Formula one Grand Prix - Racing. Commodore Amiga.

[azerovc]

you suck!

[freddysaar]

Sir crashalot

[Lattentreffer]

it's so hard to get the exact breaking point with 3 fps :D

[auritone]

Geoff Crammond kicked so much ass.

I remember playing this to death, and eventhough the frame rate might seem lacking, it was incredibly playable!

Big thumbs up for Geoff!

[Yoo67Toob]

I still got my Miggy 500, 1 meg ram, external floppy drive, Action Replay 3, original workbench disks/manuals, the Amiga sales box and the F1GP game boxed with manual.

I've been meaning to put it on Ebay but have no selling account yet.

[Koppite29]

@Yoo67Toob I still have my Amiga 600 but no way i am selling mine. I still play the old classics now and again

[Yoo67Toob]

Oliver Roberts has released F1GP-ED on aminet WITH keyfile to unlock all features of his editor. WinUAE (Windows/Amiga emulation) is still being updated. I've mucked around using a gamepad but I cant get a G25 to work. Steering and gears will work but throttle and brake is no go. Seeing this I might have another go at it.

20 fps, yeah man, Haha

It used to be 8 max on a pal machine. I ran it in ntsc mode for about a 7% fps "improvement" :)

[timzawa]

I played without any helps and I reduced the details, the feeling of speed was good then. Yes a mythic game with a great manuel, i was the good old time;)

[altraz2k]

Don´t look at the Framerate, this is a fantastic game - and play it an a better machine for "FrameRate" - than you get the complete deal :)

[Pantha242]

Looks like Jean Alesi won, to me :P

[Mubble]

I've got Gran Turismo 5 on my tv in the background at the moment, but watching this, I don't think this was any less fun. Used to play this for hours and hours.

[RianTrace84]

anybody else have the 500kb memory expansion to give the A500 a full 1 meg of memory?

[Pantha242]

@RianTrace84 Didn't everyone??

[ssscrudddy]

Lool. This is the only F1 game I've ever played. (F1 2010 should be arriving today)

I seem to remember playing this on a pc tho, & it was nice & smooth.

I took the time to learn the game, & the year Mansell finally won his championship, I raced this in real time, full race distance, with all driving aids off, alongside the real F1 on the TV.

Like others have said, the tracks were very accurate, & I remember being impressed with the graphics at the time. Lool lool lool.

Thanks for posting

[tomthumbplum]

LOVED this game. If only it would BLOODY load on my Amiga 500+! Bought 3 copies - none worked. GITS!

[PotholesInMyLawn]

Back in the day I got 2nd place on this track. God how I love my Amiga!!!

[johnciampichetti]

Alonso??? 

[riru69]

i loved this game, i spent hours on it. Looking at it now I'm wondering how the hell I played it at 3 frame a second lol I remember smashing all the other cars up

[simakki]

Ah yes Interlagos

[Trondyard]

You can play this game in the same quality (maybe a littlebit better) on a Nintendo DS. Using the Dos-Emulator "DSx86" it's pretty much the same graphic and framerate like in this video. Still fun to play. =)

[TheSanaeKochiya]

The Amiga always produced top quality games that use the most out of the system. This is more of an example of pushin it to the limit which is some really good graphics and sound for the system.

[irishbloke99]

wow this brings memories,i dont know how we managed with that framerate but it ws a great game for its time.

[pyrofreaker]

wow good sount XD

[Wezztah]

how much fun it was to turn off all assists ... except damage off course... using the opponents as brake ramming in at 320 k/h

[Evansmustard]

lolz i remember first seeing this game a long time ago.

i was like WOW 3D o.O

[isabeau81]

habe damals unverwundbarkeit eingestellt!

alles was im weg war wurde beseitigt!das waren noch zeiten

[StevePBa]

This ran a lot better on my Amiga 1200...

[kwirk882]

Alonson00b needs steeringhelp

[kwirk882]

Alonson00b needs steeringhelp :D rofl

[alexwe42]

I believe it was a lot faster on an accelerated A1200.

[MindstormXL]

An AI driver went off the track? Wow

[hp15c87]

frame rate looks really bad here. I played the DOS version and it had much better frame rates

[toggsuk]

It was limited to 8fps

[zoso11]

man i used to love playing this, keep turning F1 on and off, cane into the back of the other cars or even go round backwards and take everyone out haha. used to love the editor patch you could get for it too!

[rikdon1973]

This is Brazil

[rikdon1973]

We got F1 on ps1 after this....better graphics and decent playability but not the soul and smell of it.....

[rikdon1973]

Great game, ran nice on an A600....remember playing this all the time. And had a great multiplayer mode....Can't be the same Alonso though...this was '91 or '92?

