Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame - June 2000 Edition

Words from the administrator (22.06.2000) Latest News

Welcome to the Amiga F1 Grand Prix Hall of Fame. It's good to be back after a couple of months of inactivity. For existing HoF members, I hope you like the new re-design of these pages. The layout should be clearer than in any of the previous editions. If you are new to the Hall of Fame, then a warm welcome to you and I hope you become an active participant in the Hall of Fame.

So, first of all what is new? Well, in order to compete you must now use a datafile which you must load into Oliver Roberts's F1GP-Ed utility. There are two datafiles available, one for qualifying on dry circuits and one for qualifying on wet circuits. It is imperative that you use these before attempting to compete in the Hall of Fame. I must thank Oliver Roberts for creating the datafiles for the Hall of Fame. Next, a rule change. I have decided to allow people to compete by setting F1GP-Ed to allow 12fps (Frames per second). As the majority of Amiga users hardware is significantly higher than the 68000 based A500 and A600 machines these days, it is now legal for all those on higher spec'd Amigas.

Next, the on-line submission is still undergoing testing and when available it will be put on-line immediately, rather than delaying it until the next edition. Aside from that, the Hall of Fame should now be regularly updated, due to a new utility created especially for compiling these pages, written by Neil Tweedy of Micro Dimensions. Thanks Neil. One more note regarding Wet Records. They are missing currently, but will be included very soon. Okay, I hope you enjoy this edition of the Hall of Fame, I'll see you next month..

..Rob.

New for this edition

No new submissions for this month. All submissions for months March, April and May have been included. ***NOTE: Off-line editions of HTML not available until Saturday 1st July***

An introduction

The Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame is a highly enjoyable competition open to all players of the Microprose game Formula-1 Grand Prix on Amiga systems. All competitors must have e-mail facilities (or access to) in order to take part. Additionally an Amiga with a copy of F1GP-Ed 3.4x (which must be run along side F1GP) and the HoF Qualifier v2.05 program for submitting your results to the administrator.

The basic idea behind the Hall of Fame, is that you compete against other members over each of the 16 circuits for points. The current scoring system implies that points are awarded according to how close you are to the fastest time on each circuit. The faster you are, the more points you wil receive.

This is essentially the basis of the competition. Both F1GP-Ed and HoF Qualifier are obtainable via this web site.

How to join the Hall of Fame (six simple steps)

ONE	Choose your personal two-digit ID. Usually, this is just your initials (unless someone else is using them) but it can be any two alphanumeric characters you like.
TWO	E-mail the administrator with your chosen ID. After confirming your ID, the administrator will add your name to the HoF mailing list.
THREE	Download the latest version of F1GP-Ed. This enables you to alter the F1GP game ready for competing in the Hall of Fame.
FOUR	Download the latest version of HoF Qualifier. This program ensures that your times are submitted in the correct format for the Hall of Fame each month.
FIVE	Download the HoF datafile, which configures F1GP-Ed for competing in the Hall of Fame.
SIX	Carefully read the 'HoF Rules' section of the Hall of Fame, before submitting any times.

How to read Hall of Fame records

All of the tables conform to the following layout:

COUNTRY OF RACE (Circuit Name)
POS		TIME	ID	DATE	OPTIONS	FRONT	REAR	BALANCE	GEARS	SCORE
01		1:23.456	AA	01-01-00	HF	64	40	±00	[32,38,45,52,58,63]	20.00

Key to reading records		Possible Options
Pos	Position of the qualifying record	Br	Auto brakes	A	A-compound tyres
Time	Qualifying time obtained	G	Auto gears	B	B-compound tyres
ID	Player ID	Sp	Self-righting spin	C	C-compound tyres
Date	Date on which record was set	L	Best line	D	D-compound tyres
Options	Possible options (see table right)	S	Suggested gear	W	W-compound tyres
Front	Front wing	J	Analogue joystick	K	Used keyboard
Rear	Rear wing	H	HP fixed at 716	T	Traction control off
Balance	Break balance (Front/Neutral/Rear)	2	2 button gears	F	12 fps PAL/NTSC
Gears	Gear setup
Score	Rated score

How to submit Hall of Fame records

You can submit records by either using the HoF Qualifier utility or the "Statistics" option in F1GP-Ed. Please, refer to the documentation of those programs on how to export record data for the Hall of Fame. Any times should be submitted to me via e-mail to hof@recoil.globalnet.co.uk

Where to get the Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame is available for download from this website and from Aminet mirrors around the world in the pub/aminet/docs/hyper/ directory.

Rules for the Hall of Fame

Please note that the rules assume you to be familiar with Oliver Roberts's F1GP Editor V3.4x upwards, because this tool provides all the patches currently relevant to competing in the Hall of Fame. The following rules must be adheared to:-

• A wet or dry datafile must be used (available here)
  
• Qualifying times accepted only (race times are theoretically slower)
  
• Q-Compound Tyres to be used
  
• Ace difficulty level (no driver aids)
  
• No cutting corners
  
• No slipstreaming
  
• Saving of the qualifying session (e.g. before a corner) and repeating it is not allowed
  
• Only 2 teams are allowed at maximum (to minimise slipstreaming risk)
  
• Position snaphot keys are not allowed
  
• (USER) The use of Split-time by Rene Smit is allowed
  
• (USER) The use of AGP-Perf by Grant Reeve is allowed
  
• The turbo-keys patch is not allowed
  
• (USER) The frame-rates of 8,10 and 12 FPS (PAL/NTSC) are allowed for competing. However, frame-rates above 12 FPS are strictly forbidden
  
• Unlimted 'Q' tyres patch is allowed
  
• (USER) The 'Practice Fuel Load' option is allowed to be set to zero (0) laps
• (USER) Team names, car colours, helmet designs etc. can be modified
  

Other notes: 'Options' (see Possible Options table above) allow for deviations from these standards. Players should always send in the options they have used.

Other notes: The majority of the options will be preset by loading in the datafile, so any competitor, should not have to change any settings. Anything labelled with (USER) means that the competitor is generally responsible for altering this, should they wish to do so.