New Quake 2 Update Available

[KennyR]

LOL, Quake 2 on the 68060, Cool

No way, 060 is too slow. I have the feeling the 68k version was provided for emulator users.

[KennyR]

Sorrry but your totally wrong.
Hyperion do not officially  support amiga emulators.

Officially, they don't. But for them to waste potentially hundreds if not thousands of sales from the emulator people would be just stupid marketing.

[KennyR]

Actually, the 68060 is capable of playing Quake 2. You need to use the provided tweaked config file which disables some of the effects, but then you *can* play on a 68060

The original Quake wasn't really playable on 060. (I suddenly hear thousands of squawks of indignation). I mean, you could maybe play it with a half-sized screen if you hacked the pak to disable lots of features...but then at certain points the game slows down to a slideshow, and internet play was very difficult.

Quake2 is without a doubt more CPU intensive. I expect the 060 will really struggle. I suppose 5-10fps is playable for some, but not for me. It just gives me serious migraines.

[KennyR]

Well, if it works for you and you like it, then that's all that's necessary.

Sorry to sound a bit like a troll, but I'm just trying to say that crippling games just to get them to work or putting up with very slow frame rates isn't really worth it in my opinion. I just wouldn't like to see 68k people as disappointed with Quake2 as many were with Quake.

But as you say, if 060 is fast enough, there's no problem. I just haven't tried it. ;-)