Payback ported to Linux & Windows

[olegil]

When you say Linux, do you mean Linux-i386?
Yes, I wonder about these things, and yes, it's important to me.

[olegil]

No assembly
No expecting a certian endian

You wouldn't BELIEVE how much pain you have to go through to get people to follow these two simple rules.

I am not asking because of the A1 specifically, as I intend to use the Amiga version on that if possible. But I have a couple of extra LinuxPPC machines, would be cool if there was finally something fun to do with them. Set up a lan between the 3 machines and bring home friends to run over them with police cars :-)  :-P  :-P  :-D  :-P  :-)  :-D  (is that enough smileys? I'm really grinning from ear to ear when thinking about it   :-P )

[olegil]

I wonder why it's important I agree, although personally I'd rather see these features make their way back into the Amiga version.

It's important because I have a couple of RS/6000 machines that cost in the order of UKP 4000 or so when they were new. It would be cool to run these as dedicated Payback-stations (as opposed to "workstations", which sounds dull :-) )

[olegil]

1) The Linux version is for x86. I'll look into doing versions for other CPUs, but I can't promise this.

Ok, as long as you look into it. Hopefully it won't be that big a project ;-)

2) There will be at least one more update for the Amiga version, although I can't promise that all the features from the PC version will be included. (For example, the 16-bit renderer wouldn't work on AGA.)

Who the feck cares what works on AGA anyway?
I'll be playing things on my A1 under AOS4 WELL before you get that updated version out, and allready I am using a Voodoo3 in my A1200. Why even mention AGA anymore? ;-)

Anyway, good luck to you, I'm considering whether Payback would look good on my office computer running Linux, but I'm pretty certain it would. :-P