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Offline AmigaClassicRule

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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #44 on: March 20, 2013, 10:05:56 PM »
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64MB ram required? If this isn't desktop Apollo discrimination then I don't know what is! :lol:

LOL! Tell me about :P
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #45 on: March 20, 2013, 10:08:29 PM »
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It takes forever to load on my A1200

There's a few things you can do:

Better file system like SFS/PFS3 + increase HDD buffers.  Will help a bit

Buy an IDEFix Express.  Will help a bit more

Buy a FastATA :biglaugh:

Essentially Quake II is a very big Game, if you're loading 40mb+ at 1.5mb/sec then it's going to take... well I'll leave you to do the maths...

If you have only 20-30 HDD buffers (standard for FFS) it's going to take forever!
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #46 on: March 20, 2013, 10:19:25 PM »
I have a fastata and using a CF as hd. Ill check the buffers, but I think they are 500. I do how ever use FFS.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #47 on: March 20, 2013, 10:36:13 PM »
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I have a fastata and using a CF as hd. Ill check the buffers, but I think they are 500. I do how ever use FFS.


FFS?

Go and hang your head in shame

:)

PFS3 is free you know.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #48 on: March 20, 2013, 10:44:24 PM »
What???!?? No *HARDWARE* rendering??!???

PSSH!!!!!

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Good job! Makes me wish I had an 060/1200 just to play it. :P
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #49 on: March 21, 2013, 02:35:34 AM »
Perhaps something like Gigamem might help get it running on machines with less than 64meg?
Might be some slow downs when swapping, but better than not being able to run it at all.

Oh, and if someone does choose to use Gigamem, read the docs :) I learned the hard way that it wasnt lying when it said swap space cant be on a pfs partition (destroyed all my pfs partitions, even those that I'd  not assigned it to use).
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Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #50 on: March 21, 2013, 02:57:07 AM »
New version released v1.01 to AmiNet.

Fixes the bug with using the +/- keys to resize the screen and also improves speed :)

v1.01 AmiQuake2

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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #51 on: March 21, 2013, 12:46:52 PM »
Good stuff there Novacoder. Definitely a noticeable difference in speed vs some earlier videos.

It's amazing what can be squeezed out the classic amigas really. Some of the software being ported lately show it didnt need to appear as hugely outclassed as it did in the era of its commercial demise (higher spec 486/early pentium, playstation, saturn, etc.).

Granted these sorts of overclocked '060 cards were at best rare back then, but clearly the good ol' classics towards the end had more in them than (most of) the games suggested.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #52 on: March 21, 2013, 01:28:29 PM »
Quote from: NovaCoder;729906
New version released v1.01 to AmiNet.

Fixes the bug with using the +/- keys to resize the screen and also improves speed :)

v1.01 AmiQuake2

:)


Very nice indeed, well done! :)

Is there a document somewhere that details your modifications and optimizations to the code?
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #53 on: March 21, 2013, 07:19:28 PM »
Quote from: NovaCoder;729906
New version released v1.01 to AmiNet.

Fixes the bug with using the +/- keys to resize the screen and also improves speed :)

v1.01 AmiQuake2

:)

Hey NovaCoder? Can you throw a percentage here..just a roll of a dice from 0% to 100% about porting Quake 3 to Amiga 1200?
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #54 on: March 21, 2013, 07:44:50 PM »
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Hey NovaCoder? Can you throw a percentage here..just a roll of a dice from 0% to 100% about porting Quake 3 to Amiga 1200?


We don't have a 680x0 fast enough to run Quake 3, also you'd need a VooDoo 3 or something to play it.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #55 on: March 21, 2013, 08:05:14 PM »
Quote from: NovaCoder;729906
New version released v1.01 to AmiNet.

Fixes the bug with using the +/- keys to resize the screen and also improves speed :)

v1.01 AmiQuake2

:)

Hey by the way off topic a little bit. I tried monkey island 3 in scummVMAGA and it is pretty slow...even at my Apollo 1260 @ 80 Mhz with 32 MB of RAM (optomized) is that normal?
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #56 on: March 21, 2013, 11:05:33 PM »
Yep it's normal for Monkey Island 3 to be slow on AGA, checkout the games original requirements and you'll see why.  Maybe we can get some more speed if Jens ever gets around to releasing that chunky mode, who knows.


I think Quake 2 is the most demanding 3d engine that can use a software renderer, I wouldn't even try anything more demanding with AGA.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #57 on: March 24, 2013, 09:52:35 AM »
I swapped my CF card with a real harddrive, installed PFS3, and now everything loads a lot faster. Q2 loads more than twice as fast.

I still need to overclock my 060 though in order to make Q2 playable, but in any case, its very cool to hace Q2 running on the classic setup.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #58 on: March 31, 2013, 04:18:27 PM »
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Perhaps something like Gigamem might help get it running on machines with less than 64meg?
Might be some slow downs when swapping, but better than not being able to run it at all.

Oh, and if someone does choose to use Gigamem, read the docs :) I learned the hard way that it wasnt lying when it said swap space cant be on a pfs partition (destroyed all my pfs partitions, even those that I'd  not assigned it to use).

Any idea where I can find GigaMem? Thanks.
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Re: AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port
« Reply #59 from previous page: March 31, 2013, 04:48:21 PM »
It was delivered with at least Oktagon2008: http://amiga.resource.cx/install/BSC_GigaMem-20.dms
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