Changes since F1GP-Ed 3.42 (as of 03-Oct-98)

The following is a list of new features and bug fixes, which have already been implemented in the forthcoming new version of F1GP-Ed (3.43):

New Features

• Added the first stage of the new car shape editor: you can select which car/cars should have the '91 McLaren style nose colour scheme, and, more importantly, it is now possible to make the cars look more like the '98 cars (e.g. high nose, raised cockpit surround, etc)
• The palette entry used for the sky in wet conditions can now be selected
• Added an option to disable joystick control of the F1GP menus
• Fixed a bug in the game itself - when loading a saved game, the sky colour is now always correctly set. Before, if you loaded a wet race the sky colour would remain blue, instead of grey.
• Made it possible to disable the GPPatch turbo keys preset, so that it uses the default derived from the FPS (which is what happened before v3.40)

Bug Fixes

• The patch added in v3.40 that allowed the game to display more than 64 entries in the file requester was bugged - if directories containing more than 64 entries were viewed, strange things could happen (e.g. the car setup getting trashed, a guru when switching off the file filter). The patch has now been rewritten, and the limit on entries has been reintroduced - a file requester can now only display up to 200 entries
• The analog gearchange setting is no longer reset when loading from the binary
• The sky colour in the palette now gets permanently altered when saving to memory, and loading the palette from memory now works properly if you were in a wet session
• The 'safe indestructability' patch was causing the debris from crashes to fly straight up vertically, instead of spreading out like usual
• The IFF-ILBM loader was broken - it didn't decode uncompressed images as it should have