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_____ /__ /\ ________ .T.H.E. ____________ // __\_____ \/\________ \_______ _________ ___ __/ / /\\ \ .\_____ \/\ /. / /\ ____ ____ ___ Y \______ / \ \ \\ _ \ \// / \___ _ _\ Y . \_____/ / \ \________/\\ \ \____ / /\ \\ . \/ \_______/\ \____________/ / \ \ ______/[Sk!n] \_______/ \/ \ \_____/ \/ PROUDLY PRESENTS 12/7/93 FORMULA ONE CHALLENGE V3.03 (Full English Manual) Typed By: Baggy/The Loons ** WELCOME TO THE LUCRATIVE AND SENSATIONAL WORLD OF FORMULA ONE ** ----------------------------------------------------- CREDITS ------- Program,Sound Fx,Graphics, Game Concept : Steven Rennocks Title Music : Leon Poole Play Testing : Steven Rennocks,David Rennocks,James Carr Program Design : Steven Rennocks,Leon Poole,David Rennocks Instruction Manual v1.1 : Steven Rennocks Thanks also go to:- B.Gregorik for improvement ideas,John Slassor at PD Soft,ESP Software,and everyone that has written to me with bug fixes/ideas for improvements and all the magazine reviewers for the good reviews!! IMPROVEMENTS SINCE v1.48 ------------------------ * Easier access to the options screen within race (press the left mouse button). * V2.00 onwards can now be updated each new formula one season. (See end of the document for more details) * Super compacted code means less low memory problems. * Few bits of program input tidied up. * Spins cost more time. * Even more ways to go out of a race. * Wing settings section. * Full weather forecast. * Qualifying improved. * Race stats,improved. * 1993 cars,drivers,treams,tracks ect. * Driver allocation at end of season now works properly. * Dont get as much money making the game a bit more challenging. * Some annoying "bings" and "beeps" removed when entering name. * M.Hakkinen now Finnish instead of Sweden,as noticed by a Formula One Challenge addict from Finland. PROJECT ------- Project started during : July 1990 V2.00 finished during : March 1992 V3.03 finished during : June 1992 1993 updater released & V3.03 updated for 93 : April 1993 Further enhancements are still being carried out,so please send your ideas and thoughts on the project to me. NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR (S.RENNOCKS) --------------------------------- I must apologise for the rather complicated AMOS file requester that is incorporated in F1C. If you have any problems then read the LOAD/SAVE instructions at hte end of this instruction manual. Formula One Challenge is now far more reliable than older versions and doesn`t run out of memory so easily,but,I still advise you save your games every 5 or 6 races,just in case of freak things such as Software Failures/Power cuts that could wipe out your game. MAIN INSTRUCTIONS ----------------- When the program has loaded and after you have gone through the options to load a saved game,choosing the number of players and selecting your teams you get to the choose engine screen.Here you must choose your engine for the current season. ENGINE CHOICE ------------- Do not overspend here because you have other things to buy later on (i.e tyre contract,engine power,driver(s) & pit crew skills). You start with $1,000,000,but as a general tip do not buy an engine that costs more than 60% of the money you have.So in the first season it is unadvisable to buy an engine more than $600,000. MAIN MENU --------- If you chose to load a previous game at the start you will arrive here on this screen. The first thing you should check when you are here is the weather. Here are the options that are selectable off the main menu:- a)CHAMPIONSHIP : This is a run down of both the drivers and constructors championships.Click up & down arrows to move through lists. b)DRIVERS : Here you can look at the skill recordsof your drivers,the other drivers and you can buy a new driver (or replace one). On this screen you can see the points,skill,racewins and polepositions a driver has had. The numbers by racewins,pts. and polepostions are this seasons figures and the numbers to the right of these are the drivers career totals. Selecting a new driver (or just checking out the records of drivers). Clicking the right mouse button will bring up a seperate screen showing four top ten tables including top ten best pitstop times which saves to the disk,so you should keep your disk write-enabled. Click the up arrow to change your 1st driver and the down arrow to change or sign up a second driver.You will be presented with a list of 50 drivers.Your current drivers will be highlighted.If you click the right mouse button on the driver you are highlighting you will bring up information on his career records ect. (Right mouse button again to deselect). You can only buy a driver that does not have a team name by his name and if you can afford him.To choose a driver highlight one and click the left mouse button.To exit this screen click the left mouse button on quit. NOTE: The divers are very roughly sorted into skill order,so only experience of playing the game and of following formula one races will help you decide whether a driver is woth signing or not.Very roughly though the best drivers are at the top left and the worst at the bottom right. c)RECORDS : Can only be selected if you have completed the first reace of a season.Click on the up and down arrows to go through the results of the race of the current season (only the top 6 finishers are recorded). d)WEATHER : This tells you the tempreture and the weather conditions that the race will begin as including a full weather forecast. e)CARS : The screen is split into two the top half for your 1st car and the bottom half for your 2nd car.Clicking on the small white boxes next to the tyres,engine power,wing settings,or pit crew will take you to these separate sections. e)i)TYRES : This is the most complex concept to understand,so if you can grasp this the game should become a lot more playable and enjoyable. Here is a approximate selection of tyres depending upon the weather conditions:- Thunderstorm - Rain Heavy Rain - Rain Rain - Rain Drizzle - Int (Intermediates) Overcast - A Mild - A/B Sunny - B/C Heatwave - C/D You should only use