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- Formula One Grand Prix
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-
- AMIGA TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT ADDENDUM
-
- Additions to the Manual as of 22/1/92 - Version 1.02
-
- Apologies if some of the information below is a little technical.
-
-
-
- 1. Erratum
-
- The technical supplement is incorrect in stating that there is
- a program on Disk #1 to make backups of your GRAND PRIX disks.
-
- To make a backup of your Grand Prix disks, boot your Amiga with
- a Workbench system disk and then for each of the four game Disks
- (assuming you place each Disk to be copied in the internal drive) :-
-
- From the CLI with a single disk drive system type :-
-
- diskcopy df0: to df0:
-
- Follow the on-screen prompts.
-
- From the CLI with a double disk drive system (assuming your second drive
- is DF1:) type :-
-
- diskcopy df0: to df1:
-
- Follow the on-screen prompts.
-
- From Workbench with a single drive system :-
-
- Click once on the icon for the game Disk to be copied, then from
- the 'Workbench' or 'Icon' menu select 'Duplicate' or 'Copy'
- (this depends on the version of Workbench that you are using).
- Follow the on-screen prompts.
-
- 1.1 Remove the original game Disk. The new disk will be called
- 'Copy_of_f1gp_disk_#1' (or #2, etc). Click on its disk icon and
- then use the 'Rename' option in the 'Workbench' or 'Icon' menu
- to remove the 'Copy_of_' and leave exactly the same name as
- the original game Disk.
-
- From Workbench with a double disk system :-
-
- Place a blank disk in your second drive and drag the icon for
- the game Disk to be copied onto the second disk icon and let go.
- Follow the on-screen prompts and then follow the instructions in
- [1.1] to rename the disk.
-
-
-
- 2. Starting from Disk #2.
-
- Auto-booting the game from Disk #2 (or clicking on the 'Formula
- One Grand Prix' icon on Disk #2 from the Workbench) will start the
- simulation without the animations and scrolling credits (the 'front-end')
- for a faster startup.
-
- Note for hard disk users with restricted memory: If you have
- SUCCESSFULLY installed the game to hard disk but find that it wont run
- correctly (the front-end doesn't run, or the game fails to load after
- the front-end) then you are probably running short of memory. Grand
- Prix requires about 356K of free, un-fragmented CHIP ram and an
- additional 456K of ram of any type (also unfragmented).If you only have
- 1 MB of ram in total then presence of Workbench, any external drives and
- even your hard disk itself can reduce the memory available to the system
- to below this threshold. You might only be short of CHIP ram, in which
- case :-
-
- TRY CLOSING ALL UNECESSARY WINDOWS, PROGRAMS AND CLIs BEFORE
- RUNNING THE PROGRAM
-
- If this doesn't work then the solution is to boot from floppy
- straight into the game, but then you have to swap disks all the time.
-
- The procedure below allows you to create a floppy-bootable
- version that uses the data files on your hard disk so you wont have
- to swap disks during play.
-
- i. Make another copy of Disk #2 using the procedure outlined in
- section [1].
-
- DO * NOT * MODIFY YOUR ORIGINAL GAME DISK!
-
- ii. From the CLI issue the following commands (assuming that you
- have the new copy you just made in DF0:)
-
- protect df0:s/startup-sequence rwed
- copy c:assign df0:
-
- iii. Use a text-editor to place the following two lines at the start
- of the startup-sequence file (i.e. ABOVE the "Formula One Grand
- Prix" line) in the 's' directory on this disk (assuming that
- you chose DH0:GrandPrix as the install-to-hard-disk destination)
-
- assign f1gp_disk_#3: dh0:grandprix
- assign f1gp_disk_#4: dh0:grandprix
-
- iv. Write-protect the disk and boot from it.
-
-
-
- 3. The Startup Menu
-
- A new menu has been added at the very start of the game
- for those players who want to get straight into the cockpit.
