If the download does not start automatically in 5 seconds, click here.
All our files are compressed with ZIP
or RAR
archiver.
This file is not hosted by Blackhole Motorsports, but by another host.
Description:
This demo is made exclusive for Blackhole Motorsports.
When the creators of the ever-popular NASCAR series of racing simulations, Papyrus, decided to create a historical Grand Prix racing simulation, many people were confused. "How could a racing simulation modeled after the 1967 Formula 1 Season be fun?" they asked. Well, to put it bluntly, it's fun because it is harshly and at times brutally realistic.
With few of the safety features and engine restrictions required on today's race cars, the 1967 Formula 1season was one of the most dangerous in Motorsports history. Increased horsepower, no down force, rock-hard bias-ply tires, fuel tanks placed not only in the cockpit with the drivers, but specifically fabricated and molded in such a way as to surround the driver, and seat belts... what were those? In fact, the conventional wisdom in those days was that it was better to be thrown from the car during an accident than be belted into it. And considering the drivers were actually sitting in the middle of a 40 plus gallon, thin-walled, aluminum fuel tank filled with very exotic and volatile fuel, who could blame them? Luckily for us we don’t have to worry about seatbelts or getting hurt beyond a simple bruising of our pride.
Grand Prix Legends (GPL) transports you to another era of racing, with the authentic feel of being a Formula 1 driver during a classic period in Motorsports history. A period when the person behind the wheel was more important than the machine. Names like Brabham, Clark, Gurney, Hill, Hulme, McLaren, Surtees and more will fill the roster and challenge you for position on some of the most historic and challenging tracks ever built.
At the time of it's initial release GPL was a cutting-edge racing simulation and make no mistake about it - today in 2004 Grand Prix Legends is still very much at the pinnacle of racing simulations. After nearly 6 years Grand Prix Legends is looking better than ever and it's supported by a global community unparalleled in the world both in size and friendliness.
What you will experience in this 2004 update of the original GPL demonstration are only the essentials, after all it is just a "demo." But what makes this updated demo unique is that it also contains a small sampling of the numerous add-ons that are now currently available for download. For example, there are now over 400 tracks made specifically for GPL and the list grows every week. In fact, within the last 5 weeks alone 14 new tracks have been released and all of them are representations of real tracks!
In addition to the hundreds of tracks that are now available there have been more graphical, utility and analytical programs created for GPL than you could possibly imagine or even wish for and frankly far too many to list here. Among these many downloads, or add-ons as they are frequently called, is a broad spectrum of graphic updates that will give you the ability to be able to customize your copy of GPL to suite your own personal tastes. Whether it's track graphics, car updates, sounds updates or even the in-game menu screens, there is an incredible variety of large and small add-ons available to choose from.
This GPL 2004 demo includes the original Papyrus demo plus all of the official Papyrus-produced patches that have been released since GPL's first introduction back in 1998. In addition to these official patches is a small sampling of some of the numerous and more substantial updates that have been developed and produced for GPL by individuals who like yourself are merely avid fans of this fantastic racing simulation. And the best thing about all of these downloads, is that they are all free. - No, that wasn't a typo, they're all free, which only underscores just how unique and generous the GPL community truly is.
The GPL 2004 Demo has close to if not more than 20 separate installs or tweaks. All of this is common knowledge to a GPL freak but for newbie’s this is not so easy. It's not like it is hard or to difficult, but it can take a considerable amount of time to figure things out and to test the game multiple times to see if the changes work etc. We all know that most people would rather skip all that. Well now they can.
Our goal with the Demo was to create an updated version to give new players a plug and play experience with GPL. But most important is that it present GPL they way it looks today but we have not included all the bells and whistles available for GPL but the mandatory bits all GPL fans use as a base setup.
After the demo is installed, click on the shortcut icon and GPL is ready to GO. There’s a pre-made Demo driver profile with setups for any of the cars you want to test drive. All you need to do is to setup the preferred controller that being Keyboard/Joystick/wheel and GPL is ready. With this Demo we hope new people will understand all the fuzz created by GPL fans who claims GPL to be The king if Sim's and why we love it so much still after nearly 6 years.
have fun and read the "What's New" after the demo installed and before you start the Demo for the first time. The html document is a presentation of both Grand Prix Legends and the artist involved in this project and their work that we are using in the demo.
