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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2006, 05:04:23 AM »
There is an open source reimplementation of TombRaider called OpenRaider. It just hasn't progressed much lately.

http://openraider.sourceforge.net/
 

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2006, 10:59:00 AM »
I had a version of the tomb raider port ages ago. I remeber it was dog slow on my 030/50 Mhz but it worked.

I think there was 2 versions in the archive. One for 020 and one for 040.

Sorry to say i don't have it anymore. It was lost in the big HD krash of 99' :-D

It was released around the same time as the first illeagal Quake 1 port if remember correct.
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2006, 10:39:41 PM »
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source code is actually a very small part of porting any software but especially games. it isnt as simple as just recomiling the source. it almost always has to be at least partially rewritten.
the original linux executable (which became official after testing etc) can be found on several sites. it was not developed by the original developer.
there are lots of games which have been "ported" or "reimplemented" or whatever you want to call it from doom, to quake.
what exactly would be your definition of a port or reimplementation. a program which allows a game to be played on non-original hardware without emulation would be my definition.
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2006, 11:31:48 PM »
There's an '060 demo on Aminet with a nice 3D Tombraider style engine.

It shows a woman walking around a 3D world and jumping from a waterfall etc.

I think it was by TBL but I can't remember what it was called.

All I remember was that the '060 code used some program made by some guy called Harry Sintonen...

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2006, 11:47:46 PM »
@Hyperspeed

Actually it's Rise by Mellow Chips

BTW: Many of the people involved in Mellow Chips (and other finnish demogroups) now form  Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne), Futuremark (3D Mark) and other new media companies.
 

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2006, 11:59:20 PM »
@KThunder

Well, I don't agree with your definitions.

For me it is not porting if there is no original source code available.

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source code is actually a very small part of porting any software but especially games.

It depends on the project. Unfortunately game programmers rarely consider portability.

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it isnt as simple as just recomiling the source. it almost always has to be at least partially rewritten.

Yes.

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there are lots of games which have been "ported" or "reimplemented" or whatever you want to call it from doom, to quake.

These (Doom, Quake I, Quake II, Quake III) were ported, from GPL or stolen source code (For example: Some early amiga Quake ports were based on stolen source code).

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what exactly would be your definition of a port or reimplementation.

Port = Write code modifying original source code, or using the original source code as a reference.

Reimplementation = Write code by having no original source code available. Often involves reverse engineering the original binaries and datafile formats.
 

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2006, 12:21:10 AM »
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Actually it's Rise by Mellow Chips


That's it!

http://main.aminet.net/demo/aga/trsi-rse.lha

:-)

Man, if they had gotten some sort of 3D game out of that it would have been cool.

Another good demo was Magia by TBL:
http://it.aminet.net/pub/aminet/demo/aga/tbl-magia.lha

Anyway, Heretic 2 can be viewed from a 3rd person view can't it?
 

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2006, 10:28:42 AM »
Rise is good! One of my favourite AGA demos...

I don't recall seeing Magica, will download it now!

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2006, 08:07:19 AM »
There definitely was some news about Tombrider for Amiga on Czech Amiga News. Remember reading about it sometime in 1999 or 2000. There was no link to download anything. It was supposed to run on 040 and had 1x1 and 2x2 modes.
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2006, 09:40:49 AM »
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@KThunder

Well, I don't agree with your definitions.

For me it is not porting if there is no original source code available.

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source code is actually a very small part of porting any software but especially games.

It depends on the project. Unfortunately game programmers rarely consider portability.


Agreed. Porting and remaking/reimplementing are quite different matters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting

However, portability wasn't good in the past, probably due to heavy optimization and tailoring the game source for each platform. But today it's different. Most big companies work with PCs and consoles simultaneously and most game middleware is also platform agnostic.
 

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2006, 10:55:01 AM »
If you liked Rise, you should also see the Lapsuus by Maturefurk. Although it would be surprise if someone hasn't seen it already ;) It's made by same people and based on same engine... It won the combined (PC+Amiga) demo compo at Assembly 2001. 060/AGA production beated all those 3D accelerated PC prods... that was the day ;)

http://ada.untergrund.net/showdemo.php?demoid=130
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2006, 11:05:16 AM »
@pVC

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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2006, 02:38:55 PM »
Great picture :)
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2006, 07:23:42 PM »
Of course Tomb Raider exists on the Amiga - it came out for the Amiga in the first place and was called Rick Dangerous - LOL.  Pitty it wasn't Racquel Dangerous with great graphics and a nice pair of t... though :o)
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2006, 09:39:26 PM »
Just found an old backup cd with this on ;)

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Short:    Amiga Tomb Raider
Uploader: Team Happy
Type:     game/misc

Team Happy present Amiga Tomb Raider  Nov '97

At last! The *only* version of the Amiga
replacement engine for the PC version of Tomb raider!

Firstly. it is for real BUT you are gonna need one
hell of a machine to get it working on!

These are the specs:

040 Processor
AGA or CyberGraphix graphic card
PowerPC Processor
8 Megs Minimum Fast RAM (Still needs 2 MEGS CHIP RAM)

Also of course you need a PC version of Tomb Raider!

Credits:
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Main Code: Lomas, Jean, Andrew

Display Drivers: Sam, Liz

Libs: Suki


The file is called: AMITOMBRAIDER.LHA
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Re: Tomb raider for the Amiga?
« Reply #29 from previous page: September 28, 2006, 09:47:15 PM »
I'd love to give this a try on my A1200. Any chance you could email me the archive?

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