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.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
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Running Grand Prix 3 on a Modern Windows OS
Aug 25, 2000GP3 works fine on Windows 10 once installed, though you may need to run it using a cracked exe to bypass copy protection that no longer allows it to run. You may also use a wrapper like dgVoodoo2 to give the early DirectX support required (although some systems may get a better framerate using software rendering). Replay viewing does not work on any modern system, but I was able to get replays working for GP3 on a virtual (emulated) machine with Windows 98 SE installed using software rendering. An emulated Win98 machine also did not require an exe with copy protection removed (you can passthrough a real DVD drive from the host). Unfortunately no matter what I tried I cannot get replays from the GP3 2000 Addon to work.
Grand Prix 3 is one of the few cases where a period retro machine may be the best way to run it.
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