We here at Team Blackhole Motorsports
need your help. As you all know, the team puts in a great deal
of effort to provide you with the latest news and downloads
from the sim racing world. However, all of this hardwork comes
at a steep cost. Until now we have been able to maintain ourselves
but recent site popularity is making this more and more difficult.
Last month alone we transferred over 1.3TBs (thats 1,300GBs)
of data. The cost to provide that much bandwidth is expensive
and we need your help to keep us going. We are kindly asking
our patrons to use the PayPal donate button to make donations.
The PayPal donation is a secure and easy way to send your donations
directly to Team Blackhole Motorsports. Please help us by contributing
a donation so we can continue to provide you with the latest
news and downloads from the sim world.
Once you rated
this download,
you can post your comments.
Demo fully installs etc, but quits out to desktop 3 seconds after launch. If I remember correctly this is what original GPL did...?
GPL is only game that does this crap... I don't wanna have to give it a miss over this crappy problem...
SPECS: XP2500+|NF7-S|512MB PC3200|GF3Ti200|Maxtor 60GB
I have a problem too, but it's less serious. It's a problem with sound....most of the time sounds are overhauled, some of them aren't played. For a little moment sounds are playing good (for that moment they're great) and after some time time they're overhauling and not playing again. I have a Creative SB Live! 5.1 , WinXP Pro, Athlon XP Barthon 2600+@2800+, GeForce FX5600 128MB 128bit, 1024MB RAM 400MHz.........what's the problem? Only in GPL I have this kind of bugs.
I had the same problem as wacky, above--the game would just exit after starting up. However it started working when I enabled indexing for the GPL folder/subfolders/files. Very strange solution but it worked for me!
Oi, hang on mates. Is this game only playable with 'Joystic' controller? It gives me the screen to calibrate it, but I have keyboard... I never ever played this game, so if this is a noob question, sorry about that. Still, is there a way to play it with keyboard?
Hey guys... over 1000 got the wrong demo.The old one is removed from the download page now to stop it from happening.
If you have any problems with the NEW demo? Go here http://www.bhmotorsports.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=19469 i'll help you get the demo running in no
time.
Have fun
This download should be regarded as "Semi-Warez" since only one original track is missing
Buy the game, no one which can afford the PC needed to run this "demo" is so poor that they cant pay for the real stuff ;)
Anon, the whole point of this is get new people interested and show them how much GPL has changed (or new players how it os still relevant) so they will buy the game. Otherwise they never would have cared about GPL at all. Your really quite naive if you think this is warez.
Anon, you are wrong about the "warez" bit, but I agree with your second statement: anyone who can afford a computer to run GPL can afford to buy it as it can be bought very cheaply nowadays. Go out and buy a copy so you can enjoy GPL to the MAX ;)
WOW! what a good demo, havent played gpl fpor years and thought it look ugly because of the age, but it doesnt.
You can really hear those big engines roar and see them race around you.
Nicely done!
Absoutely Awesome Demo. I am looking to get the complete game. Quite possibly the most realistic driving simulator I have ever seen. One question. Can you update the graphic from the original to what the 04 demo has? Not that it is real important as the game is awesome
Purchased the sim2 months ago ( damn steep learning curve ), installed the demo 3 weeks ago. Amazing. I rated it a 10 ( I hate to give perfect scores ) . I'm surprised the average note is around 7.3
I have a problem running the Demo. I had downloaded it about a year ago and had it running perfectly. After having to reinstal bits of my operating system GPL wouldn't run, error message read "Glide2x.dll required", I have downloaded this and dropped it into the GPL folder but it still wont run at all. Ijust get "GPL has encounted a problem and needs to close". I'm really missing my regular GPL fix so any assistance appreciated. Particularly frustrating as the demo was running beautifully before.
The Way you got to download the file sucks. Gamershell & 3Dgamers are annoying sites. looks like spam to me when you try to download overthere. Youre site is nice nevertheless
ABOUT US | CONTACT | ADVERTISING
| LINK US | RSS
Blackhole
Motorsports Copyright © 2005. Hosted by Isolcom
Interactive Ltd.
