Changes since V3.36

v3.42

• Bug fixes:
  • A side effect of the extra code added into the F1GP executable in v3.40, for the less cars in races patch and the autoloading of f1gp.library, was that the walls of the pit garages became invisible. A workaround for this has now been added
  • PatchF1GP no longer causes the game's car setup menu to be re-entered after exiting the car setup menu (only happened if you held the joystick backwards instead of just tapping it)

v3.41

• The GPPatch HUD is now completely disabled if F1GP is running on a scan-doubled screenmode (e.g. DblPAL, DblNTSC, Multiscan, etc) as it is impossible to display it fully under these circumstances, due to hardware limitations
• Altered the HUD to use AGA specific features, where appropriate, which should stop it slowing F1GP down as much (uses less DMA)
• f1gp.library 36.6
• Bug fixes:
  • Major problem fixed in the save to binary routine (due to the new quick load/save switch in v3.40) which caused corruption
  • Fixed a problem in GPPatch that caused corruption below the F1GP display if the vertical display position was set to 6 or greater

v3.40

• f1gp.library v36 - major update, including new game patches:
  • The game will now work with non-15kHz AGA screenmodes including DblPAL, DblNTSC and Multiscan (i.e. not PAL or NTSC)
  • Patched the game to utilize the faster fetch modes of the AGA chipset, making the game slightly faster/smoother on an A1200 or A4000
• Major change to the "Less cars in races" memory patch. This option has been removed. It is replaced by a patch that is always saved to the F1GP binary or memory, which means you can save less than 26 to the game without having to worry about installing the patch. Of course, the patch will now work even if F1GP-Ed is not running.
• The game will now attempt to load f1gp.library and patch itself when you run it - this means that the VBR problem, for example, will disappear for good! No longer will you have to run F1GP-Ed in the background to enable the 'use VBR' patch! Only takes effect once you have saved to the F1GP binary with this new version
• Moved wet weather options out of the preferences into a new seperate wet weather window, joined by a new option which changes the way wet weather is determined during a championship season
• Added option to disable the unnecessary requestors that show up in the game after loading or saving a file successfully
• Added two more symbols to the GPPatch HUD which tell you that a car will be pitting this lap (differentiates between damage and tyre stops)
• Due to popular demand, it is now possible to preset the turbo keys
• Automatically fixes a problem with the game's file requester, removing the limit of only displaying a maximum of 64 entries
• Viewer screens for the backdrops and cockpit designs are now opened using the most appropriate screenmode, instead of defaulting to PAL/NTSC
• Bug Fixes:
  • 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 happened if the image has 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
  • The calculator no longer creates incorrect perf values for a teams' first driver when no lap time was specified for that driver (0:00.000)
  • The sound samples module should have been recompiled in V3.34 - the sound sample save to memory feature hasn't been working properly since then due to this
  • Not all the keyboard shortcuts worked in the GPPatch window
  • Starting F1GP-Ed via a datafile icon in different directory now works