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Hey Guys! -
Keep track of all those new GPL tracks that are coming out The BAPOM Way!
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07/24/08: Four 'new' progsets, sort of.
Two them came with their tracks, and one of the others is a real-life
scan cleanup/twiddle... so, pretty much one really 'new' thing.
But we're once again in sync with the GPLtd. At least until someone
releases another track. 07/10/08: Something different - replacement 'layout' files (the various user-interface menu screens, etc.) for the GPL '66 mod. I think the originals were too contrasty, with the background pictures visually fighting with the foreground controls and text. This tweaked set is more sedate, more along the lines of the '67 originals. 04/24/08: One-stop shopping! Like the BAPOM 'thing', but don't have the time/effort to download and install all the progsets individually? (It would take hours, just given the number of the bastards.) You can now download a single 200MB zip containing all the BAPOM progsets. Unzip it to your GPL directory, and 'bam!', you're fully BAPOMized. Thrill your friends, amaze your wife, frighten your dog! 04/20/08: We are officially 'done'. Every single track in the freakin' GPLTD now has a BAPOM progset. And yes, I say that like it's a good thing. A collection of eighteen new project-finishing-up progsets for tracks no one even has is now available. Along with twelve new MegaPosters, because if you're gonna draw something, you might as well draw the f**k out of it. 03/19/08: From the "Big Whoop" File, we've got alternate covers for the various Brent Adams Lime Rock tracks, for those who dig the new 'limey' cover, but would like it attached to a track you actually want to drive. 03/06/08: Hey, look here, it's another batch of 15 new progsets. As of this writing, there's only another 15 to go after this, and then we're actually finished. There are also seven new MegaPosters; they're like art, only bigger. 02/03/08: Okay, the two new Multi-Cover Posters are now actually accessable on the website. 01/30/08: Put up two new Multi-Cover Posters. Yeah, I know, the excitement is palpable... 01/22/08: Time for another one of our traditional semi-annual Massive Updates - twenty mostly-new progsets for some new tracks, some real old tracks, and stuff in between. And there's six new MegaPosters, 'cause that's the way I roll, G. 10/12/07: We've got a delicious, overflowing smorgasbord of twenty new fresh'n'zesty BAPOM originals for tracks that you've never driven. There's a reason for that, of course - the tracks are in various stages of completion, from "final in all but name only" to the alphiest of alphas. Hopefully I can enlist the aid of some like-minded folks who'd like to these alphas/betas finalized, already. Hey, I did my part... Oh, and there's also three new MegaPosters, for those of you who 'play that game'. 09/24/07: As recently announced elsewhere, the skilled artisans of BAPOM are so collectively bored out of their minds that we've been forced to take on an Exciting New Initiative - we're going to 'finish' this project once and for all, by committing to covering every single damned track listed in the GPLTD (save a handful no-longer-available tracks ... and if someone wants to slip me those, all bets are off)! New to BAPOM? The first thing you probably want to do is download our progams for the 11 original GPL tracks! Then, go download everything else...it'll take a while! Browse the many pages of our award-winning GPL catalog, or use the handy pull-down menu (above) to directly download the program set for a specific track.
We currently have an "ow, my brain hurts!" 569 complete program
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What Is BAPOM? Note that BAPOM is not a collection of nice program sets from random people. Every program set on this site was created by Don (way back when) and myself. Yes, there are some sets that feature real-life covers snagged from The Programme Covers Project, but even those have generally been 'breathed on' by one of us - and of course, they all come with my "uniformly 'the way they are'" map pages and newspaper pictures. All and all, it's a staggeringly large pile of work (well over 4,000 hours of Photoshop-ing), of surprisingly little utility. Anyway, the key word here at BAPOM is 'consistent'. The project was born because I had a (figurative) hard-on for a consistent look-and-feel in GPL, and it really bugged me that some tracks had map pages (or whatever) that looked 'different'. Originally, I just intended to do the map pages, and let Don handle the covers, but Don retired from the GPL cover-making scene in 2001, and BAPOM has been a 1-man operation ever since. Here's what you can expect to find in any BAPOM program set:
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