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#41

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 04:32:27 PM

What you recommend is outdated. Version repaired by Mr. HerrNove, DOSBox included:

https://marnetto.net/projects/stunts

I arranged it a little:

https://matei.one/games.html#download

Details above in the page and in the downloadable file. You can run "SETUP.BAT" and select 2 viewing distances, which work well at about 25000 and 35000 cycles, respectively. I also raised the car a little, as can be seen in the pictures.

#42

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 04:09:24 PM

I am not aware of the current car (bonus) rules, but it seems to be a perfect Audi Quattro circuit.

The Audi is not far off, though I guess it is a couple bonus points away from really fighting at the top -- the margins are narrow these days!

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for Win11!

The basics remain the same, I think. 20k cycles keeps being a sensible default, though a relatively recent computer should handle cycles well about that with no problems. While preferred DOSBox version these days is DOSBox Staging, plain old vanilla DOSBox 0.74 is still good enough. For vanilla DOSBox 0.74 on Windows, I'd use something like this as a base for dosbox.conf (some of these are not necessary with Staging due to better defaults. Also, I prefer windowed to full screen, but YMMV of course):

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[cpu]
cpu_cycles=20000
core=dynamic

[render]
aspect=true

[sdl]
output=overlay
fullscreen=false
windowresolution=960x720
priority=higher

Alternatively, for a ready-made setup on Windows you can try the R4K Stunts installer.

Quite a dilemma... shall I come back for "only one race"?

Only you can answer that... but you don't liking your earlier goals means there's a window to change or reframe them

#43

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 02:08:08 PM

Currently my level is 1:08.xx in drunk state, online Default.trk racing - so, not a big deal, can be beaten easily by 5-10 pipsqueaks in an instant...

However, if I can find some motivation, podium is almost sure.

Quite a dilemma... shall I come back for "only one race"? I am pretty sure that if DOSBox will be available again, I will hunt (most of) you down, month to month...

But I don't want to. It was a sick life, with goals without real value...

#44

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 02:01:32 PM

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for W**11!

Yeah, get rid of that malware and install an operating system.

https://matei.one/idxscr.html#story (a little lower):

Even if you obtain a proprietary program from a legitimate source (see picture above) and don't pay anything, by using it you give free advertising to an organisation that works against you.

Which you just did.

#45

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by alanrotoi - November 22, 2025, 01:10:34 PM

I hope a full Lambo scoreboard to not see this car in the next years

The first question is, left or right? Is right right or right is wrong?

#46

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 01:00:34 PM

I have to say it's a nice track, based on the map (and the prohibition of dual-way switch).

I am not aware of the current car (bonus) rules, but it seems to be a perfect Audi Quattro circuit.

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for Win11!

#47

Competition 2025 / Re: Cloned replays, ZCT285 to ...

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 12:56:46 PM

Probably I have already told 45234365 times, but still: my ZCT34 replay should be deleted, too. The first ~12 seconds of my replay was stolen from Poo.

#48

Competition 2025 / ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 12:54:41 PM

Starting with a poll! And with an amusing tidbit from Wednesday's PTB update 

[F12 + []

#49

Competition 2025 / Re: Cloned replays, ZCT285 to ...

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 12:06:59 PM

There's another problem. If someone gets access to someone else's replay, that person can just imitate the other person's driving style, which is made easier by slowing down the emulator with F12 + [ in DOSBox-X or by just increasing the number of cycles to a high enough value in the original DOSBox. Not that I wasted any time doing this, just saying.

#50

Competition 2025 / Re: Cloned replays, ZCT285 to ...

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 11:34:27 AM

The PTB tables now have been recalculated. There have been some changes to them starting from ZCT288 (cf. the page as it was yesterday). Overall, 127:03 of PTB time has been redistributed. No one got additional points from those hours as of now (it might still happen in ZCT293), though some half-points have been earned earlier than we thought: Alan Rotoi on ZCT292 rather than ZCT293; KyLiE on ZCT289 rather than ZCT292; Zapper on ZCT290 rather than ZCT292.