Features include:
•Support for all types of track from 1 to 8 lanes.
•Both Time based and Lap based racing.
•Connections to the Parallel or Joystick ports.
•Compatible with MS Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.
•Multi-Lingual screen displays.
•Allows you to run the application displaying your own native language.
•User definable, multi-channel sound effects.
•Lane rotation and heat management, along with cumulative point scoring.
•Connects to all types of tracks up to 8 Lanes Lap timings to 1000th sec.
•On screen display of Current drivers, Current Lap, Fastest lap, Last •Lap time, Average lap time.
•Race results for races/heats and Overall Cumulative race results:
•Connects to your track via the Parallel or Joystick port, using simple circuitry (Full instructions provided)

VRS 2001 connects to your track and PC via a serial cable which Neill sells directly from his website. The light sensors are quite sensitive and if setup properly will work flawlessly.

Pricing for the software registration is $22.50 USD, and the cable can be created yourself or as I did I purchased the two lane version for $22.50 USD as well. The other lane versions cost a little more, but for me the relief of the aggrivation of making my own it was worth it! You'd think that coming from the UK, the delivery of the cable would take awhile. Not true! Neil is very quick to deliver!

I use the softeware for both hO and 1/32 applications. It was originallyu designed for 1/32 I believe, but the it's flexible for other scales with the simple selection of a drop down box. I run it from a laptop, a pentium II 233 with 128 megs of ran. It requires very little hard drive space and it is very cheap on system resources so it has never crashed on me during use. Reliable!

One handy feature is the custom designed file to save which exports to an ORS (Online Racing Series) format file. Nothing to fix, just race and send the file!

Another feature I like is the adjustable sounds. Of course through some creative file renaming I created my own custom sounds for the countdown, starting gun, lap completion, hot lap, and finish. These are selectable and you can even have different sounds for opposite laps.

I'd recommend this software to anyone wishing to break away from the DOS boundaries of some other software types. Let's face it, there's a lot that can be done programatically, it's how it works for you that counts. For me VRS 2001 is the one!

(Images and some feature text borrowed from the home site of VRS 2001)