I want to make a game for the classic Amiga.

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RPG's are amongst my favorite, though I'd love to see more futuristic/dystopian themed RPG's like Shadowrun as opposed to more fantasy/mid-evil based ones. But that's just me...

...not that I don't love my Ultima's and all...

...oh man, if only classic Amiga had a port of Exult! Not sure if it could handle it though.

Either way, I'm glad to see you have the interest in developing for AGA Amigas!!!

There actually IS a port for classic Amigas.  http://hol.abime.net/3444

Unfortunately the only place I could find the download was on Aminet and it is a really old version (0.93).  The latest version is 1.4.9rc1.  Anyone have experience in cross-compiling?

The other downside is that right now, it requires an RTG card.  Anyone know how difficult it'd be to port it to AGA?

Looks like it uses SDL, but then so does ScummVM and there is an AGA port of that, right?

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Nice!  Have you taken a look at Exult and seen what that would take to get a working port?

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I'm already a bit busy, see my sig.

In Progress: DosBox AGA, Descent DXX-Rebirth AGA, AmiQuake 2 AGA

What, you don't want to add just one more.....  

That's awesome, looking forward to seeing DosBoxAGA especially.

Unfortunately at some point in time I need to find an accelerator for my Amiga.  Something tells me that things like Quake won't run all that well on a stock 040.

As far as making an RPG goes, these are all awesome ideas.  I'd like to see some sort of engine for making games similar to Ultima 6, I still think it has the best combat system out there, as far as top down RPGs go.  And I really miss those types of games.  They just don't make that many of them anymore.

Legends of Grimrock has seemed to cover the Dungeon Master style games recently, I highly recommend it for those with a Linux/Mac/Windows computer.

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Don't you get it? If he gets dosBox AGA working 100% with 20 fps speed on an AGA Amiga 060 (which I find that to be the biggest feat I have seeing on computer world) there will be no need to port Ultima 7 or any of that. All you need is dosBox itself to play Ultima 7 on your Amiga. Since Ultima 7 is really a DOS game.

Actually the reason why Exult was created in the first place is because Ultima 7, even back in the DOS days, was a royal pain to get to work (I know, I bought it when it first came out, since I've always been a huge Ultima fan).

It has a weird custom extended memory manager.  This was why Exult was such an awesome project.  

While we're on the subjects of ports.  One game I would love to see ported to the Amiga would be Phantasie 2.  1 and 3 came out for the Amiga, but it seems the only two platforms that all three were released for was the Atari 8-bit and the Atari ST.  And the Atari ST versions are pretty ugly.  I almost prefer the mostly non-colored 8bit version.  I have no idea how anyone would track down source for it though.

But yes, DOSBoxAgA would/will be awesome.  I would still need to get an 060 for my A4000D, which aren't exactly easy to come by without just being able to say "well, I could get that... or I could buy a brand new system and just emulate an 060.... but I really don't like the emulation side of things, which is why I bought an A4000D in the first place..

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Yep that is the idea, why port one game to AGA when you can port many, it's the same as with ScummVM really.

Progress has been made with the 68k core for DosBox BTW

Agreed.  Same reason why emulators are so popular.  

That's awesome that the 68k Core for DosBox has progress on it.  That would be the biggest hurdle I would think.  Since you'd have to emulate x86 instructions for it to work.  DosBox isn't normally considered an 'emulator' in the same way that Wine isn't, because it's not normally emulating any hardware.  In this particular case though, it certainly will.

I don't suppose Daggerfall would be one you'd be wanting to test it on?    It's a free download.

Edit: It does look like someone has managed to get Ultima 7 working  properly under DosBox.  I remember the last time I looked it up (years  and years ago) that they hadn't managed to get it to work because of the  crappy memory manager, but here it is; http://bootstrike.com/Ultima/Online/u7dosbox.php

Exult would still be nice in that you can make your own custom games with it, which is why it was brought up in this thread.

I tried it on DosBox on my Nokia N900 and.. the results weren't all that great, but I don't think it really translates that well to ARM, I don't think they did any fancy processor cores for it.

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