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Offline pVC

Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2009, 05:27:28 PM »
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It played fine back in 1998 on my A2000/060 with PicassoIV... Zorro2 was not too slow in my case.


In what resolution did you play it? In my opinion the game deserves the 640x512 resolution and it's total waste of its potential playing it in low resolution :) Gfx is let down too much in lowres... not to talk about viewing area.

On my A1200 with 060/66MHz and CV64/3D in Zorro2 it wasn't playable on 640x resolutions and I found 480x360 to be the best compromize between the speed and visibility/looks. On A4000/060 with PIV (Zorro3 of course) it was fast on 640x resolution. And now it really flies on my A1200 with 060/60MHz and Voodoo3 in Mediator.
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2009, 11:54:40 PM »
I would be interested to see how well it plays in High Res Interlace through an Indivision AGA, with BlazeWCP running on the A1200 030/50. I don't have a copy of this game yet though.
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2009, 12:10:44 AM »
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Its a great with the graphic style of the kknd pc games.  Completed it years ago on 040/25 dblpal hires (a little slow but still playable) and later via gfx card (BVision - much more enjoyable).

The company that made it went onto to make Command and Destroy on the DS if you want to try a slightly more modern version of the game (with ds limits).  Its possable that its using assets from what would have been euroburn on the Amiga.  http://www.cypron-studios.com/company.html

Ah, good to see that even after having dealt with Clickboom some devs still were able to carve out their niche in the games industry.

Anyway, I tried the Napalm demo on 040@25 with AGA and found the lores gamemode quite useless; hires was too much for AGA (unless you like headaches).
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2009, 01:04:07 AM »
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In what resolution did you play it? In my opinion the game deserves the 640x512 resolution and it's total waste of its potential playing it in low resolution :) Gfx is let down too much in lowres... not to talk about viewing area.

On my A1200 with 060/66MHz and CV64/3D in Zorro2 it wasn't playable on 640x resolutions and I found 480x360 to be the best compromize between the speed and visibility/looks. On A4000/060 with PIV (Zorro3 of course) it was fast on 640x resolution. And now it really flies on my A1200 with 060/60MHz and Voodoo3 in Mediator.


I don't recall but I'm sure I didn't go below 640w.  I probably did 800x or 1024x to show off to my friends.  :)

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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2009, 08:35:59 AM »
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I don't recall but I'm sure I didn't go below 640w.  I probably did 800x or 1024x to show off to my friends.  :)


Wasn't 640x512 (I made x512 mode for RTG too) maximum you could get with it, IIRC?
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2009, 01:49:29 PM »
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Wasn't 640x512 (I made x512 mode for RTG too) maximum you could get with it, IIRC?
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #20 on: December 05, 2009, 09:50:26 PM »
I have this game and in lowres you don't see enough of the map to make it enjoyable. Even with my 40MHz 040 and CV64 3D on my A4000, hires is a bit on the slow side.
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2009, 12:31:57 AM »
They should have released it on the PC so we could have enjoyed it in 2560x1600 :)

I tried Sim City for W95 (The original) on a tripple 17" setup, gave a good look at the map :)
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2009, 02:20:52 AM »
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2009, 05:04:40 AM »
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On my A1200 with 060/66MHz and CV64/3D in Zorro2 it wasn't playable on 640x resolutions and I found 480x360 to be the best compromize between the speed and visibility/looks. On A4000/060 with PIV (Zorro3 of course) it was fast on 640x resolution. And now it really flies on my A1200 with 060/60MHz and Voodoo3 in Mediator.

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It played fine back in 1998 on my A2000/060 with PicassoIV... Zorro2 was not too slow in my case.

Out of curiosity I gave the demo a try, it's totally playable at 640x480 with an A2K/PIV/060. BUT - at least here, the CV3D was a lot slower than the PIV in Z2 mode for some reason... up to 1.5 MB/s as far as raw bus transfer (measured with bustest and cgxbenchmark).
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2009, 06:32:59 AM »
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Out of curiosity I gave the demo a try, it's totally playable at 640x480 with an A2K/PIV/060. BUT - at least here, the CV3D was a lot slower than the PIV in Z2 mode for some reason... up to 1.5 MB/s as far as raw bus transfer (measured with bustest and cgxbenchmark).


I think A2000 compatibility was included on the CV64/3D as more of a marketing ploy than anything else.  The ScanDoubler didn't work with OCS/ECS, and the card just didn't perform well.  Only the PIV had a jumper to scale back to 2 MB bus allocation, so to not interfere with the 8 MB ZorroII RAM limit.  In general, the CV64/3D was not great on Zorro2, and a lot of people don't seem to realize that.  Glad you do!

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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2009, 10:43:49 AM »
I have run CV643D on A1200T with Z2 busboard, and other than it was painfully slow in a tricked out high-res multi-color WB it actually worked great.
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Offline utri007

Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2009, 12:52:27 PM »
PAL 640x512 with FBlit was quite fast
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Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2009, 01:01:46 PM »
I played the demo on a A1200 40mhz Apollo 68040 in dbltntsc on an NEC 3D monitor and it was fine.
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Offline Rob

Re: Napalm for the Amiga
« Reply #28 from previous page: December 06, 2009, 03:56:18 PM »
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I would be interested to see how well it plays in High Res Interlace through an Indivision AGA, with BlazeWCP running on the A1200 030/50. I don't have a copy of this game yet though.


There's a demo version on Aminet.

http://aminet.net/package/game/demo/napalm_1.1
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