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August 1997

Sunday, August 31th, 1997

The August contest is over! I won't accept any entries anymore. Alan Brincat is the winner. You can check out the final scores for August and the current standing of the championship.
If you couldn't make it in August, don't panic. September's contest will be launched on September 1st. The track is already available.
Please note that as of September 1st, you are allow to use the continue feature to record a replay for the contest. This means you will only have to send me the RPL file from now on. Please don't use a computer opponent as this would make it hard for me to tell your time from the replay.

Friday, August 29th, 1997

Alan Brincat grabbed back the frist position in August's contest with 1:46.70. If you plan to beat him, you still have about 30 hours.

Tuesday, August 26th, 1997

I have just put a set of really great tracks by Jakub Barski onto the tracks page. Make sure you get them today!

Monday, August 25th, 1997

Dave Drahan has grabbed the first place in August's contest. His time was 1:47.05, which is incredibly quick.
The highscore for 'Joes' was once again improved by Dave Drahan.
This hasn't got anything to do with Stunts or 4D, but I wanted to tell you that my hockey game BULLY is available from my Bully Page again. You can also download it directly (120kb).
There was a problem with the directory permissions which prevented you from fetching it. This is fixed now.

Sunday, August 24th, 1997

Dave Drahan has also set the fastest time on Skids, which means that he now holds the records for all classic tracks!
There is a new track called 'Bob Dole' by Bruce Wells on the tracks page.
One week is left in August's contest. Make sure you won't miss the deadline (midnight Aug. 30th).

Saturday, August 23rd, 1997

Dave Drahan beat his own records on 'Default' and 'Helens' yet again.
There is a new track called 'crazy' by Daniel Hoelzenbein on the tracks page. Go get it!
This is my first crazy road update! Henceforth ;) I will update this site more often, as I have gained access to the Internet from school. This lines were actually written during a maths lesson, on my friend Chris' IBM ThinkPad 365XD.

Friday, August 22nd, 1997

Dave Drahan beat the records on 'Default' and 'Bernies'.
He also send a track that you can now find on the tracks page.

Thursday, August 21st, 1997

Markus Nagelholz is about to reopen his webpage; it's him that pogrammed tools like Track Blaster or Car Blaster.
Dave Drahan (StreetHawk) now holds the records for the original tracks 'Joes' and 'Cherris' as well.

Wednesday, August 20th, 1997

Dave Drahan improved his own record on 'Helens' by about 6 seconds.
Daniel Hoelzenbein sent along a new track. You can get it form the tracks page.

Monday, August 18th, 1997

Dave Drahan set a new best time for the original track 'Helens'. He improved on Alan Robinson's previous best time by almost a minute!
Valen has got some cool tracks on his homepage:
- Some older tracks without edited terrain.
- New ones with customized landscape.
You might want to go to Andrew's page to get a new version (1.1) of his Update utility, that allows you to merge two high score tables.

Sunday, August 17th, 1997

Well, not much happening at the moment. Things have cooled down a bit. Yet, I put up two new track on the tracks page. Please keep your entries for the contest coming. It does not matter if you cannot beat Ben.

Friday, August 15th, 1997

Rob Kihn sent me the following piece of mail about the makers of 4D:

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:04:08 -0600
From: Ron Kihn

      "...I have some info that you might like. 
DSI did the original 4D racing from their Van-
couver British Columbia office here in Canada. 
If you look at the names in the credits you may
find a correlation to other car race game credits 
that have been produced there.  One is Need for 
Speed from Electronic Arts Canada."

Mr Kill-Track himself Chad Griffiths sent along yet another one of his 'ya'll never make it round' tracks. Go to the tracks page, get it and crash!
DarkKnight let me know that he created a Stunts message board. You can go there to discuss your favorite game.

Thursday, August 14th, 1997

I rephrased and reorganized the contest rules. I hope this step will avoid further confusions.
I am pretty sure now that Ben's 1:48.50 can still be beaten (don't ask why ;)
There is yet another new track on the tracks page.
Several people have asked me about a method to change the appearance of the cars. I do not know much about this matter except that one will probably have to edit the ST????.P3S files to achieve this goal. If you've got any insight, please let me know by all means.

Tuesday, August 12th, 1997

A new section on the info page called 'Two Cents Tips'. It features some short yet interesting hints.
Ben (Benoit Fortier) regained first place in the contest. The mark is now at 1:48.50.
There is a new track on the tracks page again. By the same author as yesterday's.
Landon Boyd has just improved the high score on the original track 'Skids' by quite a bit.

Monday, August 11th, 1997

I have added a couple of new sites to the links page
There is a new track on the tracks page. Quite a hard one actually.
Landon Boyd improved the high score on the original track 'Bernies' by half a second.
There are 14 people in the contest now. I am very happy about how it is going so far. Please enter if you haven't yet. There is still plenty of time till the end of the month.

Sunday, August 10th, 1997

There is a new Stunts page by Foeke Zeilstra. It's not much there yet but it looks quite promising.

Friday, August 8th, 1997

Alan Brincat grabbed back the first place in my contest with a fantastic lap time of 1:51.80.
Andrew Shrugg announced on his 4D Stunts page that he would compile a Stunts FAQ. He is asking you to suggest some questions.
I have extended my report on version comparison on my info page. It now features detailed acceleration tests and a possible explanation for the mesured differences.
If you have got version 1.0 of the game, you should download the latest Contest Car version 0.85.

Wednesday, August 6th, 1997

Markus Nagelholz told me that his Stunts page is moving and therefore temporarliy unavailable. You will find the new URL here as soon as his page is up again. In the meantime, you can reach Markus at Markus.Nagelholz@siemens.at.
Alan Robinson has published a study on Stunts 1.1 and 4D Sports 1.1. You should also visit his Stunts Shrine.
I now offer some tracks that people sent me on my tracks page. Go check them out!
This is quite old news actually, but Ori Hoch created a 4D/Stunts Webring. If you have got a webpage related to those games, be sure to join the ring.

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