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tobster · Aug 10, 2002, 09:51 PM

Are there any of these for Mac OS X?

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Guy Incognito · Aug 10, 2002, 11:30 PM

Originally posted by tobster:
Are there any of these for Mac OS X?

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Unfortunately, no.

Driver seems to be the only title that might fill part of that gap (the gap being the lack of *good* [keyword 'good'] racing games on Mac)...but it seems so early in development and so open-source that we might never see a user-friendly and non-weekly-upgraded version of it if we ever see a decent working version in the next year or so.

Joost · Aug 11, 2002, 06:14 AM

Originally posted by tobster:
Are there any of these for Mac OS X?

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http://www.feral.co.uk/english/f1-2000/

It's been "coming soon" for quite a while. So long, in fact, that it seems they've dropped the original Formula 1 2000 name.

It's due out on 10 September.

It looks good. If I remember correctly, they've spent a lot of time grappling with proprietary EA libraries and such like, so they've had plenty of time to do some optimising.

Guy Incognito · Aug 11, 2002, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by Joost:

http://www.feral.co.uk/english/f1-2000/

It's been "coming soon" for quite a while. So long, in fact, that it seems they've dropped the original Formula 1 2000 name.

It's due out on 10 September.

It looks good. If I remember correctly, they've spent a lot of time grappling with proprietary EA libraries and such like, so they've had plenty of time to do some optimising.

It's a little old for sure...but it'll do. But I won't believe it's coming to OS X (or OS 9?) 'till I see it in stores. Remember, a games not coming to MacOS unless it's already on MacOS. I've learned that through Halflife, Tribes 2, Worms 3, and countless other games that were Mac-bound.

proux · Aug 11, 2002, 10:06 AM

Well I talked with the Feral representatives at Macworld NY and they said that it would be 3 months from then, thus mid-october.
That's the bad news. On the other end the had a beta version that was running and that you could play with. I was not impressed by the graphics, but the game is very realistic. My biggest complaint would be the numerous jagged edges. If there was a way to enable anti-aliasing that would be sweet.

tobster · Aug 11, 2002, 11:12 AM

Well, thanx all for the help. I'll be on the lookout for the game.

... now only if I could access the beta someplace.

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edddeduck · Aug 16, 2002, 09:32 AM

Never fear the game IS on its way and will look and feel alot better than Beta 4 which was a sound bug release.

If you own Jag (10.2) it should look even better.

The current sheduled release date is Sep 10.

Cheers Edwin

edddeduck · Aug 16, 2002, 09:34 AM

Originally posted by tobster:
Well, thanx all for the help. I'll be on the lookout for the game.

... now only if I could access the beta someplace.

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If you havn't already guessed the beta testers slots for that game are full. But don't fear when testers are needed for games a post will be dropped off here.

Cheers Edwin

Jonas Bay · Aug 20, 2002, 03:47 AM

And if you didn't get it, Edd works for Feral.

edddeduck · Aug 20, 2002, 06:17 AM

Originally posted by Jonas Bay:
And if you didn't get it, Edd works for Feral.

Oh yeh I remember now

Cheers Edwin

tobster · Aug 20, 2002, 10:10 AM

Hehe... I should've got it but didn't ... ehm.... Maybe I ain't smart enough to be playing games...

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edddeduck · Aug 20, 2002, 11:33 AM

There seems to be alot of

going on is this part of a secret code?

Edwin

proux · Aug 21, 2002, 07:57 PM

Edd, why did the Feral guys told me late October at Macwold NY?
Just curious.

edddeduck · Aug 22, 2002, 08:11 AM

Originally posted by proux:
Edd, why did the Feral guys told me late October at Macwold NY?
Just curious.

Most likely because we had not decided on a release date and he was ass covering. It will be out in september though..

Cheers Edwin

Jonas Bay · Aug 23, 2002, 04:33 AM

Edd : Will you (Feral) be in Paris ?
And can we expect more news from you there ?

Aug 23, 2002, 09:11 AM

Hi Jonas Bay, I know you from some other forums...

Feral will be at Apple Expo in Paris and everybody is quite happy to meet them there :-)

Steve

proux · Aug 23, 2002, 03:18 PM

Any word on support for AA?
Racing games graphics profit nicely from it.

edddeduck · Aug 23, 2002, 05:29 PM

I cannot say

Did you know apple added a lot of OpenGL commands to jaguar that great cool effects with nearly no speed hit??...

That's all you are going to get from me on the issue, you have just 3 weeks to go till you find out....

I will be there.... As if you can miss me.. Shoulder length dreadlocks

Cheers Edwin

proux · Aug 25, 2002, 09:58 AM

Thanks for hanging around these forums, if only all the companies had employes doing that...

Jonas Bay · Aug 26, 2002, 02:51 AM

Just in case you didn't see it. There are some nice screenshots from F1 Championship here : http://games4mac.de/g4m/spezial/f1.shtml

Edd : The data of drivers and teams, is it of the year 2000 ?

