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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Kees on October 07, 2003, 12:46:35 PM
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Amigaworld.org (http://www.amigaworld.org) has an interesting news item on their site about the possibility to port Unreal Tournament to the AmigaOS. Nothing has been decided yet, but the idea is there.
Read more at Amigaworld.org (http://www.amigaworld.org) ...
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UT rules !
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ok , very nice!! ..
i will keep an promise and that will be valid until UT is released for amigaos.
I will Buy 10 Copies of this game if it gets released! (amigaos version).
why? , because honestly its the best game ever made (of the FPS Area) , i dont like the sequel and i dont like UNREAL 1 and 2 .. UT is superb!.
Now , hyperion... will ya contact virgin/epic/godgames about it ? .
i bought shogo ,quake 1,2 , heretic2 , freespace etc but seriously only for one reason...wasnt anything else to buy , though quake 1 (gl) , heretic 2 and freespace is Very good games...quake2 and shogo is too much repetive for me..
everything in uT roxx, SNIPER rifle (best ever?) , level designs (WOW) , editors are easy to manange (WOW) , speed on a lowend pc (WOW), supports OGL,DirectX etc..
a pure "over the top" game.
Ut2003 , no... misses the sniper rifle , bad level designs , looks awesome (WOW) but not a game i would die for...
UT ...I WOULD DIE FOR :D
sweet!.
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I like the idea also .. but i'm not sure Hyperion has the manpower for it at the moment ... Getting OS4 out is more important then a game.
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Nice news.
Anyone from Hyperion care to comment?
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Hi Kees,
i'm not sure Hyperion has the manpower for it at the moment ... Getting OS4 out is more important then a game.
I agree 100% but, as we're in October already, assuming Os4 is out Dec/Jan (I hope), they could start work on it in two orthree months.
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Unreal Tournament is great, uses a fantastic engine... and seems to be quite portable too using plug ins for the engine and drivers for some graphic cards... If I remember correctly it used specific glide drivers and even the Savage4 had its own specific version :-D
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Wilse: Even after first release of OS4.0 (happen when happens,
not going to comment shedule) their work is not over. There will be
need to make future OS4:s too and those can't be delayed any much
longer.. In the end, this is just the first version of it.. If you'll
chat with Friendens, you'll soon notice that there are a Lot to do for
4.1 and 4.2 etc..
In the end.. Making new OS is a bit like havign a baby.. It's nice to
see it grow up and develop, but you are also kinda stuck with it. So,
Hyperion coders will be kept well occupied with this newborn on
oncoming years :-)
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I prefer Half-Life (much more mods) or Half-Life 2 :-D
But a port of UT will be GREATLY WELCOME :-)
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if they would allow Hyperion to release UT I guess that they allow them to release UT2003 once NOVA is completed.
An AmigaOne XE G4/933 with a 128MB Radeon should move it more or less smoothly...
I guess that once the virtual memory system is completed a UT will be possible.
A MorphOS version would be nice too, but I doubt they would make it...
@Thomas&Hans-Joerg:
what do you think about the posibility of releasing this game?
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ikir: UT stands alone and mods aint what makes a game fun anyway , i never liked Halflife as much as UT , but its a matter of taste.
anyway hyperion should be able to fork this game out after 4.0 , beyond that hyperion aint only 2 people so i hope they will contnue dooing games as supposed to (sin , worms armageddon....and yummy... UT)
i would appriciate to hear what hyperion has to say + how much it would cost em to get the liscence...
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Even after all these years, UT online is still very very popular, i'd buy this in an instant. one of the best FPS ever made.
So is there any more info on these rumours? I don't want to get my hopes up to high though with a game like this, such a damm classic!
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This game has to be ported over!
UT is the best game I have ever bought. 3years down the line im still playing online every other day. (not bad for £30!)
There are still so many players out there. UT to me is perfection when it comes to online multiplayer FPS.
It is hard to improve on, and I cant see when I will put it down.
Maybe its time for a Clan AMIGA! to join in with the fun :)
See you playing online Amigans:
|Xan|Arjanator (newly signed in!)
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Yeah nice idea,but.....
Expect a rather high licence-fee, and the Mac-port is allready on it's way, so
a "do it once,sell it twice" won't be possible.
A Amiga-only port is very unlikely to cover it's costs (speak about sales in low/mid
3 figure numbers).
Hyperion are allready well occupied:
OS4.
OS4-related stuff (W3D-NOVA/SNAP).
Old licences (SIN,Real3D....).
New licences (Ingagold, DOpus).
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How about a double effort ... to release it for MorhpOS aswell ?
Eventually .. people and companies should try to work together ...
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kees: computers also ? :PPPP
anyway it was the Mos side that started this so you should ask them why they started that war.
anyway i REALLY want to see ths game on amiga... I REALLY DO! ..
GIMME! NOW! :D
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Interesting.
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@lempkee
WTF? Who started what war ????
