Payback Amiga vs Mac vs GBA.

[som99]

Ops guys forgot I also have Payback on my GP2X, haven't fired it up in ages but it looked good on that system

Also Thanks for clarifying that the Amiga PPC and Mac versions look the same besides resolution.

I played Payback, or rather the demo, on my A1200/030 and it played fine. This was of course the top view.

I never tried 3d view as I was told it was on 68K but I never saw a 68K Payback with 3d. Not n the demo anyway.

Please explain what you mean by 3D and 2D view, as far as ive seen there is only top view on all versions?

Also I don't understand how you was able to play it on a 030, do the 7 patches do that much really so it's playable on a 030 AGA machine? Ive made posts on this topic in the past and not a single person said it was playable on a 030 and I have never got it near playable at all on a 030.

Tho ive only tried the retail full version never the Demo, ill fire up a 030 and try the demo this weekend.

[Vanilla]

Please explain what you mean by 3D and 2D view, as far as ive seen there is only top view on all versions?

Sorry I'm going from memory. By 2d I meant the default view that scrolls around. By 3d I meant the rotating view which is more fancy.

Also I don't understand how you was able to play it on a 030, do the 7 patches do that much really so it's playable on a 030 AGA machine?

I only played the demo. No patches. So had no fancy rotating. It would have been the default view and most likely effects were turned off.

The only working Amiga I have right now is an A4000/060/RTG so not a fair comparison. Right now my A1200/030 refuses to boot. Got a yellow screen stuck. Now black screen. Need to pull my DKB 1240 and test. I sold my other A1200 to free up space so hope it's not that!

[Lurch]

Payback with a 060@80MHz with a Voodoo 5 card is great, 640x480 with hardware acceleration. It's almost like playing the original GTA. Only thing I don't like is some of the sound effects are terrible. Play it now and then but other games are more fun.

[som99]

Sorry Vanilla, tried Payback tonight, tried it with lowest setting no updates and it ran less then 1fps, installed update 7 and made smallest window and flares etc off and runs around 1-2fps so little better but far from playable on a 030 :/

Still bummed they wrote minimum requirements 020 and 16MB ram... thats just a lie and then the game would run under a frame per second, id like to see them complete the game that way xD

Dammit, might be time for me to scout for a 040/060

[lionstorm]

maybe it needs 68020 with some fastRAM to be at least playable ?

[utri007]

I have two AGA amigas, 040 and 060 with them it is perfectly playable and very fun game. It also works nicely with Sam / Petunia.

I could easily belive that it is NOT playable anything less than 040

[som99]

maybe it needs 68020 with some fastRAM to be at least playable ?

No no, I got a 030 and 63MB fastRAM and it't not even close to playable :/

I have two AGA amigas, 040 and 060 with them it is perfectly playable and very fun game. It also works nicely with Sam / Petunia.

I could easily belive that it is NOT playable anything less than 040

Yeah not playable at all, strange that Apex sets minimum to far from playable tho :/

I will have to keep playing on OSX and MorphOS and maybe on my GP2X I might try the GBA version with a card adapter on my SNES tho

I must get my hands on a 040/060 soon and retire the ACA1231 and use it on a A500 or something

[Damion]

Played the game many years ago on a 66MHz 1260 Blizzard, it ran very well at low resolution with the windowsize dropped down a notch or two. Immensely fun at the time, one of the few games I recall that made use of the '060. Ofc the Mac version was considerably better.

I managed to get the Warp3D version working on an A2000 with an '060 and CV64/3D, albeit very slowly. (Obviously some type of bug, as it would alternate between being perfectly playable and slow as molasses.)

The game has lost it's charm for me at least, I don't think it aged as well as some of the older "traditional" Amiga games.