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Mar 1

• Alain
  Great artjob, Ryoma! This is a rare dashboard photo I just found for this wonderful french concept car.
• Alain
  Activa 1, sorry
• Victor Narl
  The first online race of the year will take place today. Everyone is invited. It's Payback time! (2026-03-01)
• Alain
  @stanceboyCZ Latest improvement on the R5 Turbo: 7 paintjobs https://screenrec.com/share/5fHixS8nlL
• Alain
  Live Race will start in a few moments, join the chatroom and rev up your engines.
• Alain
  Live Race will start in a few moments, join the chatroom and rev up your engines.

Mar 2

• Shoegazing Leo
  First draft. Late because I had a hard month
  1:22.90 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Second try
  1:21.64 A
• Ryoma
  @Alain thanks. Very difficult to have a clear photo of the dashboard. I used some videos ans pictures. After, I asked Gemini to merge all of these informations and create the dashboard.

Mar 4

• dreadnaut
  Happy birthday @Tijn! 🎉 — that reminds me, I need to go and catchup with https://www.dosgameclub.com/ podcast episodes and forum threads!

Mar 5

• Ryoma
  Little question : some of my cars seems flying on the road. Is it caused by the fact that the Y coordonnate of the bottom of the wheels does not match to 0 (zéro)?
• Alain
  Not exactly — it depends on which Y you’re talking about. Y in the wheel coordinates inside CAR*.RES (the physics wheel triplets): not the cause. The Stunts Wiki says the 2nd value (Y) has no effect and is always 0 in original cars. Source: https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Car_parameters Y of the wheels in the 3D model (car1 / car2 shapes in stressed): yes, this can cause the “flying” look. If the bottom of the tyres is at y = 0, the car tends to look like it’s hovering. A common fix is to put wheel bottoms around y ≈ −8 (or move the whole model down by ~8). Source + explanation: Introduction and some questions about wheels Extra note (visual trap): if DOSBox aspect ratio is wrong, the car can look higher/lower than it really is. Source: CarWorks - a different approach to car making

Mar 6

• Alan Rotoi
  Live race video released!! Enjoy!!
• Ryoma
  WIP
• Spoonboy
  Beautiful! 😍
• Spoonboy
  @dreadnaut I can confirm DGC is going strong - most recent episode is on Betrayal at Krondor!

Mar 7

• Ryoma
  Thanks @Alain for the informations. Is there a simple way to move all the car1 at y=-8 for its minimum vertice ? If not @Cas is it possible to do a program which calculate the Y bottom of the wheels of car1, calculate the diffénce with -8 and offset all the car of this différence in the 3SH file ? Or maybe carworks do it already ? The 250 GTO is almost ready...
• Ryoma
  I answer myself, it's possible on Carworks. Type M to enter Game car. Click on latéral view, with Tab choose Move mode Car. The floor match the horizon aand with Tab, enter Move mode Wheels and adapt it.
• Spoonboy
  Once More unto the breach, dear friends! Good luck everyone 😉
• Overdrijf
  Two replays sent, neither with the LM02, both rubbish.
• Duplode
  GAR on this track makes a lot of sense -- too bad I couldn't start earlier!
  1:21.61

