- Welcome to Stunts Forum.
Posted by CTG
- August 26, 2013, 07:54:49 AMQuote from: Duplode on August 25, 2013, 07:28:04 PM
Very liberal (we have CTG here, after all)
* CTG and liberal in the same sentence? That sounds really weird. 
Posted by Duplode
- August 25, 2013, 07:28:04 PMQuote from: Jürgen on August 25, 2013, 07:14:23 PMQuote from: Duplode on August 25, 2013, 07:03:03 PMNot at all!Quote from: Jürgen on August 25, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Desktop computers are a dying race anyway... in the world of laptops and tablets, everything is getting faster and smaller, at age 22 I just feel too old for this sometimes.
It's always tranquillising to be reminded that I (at 25) am not the only one who feels this way
Very liberal (we have CTG here, after all
); feel free to do it 
Posted by Jürgen
- August 25, 2013, 07:14:23 PMQuote from: Duplode on August 25, 2013, 07:03:03 PMNot at all!Quote from: Jürgen on August 25, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Desktop computers are a dying race anyway... in the world of laptops and tablets, everything is getting faster and smaller, at age 22 I just feel too old for this sometimes.
It's always tranquillising to be reminded that I (at 25) am not the only one who feels this way
And actually, now that I mentioned tablets, I just had an idea about something... maybe I'll open a topic about it, if it's possible. How strict are the rules for opening new topics around here?Posted by Duplode
- August 25, 2013, 07:03:03 PMQuote from: Jürgen on August 25, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Desktop computers are a dying race anyway... in the world of laptops and tablets, everything is getting faster and smaller, at age 22 I just feel too old for this sometimes.
It's always tranquillising to be reminded that I (at 25) am not the only one who feels this way
Posted by Jürgen
- August 25, 2013, 06:36:50 PMQuote from: Duplode on August 25, 2013, 06:21:33 PMThank you Duplode! I agree, it was a much more calm and civilized time in the computer world! One processor core and a few megabytes of RAM could make us happy every day... now the world goes so fast, I'm afraid to buy a new computer because it could go obsolete in a few months! Desktop computers are a dying race anyway... in the world of laptops and tablets, everything is getting faster and smaller, at age 22 I just feel too old for this sometimes.
Hello and welcome Jürgen! Your story makes me think of my own first contact - a 486 as the first home PC, a bunch of floppies to try out... good times
Who knows?Many of us said similar things on joining the community. Also, as you might already know, at CTG's USC replays are posted publicly here in the forum, so you have the opportunity to watch what the other races are doing during the race.
(P.S.: Nice way of getting around the pipsqueaks filter! I never thought of doing that
About racing... well, as I see, it's kind of time consuming to actually get professional in Stunts racing, and I was never good with time or schedules (just ask my boss, hahah
). Sometimes I already feel I'm a member of too many communities or groups of people that probably don't get as much attention from me as I would like to give them; I don't think I could start doing it. But it's not scripture, we'll see, maybe one day I'll send a replay in! And yes, I'm checking out the ones uploaded sometimes, mostly I go for the "historical" ones though that might have won a championship a few years ago (Yeah, did this on many phpbb and invision based forums to annoy the moderators, it's a delight to see it works here as well.
)Posted by Duplode
- August 25, 2013, 06:21:33 PMHello and welcome Jürgen! Your story makes me think of my own first contact - a 486 as the first home PC, a bunch of floppies to try out... good times
Who knows? Many of us said similar things on joining the community. Also, as you might already know, at CTG's USC replays are posted publicly here in the forum, so you have the opportunity to watch what the other races are doing during the race.
(P.S.: Nice way of getting around the pipsqueaks filter! I never thought of doing that)
Quote from: Jürgen on August 25, 2013, 03:35:19 PM
I still think it's an amazing game, but looking at some of the replays, I don't think I could stand against the professional racers... sorry, pipsqueaks here
Who knows?
