F1GP-Ed 3.36 (12.10.97)

by Oliver Roberts

Latest News (updated 27 January 1998)

The next version (3.40 if things go as planned) won't be ready until later this year :-( Hopefully, the new version will be ready just after the '98 F1 season begins in March. I will be adding some new features, including some kind of program launcher for SplitTime, AGPPerf, etc. 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. 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

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).

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