AMOS help

I have a game called F1 Challenge by Steven Rennocks. It's a Formula One management game, where each race is shown as a leaderboard, and each lap the cars race across the screen. I was wondering how to update the car colours to modern day. If I load up AMOS I can open up the Bob bank which contains the cars, I can update the colours, but when I save the changes it makes no difference in the game. Can anyone tell me if it's actually possible to do? Thanks.

[Lonewolf10]

I haven't played the game, but the colours could be set up in the game code.

Also, is the bob bank a separate file or is it included in the actual executable?

It's a separate file. The game had an editor disk which I can't find anywhere. Was trying to edit it manually but I can't figure it out.

This is the game:
http://hol.abime.net/3757

ftp://426470:600998@www.planetemu.ne...cr%20HF%5D.zip

[leathered]

I've just tried editing the first .abk file, which worked; screen shot below.
I put a red cross over the Brazil track.

It seems more likely that you haven't quite figured out the AMOS editor yet.
You have to 'push' the edited image into the file before saving it. In the editor you can insert or replace so be careful.

Have a look at the AMOS guide.

http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/Hoste...AMOSProManual/

Yes, I did manage to edit the track images.
It's the cars I was trying to edit. Tried the same method as I did with the tracks but it didn't work.

[leathered]

I see; you are right! It may be that the bank has been combined with others - certainly looks like the cars file is not used at all. The file Banks.abk may be a clue. Unfortunately it is not read in the editor as an AMOS bob bank, which may suggest that it has some other .abk types in there: fonts etc.
You could try loading it into AMOS and see if you can separate the files, edit and then save them as Banks.abk again. My knowledge of AMOS is fairly fuzzy right now, but I seem to remember there being some functions to that end in the manual, Why isn't this stuff ever easy?

[leathered]

The main program file is 266084 bytes.
That seems overly large for just the program file alone, I think Lonewolf is probably right, the .abk files were saved with the code. I tried messing with the bank.abk file - the game stopped working at the copy protection screen.
I was really hoping there was a simple solution to your problem! Sorry mate, hope someone can still help.

There is perhaps the hope that the guys left the source on the disk (as they appear to have done with everything else), but I saw no .AMOS file. Maybe you can track down that editor disk somewhere?

Oh well, thanks for trying.

Back to square 1

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by leathered

The main program file is 266084 bytes.
That seems overly large for just the program file alone, I think Lonewolf is probably right, the .abk files were saved with the code. I tried messing with the bank.abk file - the game stopped working at the copy protection screen.
I was really hoping there was a simple solution to your problem! Sorry mate, hope someone can still help.

Yeah, considering what the game actually does 266084 is rather large.
When you messed with the banks.abk file did you actually save it back as it was (e.g as a banks file with all the banks included - 3 pics, plus car sprites), or as just the sprites?

If you did save it back properly, then it sounds like that either some sort of checksum routine is performed on the bank (unlikely) or that there is some sort of memory issue. Perhaps they only reserved enough space for the original file, and if that is exceeded it causes the game to crash??