Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Crash, I look forward to hearing how you do on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. You are correct that the track does have 4 turns and four straightaways, two long and two very short ones. Don't forget that to make the kind of times that I mentioned you will need to run the track without

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Josh, Well I may convert Bop-it to a sapi5 version, but no I do not plan to convert Mach 1 or Pong to a sapi5 version. Pong of course will remain with Marcie's voice in memory of her and Mach 1 would need a total rewrite to convert it to sapi5 and I think that it is good as is. We all

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-27 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Crash, I've got a little challenge for you. It is Mach 1 on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. The challenge is to run the track in high gear and do not use the brakes. To me it becomes like a sprint car track. You slide in and out of the turns and it takes split second timing. My

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-27 Thread Gary Whittington
: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Crash, I've got a little challenge for you. It is Mach 1 on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. The challenge is to run the track in high gear and do not use the brakes. To me it becomes like a sprint car track. You slide in and out

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-27 Thread Charles Rivard
A good racer will tell you that in order to finish first, first, you have to finish. - Original Message - From: Gary Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-27 Thread Josh
: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Crash, I've got a little challenge for you. It is Mach 1 on the Kirtland Dirt Mile Oval track. The challenge is to run the track in high gear and do not use the brakes. To me it becomes like a sprint

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-26 Thread Gary Whittington
] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Gary, I extremely value your opinions. That said I don't know how much of what you will tell me will make it to 1.0 release. Things like track editors

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, At the moment I don't have commentary or sounds from something like NASCAR Thunder, but then again most of the sounds I am using for development are place holders as I look for better stuff. One thing gamers don't often realise is during game development developers don't always have

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Ward
, March 25, 2007 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Gary, I extremely value your opinions. That said I don't know how much of what you will tell me will make it to 1.0 release. Things like track editors, multiplayer racing, etc are all cool, and I am not against

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Gary, Quote One thing is in your favor when developing the game is that your the only one programming it and will, know all the ins and outs and keeping a dictionary of the varibles and such with a module type of application. When more then team of programmers are developing a project this

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
mode. sincerely, Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Shaun and all, Let me publically clear something up

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-25 Thread Gary Whittington
Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Tom, I'm not suggesting releasing the ESP Raceway beta but you did give me an idea. How about having a mode where you are not racing other cars but sort

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-25 Thread Josh
8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Phil, Actually, during the initial track creation phase of the game I will be putting in something very similar to test the car and the tracks bbefore adding the A.I. cars. So all I need to do is release it as some official

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Gary, I extremely value your opinions. That said I don't know how much of what you will tell me will make it to 1.0 release. Things like track editors, multiplayer racing, etc are all cool, and I am not against them. I am however bound by getting this production out in a timely manner and

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Trouble
Sounds like you got a good road to work down. making the changes in you have suggested will extend release, but after the six years i think it can hang in there a bit more. At least you give reports on progress and fall backs. They may not be liked sometimes, but do show how your doing on

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, As far as I am aware remoting is still alive and well. .NET Framework 2 and 3 still have support for remoting so it is still going to be around for a long while yet for C++, C#, and VB developers. Jacob Elsberry wrote: Hi, Do you know if remoting has been phased out as well? We had to

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Trouble, Yes, I believe in giving a project my best. I don't like going half-way or producing something that I haven't given my best to. There is allot of pressure to get these two titles out, but I won't rush them to an early or premature release. I could have just said hey you want it i

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun and all, Let me publically clear something up before everyone begins begging for something they probably wouldn't want after they got it. The original ESP Raceway beta releases were just that test releases of the game. As such the tracks were apparently there for testing purposes, and

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, I don't know what reasoning Microsoft has for fasing out DirectPlay from game development, but there certainly are alternatives. Developers can use a generic game server using winsock and .NET developers can use remoting to build game servers. As for Topspeed I hate to sound or come

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-24 Thread Phil Vlasak
. sincerely, Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Shaun and all, Let me publically clear something up before

[Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi William, Yeah, I realise Raceway has been on the waiting list for an extremely long time. Do remember most of that is the fault of Raceway's previous owner. It has only been in my custity for a year, and for most of that year I have been hopping between three different game projects: STFC,

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread william lomas
hi thanks for honest answer. i still run windows on my macintosh but purely for gaming needs so would be interested tom if you could reply to me privately off list regarding monty, wondering if i can be on the team at all of testers thanks, will On 23 Mar 2007, at 16:09, Thomas Ward wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Gary Whittington
: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi William, Yeah, I realise Raceway has been on the waiting list for an extremely long time. Do remember most of that is the fault of Raceway's previous owner. It has only been in my custity for a year, and for most of that year I have been hopping between

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread kerry
oh there is a older version of race way? where could one get this? - Original Message - From: Gary Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi Tom

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, As for the Monty test team that team is full. As for Raceway testing I haven't began selecting testers yet for that project so it is premature for anyone to ask can I be on the Raceway team. Smile. william lomas wrote: hi thanks for honest answer. i still run windows on my

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Gary, I know many people have interest in a net play feature, but I don't simply have time to work that in to the 1.0 release. One of the major factors I have elected not to make a net play feature is that Microsoft is fasing out DirectPlay in DirectX 10 which games like Topspeed use for

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Kerry, Yes, but it is not available for download. James North actually had Raceway to beta stage before he suddenly started over on the game. I have the beta, but it isn't what you would call super great. kerry wrote: oh there is a older version of race way? where could one get this?

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Jacob Elsberry
would in socket programming. I imagine using winsock might be more stable though. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
what is it like? I wander if you just release it to those that are bored enough. I myself am extremely bored, may have a crack at it for what its worth. At 10:56 a.m. 24/03/2007, you wrote: Hi Kerry, Yes, but it is not available for download. James North actually had Raceway to beta stage before

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
any reason why ms are killing direct play and what they will replace it with? It will mean that stuff like topspeed multiplayer will be non playable. Not sure about railracer, or any of the vipgameszone stuff, railracer has its own custom made server. At 10:42 a.m. 24/03/2007, you wrote: Hi Gary,