Payback Amiga vs Mac vs GBA.

[som99]

It's mac PPC not 68K.

haven't ran the Amiga version on a  high spec Amiga so I do not know how it looks on anything other then AGA.

As I have played all on original systems ill say Mac PPC then Amiga and last GBA.

The Mac version has a lot of eye candy and runs fine on 1GHz~ PPC macs (ive played most on my Mac mini 1,42GHz and there it runs 100% perfect).

The Amiga version as I said id not as good looking as the PPC Mac version but what could be expected based on what hardware it is supposed to run on. Tho the minimal requirements for Payback on Amiga is pure crap it's no where near runable on a 50MHz 030 and AGA tops about 3 FPS and it's said to work on a 020 and AGA.

Tho there is a PPC build of Payback for Amiga and since I don't own a PPC accelerator card I can't say anything about that, might be more similar to the PPC Mac version (if using a 3D card).

Some day I will try to get Payback running on both my MorphOS and AOS4.x machines.

The GBA version is not as good but that's easy to understand looking at it's specs and 240×160
 display but the Amiga version under AGA and with a decent CPU beats the crap out of the GBA version.

Summary, Fastest system looks best and it scales down as the systems are less powerful.

I have not tried the iOS version at all since I do not and never will own any ipod/iphones.

Edit: Payback is the only reason at all I dual boot my Mac mini between MorphOS and OSX.

EDIT: I own original version of payback for Amiga, Mac and I have the GBA cartridge.

[som99]

Ops guys forgot I also have Payback on my GP2X, haven't fired it up in ages but it looked good on that system

Also Thanks for clarifying that the Amiga PPC and Mac versions look the same besides resolution.

I played Payback, or rather the demo, on my A1200/030 and it played fine. This was of course the top view.

I never tried 3d view as I was told it was on 68K but I never saw a 68K Payback with 3d. Not n the demo anyway.

Please explain what you mean by 3D and 2D view, as far as ive seen there is only top view on all versions?

Also I don't understand how you was able to play it on a 030, do the 7 patches do that much really so it's playable on a 030 AGA machine? Ive made posts on this topic in the past and not a single person said it was playable on a 030 and I have never got it near playable at all on a 030.

Tho ive only tried the retail full version never the Demo, ill fire up a 030 and try the demo this weekend.

[som99]

Sorry Vanilla, tried Payback tonight, tried it with lowest setting no updates and it ran less then 1fps, installed update 7 and made smallest window and flares etc off and runs around 1-2fps so little better but far from playable on a 030 :/

Still bummed they wrote minimum requirements 020 and 16MB ram... thats just a lie and then the game would run under a frame per second, id like to see them complete the game that way xD

Dammit, might be time for me to scout for a 040/060

[som99]

maybe it needs 68020 with some fastRAM to be at least playable ?

No no, I got a 030 and 63MB fastRAM and it't not even close to playable :/

I have two AGA amigas, 040 and 060 with them it is perfectly playable and very fun game. It also works nicely with Sam / Petunia.

I could easily belive that it is NOT playable anything less than 040

Yeah not playable at all, strange that Apex sets minimum to far from playable tho :/

I will have to keep playing on OSX and MorphOS and maybe on my GP2X I might try the GBA version with a card adapter on my SNES tho

I must get my hands on a 040/060 soon and retire the ACA1231 and use it on a A500 or something