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5. Ankündigung: F1GP-Ed v3.41

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F1GP-Ed

VERSION

3.41

AUTHOR

Oliver Roberts

E-Mail: oliver.roberts@iname.com
WWW: http://www.nanunanu.org/~oliver/

Address:
30 Tillett Road
Norwich
NR3 4BJ
ENGLAND

DESCRIPTION

An editor for use with the Formula One Grand Prix or World Circuit game (published by MicroProse Software). It is very easy to use, with a standard 2.0 look graphical user interface (even on KS 1.x!) and on-line help should you need it.

Allows you to alter most of the in-game setup, including computer car performance, car/helmet/pitcrew colours, car fragility and many other things (and I MEAN many!). Sound samples can also be replaced, cockpit graphics changed, and lap records and setups printed.

Changes can be saved directly to a copy of the game which is running in memory, or to the main file used by the game for a more permanent change.

Also incorporated in the main program are a number of memory patches, including Toni Wilen's GPPatch and Grant Reeve's PatchF1GP.

F1GP-Ed breathes new life into an ageing, but excellent game. 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 sample datafiles supplied for those who don't want to mess about with all the options.

The program itself is auto-enhancing, which means that it will run on a basic A500 with KS 1.2, but will make use of KS 2.x or KS 3.x specific routines on suitable machines to make itself even better.

Supported languages:

English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Greek and Polish.

NEW FEATURES

f1gp.library v36 - major update, including new game patches:
- The game will now work with non-15kHz AGA screenmodes including DblPAL, DblNTSC and Multiscan (i.e. not PAL or NTSC)
- Patched the game to utilize the faster fetch modes of the AGA chipset, making the game slightly faster/smoother on an A1200 or A4000
Major change to the "Less cars in races" memory patch. This option has been removed. It is replaced by a patch that is always saved to the F1GP binary or memory, which means you can save less than 26 to the game without having to worry about installing the patch. Of course, the patch will now work even if F1GP-Ed is not running
The game will now attempt to load f1gp.library and patch itself when you run it - this means that the VBR problem, for example, will disappear for good! No longer will you have to run F1GP-Ed in the background to enable the 'use VBR' patch! Only takes effect once you have saved to the F1GP binary with this new version
Moved wet weather options out of the preferences into a new seperate wet weather window, joined by a new option which changes the way wet weather is determined during a championship season
Added option to disable the unnecessary requestors that show up in the game after loading or saving a file successfully
Added two more symbols to the GPPatch HUD which tell you that a car will be pitting this lap (differentiates between damage and tyre stops)
Due to popular demand, it is now possible to preset the turbo keys
Automatically fixes a problem with the game's file requester, removing the limit of only displaying a maximum of 64 entries
Viewer screens for the backdrops and cockpit designs are now opened using the most appropriate screenmode, instead of defaulting to PAL/NTSC
Altered the HUD to use AGA specific features, where appropriate, which should stop it slowing F1GP down as much (uses less DMA)
Lots of the usual bug-fixes

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Formula One Grand Prix or World Circuit game by Geoff Crammond, published commercially originally by MicroProse Software.

Approximately 1.5Mb of free ram needed to load the game and the editor to be able to use the memory patches. But, the editor itself and most of the features will work on machines with less memory.

AVAILABILITY

F1GP-Ed Web Page: http://www.nanunanu.org/~oliver/F1GP-Ed/

Aminet, e.g.: ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/game/misc/F1GP-Ed.lha (506290)

PRICE

Shareware fee: United Kingdom - 6 UKP Rest of the World - 7 UKP / US$ 15 / DM 25

See documentation for further details.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

F1GP-Ed is a Shareware product and it may be distributed freely provided none of the files (including the executable) are tampered with in any way whatsoever.

A registration fee is requested if the product is found to be useful by the user. Registering means helps ensure that I continue to develop the program, and as a bonus all features will be enabled.

** Not officially endorsed by MicroProse Software ***

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