Quake on the older Amigas

[CU_AMiGA]

Hi,

Was wondering whether Quake would run on the A2000, A500 and A600 with the aid of an accelerator and graphics card? I would imagine it would be possible with an A2000 and A500, with the Blizzard accelerator and Cybervision graphics card. Not too certain about the A600 though...

Regards,

[CU_AMiGA]

Hello,

I still own Quake, even though i have no Amiga to play it on. But it was fairly playable on my A1200 with 060 and AGA, i got between 10-20fps. It was okay, but a 060 AGA is the bare minimum i reckon. It flies pretty well on PPC, i got 30-40fps on my 160. The minimum hardware requirements for Quake are: 020+FPU, AGA and 8meg RAM. So this game will not run on OCS/ECS. That is why a complex setup on A2000 and A500 seems more likely.

[CU_AMiGA]

Hi mate,

That would be cool. I would love to know what happens, any chance of posting a video clip?

Regards,

-EDIT-

The Quake on Aminet was the version i used as well. It flies compared to the Clickboom version. Apparently, Quake 2 runs better than the first one, but this needs a GFX card. I recently copied the WAD files from my Amiga CD to my iMAC to play iMAC, and it is full speed! :-) I have also heard that Clickbooms WAD files also uses special tricks in order for the speed to be good? Is this true?

[CU_AMiGA]

interesting.....

[CU_AMiGA]

Would Quake at all run on a A600? I was thinking about that Shapeshifter card - as that can display 256, the same as AGA and GFX cards.

Regards,

[CU_AMiGA]

Argus wrote:
Well, I just got Clickboom's Quake installed on the A2000.  It works with the GVP Combo030/40MHz, 16MB Fastram and PicassoII+ combination in my machine on a 320x200 CGX screenmode, but it's really not playable.  It crawls along even in the smallest window size at low-resolution.  I think a 68040 would probably make it playable though, but I my 040 Combo board doesn't work anymore.  Well,  in any case since there are no 040 or graphics cards for the a600, I think that pretty much tells the story.

lol :-) Yes, but it ran! Have you tried the GLQuake version on A2000 yet? That may speed it up a frame or two. Doesn't the Graffiti card count as a GFX card for A600? Graffiti GFX

Regards,

[CU_AMiGA]

Would the GLQuake run on the AGA chipset? I remember on 060 update of Quake 060, but this was bugged (especially with the water/scramble effect. I remember a few Quake hacks available to puch AmiQuake to the edge.

[CU_AMiGA]

Argus wrote:
I'll check out GLQuake 68K  and let you know how fast it is, or if it works at all (it may need 3D hardware). I only have a SVGA card (PicassoII+) in the A2000.  The only Zorro II 3D capable card is the Cybervision3D/Virge card from Phase 5.  Hopefully, there is a software renderer but that is probably going to be slow.

Any news?