Latest news from the ZakStunts crew:
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Duplode, February 13
The season is on — and so is PTB!
The 2025 season started with ZCT282, a race that had a bit of everything: a cornucopia of paths, a lot of replays, room for this year's custom cars to shine, strong performances from new and returning racers, and a late, late surge of Acura laps stealing the show. The intense activity has continued into ZCT283, further consolidating an excellent start to the season!
This season has introduced the Position Time Bonus (PTB) system. Staying in the fight for top 6 positions can already bring you bonus points! We are working on fully integrating PTB into the site, so that features such as live charts with the hour totals (similar to those of the old LTB system) will be available. Meanwhile, you can follow your PTB progress using this page, which will be updated every few days with the current situation in the ongoing race.
P.S.: Three slots are still available in the guest tracks calendar, including that of the next race starting in March. Let us know if you'd like to claim any of them!
—Duplode
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Duplode, January 6
First news of the new year
Feliz Ano Novo! Here is a pair of quick notes as we step into the new year.
The ZCT281 results have been confirmed, with the replay pack, scoreboards and experience points being updated accordingly. It is worth it to take a moment and savour what will surely go down as one of the great ZakStunts races. Thanks to everyone who took part in it, and especially to Akoss Poo for the brilliant track design!
The preparations for the 2025 season of ZakStunts are ongoing. In particular, this is a good time to make suggestions about the custom cars to be made available, as well as for finding teammates or starting a team (see the Forum threads Cars and rules for 2025 and Teams for 2025, respectively). It won't be long before we hit the racetrack again, so watch this space!
—Duplode
On this day in 2017, while racing on ZCT188, some pipsqueaks wrote:
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Thanks!! I'll check both solutions! I think Zak may be closer because sometimes I have problems in every program/game. It also may be a problem of temperature
- 4am : In my opinion, whatever causes the problem, it does by demanding more CPU than expected (e.g.: than the system reports) or by demanding the expected amount, but more frequently than expected. DOSBox at a high frequency is very demanding and in my case, makes music a little bit glitchy, but it doesn't matter because the game runs well. At low frequencies, the music is perfect, but the game becomes very uncomfortable to play. However, the last Windows I've ever used is 98SE. After that, I'm exclusively a Linux guy. Sorry about proselytism, but I feel the moral urge to invite people to try GNU/Linux as their primary OS. It really is worth it. Windows (especially new ones) is known to be bloated with spyware. Another option is to install FreeDOS. Stunts runs beautifully there. It's what I did before I fixed my DOSBox.
- 2pm : Since Windows came out, the First thing I do when I buy a new PC is to make a partition where there is only the OS, the Drivers and my common applications including DosBox... at that point I make a Ghost Image of the hardisk . Each 5, 6 months, I format all and reinstall the ghost. It's the only clean solution to live with Windows. Obviously, all my data are in other HDs
26568 news posted so far. Long live the Stunts community!
