Quake 2 Amiga

[MagicSN]

If you already have some sort of Amiga PPC Hardware it's really enough for the game. No AmigaOne required to play this game.

Steffen Haeuser

[MagicSN]

No, A1 version of Quake 2 is not ready, only the
OS 3.x version (which will also run on OS4) up to now. An OS 4 Update for Quake 2 will be done later...

Steffen Haeuser

[MagicSN]

>>How much did you pay for it?
>It was £30 for the Hyperion disk and a PC >version of the game bundled

I don't know the usual UK game prices as well, but at least in Germany it is cheaper - now, when it is introduced to the Amiga market - than even old Amiga games like Heretic II (several years old) cost NOW. I guess it will be the same in UK too ?

And that's for a newly released title. Other newly released titles are more expensive (compare the prices of Quake 2 and Tales of Tamar and Software Tycoon)

Price calculation was a bit "tight" for Quake 2 due to the price of the Quake 2 Data CD (which we had to prefinance) and such. Also there are of course dealer margins, and at lowerprice-games you have to be careful - not that in the end your calculation does not work out.
>might be able to buy the
>Hyperion disk alone, not sure of this >though.  You do get a load of
>mods as well though.

At least currently this is not possible.
Only both Amiga port and PC CD together are
available.

Remember: We had to prefinance the Q2 CDs.

>Hyperion have included an option for CD32 >pads and the PSX port

Input Devices supported: Mouse (including Mousewheel), Keyboard, PSX Port, CD32 Pad,
PC Analog Joystick (would make a bit a strange device for Quake 2, though ).

Sound supported: Paula or AHI

Graphics Supported: 3D Accelerated or Software Renderer

Steffen Haeuser

[MagicSN]

Well, Q3 is already ported for Linux and MacOS, and a port for Amiga alone would be too expensive. The only chance would be if id eventually release the source-code (I do not think this will happen before end of 2003 if at all). And even then, if we'd go into another port of a released-Source id-game would depend on the sales we get with Q2 now I'd say

Steffen

[MagicSN]

odin: Exactly, the Mods need to be recompiled (for Q3 if I remember right it's again download and run).

So it's like for Heretic II for Quake 2 (well, same engine).

In the meanwhile there are 61 Mods ported to AmigaOS, which of course does include nearly all important Mods.

You can run server-side Mods even when no ports exist (if the Server is a PC), but most Quake 2 Mods being played (with some popular
Server-side Mods being the exception) are not only Server-side and need to be ported. Mods like (all already ported) ChaosDM, ActionQuake, The Weapons Factory, Battle of the Sexes, StarTrek Quake 2, Star Wars Quake 2, Headhunters, Gloom.

Steffen

[MagicSN]

odin: No, Team Fortress never existed for Q2.
There is an unofficial Mod "Team Fortress: Project X" for Quake 2 though (ported ) and there is "The Weapons Factory" which is probably *t h e* Team Fortress Clone for Quake 2 (it has even some VERY Team-Fortress-like Maps). It's one of the larger Mods BTW... 30 MB archive or something like that if I remember right. There are several more Team Fortress Clones also (Rip 2, WarMod,...), all of them ported (also "The Weapons Factory" of course).

SidMan: Probably an effect of one of those
optimizer settings. Maybe gl_dynamic 0 on your machine ? Or gl_flashblend or something like that ? I am not sure myselves right now which of the options caused this effect, hehehe You might wish to ask Christian Michael, he's the ref_gl.dll wizard (and ref_glnolru.dll too, of course)

Steffen