Many of us said similar things on joining the community. Also, as you might already know, at CTG's USC replays are posted publicly here in the forum, so you have the opportunity to watch what the other races are doing during the race.(P.S.: Nice way of getting around the pipsqueaks filter! I never thought of doing that
)Posted by Jürgen
- August 25, 2013, 03:35:19 PMHello people!
I'm new to the forum (though I registered a long time ago) and I think this topic is perfect to make my first post here.
The first computer game I've ever played with was Accolade's Grand Prix Circuit, on my father's monochrome 386 company laptop. (As you might know, that game was developed by Distinctive Software, just like Stunts.) Even years later, when the laptop was long gone and we had our own 486DX with a color CRT, I played that game sometimes. Once, I and my family were preparing to go on holiday to the mountains... just the night before we were off to go, my dad came home from work with a bunch of floppy disks... I asked "what's on them?", and he said "see for yourself!". So I copied the files from the floppies to the hard drive, and found out it's a game called Stunts. My dad told me it's the game everyone's playing at his workplace lately, it's like Accolade GP but much more modern with lots of different cars and a track editor. I was immediately sucked in... I was around 5 or 6 years old and I told my parents I refuse to go on holiday with them as I want to stay home to play Stunts. They refused, so when they were gone to bed, I turned the computer on and played Stunts all night. I spent the whole car ride asleep the next morning, but it was worth it! The holiday was good I guess, but I know when we got home, I was back to playing Stunts and shared it with my friends, too. Then years later, I started experimenting with DOSBox and the first game I thought of to try was Stunts of course. I started reading about it on the Internet and also downloaded some custom cars. I still think it's an amazing game, but looking at some of the replays, I don't think I could stand against the professional racers... sorry, pipsqueaks here
I'm new to the forum (though I registered a long time ago) and I think this topic is perfect to make my first post here.
The first computer game I've ever played with was Accolade's Grand Prix Circuit, on my father's monochrome 386 company laptop. (As you might know, that game was developed by Distinctive Software, just like Stunts.) Even years later, when the laptop was long gone and we had our own 486DX with a color CRT, I played that game sometimes. Once, I and my family were preparing to go on holiday to the mountains... just the night before we were off to go, my dad came home from work with a bunch of floppy disks... I asked "what's on them?", and he said "see for yourself!". So I copied the files from the floppies to the hard drive, and found out it's a game called Stunts. My dad told me it's the game everyone's playing at his workplace lately, it's like Accolade GP but much more modern with lots of different cars and a track editor. I was immediately sucked in... I was around 5 or 6 years old and I told my parents I refuse to go on holiday with them as I want to stay home to play Stunts. They refused, so when they were gone to bed, I turned the computer on and played Stunts all night.
I spent the whole car ride asleep the next morning, but it was worth it! The holiday was good I guess, but I know when we got home, I was back to playing Stunts and shared it with my friends, too. Then years later, I started experimenting with DOSBox and the first game I thought of to try was Stunts of course. I started reading about it on the Internet and also downloaded some custom cars. I still think it's an amazing game, but looking at some of the replays, I don't think I could stand against the professional racers... sorry, pipsqueaks here Posted by CTG
- August 23, 2013, 03:57:07 PMQuote from: Mislav on January 10, 2006, 06:45:25 PM
Hahaha CTG, very nice biography! But what's the name of that girl?
The one beating me in the '90s? Her name is Timi.
Posted by BonzaiJoe
- January 12, 2006, 12:04:31 AMVery well written Zak, and lots of nice memories, it was great to live through it all again :-)
And you mislav, also a very nice post that made me smile :-)
First contact:
It was 1994, I was 9 years old, and after school, I was at an SFO (a place where most of the kids from the younger classes hung out after school, while parents were still at work). We had a computer there, and it had some really bad games on it that I played because they were the only ones there. The one day, an older boy came with some floppy disks, and suddenly there were 10 fantastic new games to play! There were big queues to play them. One of them was called "Stunts", and I took a definite liking to that one. It became the most popular of the 10 games, and it was already at that time, that I started Stunts-competing. A few of us kids kept pushing each others limits on the tracks, and grew better and better. Default racing times came to about 1.13-1.14 (without replay handling of course).
