testing 68k ports

[AmigaMance]

Hey, i am interested. I have a blizardPPC 68040/25 and a BVision. I doudt that my CPU will be fast enough for sdl stuff..

[AmigaMance]

How long do they take to initiate? I've tried blockout2 and foobillard. I was left with an empty window and 100% CPU usage. In blockout2 i was able to issue a break to stop it. In foobillard everything froze except of the mouse pointer and i needed to reboot.

[AmigaMance]

i dont know. ive not been able to test them on a real hw yet. usually this might be that the loading takes quite long. in some cases unbearably long. i had no hope in foo, but it did look like blockout could work. well it seems it is too demanding as well. please try kuklomenos, this should at least work.

 This one started right away. I changed the screenmode to 640x480x16 fullscreen. At 8bit the game was much slower for some reason and it doesn't let you choose a lower resolution.
 I got about 3-4 fps maximum, which is pretty disappointing for such simple game. Perhaps you could compile them to use the aglxxxppc libraries and see how it goes. This will exclude 68k users, but i think that they are excluded eitherway.

[AmigaMance]

I get 7 fps at 800x600x16PC with 68060@75MHz and Mediator+Voodoo4 (not any faster than Voodoo3). I do use tweeked/modified Warp3D files though. I guess I should release patches for those sometime. They give a modest speed boost but would only help 3-4 fps so much. What is your hardware setup?

Wawa's kuklomenos and mazemarathon should work on a fast Amiga. Much more is capable if compilers and programmers could optimize better on the 68k.

 A1200, BPPC 603/180 68040/25, BVision. Your CPU is so much faster than mine. I'm surpised that you only get 4 extra fps. I say release the patches and let anyone use them at his own risk.


@wawrzon
 I will try to examine the other games with snoopdos tomorrow. I waited for about 5 minutes each to start. I don't have a voodoo card, btw.