-
- If you select 'Quick Race'at the prompt the program will
- choose your own country's track and a suitable driver, create a 'fake'
- starting grid and put you near the front, ready to race in a
- competitive car (at rookie level).
-
- If you select 'Main Menu' the you will start the game as normal.
-
-
-
- 4. The File Selector.
-
- When entering a filename note that the normal AmigaDos
- restrictions apply, i.e. ":" and "/" are not permitted. For more
- information on AmigaDos filenames, see the AmigaDos manual.
-
- The file selector has an undocumented extra feature
- - the Filter On/Off option.
-
- Filter On will only display files that are of the right size
- for the kind of load or save operation selected. Directories are
- still displayed (in grey as normal). This is most useful with disks
- (especially hard disks) containing a great many files and allows
- you to locate the valid ones more quickly.
-
- Filter Off cancels the filter option and ALL files and sub-
- directories of the current directory are displayed.
-
-
-
- 5. Car Setups
-
- A car setup comprises the front and rear wing settings, brake
- balance, race tyre choice and gear ratios. The mechanics of making
- changes in these areas are described in detail in the manual.
-
- Now, in addition to being able to save and load individual
- car setups (from the menu where you actually alter them), your can
- now create files (from the 'Load/Save Game' menu accessable from the
- 'Main Menu') which hold your preferred car setup for each of the
- sixteen circuits. As you hone each setup over time, you can add
- it to such a file and so easily keep track of your most successful
- configurations.
-
- There is another benefit to using this system. By default,
- any change that you make to your car setup for a particular track
- affects the car's performance in all driving modes when on that track.
- However, the demands on the car during free practise and qualifying
- (when the driver is experimenting with such things as the handling of
- the car and the choice of tyres) are very different to those on the
- day of the race itself.
-
- More advanced drivers can tell the program to make this
- distinction by setting the 'Separate Race and Qualifying Car Setups'
- button in the 'Race Options' sub-menu (accessed through 'Game Options'
- in the 'Main Menu') to 'Yes'. The state of this button is saved
- with the setups, so you don't have to do this each time.
-
- From then on the program will determine whether any
- alteration made to a car setup is a 'qualifying' setup (made during
- free practise or qualifying) or a 'race' setup (made during pre-race
- practise; you cannot change the car setup when actually racing),
- and will record it as such for that track. When you do enter the
- cockpit the program chooses which setup to use, based on which class
- of driving mode you have selected, and configures the car accordingly.
-
- You should note that with this feature enabled, the 'qualifying'
- setup will NOT be passed through to the 'race' setup unless you manually
- transfer it during pre-race practise.
-
-
-
- 6. About Track Records.
-
- Track records only apply when you are racing in a full grand
- prix (i.e. 100% race distance). This is because the real track records
- were set in 100% races. Shorter races mean players can race with lower
- fuel loads and softer tyres than are possible for full length races,
- leading to artificially fast times. This would negate the achievement
- of beating a lap record in the more realistic situation of a full-
- length race.
-
- For those players who want an 'against the clock' challenge,
- the circuit Qualifying Lap Records can be broken in any race or
- practise event.
-
-
-
- 7. Grand Prix Hard Disk Installation
-
- The installation program creates a file called
-
- gp.dat
-
- which does NOT go to the directory where all the other GRAND PRIX game
- files are located, but is instead created in your current (at the time
- of installation) 's:' directory.
-
- DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE unless you wish to remove GRAND PRIX
- from your hard disk (see section [8] below).
-
-
-
- 8. Removal of GRAND PRIX from your hard disk
-
- Insert Disk #2 into the internal drive and type :-
-
- df0:remove_f1gp
-
- This will delete all of the game files from the hard disk and then the
- s:gp.dat file itself.
-
-
-
- 9. The Helpline
-
- If you have any problems please don't hesitate to call our helpline on
-
- (0666) 504399
-
- Enjoy GRAND PRIX, it's a great simulation!!!
-
-
- (c) Microprose Limited 1992.
-