AmiWolf AGA - new Wolfenstein 3D Port

[NovaCoder]

Sound and MIDI music (emulated) done, all good to go.

Will uploaded to AmiNet next week after I package it up

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[NovaCoder]

No errorlog, I'm afraid. I tried running it with 32MB as well, same result. (I'd be kind of astonished if a game that required 528KB on DOS required anything like even 16MB on the Amiga - even with the 4MB "MIDI instruments" file...)

It's not a lack of memory because someone managed to get it running with only 6MB, maybe it's a patch???

[NovaCoder]

If you are running ClassicWB make sure you disable CyberBugFix, it's a horrible hack which is known to cause issues with my ports.

With the newer versions of ClassicWB it's an optional install.

[NovaCoder]

It's on AmiNet now

[NovaCoder]

CyberBugfiX is for http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/CGX-AGA

Another user has confirmed that CGX-AGA is not compatible with AmiWolf.

[NovaCoder]

Does CGX-AGA do anything useful?   Does anybody here use it?

It just looks like a hack to me, it causes issues with all of my ports.

[NovaCoder]

Now also available on OCS/ECS machines that support the EHB 64 color mode :cool:

You'll still need an 030 and some FASTRAM to play though.

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Yes that is only 64 colors.


Find the BETA in the EAB Zone.

[NovaCoder]

hiya,

it just means you have the wrong version of the retail game files, there are 3 different versions and AmiWolf only supports one of them.

no you don't need the music files to run, music is disabled by default because it will slow things down a bit.

So it means, I can play that on my A600 with ACA630 25MHz ?!?!?
I got to try this!

Let's see how fast is it.

Edit: First try, does not work fully. I can go as far as loading and then I get black screen instead of the game. I can see the score, ammo etc, but no game.
this is w/o the music files, would it work w/o music files if I disable the sound?

[NovaCoder]

You sir, are a crack monkey!

I'll take that as a compliment :-)

[NovaCoder]

Sorry for the belated feedback.
The version you sent me a week or so ago seems to work flawlessly for me on my a1200+40mhz '040. I couldnt find a single problem or bug, and it's pretty much silky smooth, with the exception of rotating left and right, where there's a slight judder (only noticable though if a person is looking for imperfections).

The one thing I did notice though, is that reducing screensize makes absolutely no difference to framerate, and that "judder" when turning left and right is the same whether it's fullscreen, or a small window).

Thanks for the feedback

Yep the other BETA testers notice the mouse movement has a slight judder, it should be a bit better in the release version on AmiNet.

The reduced screen mode was put in for the 030 users as it seems to make it a bit quicker for them.

I think there is still a slight bug with the game save code, trying to figure out what the problem is.

[NovaCoder]

Spear of Destiny running on AGA....

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[NovaCoder]

excuse my ignorance....

but WHY THE HELL would anyone want to play a game you can download from the internet
with dosbox and play it, all in about 2 minutes of work and for free?
only to see how crap it looks and turn it off?

your a legend mate, but i really think your wasting your time...BIG TIME.

Hiya,

There's a few reasons I spend so much of my free time on these ports.   One reason is that AGA never had much support back-in-the-day and has an unfair reputation of being really slow.   The other reason is that I like to give people a reason to dust off their Amiga's and start using them again, I've even had a few people that have upgraded to 060's specifically to play some of my recent ports.

And finally, I enjoy the coding challenge.   I had a few people tell me that Quake 2 was impossible to do on AGA and even had people comment on my YouTube video's that it was faked and must have been running on a PC.

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I was told that it was impossible to get DOTT running on an 030 with SFX and music (my first Amiga port way back in 2009).

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[NovaCoder]

Spear of Destiny OCS/ECS/AGA finished, will upload to AmiNet tomorrow

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[NovaCoder]

Coming back to this, I've searched through all my startup-sequences and system folders, and there's no sign of CGX-AGA or CyberBugfix; I dunno if they don't come with ClassicWB Lite, or if the guy who set it up for me removed them, but they don't seem to be present. Any further ideas on what might be causing this issue? ScummVM-AGA-030 is also hanging when I try to launch it...

Hiya,

It's very hard to debug this online

Have you tried it under WinUAE?   If you can get it working under WinUAE it does at least prove that you've got the correct data files.

Another thing you can try is to boot from a 3.0 WB disk and see if that lets you start it from WB (keep the disk in obviously).

For reference I'm running OS 3.9 with BB1 & BB2 and hardly any other patches/hacks (only Blizkick, FBlit and CopyMem060).

This game does seems to be very 'fussy', not sure why.   I know there are 3 different versions of the retail game data files and my port only supports 1 of them.

[NovaCoder]

A few people noticed that my AmiWolf ports had stopped working recently (it turns out that they had an expiry date!).

I've managed to find the time to update all of these 3 ports to fix the time bug.

v1.18 of AGA/ECS and Spear of Destiny (AGA only) uploaded to AmiNet, I'll whack them in the Zone on EAB too

Have a play with enabling the new 'priority' tool type, might help performance slightly for some users.

[NovaCoder]

Thank you for fixing this

No probs, I don't like it when my software suddenly stops working


AmiWolf OCS/ECS running on an expanded A500


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