Mar 8

• Alain
  My congratulations go up to MiDiaN and Victor Narl. A good race of every participant. Fdzierva would be proud of us honoring his laptime 25 years later, and Zakstunts first track was perfectly laid out.
• Victor Narl
  @Alain and also @MiDiaN (in chat) thanks for the congratulations. @MiDiaN, I also congratulate you on a super lap and the win at Siluro, your final trick on Siluro is especially good.
• MiDiaN
  Thanks guys! The Siluro feels like it weighs nothing when you drive it! I thought I had maxed out the LM002, but there was almost a full second left to shave off! Well done! Hopefully, we won't have to see both the Siluro and the LM002 on the next track... Fingers crossed!
• stanceboyCZ
  i get problems with Siluro. Always when i start a race with it, it shows no memory, but i have it set memsize=64
• Victor Narl
  @stanceboyCZ, There is one free month left. If you'd like, you can apply to create an R4K track here. 2026 - Guest Tracks - R4K
• Victor Narl
  @stanceboyCZ, To increase memory, try deleting the string "lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx" in the AUTOEXEC.NT file (save a copy of the file first).
• Ryoma
  Congratulations to everybody (easy I know ). My Ferrari 250 GTO is available with less flying effect than other of my cars. I have to change all my previous cars. Is there an impact for replay already existing ?
• Duplode
  Results confirmed! Congratulations to @MiDiaN (dominant performance, including the fabled PTB +2!), @VictorNarl (newly graduated from the Am League!) and @Alain (first podium since the comeback, and another great race for Hyperion!), and also to @RCBandit and @ShoegazingLeo on the Am podium.
• Alan Rotoi
  Congrats to @MiDiaN for his second win! what a racer! Race comprehension, precision and innovation! And @Victor_Narl, guys did you see he made it with automatic transmission? What will happen when the beast is full released? and @Alain, he's a champion. Take a look on his little highway jump, a subtle beauty. BTW @HerrNove we switched position regarding to the previous race
• Victor Narl
  @Duplode, @AlanRotoi, thanks for the congratulations. @AlanRotoi, it's a shame you didn't have time to fully participate in this race.
• Duplode
  @Ryoma I tested moving it the way you suggested on CarWorks with the XM, checking it on my replay from the previous CCC race, and it loaded correctly. In general, anything that only changes the 3SH and leaves the RES untouched should be safe performance-wise. Conversely, there are commands in CarWorks, such as Ctrl + B or the collision box editing, which can change the physical size(s) in the RES, so they should be avoided in this case. (P.S.: Changes to the visual size of the car seen from above can have an effect on OWOOT rule verification, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about for this purpose.)
• Alan Rotoi
  (another) New live race video released! Now it's time for Speedgate!! Enjoy!
• HerrNove
  Congratulations to @MiDiaN for the impressive performance. As fan of manual shift I appreciate that you took the time to select in on the Siluro too, if only for a matter of principle Congrats to the Hyperion teammembers for the strong performance, and thanks to @Alan Rotoi for the videos and for mentioning me – but unfortunately for me, same avg. position as you does not mean same amount of potential
• Duplode
  And the new track is up: ZCT296 — Soul to Squeeze, by @ErikBarros, is open for racing!
• Shoegazing Leo
  First
  1:26.69 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Second
  1:17.50 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Third not better
  1:18.55 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Eureka
  1:04.68 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Hmmm
  1:00.98 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  hi
  0:59.87 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Follow the leader
  0:59.79 A
• Shoegazing Leo
• Alain
  Stunts godspeed everyone!
  0:56.81 A
• MiDiaN
  gl hf!
  0:52.91

Mar 10

• dreadnaut
  This could be a second faster, but alternating cars on the scoreboard was more important
  0:58.31 A
• Mark Nailwood
  Let's add another car to the scoreboard
  0:54.10 A
• Spoonboy
  Glorious showroom of cars on the scoreboard right now! 🤩

Mar 11

• HerrNove
  Whatever the time, completing a Siluro-GAR along the Eastern path is a trial in itself. Who takes the challenge? (also, another car for the board )
  1:40.23

Mar 12

• Duplode
  @HerrNove Nice challenge indeed! Here's my take on it.
  1:25.44

Mar 13

• Ryoma
  Done with AI
• Alain
  Very nice job, Ryoma. DeLorean is on the wishlist of every 80s kid.
• MiDiaN
  Why give praise for a work done by AI? You should look up Daniel3D's awesome DeLorean. I hope he finishes it someday.
• Duplode
  Final day at CCC's Round 2! Choose your ride and have a stroll around the park at http://ccc.mystunts.net/

