Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
Warthog and SCi Games today uploaded patch v1.01 for download, fixing issues users had reported since initial release.
Here are the full release notes:
Richard Burns Rally(tm) 1.01 Update
“”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””This patch can be applied to all versions of Richard Burns Rally including Czech and Polish versions.
NOTES TO MOD USERS
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– It is recommended that any user modifications that have been installed to the Richard Burns Rally directory be removed before installing this update. These modifications are not supported by SCi Games and may not be compatible with some of the new features that are included.Fixes and updates
“”””””””””””””””– Fixes Thrustmaster compatibility issues. Users will need the latest Thrustmaster drivers (10.0.5) from www.thrustmaster.com.
• Including FORCE FEEDBACK with various Thrustmaster wheels*
• XP Users of affected hardware with ‘ServicePack2’ MUST update to the latest Unified Wheel Drivers available at www.thrustmaster.com– Fixed general sound instability issues.
• Including Creative EAX issues
• Crash SFX which caused game lockups on some hardware– Fixed various issues in replays.
• Including Front Wheel Movement– Fixed various localisation issues.
• In all languages including French/German/Italian/Spanish/Polish/czech– Improved performance and framerate in some areas.
• Including many ATi Video Card ‘tearing’ issues– Fixes some DVD incompatibility problems.
• For many of the newer models of DVD+/- Drives
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