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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Cyborg on May 18, 2017, 10:49:08 AM
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Brussels, May 17, 2017
Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/games/freespace)* for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/where-to-buy/direct-downloads/182-descent-freespace-amigaos) of our website.
Customers can now choose between two formats of this amazing game:
- a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT** for download in our restricted download area (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads),
- or buy a boxed version*** at their preferred Amiga dealer.
The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 including all languages and manual.
Purchasers get a serial number inside their box or by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads) for the game archive, the original ISO image as well as potential future updates. For a first look, free demo versions are available from the public download area (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads?view=files&parent=26).
The updated version for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition includes among others:
- compatibility with Southern Islands based Radeon cards
- new launcher with screenmode selection, language selection and other options
- uses MiniGL texture compression if available
- tons of game bugfixes including a fully playable tutorial
For existing customers of Descent: Freespace the updated AmigaOS 4.1 version is available free of charge after registering their genuine copy with their free Hyperion account on our website.
Descent: Freespace - The Great War is the highly acclaimed space-combat simulator from Volition/Interplay and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics for its time, plot and game-play. It is widely considered one of the best space-combat simulators ever and gained lots of kudos from all important game magazines. The game was originally released in 2001 for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and in December 2004 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA.
* also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great War"
** may very depending on your local taxes
*** boxed version only includes AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS version, the AmigaOS 4.1 version is available for download after registration on our website
Source (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/37-games/181-descent-freespace-available-as-digital-download-and-update-for-amigaos-41)
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@Cyborg
awesome! i just purchased a copy, and am looking forward to playing it on my X5K. my son loved the old demo on our pegasos, but we never got around to buying the CD. this is much easier. i'm very glad to see hyperion increasingly offering their products online for sale.
-- eliyahu
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Useless (sad to say) on my Sam460 with a Radeon HD 4550 (1GB) graphics card.
A game with 640x480 software rendering is not appealing in 2017..!
(MiniGL won't run on Radeon HD 4xxx)
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I spoke to Timothy about Radeon SI compatibility at the Amiga 30 UK event and he said it would be looked into, so a big thankyou to Tim and everyone else involved in making this new fixed re-release happen.
I'll be sure to download the update soon.
@Nicsoft
Maybe time to upgrade the video card if you want hardware rendering.
I wonder what this would run like on Vampire hardware.
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@Rob
Well, but a Radeon HD 4550 (1GB) graphics card, should surpass the graphics cards from 1998 that this game used to run on... Else "time has stood still"?
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cool! it's a fun game and now with this update I'll get back into it when time permits and hopefully we can set up some mutiplayer online games:)
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How well does this run on an '060?
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How well does this run on an '060?
It might struggle without 3D acceleration but there's a demo you can try on Aminet.
http://aminet.net/package/game/demo/FreeSpaceDemo
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Nice update.
The new demo runs at 120fps in full HD 32bit on my X1000.
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@Rob
Well, but a Radeon HD 4550 (1GB) graphics card, should surpass the graphics cards from 1998 that this game used to run on... Else "time has stood still"?
Dude, your card has no Warp3D drivers, what did you expect? :laughing:
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Dude, your card has no Warp3D drivers, what did you expect? :laughing:
As if I didn't know that! That's the problem with AmigaOS 4.1...
No f***ing drivers! :angry:
I'm more and more thinking about quitting Amiga.
1986-2017 is a long time (for me) towards Amiga:s slow death...
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As if I didn't know that! That's the problem with AmigaOS 4.1...
No f***ing drivers! :angry:
I'm more and more thinking about quitting Amiga.
1986-2017 is a long time (for me) towards Amiga:s slow death...
Radeon's with support for Warp 3D are not that expensive anymore, btw playing games with a 4350 on pc is not fun either :). So on other platforms there are the same problems ;)
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@nicsoft
radeon HD driver support is *not* included in the OS, it is a third-party commercial product. your SAM has a PCI slot, which can accommodate a video card that *is* supported by the OS. it was you, not hyperion, that decided to purchase a video card without warp3d support. i fail to see how this is anyone else's fault. go purchase a supported video card and be happy. you get ancient radeon 9xxx cards or fairly recent "southern islands" radeon HD cards, which also have warp3d support. i have a radeon HD 7750, for example, in my X5000, and it runs 3D games very well indeed.
or keep the one you purchased. the 'support' for it hasn't changed since you bought it. but quit blaming others for your own choice.