@Steve : FI'm hanging around on many forums (not much to do at work

).

proux · Oct 23, 2002, 12:34 PM

October 23rd...
Anything on the Horizon?
Soon F1 Championship 2003 will be out for PC.

voodoo · Oct 23, 2002, 10:47 PM

Good question! f1 2000 is STILL on the Feral waiting list...

Jonas Bay · Oct 29, 2002, 04:18 AM

They had to delay the release until 18th november I think.

t_hah · Nov 1, 2002, 07:31 PM

I had a game called Test Drive 2 on my LC 475 back in the Ol' days. I loved it. It had an option for clutch, so you actually had to push the clutch in when you wanted to shift. Then I got Carmageddon...what a difference. Smashed every car I could. I played Carma II as well, lot of fun. Racer seems to be a nice game, but it is still in an early stage. Driver is nice, but Classic only. Formula 1 seems very promising. Hopefully its hw reqs. are not too high.

Nov 18th then...or will it be delayed until 24th of December...of next year?

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proux · Nov 2, 2002, 11:59 PM

F1 will not exist anymore by the time the game comes out...

I wish they at least had the time to update the teams, who remembers which teams drivers belonged to in 2000?

proux · Nov 11, 2002, 07:59 PM

There is a rumor goign around that there was a demo friday then pulled out to be released today again?
Check IMG in the forums

proux · Nov 12, 2002, 09:10 PM

The demo is out, check versiontracker.
Downloading right now...

edddeduck · Nov 14, 2002, 07:03 AM

The official release date is 22nd of november.

This is the date of the UK Expo.

Any other questions I will do my best to answer.

Cheers Edwin

Guy Incognito · Nov 14, 2002, 09:32 AM

Originally posted by edddeduck:
The official release date is 22nd of november.

This is the date of the UK Expo.

Any other questions I will do my best to answer.

Cheers Edwin

I got a question...why does the demo suck so bad?

Normally demos persuade people to buy the full game but this demo just made me decide I won't be buying it.

People were right when they said this game is dated.

The graphics suck.
The sound is terrible.
The physics in that game is awful.
No HID support.

While I can't judge the demo port...I wouldn't be surprised if the full game wasn't a neat little bundle but rather the big pile of files mess that I see when I install the game.

Sorry...this isn't my type of game and F1 racing is the type of racing I like best. There's definitely something wrong if I can loathe a game (that I should normally love) so much.

edddeduck · Nov 15, 2002, 09:23 AM

No HID suppport?

I have been playing f1 2000 here with a logitek steering wheel fine.

As for difficulty go to the options changes here can make the game more realistic.

p.s. use the pg up/pg down, begin/end and home/del keys to control view points.

Cheers Edwin

Guy Incognito · Nov 15, 2002, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by edddeduck:
No HID suppport?

I have been playing f1 2000 here with a logitek steering wheel fine.

As for difficulty go to the options changes here can make the game more realistic.

p.s. use the pg up/pg down, begin/end and home/del keys to control view points.

Cheers Edwin

I'll give it a try.

I'll have to experiment more with my MacAlly iShock II. Last I checked I couldn't get the input config setup to register the gamepad's buttons.

Does F1 2000 support analog steering? (of course, this sucks with a gamepad

but an analog steering wheel would be really cool. How's that Logitech steering wheel anyways?)

Edit: Argh...I forgot I removed the GeForce 2MX drivers in an attempt to troubleshoot the Weirdest Computer Problem I've Ever Seen�. I'll have to wait to make sure this fixes the problem...can't play any OpenGL games until then.

edddeduck · Nov 20, 2002, 09:15 AM

Originally posted by Guy Incognito:

I'll give it a try.

I'll have to experiment more with my MacAlly iShock II. Last I checked I couldn't get the input config setup to register the gamepad's buttons.

Does F1 2000 support analog steering? (of course, this sucks with a gamepad but an analog steering wheel would be really cool. How's that Logitech steering wheel anyways?)

Edit: Argh...I forgot I removed the GeForce 2MX drivers in an attempt to troubleshoot the Weirdest Computer Problem I've Ever Seen�. I'll have to wait to make sure this fixes the problem...can't play any OpenGL games until then.

Analog Steering yes..

Force Feedback it is not finished yet but I have force feedback in beta here.

Cheers Edwin

warnergt · Dec 3, 2002, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by edddeduck:

Analog Steering yes..

Force Feedback it is not finished yet but I have force feedback in beta here.

Cheers Edwin

edddeduck:
So which wheel should I be buying in anticipation of the eventual release of force feedback?

Logitech MOMO?
Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP?

The only wheel that Logitech claims to have Mac support is the Wingman Formula GP. However, this wheel does not have force feedback.

I would like to buy a wheel with force feedback now (even if force feedback doesn't work at this time). What do you recommend? What wheel are you using?

Thanks.