Test Beta of new game 194x - Help create new games

[amigakit]

Both versions works fine here on an A1200T / Mediator 1200SX / BlizzardPPC 060 / 256MB RAM / Voodoo 5500


The sound version makes the visuals jerky though.


Great work though!

[leirbag28]

Wow!  Dude!  Im excited man!  Looks ARCADE Quality!

Tempting..............reminds me of SNK's NEO GEO Stuff


can games be made to work on an A1200 with 2mb Chip?  or even a plain A600 with 2mb Chip?


Wayyyyy cool!

[SamuraiCrow]

@Leirbag28

I think he's using SDL so it pretty much requires the use of a graphics card.

[adolescent]

Nice work so far.

BTW, it works well without sound on my A4000/Mediator 4000Di/Voodoo3 3000 setup.  (Need to fix my AHI install to test the sound enabled version.  But, I'd vote for a native sound routine)

[humppa]

@Voodoo testers:

Thanks for reporting that it worked for you. I should check somewhere else then. Are there some special ENV parameters which need to be set for SDL to work on the Voodoo?

Could you please check how you have set the ENV variables that 194x checks when starting up?
Snoopdos reports two of them as "Fail" here.
Thanks!

[biggun]

@all

Many thanks for your help testing!!


oliver wrote:

How long did it take you to write the 194x game? Were you able to rip anything directly from original versions, or did you produce this one from scratch?

I started thinking about the game and Construction Kit when my wife and me were in hospital awaiting our first baby last xmas. The game engine is written from scratch and is about 7000 lines of code so far. It took me about two month to write. The GFX was recreated based on screenshots of the Arcade original.
The game engine and Kit only covers things neede for this test game - I'll need to add write more routines for cases like underwater effects, rendering of fog and smoke, etc.
I hope that some people will help me with painting so that I can focus on coding.


leirbag28 wrote:

can games be made to work on an A1200 with 2mb Chip? or even a plain A600 with 2mb Chip?

The game is using hicolor (16bit GFX).
So it requires a GFX card.
I recently added 256 color support to the game engine.
With loosing a little quality and dropping some effect like the colored light then the game could run in AGA.

If I add a Chunky2Planar and Paula Sound to the game engine then this game and other games created with the Kit would run well on very fast AGA Amigas (A1200 + 060).

An A600 is way to slow for that type of game and does not support enough colors to show these type of games.

But to be honest I'm not sure if adding AGA support to the game-engine is worth the work. Now that Neo-Amigas like the Efika are supposed to coming out with a price tag of only $100.
 I assume most of the still active Amiga users will get such  a new, fast Neo-Amiga soon.


@Methuselas

Did you get my PM?



InTheSand wrote:

Do you have any plans for a Linux x86 version?

I can compile one for you. I'll do this today or tomorrow.

Actually I had hoped to find some Amiga people helping me with GFX for future games before I start building Linux and Windows binaries. :-)


Cheers
Gunnar

[-BobW-]

I tried this on my AmigaOne last night and it ran great!  It felt a little slow but I'm not sure how fast it is supposed to run.

I can't wait for the final version of your game creation software!

[TheMagicM]

will download and run it on Linux tonight/tomorrow.. looking forward to it!!  :-)

[Piru]

Working really well here, MorphOS and Pegasos II, radeon 8500 LE. (I always have full system debuggin tools enabled, and it didn't trigger any problems. nice!)

Very slick, demos, anims, fitting music. Very arcade like.

/me likes

If the construction kit side is easy to use, this should indeed help create some rather cool games.

[adolescent]

@humppa

I don't have any SDL variables (SDL_VIDEODRIVER, SDL_AUDIODRIVER, or SDL_DEBUG) set here and no problems.  

BTW, on my system it opens a 320x240 screen (with the bottom 40 rows blank).  I don't have a 320x200 screen defined.

[amiga4001]

Too bad I can't get it going here.
Amiga4000 with mediator and 060.
Can it be made to work on my system?
Hope so I'll love these games and I am certainly are willing to pay a contribution if possible to encourage development for classic/OS4.0.
Keep on going great work!!

[biggun]

For these not having a fast Amiga.
I have uploaded Linux (x86) and Windows binaries for you now.

http://www.greyhound-data.com/gunnar/games/index.htm?page=downloads


amiga4001 wrote:

Too bad I can't get it going here.

What error message to you get when you start it from shell?



Cheers
Gunnar

[Oliver]

biggun wrote:
...I started thinking about the game and Construction Kit when my wife and me were in hospital awaiting our first baby last xmas. The game engine is written from scratch and is about 7000 lines of code so far. It took me about two month to write. The GFX was recreated based on screenshots of the Arcade original...

Hmm, waiting in hospitals sure can get one thinking (in fact, it can make me almost desperate to do some hard work just to avoid the current situation).  So you had your first kid at xmas?  Sounds like a good present for the family.  Nice.

Two months (presumably part time) just after having your first kid sure sounds like good going.  A really productive hobiest.  Great work, and what a great contribution sharing it with the community!  Thanks a lot!

oli

[InTheSand]

Excellent work!

Just tried the Windows version (was too lazy to reboot into Linux) and I like it! Nice big explosions and a real arcadey feel to it!

I guess it helps that I'm a fan of the 1942 arcade game too!

I will try the Amiga version, but my A3000 is having stability issues at the moment...

 - Ali

[Johan Samuelsson]

i just tried the win version and was delighted to see that it was running slower than on my a1. even though this pc is far more powerfull than my a1.

[Seiya]

on my amithlon it runs very well in hires with sound