Copyright: ©TERO VIRTA®, 1995


 Anastasia Utendorf's FORMULA 1 Season 1995 Review

Copyright Tero Virta, 1995


Copyrights & Sources

Some of the information on this program may or may noy be subject to copyrights. This program is purely as an informative, non-profit making venture. Due to a severe lack of facilities I have had to take some information where I could in order to create this at all.  If you feel that I have taken something I should not have please simply e-mail me and I will remove it as soon as possible. It would be nice to think that with a bit of co-operation any potential problems or conflicts could be avoided.

McLaren, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Blundell, Jan Magnusen

All pictures and text of McLaren are from their Web-page at http://www.mclaren.co.uk/mclaren/, and Copyright 1995 TAG/McLaren Marketing Services Limited. Pictures of Mika Hakkinen in Lotus are from http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/

Benetton, Jos Verstappen, Michael Schumacher

Picture of Michael Schumacher in Benetton's main page is from Mild Seven's Web-page at http://www.jtnet.ad.jp/WWW/MILDSEVEN/F1/. Picture of Michael Schumacher in Schumacher page and the text is from http://www.webspace.com/~petern/formula1.html. Pictures and text of Jos Verstappen is copied from Roger Adam's Homepage at http://star.cs.vu.nl/~radams/.

Nokia-Tyrrell-Yamaha, Mika Salo, Ukyo Katayama

Pictures and text of drivers are from Nokia's Web-page at http://www.nokia.com.

Racetrack images are stolen from The Racer's Archive Web-page at http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Contribs/carina/ra.home.page.html and copyright Jay A. Carina. Race-histories and general information topics are copied from Andre Geiser's HomePage at Andre Geiser's homepage at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~agei/.

Race results are provided by several sources and copied from Benjamin Junior's Web-page at http://sweet.ci.ua.pt/~junior/formula1/f1.html.

Rest of the driver profiles are from http://pentak2.pol.lublin.pl/~wojtek/ and/or miscellanous links from there.


System requirements

Warez and stuff

I have created this program with 25 MHz 486 with 8MB of memory, 800x600/256-colors and Windoze For Workgroups 3.11, any pc faster than that should do just fine.

For displaying the MPEG-movies You will need a MPEG-driver. I have used the VMPEG 1.2a by Stefan Eckart. And for the sounds You will need a Windows-supported audio-card or a driver for pc-speaker. This program requires about 6 - 7 MB of disk-space.

I haven't included any MPEG's or WAV's in the zip-file, due to amount of disk-space they demand. Good source for them is Andre Geiser's homepage at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~agei/English/movies.html and from Gale Force of Monaco at http://www.monaco.mc/f1/.

Before You can view any of the movie files fix the MPEG-driver path in the 'Config' from the main screen and modify the ini-files as explained in the 'Updating information' section.


Updating information

I have tried to make this as easy to update as possible.

Directory structure

You can install this program in any directory You like. But all the hlp's, ini's, dll's and exe-file should be in the same directory. You should copy all the .txt-files to subdirectory named TEXT, -wmf-files in IMAGES, .wav's in SOUNDS and MPEG's in MOVIES.

The ini-files

The program uses several ini-files to store it's configuration and filenames. If You want to add images, sounds or movie-files to it You should add the corresponding entries in the ini-files.

[SectionX]

CountOfEntries=9

Entry1=FILENAME.XXX,Explanation

.

.

Entry9=FILENAME.YYY,Explanation

Most ini-files use the structure featured above. First is the name of the section, then count of entries and then entries named from entry1 to entry9... Entries have filename and explanation separated by comma. Filename comes first then explanation, there should not be any spaces between them. Explanation text can contain spaces. Maximum length of the entry is 255 characters.

Formula1.ini

Teams.ini

Drivers.ini

95Races.ini


Formula1.ini

Formula1.ini has the sound- and movie-file entries that Formula1.exe reads at startup and places to the movie and sound outline-components in the main-form.

