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Title: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: GadgetMaster on June 28, 2002, 10:32:25 PM

Freecraft is a clone of the well known Warcraft game.   Works fine on amithlon except for color problems, works a bit slow on my 040 at 33 but should work fine on a 060 + CGX  date : 2002-06-26

Source: SDL Games (http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=detail)

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Dagon on June 29, 2002, 02:20:41 AM

Cool! isn`t it this the Open source game that someone asked some days before if someone could port it to Amiga?

I have 68040@25Mhz maybe it will be slow... Does anyone knows what are the RAM requirments?

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: GadgetMaster on June 29, 2002, 02:34:26 AM

Yep this is the game someone asked about recently.
Aren't Amiga programmers quick :-D

I think it was AmigaDude that asked.

As for the memory requirements, your best bet is to contact the programmer that ported it.

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Amigadude on June 29, 2002, 03:08:53 AM

Re: Freecraft 1.17.1  
>Poster: GadgetMaster Date: 2002/6/29 0:34:26

>I think it was AmigaDude that asked.

Wasn't me...

>As for the memory requirements, your best bet is >to contact the programmer that ported it.

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Coder on June 29, 2002, 03:17:11 AM

Hi Amigadude,

It was aMIGA_dUDE. Your alter ego?

Coder

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Dagon on June 29, 2002, 08:02:08 AM

I can`t download it from that site... neither a friend of mine could (which has 060@50Mhz and PPC604@233Mhz Xaire Kre :P).

Since its open source it wouldn`t be that difficult to make someone binaries for 040-060-PPC

Has anyone dload it and test it?

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Dagon on June 29, 2002, 08:25:51 AM

I found it from a French Amiga site http://www.amigaimpact.com/ merci :-)
http://amiga.maniasys.com/freecraft-020624.lzx

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Blitter on June 29, 2002, 11:23:01 AM

While I admire all the efforts to bring past popular PC titles to the Amiga, I just can't help but think...  Where the hell are all the original ideas that the Amiga community used to come up with game wise.

Now, before you start in on me about, well what have you done or what are you doing about it!  It just so happens that a friend and myself have been working on an original title using the v12 engine(used in Tribes 2) to create an original title.  And I an pleased to say that I have reworked the engine source to be quite protable for C and C++ compilers.  :-D

So, this very well could be compiled for OS4, should it ever be completed, if everything goes according to plan.  Once we are further along we will post screens and a brief story line for all to flame/comment on.  I will say that it is going/is a very open ended persistant online RPG.  The engine is completely database driven now which affords us great expandability.

Blitter

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Dagon on June 29, 2002, 12:30:05 PM

Very nice to hear that there are out there Amigans that want to produce new titles with original ideas. I hope that more will follow your example. (though ports are always welcomed)

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Coder on June 29, 2002, 08:29:10 PM

Hi Blitter,

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the hell are all the original ideas that the Amiga community used to come up with game wise

The fact is also that if you come up with a game it always looks like something that is allready there.

Coder

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: aMIGA_dUDE on June 29, 2002, 10:34:04 PM

Yes it was me.  And that other Amigadude is not me.

I have been using this nick for years and years.

Development teams I have been in are
Satanic Dreams Software (now PC, Blitz Basic pc)
Trogsoft (Now PC)
My most poplour program was ProPassWord.

I am also founder of Amiga at Seti@home.

Amiga-Seti@home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=amiga)

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Blitter on June 30, 2002, 01:56:43 AM

Hi Coder,

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The fact is also that if you come up with a game it always looks like something that is allready there.

This is true.  And our game may very well end up looking like a clone of something else by the time it's finished.  But we are trying to have very unique storyline/plot.

Argh!  I forgot what I was going to say.  Probably best I stopr as that was a terrible phone call that I just got.

Blitter

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: aMIGA_dUDE on June 30, 2002, 05:44:38 PM

This wasn't the easyist thing to find to download but I did thow these links.

I will give list as I dont know if any off them are one sesion only.

http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=detail (http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=detail)

http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=article&order=ordreObj%20DESC,%20dateCrea%20DESC,%20numObj&limit=0,1 (http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=article&order=ordreObj%20DESC,%20dateCrea%20DESC,%20numObj&limit=0,1)

http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=fullscreen&order=ordreObj%20DESC,%20dateCrea%20DESC,%20numObj&limit=&numObj=150911&numChamp=11621 (http://catalogues.amiga.maniasys.com/index/catalogue.php?numColl=1955&page=fullscreen&order=ordreObj%20DESC,%20dateCrea%20DESC,%20numObj&limit=&numObj=150911&numChamp=11621)


I just hope that helps you.

Title: Re: Freecraft 1.17.1
Post by: Coder on June 30, 2002, 05:55:27 PM

Hi Blitter,

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And our game may very well end up looking like a clone of something else by the time it's finished. But we are trying to have very unique storyline/plot.

Can you tell a bit more about the game? Or do I have to sign a NDA?

Coder