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Official announcement

This is the text of the official announcement of Speed Dreams 1.4.0 beta1:

Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is out !

The Speed Dreams team is happy to announce that its first release 1.4.0 is
finally out.

Speed Dreams is an open source motorsport simulator. It was forked in late 2008
from the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, in order to implement exciting
new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents, to make a more enjoyable game for
the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

In this first release, you will enjoy :
 * visually reworked menus by Brian Gavin, Andrew Sumner and Jean-Philippe Meuret,
 * 3 amazing fine tuned and balanced new car sets by Andrew Sumner : Super Cars
and 36 GP, and Haruna Say : LS-GT1
 * an updated TRB1 car set (well balanced, more realistic behaviour),
 * 3 exciting new tracks and many visually improved ones,
 * smashing liveries for all these cars, by Eckhard M. Jager and Haruna Say,
 * 2 new TRB first-class robots for the Supercars, 36GP and TRB1 car sets :
   USR by Andrew Sumner and Simplix by Wolf-Dieter Beelitz (at last real AI
opponents !),
 * animated driver by Andrew Sumner on 36GP cars, 3D wheels for all cars by
Eric Espie,
 * 2 new leader-board modes by Gabor Kmetyko, smoke on spinning tires by Andrew
Sumner,
 * brand new gauges by Eckhard M. Jager, and many many other small visual
improvements,
 * experimental full 3D "Simu V3" physics engine by Christos Dimitrakakis,
 * many menu improvements (support for grid shifting, optimized track select
load time,
   category filter when selecting driver, more infos in results and standings
boards),
 * and more ...

Come on and get Speed Dreams 1.4.0 here :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=239111 :
it works under Windows XP and Vista (feel free to test and report under 7), as
well as under many flavours of Linux (Mandriva 2008, 2009, 2010 ; Ubuntu 9 ; ...).

More information here : http://speed-dreams.sourceforge.net

Sites we love

In the list below you will find the sites that have reported on our latest release.
Please help to keep this list up-to-date for easing future communications.

Site name & Link	Has screenshots?	Has video?	Has forum?	Only announce?	Notes
Speedmaniacs.com	X	X
Hungarian Unix Portal			X	X
Simracingworld
ForesightLinux			X	X
WebUpd8	X	X	X
HappyPenguin	X		X
Pro Linux	X		X
Motorsport Total	X		X
LinuxGames			X	X

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