The ONE thing that was missing from NR2003 above all others was the save feature. Amazing to think to this day, it's never been patched.
Early days in NR2003/Papyrus Racing Games, what were your experiences?
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... and I'll never forget to honor those people, teams & groups, sites who attend those fantastic Papyrus simulations (if I forget someone special, please not be angry).
- IndyCar Racing / IndyCar Racing 2 / NR1 / NR2 / NR 1999 / N3 / N4 / N2002 / N2003 => IWCCCARS - a site who is still available, but without any activities;
- N3 / N4 - BassmanN3;
- N4 / N2002 - The Pit Wagon (special John Beatty who performed tons of car files);
- N2002 / N2003 - The Racing Groove (TRG)/Elite Paint Designs (EPD)/4 Wide Designs;
- N2003 - the combination of MasGrafx/Team SBR/Racin' USA (special thanks to Andrew Buchl) and Tucknut;
- N2003 - Sim Racing Design/DMR/Stunod/Racin' USA/NNRacing;
- N2003 - WKRT & Heywood Racing (for all those fantastic Canadian files)
and ... and ... and ...
They all and many many others kept or rather keep those fantastic simulations alive.
Thanks you guys for all this ...
For me - and I guess for many others - NASCAR Racing 2003 is still - with all its updatings and mods - unrivalled (18 years after publication) the "crown jewel" of all driving simulations.
- IndyCar Racing / IndyCar Racing 2 / NR1 / NR2 / NR 1999 / N3 / N4 / N2002 / N2003 => IWCCCARS - a site who is still available, but without any activities;
- N3 / N4 - BassmanN3;
- N4 / N2002 - The Pit Wagon (special John Beatty who performed tons of car files);
- N2002 / N2003 - The Racing Groove (TRG)/Elite Paint Designs (EPD)/4 Wide Designs;
- N2003 - the combination of MasGrafx/Team SBR/Racin' USA (special thanks to Andrew Buchl) and Tucknut;
- N2003 - Sim Racing Design/DMR/Stunod/Racin' USA/NNRacing;
- N2003 - WKRT & Heywood Racing (for all those fantastic Canadian files)
and ... and ... and ...
They all and many many others kept or rather keep those fantastic simulations alive.
Thanks you guys for all this ...
For me - and I guess for many others - NASCAR Racing 2003 is still - with all its updatings and mods - unrivalled (18 years after publication) the "crown jewel" of all driving simulations.
Or save often and reload after a blown RF, lol.
Boy one name that came up in this thread who's work I wish I could see again was iFreezn. That dude's creativity from N3 to NR03 was bonkers, especially imo in his redesigns and alternates of real-life cars. In some ways those indirectly influenced me in my desire since like 2013 to do alt schemes of late 90s stuff. 15 years of on/off painting and I still haven't got a tenth of the creativity of that dude.
I absolutely loved reading everyone's recollections!
I had read about Indy 500: The Simulation in Car & Driver back when it came out, but since I didn't have a PC, realistic racing was a pipe dream. I did spend extensive time on Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on the NES and the few times I got to play the PC version on my half-cousin's Tandy.
While back-to-school shopping at our nearest mall (a 30 minute drive from home) for my Junior year in high school, I saw a Computer Gaming World magazine issue with Jeff Gordon's car on the cover. I never liked Gordon, but the prospect of a realistic NASCAR game had me immediately thumbing through it. The article told of the same company who made IndyCar Racing, Papyrus, working on a NASCAR game. I purchases it and would read it when I was at school, or home, daydreaming of its existence.
I recall some NASCAR TV shows featuring the game, and more about it was being heard in circles in '95. That Summer ('95), my best friend got a Packard Bell PC and the game. I would go over to his house and play it, blown away by its realism, even though driving with a keyboard. He had AOL, so we downloaded the latest carsets off IWCC.
Later that Summer, I took some time off chasin' the girls at the county fair to check out a demo of NASCAR Racing running at a local computer shop's booth. A few weeks later, at Food City Race Night in downtown Bristol, I got to try the game out with a wheel, as Papyrus and Kellogg's has a trailer with what could be described as one of the earliest sim setups. I REALLY had to have that game!