-- eliyahu
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@ Nicsoft
seriously IF you supposedly know the situation THEN stop whining and update the old card, its quick and lots of cards can be easily found for good price :whack:
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Nicsoft : You have nice mobo with possibility to update gfx card. I have a Sam 440ep Flex so I don't have same possibility. Just spend some 50%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8364; and be happy.
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@eliyahu
@klx300r
In 2011, I just bought one by ACube recommended "de facto standard" card.
Acube had choosen the Radeon HD 4xxx-series as the Sam460ex graphics cards.
Still on their hompage 2017:
http://nicsoft.se/pics/Sam460.png
http://nicsoft.se/pics/4650.png
My old PC from 2010 have an old NVIDIA GeForce 210 (512MB) and easily plays games which are more demanding than AmigaOS4.X games, although it has less performance than a Radeon HD 4550!
So putting your recommended cards, in a Sam460 would be like a VW Beetle with a 600 HP V8 (overkill)...
With a driver for HD 4xxx cards, one could play all AmigaOS4.X games, without doubt...
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@eliyahu
@klx300r
In 2011, I just bought one by ACube recommended "de facto standard" card.
Acube had choosen the Radeon HD 4xxx-series as the Sam460ex graphics cards.
Still on their hompage 2017:
http://nicsoft.se/pics/Sam460.png
http://nicsoft.se/pics/4650.png
My old PC from 2010 have an old NVIDIA GeForce 210 (512MB) and easily plays games which are more demanding than AmigaOS4.X games, although it has less performance than a Radeon HD 4550!
So putting your recommended cards, in a Sam460 would be like a VW Beetle with a 600 HP V8 (overkill)...
With a driver for HD 4xxx cards, one could play all AmigaOS4.X games, without doubt...
I understand where you are coming from and I think most of us expected that there would be 3D support for 4xxx cards but the fact is that there are no drivers planned for these cards because by the time A-EON starting investing in 3D drivers and APIs the world had moved on so it made sense to support the cards that were available at that time.
The R7 240 is supported according to the wiki and it offers similar performance to the the HD4550
Accelerated 2D/3D supported graphic card chipsets
3D driver support on AmigaOS is provided by Warp3D-SI and Warp3D Nova when used with the latest RadeonHD drivers.
* Radeon HD 77xx-79xx series graphics card (excluding the Radeon HD 7790)
* Radeon HD R7 240/240D ¹
* Radeon HD R7 250 ¹
* Radeon HD R7 250E
* Radeon HD 250X/265
* Radeon HD R9 270/270X/280/280X
¹ Oland chipsets require the newer RadeonHD drivers (v1.20 or v2.21) exclusively available from the Enhancer Software Standard or Plus editions
http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=RadeonHD
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@Rob
Thanks for the info...
I have (right now) a totally silent Sam460ex system.
With an SSD and the passively cooled:
https://media.dustin.eu/image/80574/960/720/xfx-radeon-hd-4550.jpg
(Plus a slow completely silent case fan)
So, are there any single slot, passively cooled Warp3D-SI and Warp3D Nova graphics cards, that you/someone can recommend?
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Nice update.
The new demo runs at 120fps in full HD 32bit on my X1000.
Sam FPS here to but at 1200p rather than 1080p. X1000 + R9 280 @933Mhz.
@Rob
Thanks for the info...
I have (right now) a totally silent Sam460ex system.
With an SSD and the passively cooled:
https://media.dustin.eu/image/80574/960/720/xfx-radeon-hd-4550.jpg
(Plus a slow completely silent case fan)
So, are there any single slot, passively cooled Warp3D-SI and Warp3D Nova graphics cards, that you/someone can recommend?
None of the passively cooled cards on the market appear to be single slot.