Is There A Demo Of Quake II

[humppa]

Vincent wrote:
QII should be the same, get the PC version, unpack it (or install it on the PC and copy the dir to the Miggy) and use the Amiga QII exe.  If you can find the Amiga QII exe.

To my knowledge there was never a Q2.exe officially released as Amiga-freeware, only a commercial release from Hyperion. So no way of "finding" it.

[humppa]

trgse wrote:
I'll upload the exe's to aminet later today when I come home (the main exe's and the dll's the actual data you have to find yourselves :-) ).

Is this the PPC-version you are referring to? Who coded it? If I remember correctly, Hyperion also did a 68k version of Q2 that was available as an update to registered users.

[humppa]

So is the version from trgse a different one than the old one (2002) from Frank Menzel?

I am unable to find the quake2.lha somewhere on the net. Frank  also removed it from his website.

[humppa]

PPC wrote:
Q1 on the 060/50 CSPPC ran really amazing with the voodoo3, i could even play it in 1024*768*16, the sad thing was though there was/is a bug in 68k Q1 when walking into an area for the first time in a level it would run bog slow.

I am running Blitzquake here in the Warp3D/68k version. It is even playable with a 68040/40. I was really amazed at the benefit I got from using V3/Warp3D instead of the version relying solely on CPU power. Especially in smaller rooms/halls, it runs absolutely smooth in 512*384*16.
I had the same problem with speed when walking into a wide area for the first time. I could increase the speed considerably by using several Commands which I put in the autoexec.cfg in the ID1 directory.

[humppa]

Still waiting for trgse to upload Q2.exe on Aminet...

[humppa]

*BUMP*

Still waiting for trgse to upload it to Aminet.

I guess the 0.5 version does not work for most people.

[humppa]

@trgse

So is it the version from Frank Menzel or a different one?
Still waiting that it's getting approved...

[humppa]

Upps,


I am still wondering which version he finally tried to upload. If it was the version Menzel, "an early beta" like cutjahr said, I don't see too much reason for putting it on Aminet again since it is old and available from other sources.

If it's a new version, I would be very happy if it will make it to Aminet (after approval).

[humppa]

@trgse

Could you maybe upload it somewhere else until the issues are sorted out?

[humppa]

Yes, you need the data files from your Q2-CD. These are the PAK-files from the "ID1" directory.
The other Quake1/Heretic ports work just in the same way.

[humppa]

Since Quake2 is already GPL'ed for a long time now, I am wondering why nobody has picked it up yet and created an alternative to the commercial version from Hyperion.

We have seen lots of ports for Doom, Quake, Heretic and so on,  but why is there nobody interested in doing a WOS-port for Quake2? Or am I missing something here?

[humppa]

I don't know why nobody did it yet, but there are very few Amiga developers left now, and those that are left are working on other projects, and Quake 2 was a very old game even 4 years ago when the Amiga version appeared.

"Old game", ok, but which "new games" could we still run on Classic PPC hardware anyway?

I would really love to see a non-commercial port. I still hope somebody finds the time, what about Frank Wille, Christian Michael, Massimiliano Tretene?

Could somebody upload quake2.lha somewhere? Is this the betaversion (v0.5) of Frank Menzel? On Fileplanet it say "Amiga Quake II 3.9" though.