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From: kyp@stsci.EDU (Mark Kyprianou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ferrari Formula 1 Session and Track Files
Message-ID: <355@stsci>
Date: 8 Jun 88 17:47:16 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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    I just received Ferrari Formula 1 and I think it's a great game.
    I have a few questions, so if you can supply the answers I will be
    extremely grateful.

    On the root directory are the track files. Does anyone know the file
    structure?  I am interested in creating new tracks.

    On the root directory are the session file/files.  This file contains the 
    driver and track info for the game.  The game comes with
    1986.SES.  The following is a small sample of the file.  Does anyone
    know what all of the parameters mean?  I have added what we have learned
    about the file.

    11		?
    1		?
    f 3		Difficulty level
    1		?
    28 S.J. Ferrari 7 0 15 491 0 704 13 700704       Stefan Johansson
    20 G.B. Austria 7 0 15 491 0 704 13 700704       Gerhard Berger
    1  A.P. France  7 0 15 491 0 704 13 700704       Alain Prost
    5  N.M. Britain 7 0 15 491 0 704 13 700704       Nigel Mansell
    .
    .
    .
    s 01/12/86 00:00			? Test Track start time
    c 01/11/86 07:00			?
    t ff1:rio 64 158 3 2 6 54 40	? The ff1:rio is the track file. But I
					  do not know what the numbers means.  
					  They might be world map locations.
    Brazillian                          Race Name
    g 03/21/86 08:00                    Track open time
    p 03/21/86 10:00 11:30              1st practice time (start and end times)
    q 03/21/86 13:00 14:00              1st qualifying time
    p 03/22/86 10:00 11:30              2nd practice time
    q 03/22/86 13:00 14:00              2nd qualifying time
    p 03/23/86 10:00 10:30              race day warm up time
    r 03/23/86 13:00 15:00              actual race, two hours.

    Concerning the driver section above, the first column contains the driver
    number, then the driver's name, then country.   Columns 4, 5, 9, 10, 11
    we do not know what they are for.  It appears that column 6 contains
    the car color for the season standing display only.  It does not modify
    the car's race color.  Column 7 appears to be the car capability. I do not
    know the range for this value. Column 8 appears to be the driver ability.
    The reason I say appears, is that we noticed that car 5, N.M., Nigel 
    Mansell always did extremely well.  We modified columns 7 and 8 to 400 
    and 500, giving him the worst car by far and the second worst driver.  
    His qualifying times were 1:20 off the pace.  We might have the car and 
    driver capability swapped.

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