A reminder that VR works great on SO7 and Starters Orders 8 steamed from a PC using any Oculus Quest. I often get asked about this. It is NOT a Quest game but the PC game streaming to a Quest via cable or wireless. Gamepad also required. youtu.be/X7SyFlsZi4M

UPDATE! Starters Orders 8 (PC) is planned for late this year and will be DVD mail order only (just like the good old days). Fed up with the internet. Here is my delivery guy. Order early!

It's nearly Aintree Grand National time so a reminder that horse racing management sim. 'Starters Orders Touch' has a jumps mode and is available for both iOS and Android now. Currently rated 4.5/5 on the Apple store. iOS: apple.co/3Rd04fA. Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

The Saudi Cup meeting is to be added to Starters Orders 8. This means Saudi Arabia has been added as a new nationalty and Riyadh (racecourse) also added. The Pegasus World Cup race now replaces an old race in the US schedule and is a prep race for the Saudi Cup.

Starters Orders 8 development page is here and has been updated. You MUST hit F5 (or refresh) to get the latest. startersorders.com/so8.html

One of the jobs only partially complete (for Starters Orders 8) is to go through the courses (new ones and those inherited from SO7) improving waypoints, adding extra entities and crowds and replacing some stands which I don't like. It will take a while due to the numbers...

Starters Orders 8. I avoided Happy Valley in the past due to the lack of group races however there is no doubt it is an impressive course so a handfull of races have now been added...

Starters Orders 8. Cheltenham is already quite detailed and complex in terms of individual course routes and entity detail so all that has been done here is more superficial course entities added, minor stand adjustments and extra crowds.

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Leopardstown racecourse. Starters Orders 8 (PC). SO7/SO8 comparison. Not to forget the Irish racecourses. Hurdles course waypoints improved. Poor stands replaced and detail/crowds increased.

Starters Orders Touch (PC - Web build) has been updated to 1.081. This update includes new courses and some sim updates. Other platforms to follow. For the PC use the red UPDATE button on the main menu.

As promised some new Starters Orders development features or improvements will continue to make their way over to 2D Starters Orders Touch. Latest update contains new courses and feature races in addition to fixes. iOS: apple.co/3Rd04fA. Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Currently going through some of the more minor UK racecourses refreshing stands and improving waypoints etc. On 61 out of over 130 so still quite a lot to do. The aim is to get the courses looking a bit more familiar amd less generic and also for some to ride a little better

SO7 Pc laptop users. If you have a laptop with a dedicated GPU and SO7 races run slowly it is possible that the game is not using your GPU. In systems with both integrated and dedicated GPUs, the NVIDIA Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center may need to be set to

Ludlow has been refreshed. Waypoints improved etc. 96 done out of 135...