As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
If you ever played Papyrus’ seminal Grand Prix Legends then you’ve read his name. Rich began working as a tester on NASCAR Racing (1994) and was with Papyrus at the end. In this interview, published in 2022, we discuss his time at the legendary studio and the design of Grand Prix Legends, including initial feelings of hurt at not being asked to join iRacing.
You can play Revs online using the bbcmicro.co.uk site, JSBeeb site, or you can download it from RSC and play on Windows using Sarah Walker’s b-em emulator that JSBeeb is based on:
– Download, unzip.
– Run B-em.exe.
– Using your mouse go to the Disc menu, then Autoboot disc.
– Navigate to the discs folder and select either Revs.ssd or Revs5Tracks.ssd.
– You’ll need the keyboard map.