Those were great days. Then one day, maybe a year and a half later, I am playing on my brother's computer, and I notice Stunts is there! I ask my brother, and shows me his unbelievable Default record: 1.12.00!!
(by the way I remember once talking with an older boy, who told me his record on Default was 1.08, and I was sure he was lying. Now I see maybe he wasn't :-)).
The following time, I raced a lot on my computer, built a lot of tracks, and enjoyed beating my own records. It was when I was 12 years old that I came up with the name "Bonzai Joe", which was a character from a story I had written. The story also had a character called Jacky, which was supposed to be me, but for some reason I chose "Bonzai Joe" for Stunts. (making up names was my favourite part of writing stories then, by the way :-))
Time passed, until when I was 14 or 15, I started playing Stunts again, together with one of my good friends, who had also been playing back then, in 1994. Again, we pushed each other's times, and had great battles on our self-made tracks. My friend enjoyed making tracks that could be finished in up to ten different ways, and we spent a lot of time trying to find the fastest way. His classic was called "Otto's".
One day, the idea sprung into my mind to look for Stunts on the internet. I can absolutely not explain why this idea had not appeared to me before! It was in December 2000. I was looking, because I thought I was really good at Stunts, and I wanted to find out if it was true. I had never thought of online competition, but was just looking for some tracks and high-score files to compare with. I immediately found Lukas Loehrer's site, and downloaded a 13-minute long track from there, and started driving. (of course I never finished it...).
Then I found a page called "www.kalpen.de", and that was the bomb! I had never expected anything like this. I immediately downloaded the track, and discovered the limit of my Stunts skills. Then in the following months, I visited this site several times each day, and spent hours and hours racing. I still didn't know about replay handling. My friend also raced a few times, with the name "ManOnMoon". In April 2001 I discovered replay handling (but of course back then, that meant saving the replay before crashing, and loading it), and my results went a bit higher. Then Zakstunts came, and the rest is history.
I had never dreamed to find a community like this, to find friends here, to have a Stunts meeting, and to win and lose so many exciting races.
And you mislav, also a very nice post that made me smile :-)
First contact:
It was 1994, I was 9 years old, and after school, I was at an SFO (a place where most of the kids from the younger classes hung out after school, while parents were still at work). We had a computer there, and it had some really bad games on it that I played because they were the only ones there. The one day, an older boy came with some floppy disks, and suddenly there were 10 fantastic new games to play! There were big queues to play them. One of them was called "Stunts", and I took a definite liking to that one. It became the most popular of the 10 games, and it was already at that time, that I started Stunts-competing. A few of us kids kept pushing each others limits on the tracks, and grew better and better. Default racing times came to about 1.13-1.14 (without replay handling of course).
Those were great days. Then one day, maybe a year and a half later, I am playing on my brother's computer, and I notice Stunts is there! I ask my brother, and shows me his unbelievable Default record: 1.12.00!!
(by the way I remember once talking with an older boy, who told me his record on Default was 1.08, and I was sure he was lying. Now I see maybe he wasn't :-)).
The following time, I raced a lot on my computer, built a lot of tracks, and enjoyed beating my own records. It was when I was 12 years old that I came up with the name "Bonzai Joe", which was a character from a story I had written. The story also had a character called Jacky, which was supposed to be me, but for some reason I chose "Bonzai Joe" for Stunts. (making up names was my favourite part of writing stories then, by the way :-))
Time passed, until when I was 14 or 15, I started playing Stunts again, together with one of my good friends, who had also been playing back then, in 1994. Again, we pushed each other's times, and had great battles on our self-made tracks. My friend enjoyed making tracks that could be finished in up to ten different ways, and we spent a lot of time trying to find the fastest way. His classic was called "Otto's".
