Bug in GpLap / F1GP, can be used for cheating with results

Hiya... I just found an interesting bug in GpLap that allows me to drive with whatever HP I desire even if the GpLap program reports that I've used the standard 716. It seems save games also save the hp information, so if I modify my car hp to say 950, save a game, quit, modify my car back to standard 716 and then load the game, the car will perform like it has 950 hp, but GpLap will write an authentication record that says 716 hp. Just thought y'all should know...

What version of GpLap are you using? I believe version 5.0 fixes that problem. -- Imar de Vries | 'Those crazy Ferrari fans sure make a lot of noise... - Forza Ferrari! - | - Hakkinen, Formula One driver

*Earlier message about GPlap save game bug deleted* I'm using 5.0, so apparently it doesn't fix it. Hopefully the next version will, though.

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>> Hiya... I just found an interesting bug in GpLap that allows me >>to drive with whatever HP I desire even if the GpLap program reports >>that I've used the standard 716. It seems save games also save the hp >>information, so if I modify my car hp to say 950, save a game, quit, >>modify my car back to standard 716 and then load the game, the car will >>perform like it has 950 hp, but GpLap will write an authentication >>record that says 716 hp. Just thought y'all should know... >What version of GpLap are you using? I believe version 5.0 >fixes that problem.

No, it doesn't. But it is a known bug, so it will probably be fixed in the next version. GPLap _does_ fix the hp degradation that f1gp does for the player's car. I found out the Amiga version did this too (degradation upto 23 hp), and have fixed it. This patch will be included in f1gp-ed 3.0 by Oliver Roberts. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rene Smit AKA The SDI, Technical University Delft Faculty of Computer Science <A HREF="http://dutian.twi.tudelft.nl/~smit/sdihome.html">WWW</A>

Actually it does fix it. Trust me, if you try and cheat, you _will_ be found out. I know it _looks_ like you've succsessfully cheated... -- Gizmo http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Launchpad is an experimental internet BBS. The views of its users do not necessarily represent those of UNC-Chapel Hill, OIT, or the SysOps. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

What's GpLap? Are you talking about Nascar racing? Do you know of a source code for Nascar that's out? Thanks, Joel