What was the last Know RPG released or going to be released. .

[ChaosLord]

The last known RPG for the Amiga was Total Chaos AGA: Battle at the Frontier of Time which was released last in April 2004.

It is a Strategy RPG which requires OS 3.0+, 64 MB HD space, 16 MB ram, AGA.  It will run on any CPU but it will make full use of a 68060 if you have it.

It is a Real Amiga(tm) game, not a port.

[ChaosLord]

LuisTHE wrote:
I tried Total Chaos (Heavy) AGA,

There is no Total Chaos (Heavy) AGA.

ChaosHeavy.lha is for the Amiga 500/2000/3000.
It has LORES OCS 64 color gfx.

TotalChaosAGA.lha is completely different.
It is for the Amiga 1200/4000 and has AGA 256 color HIRES gfx.

but didn´t like at first sight,the graphics are awfull,

Hmmm.. yes.. A500 gfx are primitive, try to not play
the 1980's version and instead get a newer one.


And if the gfx are so awful then -why- did you download it?

maybe i´ll try it again when i get bored or something.

Don't bother unless you download at least a 1990s version. :-D

TotalChaosAGA features a much better user interface
than the ancient ChaosHeavy so it is more fun than all the old ECS versions.

[ChaosLord]

LuisTHE wrote:

 Does Total Chaos AGA also work with CGX screenmodes?

Total Chaos is written for AmigaOS not CGX OS.
Total Chaos uses AmigaOS Screenmodes.

IF CGX OS was compatible with AmigaOS then the answer would be: Yes.

Since CGX OS is very incompatible with AmigaOS the answer is: NO

[ChaosLord]

AMIGAZ wrote:
It's a pure AGA game which bangs the AGA circuits directly.

ROFL!!!! That's freakin hilarious!!!! :lol:  :roflmao:  :laughing:  :lol:

I don't even know how to bang the AGA circuits directly.  

I just use OpenScreenTags(blah blah...)
etc. from the OS.

Total Chaos AGA is a pure AmigaOS game and uses
graphics.library, intuition.library, exec.library etc. etc.

AmigaOS Rulez!!!! :banana:

[ChaosLord]

Mr_Capehill wrote:
I tried your game TotalChaos AGA on AmigaOS 4. I get a warning "Can't open screen".

hehehe a lot of UAE ppl get the same error.

I wonder what kind of screen the game wants to open.

It wants to open several parent/child screens.
The main one is 640x512x8.
There is also a 640x1024 SA_AUTOSCROLL screen.
blah blah blah...

Also, does it use the CIA chip in any way, I get also warning about this.

I use ciaa.resource or ciab.resource for a timer to play the mods.  I don't know any other proper way to play mods on OS 1.0 to 3.9

Any help would be appreciated...

I doubt any of this was any real help to you.  :-)

If you want actual useful help just send me a working AmigaOne and I'll start the laborious process of porting the game over.  After that... 1280x1024x32bit gfx here we come!!!! :banana:

[ChaosLord]

Mr_Capehill wrote:

Could you make modplaying optional (or is it already?).

No and no.
Great RPGs require good music.

Using CIA is banging hardware...There are other ways but you may need to replace the player then.

Please send me a player that magically plays medmods accurately without a timing pulse from a timer chip and I will use it.

It must support 0-64 channels playback just as Total Chaos medplay routine has been doing for years.

Thanx for the assist! :-)

[ChaosLord]

Mr_Capehill wrote:
It's your lucky day I have a MED player that doesn't use CIA. Only problem is that it is not optimized and it's beta. It's also tested only on A1 currently...it uses AHI, not audio.device btw.

1. WAHOOO!!!!! :-D

2. When playing a typical 4 channel MMD1 MedMod what % of CPU time does it burn?

[ChaosLord]

Greetings Professor Capehill  :-)

If you will send me a working 68k .library or .o or .lib that I can slink with SASC then I will use it for experiments on 68060 and UAE.

I will also need a working native OS4 .library so my Total Chaos 68060 code can open the native PPC .library (when running on PPC OS4) and play medmods with little CPU strain.

Then my code will do:

Code: [Select]

[size=medium]
// Note to Wayne: size command is broken in code mode

IF (OS3) THEN
   PlayModsUsingCIA();
ELSE_IF (OS4) THEN
   OpenTheNativePPCMedReplayLibraryAndUseIt();
END_IF

Maybe then we can set
OS4_RPGs = OS4_RPGs+1;  :-)


Does your secret replay routine have the same commands
and interface as the SDL library for ez porting?

p.s. I need subsongs to work, which should be no problem.

[ChaosLord]

LuisTHE wrote:
...didn´t like at first sight,the graphics are awfull,...

  Can i play Total chaos with other players on the internet?

It can do play by email via YAM and an Arexx script.
But I assume you are asking about "Live over the internet with direct TCP/IP connection and chatting."

Please choose the answer you like best:

A: Yes as soon as I code that in.

B: No because the "awfull" graphics could blind you or perhaps even kill you if you played it online.  The Amiga community would collapse at the loss of another user.

C: No because my Graphics Animatographer got depressed and deleted all his anims after reading your awfull comment; and I haven't heard from him since.  So it will take me years to improve all the gfx by myself which leaves no time for coding internet routines.

[ChaosLord]

LuisTHE wrote:

   I´ll wait patiently,i like this version better than the other "Heavy" version for a500 and a600.Nice one!

1. Don't tell me.  Tell him!  Its gonna be way freaking hard for me to add new requested monsters to the game without my Animationographer!  :bigcry:

2. If I were to code in the Play over the internet feature next week would you help me test it?
We can team up against a horde of Generators!!

Is your Amiga connected to the internet?