New Mr Beanbag demo

[Tricky]

We've uploaded a new version of the Mr Beanbag playable demo on our website now.  People were mentioing the look-ahead camera system making it hard to see where you would land, so I've adjusted that a bit.  I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who found that a problem, when they try the new version.

Also this update has already made it to amiga-news.de!  Someone there mentions it doesn't work on his A4000 (also not on A2000 but that's no surprise!) so if anyone else here has a A4000 they can try it out on for me, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks
www.glastonbridge.co.uk/mrbeanbag/demo.php

[Tricky]

@ keropi:

No it will be a commercial release!

Seriously!  To be published by Retrosoft/Alten8

[Tricky]

oddmario wrote:
Doesn't work on my A 4000T (CSmk2 060 adriane 2 picasso 4)
I'll try the adf later.

Please tell me what it does, if anything.  I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work.  If you have a picasso can it still display AGA modes?

[Tricky]

@oddmario:

hmm that's interesting.  try putting workbench down to an ordinary AGA mode such as 640x256, 8 colours, then try running the demo again.

[Tricky]

@oddmario

aha, that's it then!  i need to do a bit more work to take the graphics card into account.  not having one myself I never thought about it!

Most games don't open their own workbench screen, but bypass workbench entirely and hit the hardware directly.  It looks like I've got to hit it again to tell it to go into normal AGA mode.

Thanks for that anyway, it was very helpful!

[Tricky]

Ok I have now uploaded the demo LHA again, this time featuring a call to good old "close workbench" at the start.  Hopefully that should make it work on A4000s with graphics cards.  Someone please tell me if it does or not!

@ Framiga:

Thanks for trying it out on your machine, I'm glad it works fine.  Although I knew it works on a 060 because that's what I've got!