[CheRevolution76]

My favourite game of all time, spent hundreds of hours playing it. Although you're using the racing line and no damage! where's the fun in that?? haha!

[ZZombyWooff]

I love this game! Nostalgia! the golden days.

[StephenSuttie1974]

Boy, Microprose made some great games back in the day.

[Outlander999]

so great game!

ultraplayable+++

a little slow, but for an AMiga was a great 4D engine!

[pannumon]

Clearly played on A500 or another 68000 7 MHz Amiga. It ran a lot faster with my Supraturbo 28, which I had overclocked a bit. :) It was a very nice game: first with the tracks resembling the actual ones. It was also possible to download current season driver lists and cars from BBS's.

[muffolini]

This was my first ever game. I used to wake up early every morning before primary school so I could play it :D

[Stereolabdream]

my god...the hours i spent on this back in the early 90's...i thought it was great-but even then i felt the graphics gave it a very stilted "slow motion" feel...

[ZZombyWooff]

I remember:

In 2005 I put Alonso and fishipaska to Benetton.

+ Kimi and that other dude to MacdonaldLaren.

Still a fun game. Excellent video.

[PzKetchstien]

OMG Fantastic i remember how great i thought this was LOL!! god i'm getting old played 2,3 and 4 of this game cheers for posting bought back memories

[vitusdoom]

Back in 93 loved this game, was addicted to it and for its day the graphics were superb. A landmark game in my eyes. Thanks for posting this.

[dukenukemman]

What a classic game.I played this alot back in the day of the good old amiga days.

thanks for posting up..

[hiivasieni]

This game had cool hot seat multiplayer system. Players would drive their cars in something like 60-120 second sequences. While one player was driving, the cars of other players were controlled by AI.

I remember the "fun" of finding out the AI had crashed your car when it became your turn to drive. Or when you purposefully blocked and crashed AI controlled car of some other player.

I also remember it was extremely annoying when you spinned and AI cars would keep hitting you instead of passing.

[lilynugent]

Class game for its time. Yeah everybody remember the top driver was something sanchez

[amigainspired]

This is the best f1 game! Currently is similar Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4 (2002) for PC. But Amiga version have better physical properties in the course of riding. At the other side on Amiga are not replays and for example technical details about laps.

[bismercha]

Fantastic game! Lost many an hour to this!

[welshfinn1]

It was such a better game on the PC - a frame rate of 25 fps, and texture mapped roads. Nicer graphics in general, actually. This looks like rubbish, though I'm sure it was amazing at the time.

[TheSaintST1]

Depended on the machine you were running. By the time of this launch they were using 68000 processors of around 8Mhz, where as PCs were running up to 25Mhz with VGA video and soundblaster 16 cards - But these machines were way more than twice the price!! I played this a couple of years later with an A4000 machine and it was pretty fast.

[MadCommodore]

Texture mapping was for F1GP2!!

And well I bet if you ran this on an 8mhz PC it would be slower than a 7mhz Amiga *natch*

[welshfinn1]

Well, the PC-version had texture mapped roads. I didn't need to see what it was like on an 8 mhz machine, so it's not an issue for me. A lovely 486 DX2 66mhz machine ran it at 20fps pretty well - 25fps made it a little slow, actually.

[Knightoftheorient]

Absolutely superb game even to this day. Ok so the graphics look naff now, but back than they where awsome. So addictive, I remember all the made up driver names, pitty they didn't hav the official drivers!

Btw whoever was playing this in this video, just wanted to say you are terrible, this game wasn't even hard cause it was so slow compared wiv real speed and somehow you managed to get off to a shit start!

[vasek9100]

high detail???

[vinterfaust]

The golden age of F1, and the golden age of computers also! Nowadays games like rFactor makes this look dated to say the least, but back in the day it was state of the art, and played it for ages. It even helped me and my brother understand how to race when we went karting. Can't wait for the next big F1 sim that'll raise the bar even further :)

[beverins]

Needs an accelerator card? :-/

[provito]

the fps is capped at 8fps

[stu1002]

It's easy to laugh at the crude graphics in this game, but even now, the circuit topography is impressively accurate. The manual was a superb read. And weirdly, the Game engine seems strikingly similar to that of Grand Prix 4 nearly a decade later.

[beatboxasi]

Aaaaaaah! I loved that game. From geoff Crammond, right? This game also had an incredible good Manual :)

Nice to see it again :P

[kalateur]

yeah, manual was one of the best i've ever read. Even it shows how "to take the bend", impressive

P.D.: you're right, Geoff Crammond programmed this excellent game!!

[SpaceOldskool]

@beatboxasi All Microprose games had magnificent manuals. And keyboard layouts too.

