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Words from the administrator (14.09.2000) Latest News
Welcome to the Amiga F1 Grand Prix Hall of Fame. You may be wondering what has happened since the last edition of the Hall of Fame. Well, quite frankly not a great deal. Interest in the Hall of Fame on the Amiga has not completely dried up, but it has dropped a litte these last few months.
However, I have been working behind the scenes on some more changes to the Hall of Fame, which will appear soon. Wet qualifying results are slowly being re-introduced into the Hall of Fame and there are a couple of submissions on a few circuits ready for the next edition.
Anyway, I hope to see some of your qualifying times (even if you are praticising for the F1 championship) very soon. See you next month.
..Rob.
No new submissions this month.
The Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame is a highly enjoyable competition open to all players of the Microprose game Formula-1 Grand Prix on Amiga systems. All competitors must have e-mail facilities (or access to) in order to take part. Additionally an Amiga with a copy of F1GP-Ed 3.4x (which must be run along side F1GP) and the HoF Qualifier v2.05 program for submitting your results to the administrator.
The basic idea behind the Hall of Fame, is that you compete against other members over each of the 16 circuits for points. The current scoring system implies that points are awarded according to how close you are to the fastest time on each circuit. The faster you are, the more points you wil receive.
This is essentially the basis of the competition. Both F1GP-Ed and HoF Qualifier are obtainable via this web site.
How to join the Hall of Fame (six simple steps)
| ONE | Choose your personal two-digit ID. Usually, this is just your initials (unless someone else is using them) but it can be any two alphanumeric characters you like. |
| TWO | E-mail the administrator with your chosen ID. After confirming your ID, the administrator will add your name to the HoF mailing list. |
| THREE | Download the latest version of F1GP-Ed. This enables you to alter the F1GP game ready for competing in the Hall of Fame. |
| FOUR | Download the latest version of HoF Qualifier. This program ensures that your times are submitted in the correct format for the Hall of Fame each month. |
| FIVE | Download the HoF datafile, which configures F1GP-Ed for competing in the Hall of Fame. |
| SIX | Carefully read the 'HoF Rules' section of the Hall of Fame, before submitting any times. |
How to read Hall of Fame records
All of the tables conform to the following layout:
| COUNTRY OF RACE (Circuit Name) | ||||||||||
| POS | TIME | ID | DATE | OPTIONS | FRONT | REAR | BALANCE | GEARS | SCORE | |
| 01 | 1:23.456 | AA | 01-01-00 | HF | 64 | 40 | �00 | [32,38,45,52,58,63] | 20.00 | |
| Key to reading records | Possible Options | ||||
| Pos | Position of the qualifying record | Br | Auto brakes | A | A-compound tyres |
| Time | Qualifying time obtained | G | Auto gears | B | B-compound tyres |
| ID | Player ID | Sp | Self-righting spin | C | C-compound tyres |
| Date | Date on which record was set | L | Best line | D | D-compound tyres |
| Options | Possible options (see table right) | S | Suggested gear | W | W-compound tyres |
| Front | Front wing | J | Analogue joystick | K | Used keyboard |
| Rear | Rear wing | H | HP fixed at 716 | T | Traction control off |
| Balance | Break balance (Front/Neutral/Rear) | 2 | 2 button gears | F | 12 fps PAL/NTSC |
| Gears | Gear setup | ||||
| Score | Rated score | ||||
How to submit Hall of Fame records
You can submit records by either using the HoF Qualifier utility or the "Statistics" option in F1GP-Ed. Please, refer to the documentation of those programs on how to export record data for the Hall of Fame. Any times should be submitted to me via e-mail to hof@recoil.globalnet.co.uk
The Hall of Fame is available for download from this website and from Aminet mirrors around the world in the pub/aminet/docs/hyper/ directory.
Please note that the rules assume you to be familiar with Oliver Roberts's F1GP Editor V3.4x upwards, because this tool provides all the patches currently relevant to competing in the Hall of Fame. The following rules must be adheared to:-
- A wet or dry datafile must be used (available here)
- Qualifying times accepted only (race times are theoretically slower)
- Q-Compound Tyres to be used
- Ace difficulty level (no driver aids)
- No cutting corners
- No slipstreaming
- Saving of the qualifying session (e.g. before a corner) and repeating it is not allowed
- Only 2 teams are allowed at maximum (to minimise slipstreaming risk)
- Position snaphot keys are not allowed
- (USER) The use of Split-time by Rene Smit is allowed
- (USER) The use of AGP-Perf by Grant Reeve is allowed
- The turbo-keys patch is not allowed
- (USER) The frame-rates of 8,10 and 12 FPS (PAL/NTSC) are allowed for competing. However,
frame-rates above 12 FPS are strictly forbidden
- Unlimted 'Q' tyres patch is allowed
- (USER) The 'Practice Fuel Load' option is allowed to be set to zero (0) laps
- (USER) Team names, car colours, helmet designs etc. can be modified
Other notes: 'Options' (see Possible Options table above) allow for deviations from these standards. Players should always send in the options they have used.
Other notes: The majority of the options will be preset by loading in the datafile, so any competitor, should not have to change any settings. Anything labelled with (USER) means that the competitor is generally responsible for altering this, should they wish to do so.
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