I've had a lot of fun playing Geoff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix over the years. But it's always been a faff to get it working on a modern PC. So over the past ~10 months, I've built gp64 which runs it natively on Windows or macOS (on ARM). Under the covers it's a 16-bit emulator written in Rust with VGA, Adlib music - and a serial modem too (wouldn't want to miss out on networked games 😀. It does the real negotiation but cheats when the connection is up to using serial over TCP (otherwise it's fiddly dealing with jitter on TCP). There's a video of a modem connected game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTzJTES8a8&t

Download it from: https://github.com/0x4D44/gp64/releases/latest, drop gp64 alongside your existing game files and run "gp64". It finds F1GP.BAT or GP.EXE and starts the game. Note it doesn't contain any original code or resources - you'll need to provide your own copy.

F12 opens the in-game menu - you can enable recording (using my own VP9 & Opus codecs 😀, enable serial or modem connections, or change the video scaler.

It started last December on a train as an experiment to see how far Claude & Codex could get. I wrote about it at the time: https://substack.com/home/post/p-182938444 and again later: https://substack.com/home/post/p-215637956.

It's a purely personal project (GPL3.0) which I'll update intermittently. I've had so much fun from the game and the community (I've got the carsets for most years 😀, that it's nice to be able to offer something back to all you amazing folk. I hope you have fun with it!