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A small update has been released for Grand Prix Manager that fixes and tweaks a few things in the F1 management title.
Readme text:
GRAND PRIX MANAGER
Version 1.01HOW TO INSTALL THE UPGRADE
DISK UPGRADE
If the update came to you on disk, just insert the disk into your disk drive
and run the program update.exe. Just follow the on-screen instructions.Note for Win95 users: to run the program you can press Start on the task bar
then select Run…. In the panel that appears type in the drive letter, a
slash (\) and update.exe (e.g. a:\update.exe) – then hit OK.Note for Windows 3.1x users: to run the program you can start File Manager,
press the floppy drive icon (usually a) and double click on the update.exe
program listed in the Window.DOWNLOADED UPGRADE
If you got the update by downloading it, just copy the single file into the
same directory that you installed Grand Prix Manager in and decompress the
ZIP file using PKUNZIP.NEW FEATURES
During the race:
– if you press the Position button, the race is paused and the cars number
appears. If you now click on the race track the number will change to the
position you are currently in, clicking again on the race track toggles you
back to the car number.To re-start the race just click on the depressed Position button. This will
help you identify where the car in front of you is.– a letter representing the tyre type (W for Wet, A for Compound A etc.) now
appears in front of the tyre rating on your control panel.ALTERATIONS
We have made the current top teams dominate their less well funded opposition
even more.Have reviewed all of the components (Car Internals, Car Externals, Driver Aids
etc.) and adjusted their importance to make it more obvious to the player the
importance the item has.Taken the opportunity to add more AI for the computer player’s pit stop
strategy during wet weather races.To help you get started in the world of sponsors, we have made one of the
smaller companies be willing to commit to you straight away.Removed any odd occurrences which were reported (such as an Insurance memo
occasionally appearing without any text and a little GPM car icon not
appearing on the Win95 task bar).THANK YOU
Thanks for all your comments and suggestions – we do value your feedback.
Unfortunately some, like getting the game to run in higher colour depth, such
as true colour mode, rather than 256 colour mode, are not possible because
of technical limitations, but we will keep these and other comments in mind
for future games.Grand Prix Manager
Design Team
