LFRS

GP2Lap

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 1998

GP2Lap version 1.00
Copyright (c) 1998 Frank Ahnert, Rene Smit
You may not redistribute GP2Lap via any media or for any purpose without
the express permission of the authors.

GP2 Copyright (c) 1995 Geoff Crammond

DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time  Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994  

Cryptlib Portable Encryption Libary, version 2.00
Copyright Peter Gutmann, Eric Young, and Colin Plumb  1992-1996
(http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib)

Disclaimer:
This software is provided as is without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The authors will not be held responsible for any losses incurred, either directly or indirectly by the use of this program. GP2Lap is not a Microprose product.

GP2Lap Info:
GP2Lap will be manditory from the Hungarian Pre-season (10/12/98) race onwards.
GP2Lap is a real-time extension for GP2. Its main function is simply logging data within GP2. The current version will log vital information e.g. processor occupancy. There's also a feature that displays useful information on the screen while you're driving the car. Future versions of GP2Lap will contain additional features; just check the GP2Lap home page for updates. Info of any major updates required for LFRS use will be posted on LFRS-Admin.

GP2Lap should work with all (language) versions of GP2. If you have trouble getting it to work with your version then please let us know.

Installation:
Extract gp2lp102.zip version 1.02 to your GP2 directory.

The zip contains the following files:

Minimum system requirements are the same as for GP2, but 16 Mb memory is recommended. It has been reported that GP2Lap or GP2 can give "out of memory" errors with only 8 Mb memory.

Using GP2Lap:
GP2Lap is a 32-bit DOS program, just like GP2. It needs to load the "dos4gw.exe" dos-extender, which should be located within your PATH or in the same directory as GP2Lap. GP2Lap is supposed to be in the same directory as GP2.exe is located, but it's only necessary that the current directory is the GP2 directory for GP2Lap to run.

Warning: although it might seem GP2Lap is working under Windows 95/98, it can be unstable, because GP2 itself is unstable under this OS. Saving games or hotlaps from within GP2 can cause crashes (even without GP2Lap) when being run under Windows 95/98. To avoid any trouble, always run GP2Lap and GP2 under DOS!

Starting:
To start, just enter the gp2lap executable name at the dos prompt:

gp2lap.exe
After GP2Lap is started it will try to find "gp2.exe" within the current directory. If it's found, the game is automatically started. Any command-line options you want to give GP2 should be passed to GP2lap, which will pass them to GP2.

If GP2 is started correctly, the GP2Lap logo should appear at the right top of GP2's menu screen. If it's not there then something went wrong and GP2Lap probably isn't activated.

Hotlaps:
Extended hotlaps will contain general information and info for this specific lap.

General information includes all 'physics' (of which some can be edited with the so called Quick 'n' Dirty editor), car damage limit values, pit speed limit, track information, and more.

Lap information includes lap time, average and maximum processor occupancy (to detect 'slomo' driving), and more.

Extended info can be extracted from the hotlap with HOF2Lap, version 0.50 or later. Go to the HOF2Lap home page to download it.

Saved games:
Extended save games will contain general information and lap information for all laps. This information can be extracted by a special authentication tool, currently only available for LFRS.

At a later stage an extended save game dumper will be released for public use. For now the save game just acts as a 'black box' which must be sent to the results verification team, who will then extract the logged information and determine its validity. Of course we don't have any secret information to hide, everyone is allowed to know exactly what's being logged, but the software to show it just hasn't been released yet.

Thanks:
We'd like to thank the following people:

GP2Lap Contacts:
All bug reports, complaints and suggestions should be sent to:
gp2lap@gmx.net

The GP2Lap home page is located at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsdi/gp2lap/


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