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From: pjgtech@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Peter Gagg")
Subject: Re: GPL saved game - how?
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:26:37 GMT
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In article <tVQr2.164$Ql.505309@news1.atl>, mail2me@bellsouth.net 
(Jack) wrote:

> >Really, how? I didn't think you could save a race?
> 
> If you go to the grid and then bailout, you can "save the game" 
> (i.e. the
> grid starting positions, the AI driver team assignments, field 
> size, and the
> marquee that you were driving at the time).

Forgive my ignorance, but *exactly* how do you do this? I've gone to 
the grid, but then what do you do? If I press esc I get taken back 
a screen and no option to save is offered. I've also paused on the 
grid and checked what options are available to me via the F1 & F3 
keys, and still I see no save game option?

> When you later come 
> back to that
> particular track, GPL will ask you if you want to restore the saved 
> game. If
> you answer yes, you'll be dropped onto the grid in your earned 
> qualifying
> position.
> The "saved game" files that GPL creates are stored in your 
> players\Doe__John
> folder with an extension of .SVG. I make a point of exiting out of 
> GPL after
> qualifying if I find myself in an interesting new position on the 
> grid. I
> copy the newly created SVG file to a saved game archive folder. I 
> then
> rename the copy something descriptive like "watglen (Ferr 12 in 
> 20).svg".
> Then later if I decide I'd like to race the Ferrari at The Glen 
> from the
> 12th position on the grid, I just copy "watglen (Ferr 12 in 
> 20).svg" to the
> players\Doe__John folder, rename it "watglen.svg" and away I go.

Thanks for any info you may have....(I'm wondering if this is only 
available in US versions of the sim?)

8-) 


*Peter*   #:-)