One day, the idea sprung into my mind to look for Stunts on the internet. I can absolutely not explain why this idea had not appeared to me before! It was in December 2000. I was looking, because I thought I was really good at Stunts, and I wanted to find out if it was true. I had never thought of online competition, but was just looking for some tracks and high-score files to compare with. I immediately found Lukas Loehrer's site, and downloaded a 13-minute long track from there, and started driving. (of course I never finished it...).
Then I found a page called "www.kalpen.de", and that was the bomb! I had never expected anything like this. I immediately downloaded the track, and discovered the limit of my Stunts skills. Then in the following months, I visited this site several times each day, and spent hours and hours racing. I still didn't know about replay handling. My friend also raced a few times, with the name "ManOnMoon". In April 2001 I discovered replay handling (but of course back then, that meant saving the replay before crashing, and loading it), and my results went a bit higher. Then Zakstunts came, and the rest is history.
I had never dreamed to find a community like this, to find friends here, to have a Stunts meeting, and to win and lose so many exciting races.
Posted by JTK
- January 11, 2006, 07:09:16 PMVery well written, Zak! Oh, yes, my heart is filled with love now. :-)
Posted by JTK
- January 11, 2006, 06:13:37 PMCool!
Posted by zaqrack
- January 10, 2006, 11:53:58 PMQuote from: "JTK"Godfather of Stunts Competition!). To read more about this, take a look at Zak's articles about the Stunts community, to be found at his site or directly here (part 1) or here (part 2).
and
here part 3
very, very very hot and new
Posted by JTK
- January 10, 2006, 09:31:20 PMQuote from: "zaqrack"It had 10 visitors in the past 7 months! now it'll boost! hurray!One of them was me last weekend. :-)
Quote from: "Mislav"What can do Competition Car but not Indy? And where's the difference between CompetitionCar 0.9 and 1.0? Thanks maniacs:)That's what Luke, the ccar's inventor writes:
# Changed the max rpm to the same value as in 1.1. This change alone would have made the car file identical to the one of version 1.1. Stunts 1.0 with this file was what we have called 1.0+ above.
# Lifted the power curve, especially for higher rpms.
# I increased byte CA hoping this would give the car a bit more wheel grip.
You can read it all here at Luke's old,old,old Stunts page. To find the effects of the differences between the Indies and the Competition car, take a look at the "Indy Evaluation" page at our site.
And by the way - before KHR and me started our contest, Lukas Loehrer's was the first contest on the internet (I guess he hosted the first of all, the Godfather of Stunts Competition!). To read more about this, take a look at Zak's articles about the Stunts community, to be found at his site and directly here (part 1) or here (part 2).
Now to my first contact: It was about 1990. A friend of mine had a "computer". An Amiga. Nice games he had, we really enjoyed Test Drive. One day I was at his home and he showed my the newest game from DSI - I loved it at once. It was like Test Drive but free driving! And faster! At once I tried to build a track and made him race it. *sigh* Those were the days...
Later my father had a "PC", which meant a XT calculator. My brother KHR stole Stunts from elsewhere and we were addicted immediately! He improved racing and I tried to construct tracks, noone in the world would be able to race at all (find them at our site at the tracks section, they were called Hell 1 - Hell 5). But in the end he always succeeded. Racing these tracks, what in that time took more than 15 minutes, we discovered the replay handling trick. I also loved to invent jumps, which got names by me, like "King", "Killer", "Cleaner" and so on. Reading the names you can imagine why they were called like this: I wanted to create stunts to make KHR crash his BB 1.0 Indy. But after some hours of exercising he could cope with all of them. And so racing and constructing went on, until 1998... when all of our Stunts life should change forever - Stunts and internet, what a combination!
Posted by zaqrack
- January 10, 2006, 09:06:02 PMthere are some short bio's at the forgotten http://stunts.mine.nu/corkscrew team site!
It had 10 visitors in the past 7 months! now it'll boost! hurray!
It had 10 visitors in the past 7 months! now it'll boost! hurray!
Posted by Mislav
- January 10, 2006, 06:45:25 PMHahaha CTG, very nice biography! But what's the name of that girl?