[slimSEBIhamburg]

great work! i never made it so far! greetings from HAMBURG/GER! :)

[TeleCumber]

I got frustrated with how easy it was to win. The other cars were never quite up to speed. Then I found Gpedit or something and could speed everyone else up! I still won though cos i'd just push them off the track.

[aledero]

Great game. I've played it on my amiga 1200. A real joy for the eyes: very smooth and fast.

[RianTrace84]

I just noticed that the wing mirrors have reflections! Even SCS couldn`t manage to do that in Haulin. I too had this game & a Amiga A500 with the full 1mb ram upgrade!

[Soulvex]

i used to love playing this, i cant believe how we was all amazed by the graphics and sound quality, saying that.. the amiga had the best sounds in its day. i still have 2 amigas :D

+5

[RonTaboga]

The 3D graphics were Amazing for an Amiga at those Times. But looking at the Frame Rate :-)

[kalateur]

yeah, but at it's time i think anyone didn't know about it :)

[PaulMJohnson]

@kalateur You're right - frame rate hadn't made it into our vocabulary at the time - we were too busy being stunned by the quality of the game.

[kalateur]

@PaulMJohnson yes. at that time, we were talking about if our tv were 50hz or 60hz :)

[spike250684]

@PaulMJohnson mine always ran fast to me anyway as far as i was concerned i was too immersed in the game and its impressive manual to care

this frontier,campain 2,UFO enemy unknown (or x-com as it is usualy known) cannon fodder,and wings give me happy memorys

[OmenFrankfurt]

@PaulMJohnson Not all were. I used to switch to NTSC mode for games that lacked speed. The additional 20% often maden them much better.

[wurdup354]

noob

[provito]

miss this game

[SWETGUV]

Has anyone noticed this is the only f1 game to have wing mirrors?

[GKOBE]

heheheh... good times =)

[Supralover79]

omgaaad i cant imagine playing these games!! jaaaaaq

[ballebanan]

Well, those graphics were state of the art for home computers in 1992, so we who grew up with it were pretty amazed by them.

[SurebrecUK]

true that, first time I played it I was gobsmacked

[AValidMember]

look..it takes about 7 seconds for the F1 car to reach 0-100 km/h lolz..

:P

[Schnitz1]

All hail to the almighty Geoff Crammond!

[ercai1]

Whoa the graphics are just amazing for an Amiga XD

[VUZOOKA]

pretty hot graphics, mostly just the effect on the kerbs, with their elevation, but it must be an awesome game otherwise :D

[bcfcchaddy]

reminds me of the crysis graphics

[tigershoot]

Sadly this is jerky as it is not being run on fast Amiga. I had an accelerator and it made a huge difference to the frame rate. One of the best games I have ever played.

[kalateur]

i had an amiga 500 so i grab this video as it was playing on my dear computer. That's why it's sometimes jerky

[hoofer27]

lol the differnece between this and f1 champions edition

wait another 15 years and it will be boo-yah!

[kraftdinner35]

Christ looking at this it seems like only yesterday I was playing this and Archer MacLeans-Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker(I wonder whats happend to Archer I know he left Awesome in 2005?). That was my trick to drive round backwards as well you could cause some serious carnage at full speed, Monaco was the best track for that. Cheers for the clip Mate.

[Troyster21]

I used to love playing this, it looks so slow and jerky now though. I think it was based on the 1991 season

[kalateur]

yeah you're right but microprose hadn't f1 rights :(

[lonelywater]

I used to cause a massive pile up at the start so a few cars were left in the race...I'd go on to win from there

[kalateur]

like in real F1!!! ;-)

[someuser90]

i liked to drive backwards and crash at full speed into oncoming traffic >:D

[kalateur]

kamikaze!!! :D

[SurebrecUK]

I used to play this on my amiga back in the day. I can still recall how I was blown away by the polygon graphics.

it's astounding how far computer games have advanced in just 15 years.

imagine where gaming will be in another 15 years!!!

[Benefit187]

oh man I miss this game

[cin3kk]

I had it on PC. Great game.

[kalateur]

both versions a really great. at it's age this game was a giant leap :-)

[gumdeo]

Great game for it's time.

[kalateur]

yeah it was great. Recently i've uploaded a video concerning Raikonnen's victory

[AlonsoLegend]

I have fond memories of GP1 for PC. I changed all the drivers names to ones I wanted as well :D

[ninjabob52]

heh looks like stunt race FX

[dioclese]

just look how far we,ve come {graphics wise}.

[kalateur]

yeah you're right. This game was impressive from people coming from Spectrum(like me)

[magicianspirit]

Yeah, I saw the Spectrum version here on YT. To do the skidding sounds, it sounded more like beepeepeepeepeepeep! LOL The sound was fairly realistic here.

