Cos F1 2011 just came through my door

For those interested, yes it's MUCH better than 2010. It's also MUCH harder!

I was playing with no assists and on Pro Difficulty in these shots (Legendary is far, far too hard lol). As you can see I got understeer on the 5th corner of Melbourne into the corner and gave it too much welly to straighten her up on exit. Needless to say though I didn't lose control and went on to finish the race 12th from a grid starting point of 20th and dropping to 24th at the first straight from overshooting turn 1 and spinning out

If you want my opinion, you will DEFINITELY need some form of analogue controller with this. I haven't tried with any assists on cos frankly assists are for children, but I'm willing to still say that casual racers may not like it even then. I have a Logitech G27 wheel and pedals and I'm still struggling/adjusting to the new feel of the cars. No longer are you able to prevent a spin by quickly stabbing the brakes (as it should be) and if you start sliding and lift off the throttle you WILL spin (also as it should be) you have to power on through which is counterintuitive but that's just the way it works when you need downforce to make a corner.

Anyway, for those up for a few races, my MS Live id is Lord Diabl0 (that's a Zero on the end btw).

well, i'm now 9th in the drivers points and 8th in the constructors. my hands and feet are aching bad from 12 hours solid racing, cant grip anything now lol. should get an offer from a better team soon, Lotus although a british team are crap. I blame the French engine personally need a team with KERS as i have yet to be in the zone and within 1 sec of the person infront for DRS. Although DRS in Qualies is nice

Looks like a pretty sweet game. Definitely need a beast of a system to run it like you have it. I dropped Minecraft for a few weeks to play a Free copy of Forza 3 for the 360.

I loved Forza 3. Played with with the Microsoft wheel. but having gone pc with the g27 the 360 wheel is a bit meh, and stupid MS wont support the g27, even though it works fine on the PS3

I may be gone a bit longer XD

WRC 2011 will be arriving on my doorstep next week!

I've also dug out my Amiga A1200 with blizzard 060 from the cupboard as the release of the NatAmi hardware is fast approaching:

68060 on FPGA clocked between 100-150Mhz (about 10x faster than a current A1200/A4000 with 060 expansion)
Super AGA with upgraded blitter
512mb ram (interchangeable modes for fastram configs)
usb2, lan, dvi/vga, optical audio etc etc.

I'm looking to write my own 3d survival game using Voxels in a similar way to the old game Robinson's Requiem.

For those that know Amiga specs, it'll be strictly designed for NatAmi to give it it's own unique title. You wont be able to run it in an emulator because it wont have the new "SuperAGA" mode, and also, the NatAmi will run faster than any current modern PC can emulate it (Amiga custom hardware owns again ). So unless someone ports it (highly likely as i'll release it's source eventually) it'll be a NatAmi title only

of course this means coding in standard AGA (and yes, i'm doing that on my Amiga as i want to do it legit ) then updating it to SuperAGA once the hardware arrives through my door.

I used to code in Blitz Basic but now there's Amiblitz 3 with ALOT more tools that i'll need to dig into

so yeah, it's unlikely i'll be back for an amount of time for a few months more! short visits i'll definitely do though

hmmm i wonder if i could do a minecraft type game on the NatAmi? XD

NatAmit website: http://www.natami.net