Ok, how much room you got? The one I made is the most simplest yet (i feel) the most natural way of making a shifter. Picture this: -

It comes from the floor to whatever height you want. It involves a few pieces of wood, a longish metal shaft, spring, gamepad and 6/7 switches.

In basic terms you have a square piece of wood at the bottom with a hole in the middle, place the metal shaft in here. Then get 4 pieces of wood and cut them to the size of however high you want the shifter, these are your uprights.

Then make an exact copy of the wood on the floor but this time cut out the shifter pattern. Put a small nut on the shaft then place a spring ontop to stop it falling, then put a smallish metal plate ontop of the spring, making sure its bigger than your width in the shifter pattern. Then place the piece of wood ontop and screw it down. Make sure everything moves smoothly and the spring keeps the shaft in place.

Now take off the top piece and dismantle a gamepad. Wire everything up as stated in an earlier post and connect the other end onto a push switch (must have a leaver). Now glue/nail these onto the bottom on the wood so that the lever just pops out enough past the shifter space so that when the shaft is in the 'gear' the leaver is being pushed in. Place the wood ontop and get all the wires out of the way to the side. Connect the gamepad up and there you go!

Simple and easy to do takes about 2 hours (if you know how to solder) I just made it quickly and now planning to make a much neater version soonish.

If you want pictures just say but i'm in work at the moment.

Quote from Bob Smith :

I've got a Mordaunt Short MS309 subwoofer, that's got a 10 inch driver powered by a 150w amp and I'd say it's fairly discreet once setup properly.

Crossover, volume and a notch filter to help integrate it with the rest of my system. It sits on spikes so it doesn't vibrate the floor or walls (thus making it sound better). Although in my old house it did make my cupboard door rattle during the ship scene in Chronicles of Riddick. Unless you listen to R'N'B I can't see music doing that though as it doesn't have the depth of bass.

I've just recently got the MS309 subwoofer aswell. First time I switched it on it rattled my front right speaker off its stand and you could hear it throughout the house dispite being in the loft (attic for all you Americans out there)

Bob, I havn't been able to get rid of some of the midrange bass. It seems to be playing it through the sub more than I would like. Got any ideas? I've got it connected to my Av reciever but I just can't seem to get rid of the mid range bass.

Andy.

I put yes but it wouldn't in work on every situation. In leagues yes, but the setup to be used should be a decent setup. Maybe a few personal things should be changeable like Brake balance and strengh and steering lock.

But a good idea in most situations

AT LAST !!! Someone who believes my theory too. I don't drive at the moment cos I just havn't got round to it and I always tell my mate when approaching an empty junction which is showing red to flash his lights, and he's always like 'that doesn't work! its all done on weights..' Thanks for the article, he can now procede to stick it up his arse.

intresting, quite good to compare times. I knew the XR GTR was slow off the line but that's quite a bit slower than the rest. Also thought the FZ50 would have been quicker than the FXO, even though the FXO has quick accel I would have thought the pace of the FZ50 would have beaten it over a 1/2 mile.

Having logos on the sidewalls does look nice. Netkar has it and it just makes lock ups nicer... i think. It would help newbies more aswell I guess.

I don't see the relivance of this topic. If you where saying is Netkar going to be a competitor for LFS then it might have a place here.

But since this is about Netkar I think its got potential to be a good sim. If it gets the physics spot on then this will be the only real competitor for LFS.

I think the devs aren't stupid enough to ignore netkar, i hope they get ideas and inspriration from certain things in the game. Like being able to control everything in the cockpit with the mouse, visual tyrewear and flatspots etc. A nice step in Sim Racing. But like i said hopefully the devs will have thought of implementing this and then they can see how netkar has done it and improve on it.

No Thanks, Live For Speed is about Racing not ICE installs.

Kool video, nice editing. But you see me loose 3rd place by .75 at the end .

But nice editing, good overtaking and racing. Shows how proffesional the racing was on that day.

Andy.

Downloading now.. I'm sure all your hard work will be worth it.

Apparently if you want to catch bird flu by eating (like everyone does..) you can't. You would have to actually split the bird open, dry out the carcus for a few days then sniff the inside. Not quite the no.1 thing I was planning to do for Christmas, comes a close second tho.

I just hope Donald Duck doesn't get affected otherwise I don't know if I could carry on.

Wow, what a lucky git!

Personally I think they are all pretty awful and;

1, wouldn't catch my attention
2, wouldn't make me want to go on the internet and find out more
3, makes it sound unproffesional

I just think what the Devs have done is the best, it explains what it is.. An Online Racing Simulator.

Andy.

Wasn't there Run Riot or something? I remember that being an excillent video.

Good Luck.
Andy.

ye, I read that a few hours ago. The first round the five slowest drivers are knocked out, then the second round some more are knocked out. Then the final round is a 20 min stint where the remaining drivers try to get the fastest lap for pole

Quote from JamesF1 :

With the latest patch, yes.

There's a patch? hmm might give it another chance then. It was quite fun to play but sometimes you could be travelling for ages without seeing anyone. It was also impossible to shoot people at long distance.

That's why i like CS:S, because the maps are a reasonable size its good for close combat which you can find most of the time.

Anyway think i'll download that patch tonight.

Andy.

I bought BF2 played it a few times online but it was impossible to find a server with low pings. Has that all changed now?

http://home.skysports.com/list ... e&channel=formula_one


What do you think about this?

Surely better areodynamics for everyone means better racing for the viewers?

Better Picture >> http://www.formula1.com/news/3764.html

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haha, when that bouncer nicked his pint lol. Quite a moment. I'll have a proper look at all the pictures when i get home from work because everyone is coming in and like what's that etc. But why do i look misserable on them all? lol. I did actually have a good time.

O god, not more travelling I just spent 5 hours on a train !!

I am intrested tho, i'll have to check dates etc tommorow and i'll tell you then.

Andy.

Just got in about 10 mins ago, finally!

Anyway, nice meeting you all and racing with you, its worth the blisters and bruises (i'll get some pics of those babies tommorow).

Had a great night aswell, the little adventure to find a room to sleep in sounds intresting.

But it was nice to put faces to names at last.

lol, I remember getting into the thousands. I shall try once i get home.

so it doesn't, that was a pointless exercise then. Its the IBMS or something place postcode: NN1 1SR

its ok now, lol. I was right the first time but they e-mailed me back saying I they don't have me down so I rang them and everything is ok.

http://rp.rac.co.uk/routeplann ... C8A3058C3AF43A8762726B128

here is where i am, anyone else near by ?

I've made the biggest school boy error ever. I booked a room a while ago but I havn't recieved any confirmation yet. So I was going to e-mail the hotel just to make sure and then thought, erm which one was it ? ARGH. Just e-mailed about 5 places one of them has got to be the right one surely ?!

Andy.