Duke Nukem 3D for amiga

[OldB0y]

If you want Ami Duke 0.3 to run at a reasonable speed with an 060 and AGA, install the mmu tool 'muredox' and the mmulibs version of 68060.library.  Its actually quite playable even with max screen size, and high detail - albeit at 320x200.  

I also found it helps a bit if you use the Blizkick module 'SpeedyIDE' - if your using an IDE attached drive/CF card etc obviously.

Works for me at least :-)

[OldB0y]

Add buffers to the volume and it will load quite a lot faster.

Yeah,  forgot to mention, I have a small launcher script that does that as well.  The game ran at about 1-2 FPS before installing the MMUlibs 68060.library and MuRedox, no matter what detail or screen size used. I also have BlazeWCP running as recommended by the authors.

Before using Add buffers the game was okayish but would jump a lot presumably as it was trying to load scenery etc. Now it does about 15FPS on high detail with everything turned on, and full screen size - it looks about as smooth as DoomAttack, and a fair bit smoother than 68k Quake.  I reckon it may be okay on an 040 as well using the MMU patch stuff, but haven't tried it.

Also, I couldn't find an icon for Duke3d, so as I was bored at the time, I created my own smallish but okay looking one from a jpeg of the original box front cover.  If anyone wants it, let me know and I'll pop it on Aminet etc

[OldB0y]

Dunno about a youtube video - may do if I get time.  As for MuRedox - it requires the MMUlibs to work, take a look in the docs:

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/MuRedox

"Therefore, installation of the "MuLib" libraries is *required*.
  Please see the "MMULib.lha" package on Aminet how to install them."

As for stability, I run quite a few patches without any major issues.  I run AmigaSYS4, with OS3.9 and both official 'boing bags' installed and have tweaked it with a few additional patches, FBlit, Ftext, BlazeWCP, Stackattack, CMQ060, MuRedox and WBCtrl.  Some of those may have already been used by AmigaSYS4, but I can't remember.

This saves a *lot* of chipram, and even a 256 colour WB runs pretty fast.  It does occasionally crash but no more than it ever has.

Its been a while since I set it up,  but a lot of info re patches to use came from a guide NovaCoder made:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50414

the rest came from google searches and experimenting etc.

[OldB0y]

Yeah, I had similar issues when I was first trying to set it all up.  Apart from ensuring you are using the exact librarys specified etc, I'm pretty sure you have to use 'setpatch NOROMUPDATE'  If your using OS3.9 (and 3.5 possibly?).

Heres a quick youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPWqEcjjds

sorry for dodgy picture etc