I'd love to see an option where random vehicles would be selected from the custom vehicles list! Anyone think that's possible at all?

Thank you, Leonard, for opening up the source. I appreciate it.

Cheers,

Sabahattin

Hello,

I think that you decided to make your code free because you don't have enough time anymore to maintin it yourself ? In this case I can just greatly applause your decision. You are, as far as I know, the first one to do that way and it's just the only good solution you can think of, while all others people just say good bye to the community by abandonning their game as is and it finally disappear. It's really the best thing you can do.

I know, you said no help about building, but, do you know if it could be built in some way using MinGW ?

For DX it wouldn't be a problem, I have already compiled something using DX8. But never seen any MFC library under MinGW. Shit! Thank you anyway.

Just a though: I don't see anything about the fact that you released TS3 under GPL on your website. I think that would be a good idea to say it somewhere over there, as it would be seen as being more official, especially by the users who don't usually are on this forum.

With the hope that someone will be able to compile it on its own and will have courage to continue development.

Just to say quickly, what I would like to see in a new TS :
- Make your own circuits with whatever ambiance sounds as you wish, set global circuit background sound and possibly multiple sounds in the same segment. This one is the greatest missing feature I think, people like having ambiances even if it basicly doesn't change the gameplay.
- Take bonuses à la mario kart on the circuit and use them against your opponents or to boost yourself: traps, missiles, boosts, invulnerability, etc.
- Put obstacles, static or moving on the circuit, that you must avoid additionnaly to curves
- It would also be interesting to have a meta-server mechanism like SoundRTS, and a way to type in a server address without having to use another utility outside of the game itself. The TS server selector is kind of archaic.

Lol! It's for you actually, not for me. Thank you anyway.

Wo guys, arn't we jumping the gun a little by giving ideas before someone has even built the source? I agree with lenoard sorry if I spelled your name rong, that we should wait and see if someone does manage to get the game built and make some little changes first before we start throwing around ideas for the features we would like. I have taken a look and it does look complocated to build, hents why i'm holding off as i'm no expert in c++, and c++ requires a lot of code to get some things done. So, I think we should wait before we all start giving ideas out. Not to afend at all, just saying.

I don't think there is. Come on man somebody should take over this, because hte Project was prittey good.

You could probably write a track creator application separate from Top Speed, since it's basically just a bunch of assignments.  Something else to investigate.

Someone mentioned re-writing the application in BGT, I strongly advise against it.  It would break any hope of cross-platform compatibility, not that there was much of any to begin with.

Well, it would be cool if someone feels like working on the game again. I don't care about in what language. I just care about if the game works or not. Topspeed isn't cross platform anyway, and will never do so unless the whole thing is rewritten in an other language.

That would be pretty cool if it works out. I have a couple of suggestions for improvements myself, but I'll wait until it gets off the ground before voicing them.

What if some features of TopSpeed cannot be included with BGT?
Another question: Can language packs still be submitted? If so, how to do it? I was searching for an E-Mail address to send it to, but didn't find anything.
About the German language packs:
It appears that pack1 has no difference with pack2. What I mean is that they have the same voice overs and there's absolutely no difference between them.
I am currently trying to do a second language pack in German, however, I don't know which software can be used to implement walky talky effects, just like the announcements in the original English version.
Any suggestions on that?