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No no .. we're not going that way ... stuff happend yes ...
but there is also a time when we can get things better again ... why not now ...
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kees:i totally agree , but i doubt it will happen. unless something special happens.
kronos:if u missed that then u missed a big point from the mos side , it all started 2-3 years ago and its still ongoing , in the tube atm is TITAN , Vapor and several others.
This is mainly why the sides splitted up, and started to say stuff like "We wont support Amigaos , only morphos ... and later the other way around "only AmigaOs , not morphos" etc.
anyway i think its time to do something about it, it will tear the market even more up if this goes on..... oh well time will tell.
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UT rules !
UT rules indeed. I am pretty new at playing the game, but I like it alot already. Maybe sometime in the future we could do Amiga.org vs AmigaWorld.net matches. And if we want to see some really nasty stuff MOS vs AmigaOS supporter matches. ;-)
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Maybe sometime in the future we could do Amiga.org vs AmigaWorld.net matches.
That sounds like fun ;-)
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@lempkee
Ah that.....
Well I wouldn't call that a war, it is just people/buisnesses being
honest for a change....
Neither e.p.i.c. nor Titan have ruled out OS4-versions,but allways
made it clear that they can't promise support for a system the don't have to
test/develolp on.
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kronos: epic said that indeed (that they will support it when its out...) titan never did that , same with vapor...just kept saying...want our products? buy pegasos..
anyway i totally agree with how its done atm , badgeing a game "Works on OS4" years/months before its out is just plain silly + it would be just confusing.
but what i dont understand is (now that everyone seems to be friends) why teams like titan and vapor doesnt release ppc stuff , atleast for the stuff we allready own on 68k , ie like Voyager , amirc etc. , but then again why should they?..
(for the epic stuff , i totally understand it ...an highend powerup card wouldnt cope with their latest NON Amigaos Titles..)
cheers
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PPC-stuff ?
You mean WOS ????
Wouldn't work for stuff like Voyager (unless you plan to rewrite it from scratch).
And OS4 just ain't there (yet).
Bout Titan, yes I have seen several interviews where they stated that they would
support OS4 when it's ready,but they also have been not so optimistic about it
like some people wanted them to be (and have been prooven right in the last 2 years).
While I don't know the connection between Alex Knabe (who did the presentation
in Rotterdam) and Titan,but one of the 1st things he stated was that a
OS4-version of BurnIt is quite likely to happen.
About starting this "war":
Sofar I have seen only one company ruling out one of the 2 OSes, and that since
2000 ........ :-o
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Ah, yes. It's how every flame war should be fought. The would at least be more fun.
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kronos:thanx for the info about titan , well seriously if one thing will kill amiga / pegasos ..then its SOFTWARE WARS! .
cheers
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oh forget it.....wrote something insulting......this just aint worth bothering...
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OK, this sounded cool to start with. Then I read the actual situation, and it sounds only like "some guy" asked Virgin if it could happen, and told them Hyperion would be capable, showing their resume of completed ports for good impression, and then this "some guy" went to Hyperion saying Virgin was open to the possibility.
How far have these "discussions" gone, has a license fee amount come up yet? Has it been agreed upon? Does Hyperion actually have people to do the work, considerin ghteir current projects ongoing and/or sitting on a dusty shelf somewhere?
I'd love to see this happen. But is this in any serious negotiations for license amounts, programmer work assignments, etc. or just "some guy" trying to bring two unassociated companies into something neither was looking for at the time? Please let it be the "in actual serious negotiations" one...
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what happened to my post I waqs first BoooHooo :cry:
oh well here it is " YAhoo :destroy: I wanted it for sooo long that it WILL be my first A1 game when I get it.....if it happends that is :-?
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@ panthro
You posted i in the wrong news item .. hehe
http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44867 (http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44867)
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ULTRA KILL!!! :destroy:
On the other hand, ET would be nicer! :flame:
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I don't think that a "we're willing to discuss this if you port it yourselves and cough up the license fees" stance is particularly unique for UT.
But hey, at least "we" got a human-written reply! That's always something. ;)
Nothing has been decided yet, but the idea is there.
As always.
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Hmm... I don't want to sound negative, as having Unreal Tournament would be nice, but can someone please explain me what Virgin has to do with this game and its developers ?
(or do you count on Richard Branson to help financing the Amiga port ? :roll: )
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Steag: yes i was wondering the same , EPIC and GODGAMES did it on pc , but eventually i guess virgin grabbed it? , i dont know...must have been very late anyway (as i stopped playing ut in 2001 when i kicked the pc out...)
i still play it at friends house but i dont recall it saying "VIRGIN" ...beyond that i belived Virgin was dead...so...
cheers
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Virgin are everywhere these days, Virgin Airlines, Virgin tarrifs, Virgin megastores, hell you could catch a virgin train these days to. you might run into D*ck emself and could ask em whats happening with UT.
Some day, you will see a virgin on every high street :-D