AmiQuake 2 - new 68k Quake 2 Port

[nicholas]

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?

[nicholas]

@Karlos - Is that on your A1?

It's this Windows only port: http://berserker.quakegate.ru

I had a 486SX/25 with a Soundblaster/CDROM compared to my 500 it was a beast. Sold my 500 that year, had it since release though :-)

It was cheaper and hardware was more available at the time, and FPS games wow :-)

Was my first HP (hire purchase) Miss it, it was a Commodore version in a desktop case. The same one the A4000 was sold in.

That was my first PC too.

[nicholas]

Windows port on an Amiga forum!!! :-) LOL




Amazing machine, in the end use to run DesQview and QEMM memory manager so I could have two nodes for my BBS. One for me to logon with and the one connected to the phone line.

A mate of mine had a fully upgraded 500 he would dial in on, the ANSi would always look wrong on the Amiga.

Love ANSI art, have drawn a couple. Have lost the knack these days. Anyway getting OT :-)

Nice!

I remember pulling half the ram chips from the onboard Paradise VGA card and fitting them to my Gravis Ultrasound.

I eventually replaced the 486 CPU with a Pentium Overdrive which made it fly!

/Apologies for going OT....

[nicholas]

What on amiga.org, don't be silly

[nicholas]

Great, time to release the source code then :-D

Indeed it is.

I've looked on aminet and the eab thread but can't find the source yet.

@Novacoder

Could you please put the source on Aminet or maybe on sourceforge/github etc.

Cheers!

[nicholas]

v1.07 in action

[youtube]SNKk9tQwwjM[/youtube]

Looking good!

[nicholas]

I'm still playing through the single player game (full retail version) and doing little tweaks here and there to the source code, I'll release it when I'm finished with it.  

Are you any closer to releasing the code yet?

Sorry to pester you but I'm dying to get my hands on it to see how you got it performing so well!

[nicholas]

I don't that is possible. I don't think NovaCoder or anyone as good as NovaCoder could achieve that...simply put because that is what the minimum requirements of this game anyways. Otherwise if he can manage that..then people who have games that requires 1 GB of RAM in a PC should be able to hack it to run at 256 MB of RAM or even 64 MB of RAM and I have not seeing that done in any computer history. It is really the physical programmer who programmed the game with their codes and optimization have reached to the minimum requirement of 64 MB of RAM.  64 MB of RAM is not so bad to be honest...it just matter of me getting the cash first then I can upgrade my Apollo to 64 MB of RAM.

Sell your Subway to pay for it.

[nicholas]

On the subject of making ancient hardware do 3d stuff it wasn't designed for, take a look at this masterpiece of coding wizardry!
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=61298

[nicholas]

@nicholas

not bad for a c64 although I was more amazed by smash design's versions of amiga&pc demos.

Oh of course, but real-time raycasting in 254 bytes @ <1MHz is amazing.

BTW, on an AGA miggy this smoothness is achieved using copper-synchronized c2p :-)
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=56885

It would be nice to see some techniques like these in Q2-AGA

Very nice indeed and it would be nice to see these improvements on top of the stellar work Nova has achieved so far.

[nicholas]

Do you have the source for this copper assisted C2P?

IRA?

http://aminet.net/package/dev/asm/ira

[nicholas]

What the heck does a reasembler do?

Like a disassembler but the code it produces can usually be reassembled to an executable, this isn't always true for some disassemblers like Resource etc.