Turbo Lover écrivait:
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> Geoff and me are sharing a common interest which
> has nothing to do with the Grand Prix series or F1
> in general. We like to keep this private.
Oh! You little naughty!
This is a discussion that the community started in 2005 with Madman...
The truth is that Grand Prix 4' s rights still belong to Atari SA (ex Infogrames) and distributed by Microprose. This is not an abandonware yet. So, unless Geoff Crammond decides to share the source code of the game with the community (if he got the rights to do it), I don't think it will be possible to update the game. As we know and confirmed by Geoff Crammond himself, GP4 game and AI was coded in C++ language which has evolved a lot with various updates until 2017. I don't know if it would be compatible with actual standards.
Probabilities:
1- Grand Prix 4 becomes an abandonware and the source code of the game is shared with the community ( low and abandonware doesn't mean freeware)
2- Sir Geoff Crammond is working on a new race simulation game (low)
3- Codemasters lose the F1 rights and Microprose is building an official F1 simulation game (low because contract renewed until 2025 with additional two-year option with CM)
4- Microprose is building a new racing sim game (average but possible)
Microprose is working on several strategic/ military and simulations games at the moment.
It is possible to contact them to submit suggestions:
My opinion is that our best chance would be to create a public petition as a request, signed by hundreds of gamers. It would have more strenght than sending a message one by one...
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