed by me, but before you do that, realise that the source code will remain copyrighted. Fixes are appreciated ofcourse, but I would advise against putting much into bigger things.

Quote from IGNAS7 :

I just BEG for some help..! I don't believe that nobody has ever managed to run LFS dedicated server on ubuntu... :/

Worked fine on Ubuntu 8.04 with Wine from repository last time I tried, so it must be something wrong on your end, probably your client can't see server (bad routing, bad server configuration) ...
And isn't there a tutorial for this somewhere in forum?

Quote from Test Driver :

Here's the next:

You attached screenshot of game Raptor with filename raptor.png ?

Shadows in this patch (Z15) work fine when i switch to TEST, I don't see them in STANDARD (low res shadows) or I see that weird black square (hi res shadows). Shadows worked fine in official Z patch.
Using wine-1.0 (latest autodelivered Ubuntu package - I got lazy with these modern distros ).

nVidia Geforce 6800
nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.18-24.1

Last edited by MonkOnHotTinRoof, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 20:22. Reason : hi res shadows note

You threw away modified string. Try with

Msg = Msg.Replace("tr", "");

and learn to use debugger

Are you using old native VB, or VB.net ? There are some old projects here, maybe they will share code with you:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1038796#post1038796
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=398175#post398175

But, it should be pretty simple:

in a loop you receive UDP outgauge packets (look for specification in LFS directories), you decode them and extract the information that is in your interest. Then set LPT data pin 0 to 0 or 5V (write 1 to corresponding bit in data register, lots of info on net, you will need driver to control LPT pins from your code, such as inpout32)

some links (there are much better ones, but for starters...):

http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Port ... indows_98/2000/NT/XP.html
http://electrosofts.com/parallel/parallelwin.html

I never (lucky me) used VB so I can't help you in details. But if you don't have much experience with programming, you will probably spend more time on receiving packets than controlling lpt

You can get needed info from outgauge interface. But IMO the biggest problem is to program USB device to put voltage to data line. Maybe you can get some examples for user space USB programming on net. Google is your friend
It would be easier to use parallel port, where each pin can be easily programmed to 0/5V.
I don't see why he would need special controller ? USB host (or parallel port) itself is already a controller (unless he is going to use it just as an external voltage supply, but that makes no sense for simple project as this).

Quote from zeugnimod :

There is definately no lack of racing servers. Just change your filter to show empty hosts.

And that would help him find racers?
Since XRT was put out from demo, it's impossible to find server with even one XRT racer on it. I get occasionally to classic BL1/XRT and I am always alone, and even if someone comes, he takes other car (possibly the least challenging and the fastest one). I think XRT needs to go back to demo. Demo players at least appreciated it and used it also for racing.

Chequered Flag on ZX Spectrum 48K was my first. I am one old fart .
Oh, and video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVeJAlt05-g

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Anyone tried Damn Small Linux? Is that any good or easy to use?

I did. To fit a 128 Mb USB key for rescue missions (when Windoze failed at work we always had to rescue data with Linux)
Not usable as a desktop solution imho, at least not in its standard form. So far I only tried following distributions: (X/K)Ubuntu, Slackware, Debian, Fedora and DSL. Of all these I recommend Ubuntu for newcomers. I am not newcomer, but I still use it for desktop. When you get too old you can't be arsed to remember all the hacks you have to make in other distros . I liked slackware for its simplicity design though.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Just a thought - their clever machine might report toe in on the left side as POSITIVE and toe in on the right as NEGATIVE. In which case it's spot on.

Actually that may be true. Probably that is why there is total under. But only for toe, camber doesn't fit. In that case rear looks fine, but front is still 0.22 degree error. Doesn't seem to be big difference tho. At least right tire will last longer .

Probably you just need to add 2 codepages. But I am not sure, haven't looked how Scawen implemented stuff, maybe new alphabets need more bytes for one symbol...

Quote from Riders Motion :

Did you get it aligned? Or is this before the mechanics touched anything? Your settings are a bit crazy /me think. If you havent yet, maybe you should think for an alignement!

Well that is the problem. From report I can't see any proof something was done and I wasn't there while they were doing it...

Quote from Homeless_Drunk :

Go back and get it re-aligned or get your money back and go somewhere else...that's way off...

You think so? I certainly won't get money back.
100€ well spent...

Quote from george_tsiros :

the manufacturer usualy indicates the proper values in the manual. you could try checking.

Already checked that. Nothing like that in manual.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I'd wager that it was checked with the front wheels off centre. Remember that most of the people who work in garages that have 'digital alignment systems' don't actually know anything (even if they're "trained").

The best way is to do it yourself at home with four axle stands, some string and a rule. Much more accurate generally.

they have this:
http://www.jenko.si/optika_ccd.php
and this:
http://www.jenko.si/optika_3d.php

and they are supposed to be good

Dunno what they used tho... Well next time at registration I will just look stupid like I always do and hope it passes If it doesn't I'll go visit those punks :arge:

Thanks to all for help.