[Settings]

Sounds=Yes	Windows supported audio-device available? Yes/No

MPEGDriverPath=D:\APP\VMPEG\VMPEGWIN.EXE

[Sounds]

Items=6

Sound1=FERRARI.WAV,Ferrari V12

.

.

Sound6=LIGIER.WAV,Ligier Honda/Mugen V-10

[Movies]

Items=16

Movie1=MONZA_94.MPG,The Accident In Opening Of Monza 1994

.

.

Movie16=SCHUHILL.MPG,Schumi Takes The 1994 Title


Driver.ini

Driver.ini has the text-, image- and movie-file entries that Driverx.dll reads and reads the corresponding files from disk and places them in text- or image-components in the driver-form. Formula1.exe reads also driver entries from Driver.ini and places them in the driver outline-component in the main-form.

[Drivers]

Items=33

Driver1=Jean Alesi

.

.

Driver33=Karl Wendlinger

Entries in Drivers-section appear in the driver-names outline in the main-form. If You want to add a driver to the program just make a similar entry for the driver and update the count of entries (Items-entry).

[RacingLegends]

Items=3

Driver1=Nigel Mansell

Driver2=Ayrton Senna

Driver3=Gilles Villeneuve

Entries in RacingLegends-section appear in the RacingLegends outline in the main-form. Adding entries is similar as above.

[Jean Alesi]

TXT=ALESI.TXT

WMF=ALESI.WMF

MPG=ALESI.MPG

Pictures=3

Picture1=94ALESI.WMF,1994 Ferrari

Picture2=FER412T2.WMF,1995 Ferrari With Drivers

Picture3=95ALESIM.WMF,1995 Canadian GP

Entry with the driver's name has the items that appear in the selection of driver-form. Picture entries can be viewed with the album.dll by pressing the PhotoAlbum button in the driver-form.


Teams.ini

Teams.ini has the text-, and image-file entries that Teamx.dll reads and reads the corresponding files from disk and places them in text- or image-components in the team-form. Formula1.exe reads also team entries from Teams.ini and places them in the team outline-component in the main-form.

[Teams]

Items=15

.

.

Team15=Williams

Team-name entries above appear in the Teams-outline in the main form. Updating is similar than drivers before.

[Benetton]

Drivers=3

Driver1=Johnny Herbert

Driver2=Michael Schumacher

Driver3=Jos Verstappen

Pictures=15

Picture1=BENETT_2.WMF,1992 Benetton

...

Picture15=95SCHU01.WMF,1995 Pacific GP

TextFiles=6

TextFile1=BENETTON.TXT,Team Milestones

...

TextFile6=BRAWN.TXT,RossBrawn

Car=BENETT_1.WMF

Logo=BENELOGO.WMF

Driver-name entries appear in the Drivers-outline, TextFiles in Articles, Pictures in PhotoAlbum and Logo is the team logo in the team-form.


Races.ini

Races.ini has the text- and image-file entries that Tracks.dll reads and reads the corresponding files from disk and places them in text- or image-components in the tracks-form. Results.dll reads also current years race-result entries from Races.ini when called by Tracks.dll.

[Japanese GP]

WMF=SUZUKA.WMF	Track profile in the left upper corner in track form.

HIST=HISTJAPA.TXT	History file viewed by History-function.

INFO=INFOJAPA.TXT	Info file viewed by GeneralInfo-function.

MPG=	Not supported yet!

RACE=95JAPAN.TXT	Race results viewed by 1995Results function.

Caption=Japanese GP at Suzuka	Track form caption.

RaceName=Japanese Grand Prix	The race name delivered as parameter for the results.dll and results form.


About Anastasia

Actually Anastasia didn't create any of this.

She is just one hairy bitch that hangs around

our house...

Tero Virta 16.10.1995


Disclaimer

This program is freeware and is not to be resold or distributed for sale with other commercial programs. There is no warranty or claim of fitness or reliability. The program-files are distributed as is, and neither the author or author's dog shall be liable for any loss of data, wasted time, loss of revenue, any other damage , recession of Finnish economy, Bosnian Hertzegovinian war or if the users spouse dumps him/her.