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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: Gav on November 14, 2003, 09:08:27 PM

Title: The settlers
Post by: Gav on November 14, 2003, 09:08:27 PM

Is there no way at all that i can get settlers to run on my voodoo without the need for a scandoubler?
Thanks

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: FuZion on November 14, 2003, 09:48:16 PM

Fraid not,

It's one of those older games that uses the custom chipset. Your only option on an Amiga is to run it through UAE.

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: Gav on November 14, 2003, 09:58:25 PM

Oh right,uae is for pc's and other machines aint it? well i only have my amiga...

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: Ryu on November 14, 2003, 10:04:08 PM

You can get UAE for the amiga too... thought the classic Amiga's dont really have the CPU grunt to emulate the chipsets.... even a PPC machine with struggle a little to keep timeings. Pity there isnt a special UAE that doesnt emulate things, just actually uses the chipsets inside the amiga and runs the games on a window... that would rock..

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: Cyberus on November 14, 2003, 10:05:37 PM

I suppose you could connect a tv if you can get a 520 modulator or a rgb>scart cable, and view it without using the voodoo

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: alx on November 14, 2003, 10:06:50 PM

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Oh right,uae is for pc's and other machines aint it? well i only have my amiga...

There is a version of UAE for the Amiga.  I've never used it, though I'd imagine you'd need a very fast processor (PPC?) to run it well.

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: darksun9210 on November 17, 2003, 02:29:34 PM

i managed to get Toki to run on amiga UAE PPC. trouble was i seem to remember that it wanted the powerup library, not the warpup library to run. easy enuff to do, move a couple of librarys around, reboot, run UAE for a about ten twenty minutes, feel nostalgic, UAE crash with powerpc exception, move the librarys back, reboot carry on doing other warpup stuff. :-)

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: bloodline on November 17, 2003, 02:48:40 PM

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Ryu wrote:
You can get UAE for the amiga too... thought the classic Amiga's dont really have the CPU grunt to emulate the chipsets.... even a PPC machine with struggle a little to keep timeings. Pity there isnt a special UAE that doesnt emulate things, just actually uses the chipsets inside the amiga and runs the games on a window... that would rock..

:lol: If you didn't Emulate the chipset, then the graphics output would go via the Chipset and the Amiga's video out... so you wouldn't be able to have it in a window!!!! :lol:

Title: Re: The settlers
Post by: DaveP on November 17, 2003, 03:03:03 PM

Probably.

Get a cheap TV card, put it in a PCI slot.

Connect the AGA output to the TV card in ( composite will do fine )

Install TV software.

Set NOCHAIN=1 on Picasso96.

Start game.

Voila, settlers in a window. If its pure AGA ( not system friendly ) you might not be able to maintain the workbench, check first to see if it can be launched from workbench ( before you buy any TV cards or whatnot ).

Theres no flicker in the TV window.

Dave.