Quote from T-RonX :

Hi,
I've been searching a lot but I can't find out how to convert strings received via InSim to human readable text in .NET.
I only get the some ASCII chars working, thats all.
I've been playing with Encoding.UFT8 but no luck yet.

LFS doesn't use UTF8 for encoding unfortunately, but code pages. And even code pages are not completely standard. So it's not easy task to make completely accurate conversion from and to c# internal UCS16 unicode representation.

I had my car checked for wheel alignment and this is report. Can anyone comment on that, cause it looks strange to me. I kind of expected more symmetric stuff, and toe a bit positive on both front wheels ? And initial measure is almost exactly same as final. Does that mean they didn't fix anything or they just measured twice the same thing lol. Pic is crappy (phone cam ftl), but numbers can be read

Last edited by MonkOnHotTinRoof, Sun 3 Aug 2008, 09:11. Reason : updated pics

Quote from yankman :

Don't mix things up here.
C# is a programming language as well as C++ but .NET is a lib or a framework of libs ... thats a big difference.

I didn't mix anything. Just said that language without rich standardized libraries is PITA for productive cross platform development. Hmm, .net libraries afaik are not standardized, but at least mono covers most important classes.

Quote from yankman :

Your are right about C++. Beside that I find the STL very useful, there is not much to make a complete software,
but it is not platform dependend.

I have very bad experience with portability of STL. Even in wxwidgets they decided not to use it...

Quote from yankman :

Why are u trying wxwidgets ? Isn't it a library which uses the same api as win32 ? (analog to mono which implements the .NET api)

It's cross platform C++ OO library (abstraction layer to OS - minimal subset with optional superset ). Coding looks bit ugly (indeed classes look much like MFC), they stripped some C++ features like exceptions, namespaces, etc (cause they obviously are not supported by some compilers and/or are too differently implemented - precise standardization ftw :rolleyes

http://www.wxwidgets.org/

I don't like QT, since you lose native GUI and it has too restricted license.

And it's not OT, I suggested a library .

Last edited by MonkOnHotTinRoof, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 17:00.

Quote from yankman :

I am not a fan of C# and would really like to see a platform indepedent solution in C/C++, even if if not has all the functionalty of LFS_external.

C# is a nice modern language (and I tried a lot of them :nod. It just has some misplaced namespaces, some shitty libraries tied to Win crap OS, and I see no reason why there is no native compiler...

C++ is so unproductive that I haven't touched it for a long time. That (and upper post) probably explains why there is no insim helper library available for C/C++. I did plan to make one tho, but I got sick of Insim, and I am waiting for wxwidgets 3.0.

Problem with C/C++ is, that standard libraries (or better lack of them) are useless piece of shit. Which means if you want to produce something as basic as dealing with threads, synchronization, timers, network communication, you need to use nonstandard cross platform libraries like boost, wxwidgets, sdl... Each of them have their weaknesses, but still better (faster) to try to use one of these than to implement your own compatibility layer...

Quote from marzman :

If LFS is for a "niche" marked, i wunder how they call the market for this

I guess there are more farmers than racers. Also farming is a bit more useful to human kind than just polluting air and burning fuel for the sake of it .

Here is a legend racing sim that we oldies played a lot:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/ga ... 500+-+The+Simulation.html

+ awesome graphics (for its time) and stunning sound effects (falling parts (triangles) off the car are so funny I always end up driving in reverse )
+ first sim with ability to modify setups?
+ very good immersion (try to drive backwards with full grid :razz
+ good, aggressive AI
+ doesn't require latest HW !
- your FF wheel probably won't work
- only one oval track
- single player only

DOSBox emulator is recommended to play

And no one mentioned Racer, free simulation (well, free as in free beer):

http://www.racer.nl/

+ free
+ nice clean gfx
+ ability to easy create new cars and track (never tried myself tho)
+ tons of cars and tracks if you have time to search through all the broken links and different versions
- hard to get good ones, specially those that actually have cockpit view
- tyres feel like bricks (at least to me) and collision system is not something to call home for
+ native win32, linux and mac (hey, it must be rewarded for x-platform programming)

I found ugly solution that works for nickname by editing Ply Name line in cfg.txt file.

I changed from alt+alt (default) to alt+shift, and added US layout. Switch works ok, but that has nothing to do with changing colors in LFS. Problem is that when clicking on color or code page button, nothing happens.

tremulous

Is there any way to change colors in nickname (or anywhere else) ? Clicking on colors below doesn't seem to work... neither clicking on code pages selection
Using ubuntu 8.04 and wine 0.9.59. Everything else needed works surprisingly well, but I got used to have colors.

Quote from darkinertia :

is there a way to gradually look left/right based on your steering wheel?

Select view menu in options and choose steer tab on Look function.