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I dont' know whether anyone was already working on something similar, but over the last weeks I have been completing and organizing the archive of tracks and winning replays on my Stunts folder with the races from Aug '05 on. Aside from a few significant omissions, which I'll confirm later on, I could find nearly everything on the net. Thus, if Zak or somebody else is interested - e.g. for the projects being discussing lately - just ask...

Edit - topic title modified in 2012/01/19; original was Competition Archive II: The Later Years
Edit 2 - topic title modified in 2021/02/19; original was Replay hunting & Competition Archive updates. Also merged the Competition Archive 2019 topic into this one.

So we can give Zak our feedback...
As for me, everything looks nice, clear and simple. My only suggestion for now, which is completely unrelated to the new stuff anyway, is to make some secondary colours on pipsqueaks' profiles (like on borders or textbox foreground/backgrounds) customizable, so that we could, for instance, apply team colours on them. Also, will data on Car Bonuses for older tracks be stored on "Car Bonuses" pages, or in the old scoreboards themselves?

(Zak, please move the topic elsewhere shouldn't this be quite the right place)

Well, title says it really. Wishing to try True-DOS Stunts again without leaving the convenience of Windows (and video capture  ), I did some research and figured out a way. The procedure is somewhat involved, and requires a couple auxiliary programs - namely, in order to use an image floppy disk to boot DOS on DOSBox and an small image HD containing the Stunts installation. Fortunately, nearly all the annoying stuff needs to be done just once. I will post a step-by-steb as soon as I get to test some technicalities. However, the real question is: does this "double-emulation" scheme suceed to run authentic Stunts? Although I did notice some improvement on handling as you guys describe, I do not trust my judgement entirely, for I do not play under True-DOS since childhood... so, would any of the more experienced folks give it a try and tell us the results? Thanks in advance...

Since I discovered, just after joining the community, that VDMSound stole 10% of Stunts' speed in my PC for quite a few years, I've been wondering about ways to make usage of Stunts setting up and usage in a modern machine as simple and unobtrusive as possible, and how much of help it could be to potential newcomers. A  very simple idea would be to pick a Stunts folder, then grab DOSBox and some good frontend and wrap everything into a neat Nullsoft Installer (nsis.sourceforge.net). Yesterday I was able to give the concept a try, and produced a crude, very ad hoc installer, comprising ZakStunts non-boot CD package and DBGL frontend 0.60RC2 (taken from http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/blankendaalr/dbgl), which conveniently already comes with DOSBox 0.71 integrated (all I had to add were the movie codecs for SDR-like stuff).

Being an image worth a thousand words, below are some attached screenshots. Discuss at will, and PM me if you have interest on seeing the test version live (webmasters welcome!) ...

Hi folks; as a newly registered member I feel proper to make some cute introduction post... I first played Stunts somewhere between late '95 and early '96, as a 7-year old kid; it probably was my second or third PC game ever. Since then, I have been racing for at least a couple months every year - there is no game with such replay value, period - , and over the years I got to slowly unveil more and more nifty tricks on this deceptive simplicity which is Stunts. So I found now a proper, if only a tad late, moment to join the community. The next logical step would be entering some competition, and indeed I intend, for now, to race Kalpen keeping a relaxed semi-amateur profile. As you will realize, I'm not a very prolific poster - I rather sit and watch people biting their heads off ;-) -, but I'll be hanging around... so, see you around, fellows.