I recently bought Microprose's F1GP for my Amiga, and while being very
pleased with it, I felt that the startup routines could be better. In
particular, I wanted the game to open an NTSC display (rather than a PAL
one with that annoying black area at the bottom of the screen), and I did
not like the intro bit, which appears corrupted on my machine.

As a result of this, I wrote this program to replace the small
"Formula One Grand Prix" program that starts the game. This replacement
requires KickStart 2.04 or higher, an Amiga capable of producing an NTSC
display (for PAL machines, this means at least a Fat Agnus chip (ie A600,
A1200, A3000, A4000, and late model A500, A1500 and A2000s)) and assumes
that it is running off a hard drive. On startup "f1gp_disk_#n:" (where
n = 1 to 4) is assigned to the current directory (so the file "s:gp.dat"
is no longer needed), and the main file "f1gp" executed. OpenScreen() is
patched to ensure that the game opens an NTSC screen. This patch is removed
when the game is quit.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  822    1539  53.4% -lh5- caee Dec 10  1994 F1GP Startup.doc
[generic]                  316     835  37.8% -lh5- a20c Dec 10  1994 F1GP Startup.doc.info
[generic]                  492     928  53.0% -lh5- 7966 Dec 10  1994 Formula One Grand Prix
[generic]                 1624    4532  35.8% -lh5- a7e7 Dec 10  1994 Formula One Grand Prix.info
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 Total         4 files    3254    7834  41.5%            Dec 19  1994