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MACTS The Macintosh Truck Series
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We used NASCAR Racing for Mac, a game made by Papyrus and Sierra
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Welcome to the old home of MACTS!
This is where the Macintosh Truck Series used to be, an offline sim racing league that used the NASCAR Racing game for Macintosh. It ran a season in 1999 in which Aaron Stewart was champion, it was dicontinued after that season had ended for personal reasons on part of the administrator. It was turned over to another party to manage, but it didn't work out.
More information about the administrator
There were several racing leagues out there at the time, most raced stock cars on short tracks or superspeedways in long-length races. MACTS raced on all the tracks, short, superspeedways, and even road courses, and best of all we raced NASCAR Craftsman Trucks.
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How did it work?
The participants would run their races and at the end, record their positions in the races and the time it took them to run the race, and those results would be compared against others and then ranked. There was a points system which would determine a champion at the end of all races.
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Screen shot of NASCAR Racing for Mac while playing the game.
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So is Mac sim racing still around?
No, the longest lasting league was MSTRA, but in 2001 that seemed to have come to a hault as everyone lost interest.
MSTRA's web site (if it's still around)
I attribute the death (for lack of a better word) of mac sim racing to technology. Now we can directly compete against opponents in realtime over the internet, rather than compete against the computer and then you are competing with numbers against other people. The interaction between people over the internet has become more advanced and Mac Sim Racing just plain got old. It was all started by a guy named Bob Hall, back in the mid 90's with his MACAR racing league. I raced 1 race in that league, then had discontinued my internet service. When I got internet again in 1996-97, Bob Hall was just announcing that he could not continue and that MACAR was shutting down. Jeff Brown started MSTRA, I ran a couple races, and with my spare time decided to run a "different" league of my own. MACTS was a success. Today with more advanced graphics and interactivity in games, it just isn't the same. The people that were met online in this experience were great friends, I still talk to Jeff Brown every once in a while, just because he's such a cool guy. But we've all grown up and went off to college, some of us are even beyond college, and some of the ties have been broken. But it was fun, and I did learn a lot of stuff from it.
A Production of Dustin Marson Design
MACTS is a website created by and maintained by Dustin Marson, email: dustin@dustinmarson.com
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