the above as a rough guide since other factors such as the remaining race distance ect. will play a part,only experience will allow you to make the correct judgement under all circumstances. Your tyre selection plays a huge part in the outcome of a race,so correct selection is vital. EXAMPLE: The weather is sunny.If you choose a C you will have a lot of grip,but your tyres will wear out quite rapidly.Whereas if you choose a B you will have less grip,but your tyres won`t wear out as quickly. Tyre selection depends upon the weather,the tempreture,the "twistyness" of a track ,the total race distance and how good you are at doing pitstops. e)ii)ENGINE POWER : This will determine the power output of your engine.Each 1% of power will cost you $100.You are told how much you can afford for this car and how much you can afford if you split your money for engine power between both of your cars. Auto-fill up will increase your engine power to 100% if you can affford it,else it will go onto enter amount mode : you enter the percentage you want to increase the power by.The exact engine power is shown to the left of the bar. e)iii)WING SETTING : For this you must examine the track diagram of the current circuit and its statistics.You must determine hoe "twisty" (lots of sharp corners,few straights) the track is. Twisty : Large (Lot of downforce) Average : Medium (Med. downforce) Straight : Little (Little downforce) e)iiii)PIT CREW SKILL : This option is similar to engine power,but it is for the pit crew skill of your whole team so this option works for both drivers.1% increase costs $200.The pit crews skill determines how quickly you will be able to complete a pitstop. Options i,ii & iii must be chosen for both of your cars if you have two drivers and you wish to/can afford to enter both cars. f)LOAD/SAVE : This is the load/save option.The file selector is a little confusing to use if you are not used to the AMOS file selector.To get a list of devices you can load/save from/to click the right mouse button when disk accessing has finished,and then select the device. To save under a different file name other than GAME1.FO then click next to this and delete/add what you require.Please rememver to always keep the .FO extension at the end,otherwise the file selector will not show the filename when you are attempting to load it back in. For more detailed instructions on loading and saving please read Load/Save documentation at the end of this instruction manual. g)CREDITS : The credits screen. g)THE RACE : Only click on this when you have your car(s) set up and are ready to compete.If there is more than one player playing,this will move onto the next player`s team,to allow him/her to enter their choices.After the final players choices have been made,clicking this option will go to the qualifying session and then the race. i)TRACK DETAILS : Gives a rundown of track details for the current circuit,as well as the lap record holder. QUALIFYING ---------- The cars are displayed on the screen in their qualifying positions,the taop left car being in poleposition.The grid will scroll automatically up and down,or you can continue by clicking the left mouse button.Only 26 cars qualify for each race,so if your car is not shown then you have not qualified for the race. WEATHER FORECAST ---------------- This showsthe current weather details together with the forecasted details.Also shown is the race state i.e whether the race is a wet race (more thab 1/2 of cars on rain tyres),mixed race (more than 1/2 of cars on intermediate tyres),or a dry race (more than 1/2 of cars on dry racing slicks). THE RACE -------- Click the left mouse button after seeing the track information and you will see the cars lined up on the grid.After a few seconds the lights will turn green and the race will be on. ** If after lap one you hold down the left mouse button for about a second when the huge information scoreboard is being updated or the cars are going past,you will be taken to the option screen. THE OPTIONS SCREEN ------------------ Clicking on the race highlights word will toggle the race highlights on/off.With racehighlights on you will not see the cars zoom past unless one of the cars is retiring from the race for some reason.The car that is retiring will travel slowly along the bottom of the track. Near the top of the options screen will be all the drivers for the human controlled teams that are in the race.Next to each driver are two coloured bars.The top green bar being tyre wear and the lower red bar for tyre grip.The grip is the all important one,keeping the grip high is vital to keep your car going at a fast rate.The closer the red bar is to the green tyre bar the better the choice of tyres you have. If both bars are equal then you have too soft a tyre on and your tyres will wear out quickly.You should aim to keep the grip bar between 70% and 90% of the green bar wear bar for maximum performance out of the tyres.A pitstop should be considered when your grip bar falls below 50%,unless of course you are nearly at the end of the race and then a stop would be pointless. Next to each driver is a request pitstop box.Clicking this will call that driver into the pits.You can only bring one car per team in to the pits per lap.