New Wazp3D Driver - Beta56

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Ah, that's unfortunate, I was really hoping to be able to run my amiga ppc games with warp3d (heretic, shogo, wipeout, etc) directly from my g5/radeon9800xt

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The problem is that WarpOS uses a different ABI than MorphOS (PowerOpen vs SysV). I added the necessary glue based on this rtgmaster replacement library, but it still crashes. I was told that this is trivial stuff, so if you can convince a MorphOS developer to look at it, it can be probably fixed in no time.

I'll try. I'm hesitant to ask MOS devs for much due to how much I've been (or seen other people be) chastised in the past. They're a great bunch that do awesome stuff, but I feel pretty intimidated about raising the ire of...well, let's say some of them.

I thought MorphOS has warp3d support but not for our GPUs I think.  I know the mac mini will play warp3D games and I assume that is ppc warp3D Games ?

Yeah, the r300 gpu doesn't have W3D compatibility because the devs don't find it worthwhile to support only a very small fraction of legacy Amiga software. I get it, it's very pragmatic, but it still sucks for me.

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I have good news, you don't have to walk into the lion's den. If you already did, then I hope you have survived.
Since the issue has been brought up again, and I had some idle time, I went ahead and fixed the problem myself. Being the bungler I am, I tried to mimic the interface of the MorphOS version of rtgmaster.library, which is compatible with WarpOS programs. This was a bad idea, because it has a mixed interface having both 68k and WOS functions, where Warp3D has two separate libs for this purpose (Warp3d.library and Warp3D_ppc.library). To keep the long story short, I now have Wipeout 2097 running with Wazp3D on MorphOS. I've sent my changes to Alain, the rest is up to him.

That's awesome news! Now I won't need to cripple my PMac G5 with an older gpu just to run w3d ppc games Thanks!!!

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I have good news, you don't have to walk into the lion's den. If you already did, then I hope you have survived.
Since the issue has been brought up again, and I had some idle time, I went ahead and fixed the problem myself. Being the bungler I am, I tried to mimic the interface of the MorphOS version of rtgmaster.library, which is compatible with WarpOS programs. This was a bad idea, because it has a mixed interface having both 68k and WOS functions, where Warp3D has two separate libs for this purpose (Warp3d.library and Warp3D_ppc.library). To keep the long story short, I now have Wipeout 2097 running with Wazp3D on MorphOS. I've sent my changes to Alain, the rest is up to him.

So has Alain responded? I'm very excited about this

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Works a treat! There are some transparency issues in wipeout with the default morphos config file for wazp3d. Also fullscreen flickers like crazy. But I'm sure I can mess with the settings to find a "happy place." Also, shogo doesn't get past the initial start screen. But I'm sure that's another problem entirely. Thanks!!!