TFX Flies Again

[Karlos]

A recent development over at EAB, user paraj has patched TFX on the Amiga to perform rendering in Fast RAM, cutting out a performance killing bottleneck on pretty much any accelerated Amiga. The results are extremely impressive.

Coming to WHDLoad near to you soon: https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1622175&postcount=222

[lionstorm]

thats great, I never dare to try it on my A1200+B1260, maybe the time has come !

[TribbleSmasher]

tests are being done on Pistorm as well, looks promising indeed.

[Gryfon]

Great news, look forward to trying it on my PiStorm 32 lite.

[BozzerBigD]

I love the way the new Slave file comes as a 7z file, something the Amiga can't open!! Same issue with Vanilla Red Alert! Can't people use Zips?

[First Ninja]

Can't people use Zips?

Huh? When did LhA stop being the AmigaOS defacto way of compressing files?

[BozzerBigD]

You're right of course about Lha being the default, however if it's coming from a PC  using WinUAE Dev then they could at least use something that CaffeineOS/OS3.2 can open by default i.e. a zip file!

[kolla]

@BigD
So how do you open a zip file with os3.2?

[BozzerBigD]

CaffeineOS then! My mistake! Whatever works to get the new TFX Slave/Vanilla: Red Alert working on the PiStorm32! Both were packed as an unusable 7z file when a Zip or lha file would have worked! I don't use OS3.2 as much now that I have Caffeine but yeah mounting ADFs was a cool feature out of the box. I can't say anything else was better than OS3.9 other than the boot speed with the new Roms. Shame I had to get another Aminet program mount ISOs on 3.2!

[zipper]

@BigD
So how do you open a zip file with os3.2?

Maybe http://web.archive.org/web/20130619134844fw_/http://strohmayer.org/sfs/files/p7zip-4.16.lha  never tried...

[rvo_nl]

gave this updated version a go yesterday and was really surprised, I never realised the game could run so much faster. it is now finally playable and actually fun!