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nice find

flynfrog wrote:nice find

Thanks flynfrog.

I swear, this is the last time I've took the time to share something. By now over 100 views, I bet at least 50 downloads, and nobody but flynfrog found it proper to write at least "thanks" or something similar.

This way it seams to me that reaction on link was as if I've accidentally posted link to a domain for sale. Hell, than there would be more replies.

I just saw it, and it's awesome. I wasn't aware you were trolling for thank-yous, so thanks, great images.

I at first thought they were original posters for a sec, but the quality is too good. The Westwood Grand Prix of Vancouver gave me a clue.

Is this a Grand Prix Legends tribute?

EDIT: Upon reading, I see now this is a GPL thing. I would love to see a 60's F1 car in iRacing, and since it is made by the Pappy guys, I wouldn't be totally surprised.

Oh come on! there is not even one poster from the Argentinian grand prix from the 40s and 50s ????

There is even one of Uruguay

I wasn't expecting praises, but I feel like an idiot for posting it. It can't be that 99% of the people who saw them dislike them.

Those are original posters, but run trough photoshop in order to look good when printed. That's why they look too sharp on the screen, but on paper that would be just fine.

BTW, that's not finished collection, as they keep updating.

Belatti, perhaps you could find some Argentinan GP poster and send them for editing?

They are original posters? Surely you don't mean from actual races. They are for fictional races for the game Grand Prix Legends, as image placeholders for the tracks, from Big Ass Pile Of Maps, BAPOM.


There was no Vancouver Grand Prix. This I am quite sure

I've already printer out 4 of the images on the color laser here. They look nifty keen on my wall.

From the about:

"The first GPL add-on tracks started appearing in early 2000, largely conversions of tracks from earlier Papyrus games. These new tracks came with placeholder images for the 'pages' that appear in the GPL user interface: art-less 'covers' with nothing but the name of the track on a solid black background, empty 'map pages', and so on.
They didn't match the look-and-feel of the 'real' tracks that came with the game, and that upset me. I'm a big User Interface guy. I've been doing UI work for over 20 years, starting with the Macintosh in 1984, and later moving on to X11, Windows, and Web design. To my mind, good UI design is a treat, to be encouraged... and bad UI cannot be tolerated!
My goal at the time was not to embark on an Ambitious Art Project. I had no training or interest in 'art' at the time. The goal was simply to replace a glaring 'wrongness' with something at least marginally competent.
Around that time, there was this guy named Don Hodgdon, who was a prolific poster over in the old rec.autos.simulators newsgroup. Don had produced new covers for several of the add-on tracks, but hadn't addressed the 'map' issue. I contacted him with a proposal to join forces and put together a comprehensive collection of program sets for all the add-on tracks, one that would have a look-and-feel consistent with the original GPL tracks. I'd do the grunt-work of producing all the map pages, we'd use his covers where possible, and the two of us would take turns whipping up whatever additional covers were needed.
And so BAPOM (the "Big-Ass Pile Of Maps project") was born. You see, the maps were the 'new thing', as well as my baby, and I named the project... But in restrospect, it was a terrible acronym, as the maps quickly ceased to be the focus of the project, and arguably, never were. These days, BAPOM just stands for BAPOM, and that's that. The underlying acronym is deprecated."

Wow, those are really cool. Thanks for posting the link. I know how I'll be decorating my new place after I graduate

Some of them are new, made for historic car events, GPL, but not all.

Why would anyone make up how official program looked like, and even add date and price, if race never took place?

manchild wrote:Some of them are new, made for historic car events, GPL, but not all.

Why would anyone make up how official program looked like, and even add date and price, if race never took place?

To add a feel of authenticity that game modders are notorious for.

According to the words on the page in the link you provided, these are all original designs, none are actual programs from actual races, even though actual races did occur on some of the dates.

The 1967 season was the one simulated in GPL, and it only had a handful of tracks, so a 50's race at Monza would be a different track layout, with the original high speed banking.

My appologies.

I guess I'm into "f*** up a lot these days" kind of karma.

The four I printed out still look awesome on my wall. That's the only Karma I see

Super sharp, good lookin' out!

Edit: I especially love the Tin Tin one, that's going on my wall for sure.

thanks fro the link
just great¡¡

manchild wrote:Download & rush to print shop.

Available in three resolutions: 3X (843×1293), 6X (1686×2586), and 12X (3372×5172)

http://www.trilon.com/bapom/posters-largeformat.htm

example (WB, don't make your keyboard pregnant)

Nice link! Thanks manchild. If I get access to a large format color printer I'll print some of those.