Great to get some releases out again after weeks of development.  Big hat tip to Klaz for the work with Goldrunner.

Just to point out that save states on F1GP are *not* machine transferable, but should work between identical steem configurations.

There wasn't room on the news page to list what was done to F1GP, so here I go!

Firstly (obviously) it was made HD installable and F30 fixed (It also works on the TT btw! yay 32mhz!)

If you have 4mb+ then it will create a RamDisk of all the files so loading is much quicker. However, it should run from floppy (or even HD if you lower your cache sizes) with 1mb of RAM.

The save game was a bit of an arse. F1 used its own disk format to save games onto. It also had a file selector to pick your load/save games.... hrm..... and worse still, it marked bytes in the directory track for what type of file it was saving (car/lap/game/names). This was solved by grabbing the menu number you selected from the load/save menu, and based on that forcing a file extender of the right type into the filename.  Therefor you can now only have 8 character filenames, instead of the 11 in the original.

On top of that, you can now use the SaveState/SaveLoad keys (f7/f8) to snapshot the game to your HD for later play (Note: ONLY runs from HD!)

If you happen to make a spectacular crash, grab it for posterity with F9 (save screen as PI1 - again HD only)

And when it's time to stop playing, bash that F10 key to get back to the desktop!

As noted on the news screen, the passwords for Eng, Fr and Gr are "cars" "il" and "auf".

We will be back with more releases very shortly ;-)
All of us at D-Bug wish you all a lot of fun with these patches.