[Soulvex]

lol true

[DavidGolder]

Nice frame-rate.

[dmonk06]

this was a classic back in day. Used to play this all d time. good memories though

[sennaisagod]

I should sue Geoff Crammond... I was too busy doing championships on ace with my mates to go to school!

I'd probably have a good job if it wasn't for him!

[Revigoe7]

very lag

and very classic good game.

[kalateur]

the power of an A500 ;-)

[retronostalgic]

This was virtual reality on a racetrack back in the days...

[kalateur]

it's was a shock for me

[retronostalgic]

Personally i'm still annoyed at Goeff Crammond for snubbing the amiga after this game, as it sold a lot on the amiga. He could have done other types of game. Talk about a lack of loyalty to amiga owners... the swine.

[Rayrazer]

yeah me and my mates used to play this multiplayer then computer takes control,we laughed our heads off at times,i do remember the men who pushed the cars off the circuit and the invisible crane.The funniest was when you lost control (at high speed) hitting another retired car on the grass,only to find the marshalls still attached to the car spinning around in circles flying everywere,it was hilarious!

[Stereolabdream]

Many an hour spent on this game back in 91-92? Thanks for the memory.I'd forgotten just how "slow motion" the corners were.

[pant1979]

Classic game, classic machine!

[McClegg182]

this was an awesome childhood game, me an my mate use to let the computer race an watch any crashes on the replay bit, was a really good game on the console its on! took ages to do 1 lap thou lol

[chickenbutt357]

damn, that takes me back, I remember playing this on the dos emulator back in '95. It was my first computer game. althought back then the framerate seemed fine.

[flewpastjupiter]

I used to love playing this on the Atari ST!

Me and 2 mates used to race for hours and hours letting the computor take control between turns :) Thanks for posting.

[kalateur]

yeah, i was one of the multiplayer games. Also i played with my mates. it was very funny!!

[xpidf1]

In the DOS version is a radical, Since i downloaded from Home Of The Underdogs, all the editors i've downloaded recognized as Unknown GP.EXE but it was under the original configuration of 1991

[kalateur]

try running into DosBox(the DOS emulator for playing ancient games)

[stevieu83]

F1GP was brilliant. It was the first F1 game I played that gave you the real 'feeling' of being there. I've played modern F1 games and they are dire. It's hard to explain.

I'd say the only simulations that let you 'feel' the race, are Geoff's. Legend :)

[iestyn16]

give GPL a try!

That's immersion :-]

But most people can't handle the learning curve to get there :-{

[ragf1]

this game was awsome back then, i played it alot lol still play the franchise.. GP4.. geoff Cramond rocks!

[Joe22300]

i used to think this game was brill, and now i have F1CE....

[SegaMegadriveMic]

Didn't this game have any glitches?

[kalateur]

it has several frames problems because i'm emulating(with Winuae) the same flavour as i was playing with my A500

[Joe22300]

5:02 there is a floating car

[SomeguyX]

That's not a bug, it's being lifted from the track.

[Joe22300]

lol oh yeah now i remember those guys that pushed teh car to the side and the invisible crane.

[SomeguyX]

Familiar to GPX players things often ended differently after taking a replay, (Say, the player crashed) and it'd force you to continue from that point when you left the replay.

The game would produce however many frames you asked it to irrespective of if it was in a second or not. This meant that when your PO rating went above 100% the game was no longer in realtime (See video).

It also had a series of flaws and exploits, (Use of conventional mem etc.) but it was still legendary.

[belovedconsole]

I remember back in the day, this game got great reviews-- I wanted it so bad, and the price was always too high... one of the earliest computer simulators, and for it's time... it was TIGHT, dawg!

[kalateur]

Yes, it was too high, but the result was worthy ;-)

[mmmdv]

Nice! Isn't Interlagos?

[kalateur]

Yes, actually i grab this video at the same weekend of 2006 GP Brazil. I wanted to know what could Schumacher and Alonso have done in 1991 ;-)

[SomeguyX]

Despite the fact Schumacher was actually a competitor in 1991?

[kalateur]

well, this video was inspired in 2006's GP Brazil where Alonso and Schumacher were fighting for the leadership

[fentoc]

Man this brings it all back in floods - from a time when games were games! I had this on my ST and devoted a huge chunk of my life to shaving just another tenth off my lap times!

[PigeonPair]

man o man, that bought back memories! Love you to post one up of a lap or two of Monaco.

[kalateur]

i'll try but u have to think i need to train with my F1 ;-)

[DXtremer]

Now the games looks better, but the fun its always the same :) Nice Video

[MrFossy]

oh man cool video!

[kalateur]

thanx!!