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#31
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 12, 2024, 07:10:08 PM
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#32
Live Races / Re: Generations - (2024-03-17)
March 11, 2024, 06:39:47 PM
I'll grab the 2024 in yellow!  Alan, I know you like yellow too, so let me know if you want to reserve it for yourself!
#33
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 11, 2024, 06:31:54 PM
pacman
#34
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 10, 2024, 10:01:28 PM
Nik (Argentinian cartoonist)
#35
On the true DOS system, have you tried running Stunts with LoadFix or LoadHigh?  Some differences in emulation have to do with the usage of the high segments in the first megabyte, because these were not very clearly defined in DOS. Sometimes, EMM386 or the UMB (upper memory block) configuration in your config sys would expect there to be RAM at some of those regions, but some motherboards would have something else. I have no idea what DOSBox does with it.
#36
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 09, 2024, 04:47:31 PM
Milky Way
#37
Stunts Related Programs / Re: Pretty Garage
March 08, 2024, 11:05:24 PM
2024-03-08 Update - Version 1.1

This is the first version that has all the features I had originally planned for it, although some functionality that would add comfort is still not available.

New things
  • Star feature of this release: online groups. Basically, when retrieving a CRI, it can either be a true car repository index, with a location from where to download the cars, or a list of IDs separated by commas, an online group, that is. It is a lot easier to set up the second one on websites, but it's not the same thing. It depends on what you want to achieve.
  • A manual.txt file where you can learn about the shortcut keys and the different options in detail
  • Cachéd images of the cars are included
  • A small feature to force re-create the image of a car that also allows you to select the paint job for it

What's still pending
  • Some way to configure from the interface, especially on first run, to be able to set up your directories and not have to edit the configuration file manually
  • Ability to create, reorder and modify garages easily from the GUI
  • Some commands, like to quickly add cars to a group or create a group based of a name filter
  • The equivalent to the "only" command in Simple Garage
#38
Motor sports, Racing / Re: F1 videos
March 08, 2024, 10:54:53 PM
Really good looking cars taking the job of F1 safety cars! :)
#39
I still have the BB1.0 copy of Stunts I was first brought by my friend Pablo. That day, I usually refer to as "the first wave", because I had only had a computer for a week or so and didn't have any games. He came with lots of diskettes and I suddenly had about ten games, including Stunts.

That copy did have its strange things too. Skid was missing a file, so if you selected him for racing, the game would crash. The default replay was not the original one, I think. It was raced on the default track on a Porsche March Indy and ended in a crash after flying up into the air at the loop. The AdLib driver was corrupt. I didn't notice that for months, because I only had the internal PC Speaker, but when I had a SoundBlaster, I noticed that selecting it, the game produced strange noises, so I kept using the PC Speaker, until one day, I realised that my copy of Fight (4D Sports Boxing) also had this file and it had good sound, so I copied it into Stunts and the problem got fixed.

There have been some respectable years in the 21st century for me. Honorable mentions go to 2005, 2009 and also 2017, yes!  Yet, nothing beats the "perfect decade" (1985-1994) and 1997.
#40
It's amazing!  In the 90s, I didn't have an internet connection until maybe half of 1999... but beginning 1997, it was possible for me to access via cybercafés and the University's computer lab. I remember having come across a Stunts competition at some point around that time, but I felt like everybody knew what they were doing there already and I didn't, so I didn't participate. I should've done it. Now we're a lot more organised, yet, I'd stay in the 90s forever if I had a choice. I don't need any of what came after, ha, ha.
#41
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 07, 2024, 05:58:01 PM
Singularity
#42
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 06, 2024, 07:31:40 PM
null
#43
Chat - Misc / Re: Distro hopping and my impressions
March 05, 2024, 07:22:12 PM
I'm now trying Arch and my general impression is really good. It's not hard to install as is often said, but unless you use "archinstall", which makes it just as easy as any other distro, you may forget what you had to do next and maybe skip a step, so it's wise to be following the guide, only that. Once installed, it's very user friendly. pacman is just as comfortable to use as apt or yum. I actually found Arch to be less problematic than Debian in many ways.

One thing is that, because it's starts so nearly from scratch, everything you install changes your fonts, ha, ha... but that's not a problem for me. Just a curiousity. Of course, when you install some new software, it comes with new fonts. When the system sees you have new fonts, it sometimes switches to the new ones in some other programs. I chose to use MATE as my desktop in this case.

About distributions I have tried in the past: Red Hat 7, then 8 (the old ones, not the enterprise ones), Ubuntu (including Kubuntu, several times), Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Antergos (an old, discontinued, Arch-based distribution that would install to desktop directly) and probably more that I don't remember.
#44
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 05, 2024, 07:12:16 PM
That sun
#45
'92 through '94 is also the time when I built my own early tracks. Miss that time!