Welcome to Slot-GP

This software is developed for the Scalextric Sport Digital system. This program could not have been possible without the great help

of several friends on the SlotForum, with a special thanks to RichG for deciphering the binary data that the SCX console sends out.

This program does not need you to set anything up on your SCX console except to set the car IDs the way you want to race them.

You should leave the console on GPR mode, but there is no need to set laps, start or stop on the console itself. This is all handled

by the Slot-GP program.

This software is freeware for your personal use. You may re-distribute this package so long as you include the entire package including its

Copyright. You may not re-distribute this for commercial purposes. Please do not decompile or otherwise reverse engineer this software.

If you would like access to the code for this, please contact me at www.SlotForum.com – nickname Rubenio.

In order to use this software, you will need a cable to connect your Sport Digital Console to an available serial port on your PC. If you

don't have such a cable, check out this link for how to obtain one (Many Thanks to RichG for his great support!). This link below will take

you to a lot of useful info to get you started if you're new to SCX digital.

http://www.slotforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10709

The installer package for Slot-GP has been moved and can now be found at the page below.

http://home.comcast.net/~rubenio/Slot-GP-Updates.htm

Once you have your system connected, you will see the Race Setup window similar to below (except that the first time, you will have no

data for drivers' & cars' names). This window allows to pick how many drivers are in the race and what cars they will be driving. It should

be self explanatory once you have the drivers in the system. In order to do this, I will walk you through the process of adding/editing drivers,

cars & track layouts, which is all you will need to get racing!

First, click on the 'Edit Drivers' button.

That will bring up this window which will allow you to manage your drivers. Simply type a name in the box next to Driver Name and

click the add button. That will populate the list of available drivers at the top. If you want to delete a driver (just in case?), you can

select a name in the available drivers window and click the delete button. That's all there is to it!

Editing the cars names is just as simple and the window looks exactly alike. Notice that when you select a car, it turns blue showing

you which car you could delete.

By now, you can probably guess what the 'Edit Layouts' window will look like, but in this case there is a little more info we need in order

to get started. You can add/delete layouts as simply as you can drivers & cars, but you will need to add the track lenghts for each track

(it calculates the average since you can lane change in Digital!!). Also you need to supply a breakout time. This is a minimum lap time

required to get around the circuit and faster times will be ignored by the system. This is useful in case you misplace the car for example

right across the start finish line...

Oh, be careful with the delete option here!! Records are saved in a file associated with each layout so if you erase the layout you will lose

the records for it as well...

OK, so now you have your drivers, cars and layouts in the system... Hopefully that didn't take you more than 5 minutes... (then again if

you have hundreds of cars, well that could take a while... I'll see if a car import function can be done for a later release - assuming there's

interest ;-)

So now we're back to the Race Setup window. Select the number of drivers you want by checking the 'enable' box over each driver you

want to include in your race. Make sure you chose their names and cars in the popop boxes for each 'driver number'. Set the number of

laps your race will be and the number of minutes of Free Practice (FP) that you would like. If you like this setup and want it to be your default

when you start up the program, just click on the 'Save Race Profile' under the File Menu. In the example below, there will be 3 racers in the

event (my 2 kids and I). Now, clicking on the FP, Qualify or Race buttons will take you to the race screen, but before you do this, read on

because you have a couple of choices here...

There are two race displays that I have developed for this program You can select which view you prefer and the system will remember

it for next time. Do this under the Options menu by selecting the view you want with the mouse.

The first display is a 'Quali-Screen' (shown below) which is driver based and shows you info on how you are performing lap by lap. If you

have driven this car on this track layout before, the system will show you your personal best time as well as the record lap time and who

set it. You can use this view for Free Practice, Qualifying or even Race Mode.

This is the Quali-Screen view for a qualifying session of 5 laps. The FP & Race views look the same so I won't paste them here.

The 2nd race display is illustrated below. This will place the drivers in running order depending on the race mode you are in. For the FP

and Qualifying modes, the drivers are listed by their best lap times. The window knows how many drivers you are having in your race and

adjusts its size accordingly so you don't waste your time finding the info you want. Once the session is over, you will be taken to a results

display where you will have a choice to return to race setup or to the next session.. ( in the order FP, Qualifying, Race obviously ;-). At the

bottom left of the display, you can also see a small throttles object which will show you in real time what your doing with the throttle. This

is useful to check that your controller/car is responding... I am thinking of collecting this throttle data to show the driver their theoretical best

lap... I also think it would be cool to use this data to have the computer learn to drive a car itself (but that's another project!!)

Here is a sample display with 4 drivers, notice that Dagmar chose to be driver #5 (with SCX car number 5 on track).

Once your session is finished, you will get to the Results display, as shown below. Depending on the session type you will see who

practiced best, the qualification order or the race results. From here you can also chose to race again - which takes you to the Race

Setup display.

Well, that's it!! I hope you like this program, if you do, please drop me a line at the SlotForum!

For the latest updates for this program incuding bug fixes and added features, check out:

http://home.comcast.net/~rubenio/Slot-GP-Updates.htm

Great Racing!
Ruben

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