Giddy returns to the Amiga!

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In the early 90's, the shareware games "Wibble World Giddy" and "Giddy 2" were released for the Amiga. The proved pretty popular, but then in 2001 the third game, "Giddy 3" was released for MS-DOS!



In 2008, I contacted the author and obtained the assembler source code, and converted it to C, and now its available for AmigaOS 4.1!

Download it from OS4Depot.

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Does the OS3.x SDL support OpenGL?

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I wrote it for OpenGL. OpenGL is actually really handy for 2D stuff as well as 3D.

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I think StormMesa had a software renderer... not 100% sure, but I dunno if OS3.x SDL can use it, but really, i reckon a software GL rasteriser on 68k would be a slideshow.

The thing is, on modern systems, 3D APIs can accelerate 2D as well as 3D; just look at the accelerated interfaces on Vista and MacOS X. Giddy got rotation, scaling and alpha blending for free from GL.

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Version 1.1 should be hitting the Depot any minute which fixes some bugs, so you are encouraged to re-download.

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v1.2 is about to hit the depot. Changes:

All versions
- Giddy's speech bubbles and some other texts stay on the screen for a bit longer.
- The appearance of the hint bulb is a bit more obvious
- Fixed a nasty bug which meant that if you did things in a certain order the game became uncompletable.
- Included an Amiga version string
- Includes joystick support, but it is untested because SDL doesn't seem to find my joypad even though AmigaInput supports it. I'm guessing SDL might need an update.