For my 18th birthday in February ('96), I got a computer, a Packard Bell that stayed broke half of the time. The computer was key to me with my school work, as I was completing high school and eyeing college or vocation school. I got a copy of NASCAR Racing, and my friend and I would exchange paints we'd create on floppies, dial each other up and run (we'd mostly wreck each other), and other stuff. I found a book with a CD-ROM with tips, tricks, and a cool CD with utilities, carsets, and other neat stuff. We also had a 3rd friend who loved racing complete seasons, and we'd share stuff with him too.
In April, I went back to Food City Race Night, and a local computer shop had this cheap wheel on demo, I tried it and liked it, and purchased one. It was defective, but the shop replaced it. While it was crude, it beat using a keyboard. I had also gotten Internet, and was downloading carsets from IWCC, utilities from The Pits, as well as using Paint Shop Pro and graphics with my friend's handheld scanner and the Internet. I would later add a Thrustmaster with the analog controls on the wheel, then a NASCAR Pro Wheel. That Summer, I added IndyCar Racing 2 and tinkered with IndyCars.
Papyrus helped me in my career, and I took night classes in computer repair, daytime college courses in IT, before being bitten by the teaching bug when I got a chance to teach the night computer repair classes and switched to education. In my 15 year education career, 13 of them have been spent teaching Information Technology, and I'm now teaching where it all started, thanks to NASCAR Racing and a defective Packard Bell.
I had read about Indy 500: The Simulation in Car & Driver back when it came out, but since I didn't have a PC, realistic racing was a pipe dream. I did spend extensive time on Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on the NES and the few times I got to play the PC version on my half-cousin's Tandy.
While back-to-school shopping at our nearest mall (a 30 minute drive from home) for my Junior year in high school, I saw a Computer Gaming World magazine issue with Jeff Gordon's car on the cover. I never liked Gordon, but the prospect of a realistic NASCAR game had me immediately thumbing through it. The article told of the same company who made IndyCar Racing, Papyrus, working on a NASCAR game. I purchases it and would read it when I was at school, or home, daydreaming of its existence.
I recall some NASCAR TV shows featuring the game, and more about it was being heard in circles in '95. That Summer ('95), my best friend got a Packard Bell PC and the game. I would go over to his house and play it, blown away by its realism, even though driving with a keyboard. He had AOL, so we downloaded the latest carsets off IWCC.
Later that Summer, I took some time off chasin' the girls at the county fair to check out a demo of NASCAR Racing running at a local computer shop's booth. A few weeks later, at Food City Race Night in downtown Bristol, I got to try the game out with a wheel, as Papyrus and Kellogg's has a trailer with what could be described as one of the earliest sim setups. I REALLY had to have that game!
For my 18th birthday in February ('96), I got a computer, a Packard Bell that stayed broke half of the time. The computer was key to me with my school work, as I was completing high school and eyeing college or vocation school. I got a copy of NASCAR Racing, and my friend and I would exchange paints we'd create on floppies, dial each other up and run (we'd mostly wreck each other), and other stuff. I found a book with a CD-ROM with tips, tricks, and a cool CD with utilities, carsets, and other neat stuff. We also had a 3rd friend who loved racing complete seasons, and we'd share stuff with him too.
In April, I went back to Food City Race Night, and a local computer shop had this cheap wheel on demo, I tried it and liked it, and purchased one. It was defective, but the shop replaced it. While it was crude, it beat using a keyboard. I had also gotten Internet, and was downloading carsets from IWCC, utilities from The Pits, as well as using Paint Shop Pro and graphics with my friend's handheld scanner and the Internet. I would later add a Thrustmaster with the analog controls on the wheel, then a NASCAR Pro Wheel. That Summer, I added IndyCar Racing 2 and tinkered with IndyCars.
Papyrus helped me in my career, and I took night classes in computer repair, daytime college courses in IT, before being bitten by the teaching bug when I got a chance to teach the night computer repair classes and switched to education. In my 15 year education career, 13 of them have been spent teaching Information Technology, and I'm now teaching where it all started, thanks to NASCAR Racing and a defective Packard Bell.
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Had original Indy 500 on my Amiga 500 when I was stationed in Spain and everything down the line. My favorite thing was being a tester when Papyrus was working on Hawaii. I bought a new Pentium computer and a 14.4 baud modem. I used a Logitech flight yoke and rudder petals as my controller.
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