A reminder....

[sulky_uk]

had an acorn electron, and i remember back in 86 the acornsoft catalogue had listed a version of revs coming to the electron on the plus 1 cartridge, i pre ordered one, hen it was shelved. So i bought a BBC instead and played revs any way
 
4D Sports Driving, still got it and it still runs, even under vista
 
And i have all the f1 series by geoff crammmond, although none work with vista:ranting2:

[Gnomie]

And I can imagine a project like that needs some serious infrastructure and has to be well maintained and monitored and constantly kept up to date. That brings a lot of costs with it, which they'll have to recover one way or the other.

Yep. People are speculating that only popular games will be supported by cloud computing services like this. So once a game looses popularity (after a few years, say) they will cut support because it becomes too expensive to keep running it. This is, of course, just speculation at this point, but it's something to keep in mind.

I just can't see how they can pull this off technically. There seems to be a lot of insurmountable hurdles ahead! How are they going to provide a high enough data flow rate to supply 140 Mpix/sec? (Which is needed for 1920x1200 @ 60FPS) Imagine the data traffic! And, what about latency? In games like shooters and racing games you need super swift response. Imagine a 200ms steering lag..!

It will be interesting to see how it all works out, though. If they can pull it off I'll be mightily impressed!

EDIT: I just watched a video interview with the guy behind this. He claims that as long as you're placed less than ~ 1800km from the server, the latency will be less than 80ms, which they claim is good enough to not be noticeable. The image will be compressed somewhat (it's not full resolution).

[delankster]

And i have all the f1 series by geoff crammmond, although none work with vista:ranting2:

arhh shame :sad: twas my first experience with a driving game... hmm memories

[crazyR1]

Outrun the good old days:D

[Bob the Bike]

I remember how it all began (Queensrych: Rage to order). My first racing "sim", was on my first computer ( a TRS 80). Typed it in from a magazine,(now those WERE the days).  Then debugged it, all thoses pokes for the "graphics". Green oblongs on a black background.  

BoB

[Lameduck]

I found the Manual a couple of years ago, and in honour of Revs and of the enjoyment given, I named all my LFS AI cars with the driver names :sad:
My favourite? Gloria Slap

Found said Manual (must start chucking crap out) and herewith:
Complete starting grid for Revs (1986):
Max Throttle
Johnny Turbo
Davey Rocket
Gloria Slap
Hugh Jengine
Desmond Dash
Percy Veer
Gary Clipper
Willy Swerve
Sid Spoiler
Billy Bumper
Slim Chance
Harry Fume
Dan Dipstick
Wilma Cargo
Miles Behind
Roland Slide
Rick Shaw
Peter Out

They just don't name drivers like that any more

[Seany]

lol nice :lmfao: