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From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: What games do you own and what do you intent to buy
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:42:40 +0200
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> NOT BULL!  You know, I think you just love to argue DEn, I really do!

Not argue, playing up is the right expression here I think ;-)

> Okay, yes of course you've snowboarded where the machines haven't
> been, but by definition I thought that's what "off piste" meant!
> I'm being pedantic I know, but what you describe are not pistes,
> technically.  

In that  case Tjechie (I don't know the english for that country..
tjecheslowaky??) would not have any pistes. They do have snowcanons, but
I suppose the big flattners are too expensive for them.

> And the bumpy areas are called "moguls" aren't they?

I don't have the faintest idea what you call them in English. I don't
even know the original dutch word for them. I just know the german word
is bukle or something like that.

> Moguls can be on or off piste.  The machines do go over moguls on
> piste, have you not seen them?

In Tirol and the more expensive ski-area's they have a piste with only
bumbs (or moguls). It's very hard to ski on, you need very flexible
knees and you should be very good at fast paralel correcting. On the
snowboard is even harder. Most of the time only a part of the piste has
bukles (or monguls). You get tired very fast on them. And believe me,
machines are not alowed on them. They do spray snow on them, but if a
big machine would go overit, there would not be any snow on the bumbs
and all the snow would get in the "holes". The complete effect would be
gone.

> A bit like combine-harvesters.
> You must have heard of the expression "off piste" before..

I know what you mean, and I know the machines. And off piste is also on
your own risk (it's not always alowed).

> > It feels like king of the piste.. This should be implemented in a
> > new game.
> 
> Is is on 1080 isn't it? -- do time trials and you're on your own the
> whole bloody time!  But I thought we wanted the pistes to be dead
> busy? :-)

Nooooo not being alone on a piste!! the tracks you make. Take the stopid
lensflare out and put tracks in the game. Every snowboarding game has
the option to be alone on the piste.

> > In the future we should join up to make this simple but super cool NY
> > snowboard-game!! I couls make a gameplan and I could do some graphics
> > (modeling). But first I need to finish my present projects..
> 
> Naa, I love doing 3D modeling, you can do the boring 2D textures
> and fonts ;-)

Fine with me ;-) I like 2D and don't think it's boring.

> > Did you??? I think Andy did. I asked him to do this so I could join.
> > Andy is a close friend of mine and we work on projects together.
> 
> Er, THINK AGAIN!  I did say he gave me the CW code, but I did the
> program and gave it him to compile/test (the program is shite (ie.
> just functional) so he wouldn't want to be credited for it!)
> Jeez man I even credited YOU in the readme! (for instigating it)

What do you English say in this case... Whoops? I take this back at
onces.


I took your link ;-) ... no hard feelings I hope..

See ya,

DEnnis..