(You only have one pit crew!). SKIP RACE : When selected you will return to the usual race screen with the scoreboard.The cars will not go past at all.Only weather changes will be reported and the positions will not be updated.The race is still being computed behind the scenes,but at a much faster rate,this option should be considered when all human controlled cars are out of a race.Holdind down the left mouse button will exit from this mode. The current weather conditions can be seen from the options screen and by looking at he colour of the sky above the scoreboard. PITSTOPS -------- It is usaully advisable to make a pitstop when either the weather changes significantly or just before half race race distance.Once you have requested a pitstop you will be told who is coming into the pits and you will be given a choice of tyres to fit (Rain,Int.,A`s,C`s or D`s). After seeing you car come into the pits you will see a huge picture of a wheel.You must click at the centre of the wheel as quickly as you you can.If you miss the time will continue to tick by and you will have to click once more to reverse the drill,before clicking in the centre again.The time ticks away at the bottom of the screen in seconds. A good pitstop will be about 6 seconds.You do not only lose 6 seconds in the pits though,you may lose about 16 seconds for a 6 second stop,this is due to slowing down and speeding up in the pit lane. RACE OVER --------- You will be told the winner of the race and the championship points will be awarded:- 1st - 10 pts 2nd - 6 pts 3rd - 4 pts 4th - 3 pts 5th - 2 pts 6th - 1 pt. After this you will be shown the drivers and constructors championship tables.You will return to the main menu for the next race unless the season has been completed. SEASON OVER ----------- You will have to get a new engine contract,tyre deal,ect. and pick your drivers again as before. The drivers are selected by each team depending on the finishing positions in the constructors championship.So the constructors champions get first choice and so on. PROGRAM DETAILS --------------- This version of F1C can be updated each new Formula One Season with a special updater disk (only available from us) which will update all the car graphics,teams,driver names,engines,circuit details and circuit diagrams ect. New updater disks will be available as soon as the information is available.The disk will be available from around the 30th March each year.Contact us for details around this date each year. Updater disks will cost around $3 each (again contact us for details). DISK OPERATION -------------- The program uses the standard AMOS file requester for disk operations,so if you are used to it then you should have no problems in loading or saving to a seperate saved games disk. Clicking the right mouse button while the disk is not being accessed will display a number a device names (i.e C: ,Formula-One-Challenge:, L: ect). Clicking on one of these names with the left mouse button will display a directory of the files on that device. SAVING ------ All F1C saved games are saved with a ".FO" extension after the filename,so that you can easily identify your saved games.If you forgot to add this yourself then it will automatically be added for you. Do not save on the original F1C disk,but any formatted disk that does not contain important data.It is advisable before you start playing F1C to format a disk and then use this for your saved games. (For instructions on how to format a disk see your introduction to the Amiga manual supplied with your computer). After saving a F1C game,replace the original F1C disk in df0: otherwise you may encounter problems at a later stage. Here is a detailed guide on saving your postion in F1C:- (Yawn -Baggy) 1)Format a disk for your saved games using (CLI/SHELL,workbench,or a formatting utility (see AmigaDos manual for more details). 2)Play F1C until you wish to save,click on LOAD/SAVE from the menu,click on SAVE and wait for a full list of the original F1C disk to be diplayed and the disk drive to stop. 3)Swap disks if necessary and insert your blank (newly formatted disk).Wait a couple of seconds while the disk is checked by the computer. 4)Click the RIGHT mouse button to display a list of devicces.One of the items in the list should be the name of your blank disk i.e Empty. 5)Click the LEFT mouse button on the name of your blank disk and wait a couple of seconds for a list of the files on the disk to be displayed. 6)Click on "Game1.FO" at the bottom of the requster with the left mouse button and enter a name for your saved game and press [RETURN].Then click the left mouse button on O.K and your game will be saved. 7)You will be returned to the main menu when the game has saved. 8)When the disk drive light goes out,swap the disks if necessary and replace the original F1C disk. LOADING ------- You should load all saved games froma disk other than your original F1C disk and remember that all F1C games have a ".FO" extension to the filename so they are easily identifiable. Loading is similar to saving,so please read the detailed saving instructions above.Wehn a list of your saved games disk files appears,you can click on the entries in the list and then on O.K to load the corresponding file.Use the drag bar to the left of the filenames in the list to scroll through the list if there are more enteries than can be displayed in the given space. After loading a F1C game,replace the original F1C disk in df0: otherwise you may encounter problems at a later stage. HELPLINE -------- Should you encounter any problems with this program or any suggestions for updates then please contact us. Amivision Software, Dept F1C, 1 Cherrinton Drive, Great Wyrley, Walsall, West Midlands, WS6 6NE, England. PLAYING TIPS ------------ *Dont overspend on your engine.Spend around 60% of your money on the engine.Dont bother too much with the tyre manufacturers in your first few seasons (choose the cheapest!) and choose a driver with the rest of your money,leaving around 10,000 for other things. *Learn who the high skilled drivers are.The drivers tables are roughly ordered,but experience will allow you to pick better drivers at bargain prices. *Try to get a second driver as quickly as possible,but make sure that he will qualify,if you are not confident that he will qualify then wait a few more races and get a better driver. *Dont be too eager when doing pitstops,keep your finger off the mouse button until you are in the centre of the tyre! Keep calm! *If the weather does not change,and you are constantly making a pitstop during the race then check the grip/wear bars.Make your pitstop before half distance.Due to a lightning fuel tyres will be more heavily used in the first half of the race compared with the second. *Select the easist difficulty level to start with so that you can get going.If you start doing well then select a harder difficulty level for the next season (can also help eo even out the teams when you are playing with human friends). END.