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- Replacement Startup for Formula One Grand Prix
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- I recently bought Microprose's F1GP for my Amiga, and while being very
- pleased with it, I felt that the startup routines could be better. In
- particular, I wanted the game to open an NTSC display (rather than a PAL
- one with that annoying black area at the bottom of the screen), and I did
- not like the intro bit, which appears corrupted on my machine.
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- As a result of this, I wrote this program to replace the small
- "Formula One Grand Prix" program that starts the game. This replacement
- requires KickStart 2.04 or higher, an Amiga capable of producing an NTSC
- display (for PAL machines, this means at least a Fat Agnus chip (ie A600,
- A1200, A3000, A4000, and late model A500, A1500 and A2000s)) and assumes
- that it is running off a hard drive. On startup "f1gp_disk_#n:" (where
- n = 1 to 4) is assigned to the current directory (so the file "s:gp.dat"
- is no longer needed), and the main file "f1gp" executed. OpenScreen() is
- patched to ensure that the game opens an NTSC screen. This patch is removed
- when the game is quit.
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- To use, replace the original "Formula One Grand Prix" file with this one.
- Do not change any other files. Make sure you have a backup of the original
- installation. I make no guarantees as to whether this works on any
- particular system. Use at your own risk. I have no connection with
- Microprose, and Microprose do not in any way condone use of this program.
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- Comments and queries to kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
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