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- Grand Prix 2
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-
- I'm sure you've probably heard about GP 2 already. It's Geoff Crammond's
- sequel to F1GP and it was released for PC CD-ROM in July 1996. It
- requires at least a 486-DX66 PC (a Pentium is recommended though), CD-ROM
- drive and at least 8Mb RAM! It is even more realistic with even more car
- setup options (30 variables for suspension alone!), and you can enable
- different levels of mechanical failures.
-
- It is clear that MicroProse have no intention of converting it to the
- Amiga as the reality is that they don't develop Amiga games any more.
-
- About the only hope is if Amiga International get their act together and
- release a reasonably priced Power Amiga which will knock the socks of
- any Pentium PCs. Then MicroProse have no real excuse not to convert
- it to the Amiga. More importantly, such a machine may drag Geoff
- Crammond away from the PC - after all, it was the increased processing
- power and speed available in expensive PCs which dragged Geoff away
- from the Amiga! It is a fact that GP 2 needs lots of processing power -
- it is not possible to get a decent frame rate (ie 20fps) at full detail
- on 200MHz Pentium!
-
- The other option is for another developer to take on the conversion,
- as it is obvious that AGA Amigas can handle such a game (especially
- accelerated ones), but this will require negotiations with Geoff and
- MicroProse. OTM (the company that published Virtual Karting) were
- initially interested in doing the conversion. Alledgedly, they asked
- MicroProse but they couldn't afford the license fee that MicroProse
- were asking.
-
- As you may know clickBOOM are converting Myst to the Amiga, and they also
- plan to convert some more games too. They have set up a "conversion wish
- list" on their web site where people can vote for games they would like to
- see converted to the Amiga. GP 2 is on this list, so if you have access
- to the internet, please submit your vote for GP 2 by visiting the
- following URL and selecting the wish list page:
-
- http://www.clickboom.com/
-