F1GP-Ed 3.36 (12.10.97)

by Oliver Roberts

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As promised, the first official 1998 F1GP-Ed datafile is now available.

The next version (3.40) of F1GP-Ed will be ready in before the end of April 1998. I will be adding a few new features - something which has occupied most of my F1GP development time, recently, is a new patch which allows F1GP to work on non-15kHz screenmodes (i.e. not PAL or NTSC). As a result of my work on this, there will also be a patch which utilizes the power of the AGA chipset, which will make the game slightly faster/smoother on an A1200 or A4000. A new improved version of f1gp.library will be released with F1GP-Ed 3.40. Also, the following bugs in v3.36 have been fixed:

• Due to a bug in the ILBM reader code I 'borrowed', F1GP-Ed could hang (or simply show corrupted images) when decoding IFF-ILBM files using the cockpit and backdrop windows. This only happens with images that have been saved in PPaint or DPaint with a stencil switched on.
• The digital joystick dual gear change button feature now works as it should have - before, it was impossible to preset button 2 for changing up a gear.

Diary

08-Mar-98: 1998 Season Datafile released - The first datafile for the 1998 season, which features all the new colour schemes and drivers. Relative car performance is based on the qualifying and race stats from the Australian GP.

27-Jan-98: New cockpit design - James Bott has updated his rather nice cockpit design. It has many unique features, and also sports a more realistic palette (which needs to be imported into F1GP-Ed).

26-Jan-98: New cockpit collection - Paul Snowdon recently sent me his collection of cockpit designs, including some '98 designs. As there were so many I've decided to release them altogether in a single archive - currently only available from Aminet (game/data/PS_Cockpits.lha).