Mar 14

• Cas
  After missing two races... here I am
  0:51.65
• Alain
  Easiest zakstunts lap ever.
• Duplode
  In case you haven't seen it yet: please have a look and chime in our discussion of acceptable dual-way switching lines for this race, on the ZCT296 - Soul to Squeeze Forum thread.
• RC Bandit
  Just uploaded a laptime before seeing the forum thread from Duplode. Feel free to delete my lap from 14th of march if not allowed (also because of undeserved PTB time). Sorry in advance.
• MiDiaN
  How unprofessional uploading replays right now. There is ongoing debate about whether some driving are legal under the game's rules, as they may exploit loopholes or contradict the spirit of fair play. @RCBandit did the right thing at least.
• Alain
  Good luck GAR racers!
  1:16.53
• Duplode
  Thanks @RCBandit! On posting replays now, it's not a big deal because we're still in public days (and, given the surrounding conversation, it was pretty obvious what Victor and Alain's latest replays would be like even before watching) -- but anyway, refraining from laps which cross the yellow line twice (as described in the Forum thread) does mean less work for us to correct the scoreboard and less twists to the PTB chart if we end up forbidding that.
• Duplode
  Meanwhile, let's try some more GAR!
  1:06.50
• Victor Narl
  @RCBandit, would you like to join a racing team? It's more fun to ride with a team and there's support.
• RC Bandit
  Quick upload to replace my soon to be invalid one. And a quick question: are the laps using the normal road/route uploaded from now until a decision on the dws situation a big problem? Don't know if the admins wil have to check every single one of them. If so I'll refrain myself from uploading other laps until there's a decision made.
  0:49.39 A
• Duplode
  @RCBandit Not a problem, you can post those normally.

Mar 15

• Duplode
  Extra rule for this race: after the track splits, it is not allowed to turn around and go back past the bridge. See the ZCT296 - Soul to Squeeze thread on the Forum for context and discussion. The scoreboard and PTB chart have been adjusted accordingly. Thanks for your understanding!
• Alain
  Thank you for the fast adaptation of the rules. Now the real race can start!

Mar 16

• Victor Narl
  @HerrNove, my congratulations! Great lap!
• HerrNove
  Thanks @Victor! I took some ideas from your lap, and I guess you are now doing the same with mine

Mar 17

• dreadnaut
  Useful for any community: why copy-pasting LLM output is rude - https://stopsloppypasta.ai/
• Alain
  These standards are to help people make their information easy to read and understand. https://www.inclusion-europe.eu/easy-to-read-standards-guidelines/
• Victor Narl
  I wonder how PTB is calculated in case of a draw?

Mar 18

• Duplode
  @VictorNarl For PTB specifically, the earliest lap gets the higher position, and so to improve one's multiplier it is necessary to break the tie with an overtake. (This tie with different cars looks nice on the scoreboard, by the way )
• HerrNove
  Let's break the tie, though. That Ferrari is too close for comfort Great lap with the Testarossa though, I guess with the DWS route @Victor will soon overtake me.
  0:44.77
• Victor Narl
  @HerrNove, have you still not decided to finally join a some racing team?
• HerrNove
  I feel better as free agent for now. I am more time-limited than last year and on many tracks I will only do a minimum effort, so I prefer not to feel obligations towards a team. It's easy to focus on other projects if I don't have to read teammates discussing about new trajectories and tricks.

Mar 19

• MiDiaN
  testing testing... site is working now?
• dreadnaut
  Did it have a hiccup earlier today?

Mar 20

• MiDiaN
  yes, bad gateway for at least four hours...
  0:44.44
• dreadnaut
  502/504 errors are hosting errors; sometimes they are normal maintenance periods, unfortunately we don't get an early warning for those. Thanks for highlighting it though, I can bring it to Zak if problems continue.

Mar 21

• HerrNove
  I left a couple of messages in the forum about recent developments in my Stunts projects. Your feedback is welcome!

Mar 22

• Victor Narl
  Only 3 days left until the R4K deadline https://www.raceforkicks.com/ According to the rules, to participate in the Quiet option, you must first publish a visible replay. @AlanRotoi, unfortunately I still don't see your result in R4K this month, and I still can't believe you withdrew from that competition
• Alan Rotoi
  Thanks for the reminder @Victor_Narl ! I won't miss this race either 😀. R4K is the only OWOOTR competition, so it's the natural heir of ISA Competition but with its own soul.

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