A new Napalm speedup hack, help needed

[lempkee]

man thisis great news!

napalm is surely one of the coolest games released for the rts fans on amiga anyway i always played it on 060 so theese days i wouldnt exactly know how much faster it was/is but hey if i get the patch i can try it on both systems :-)

here is some info:

Clickboom never supported the tcp-ip hack thats out for napalm since 2001(?) but i talked to them about it and wondered if they would have put it up on their downloads site as an unsupported item but sadly it seems they never did and since then clickboom has been very quiet, i can only hope this new patch will be accepted :-)

As for reaching the ablaze team , really hard if not impossible... but best would be to go trough clickboom since they still might have updated information on their ex workers.

[Robert17]

Sounds good to me, I'll try the PPC c2p later on, anyone know what kind of speedup it will give?

Robert

[Varthall]

Thanks Kalms, Skeleton and Crusher for the help! I've only now noticed your replies while searching for my older posts, better late than never I guess
I'll send right now your response to the coder, the idea of a new c2p package sounds good btw, I hope he'll agree too.

Varthall

[Piru]

I'll try the PPC c2p later on, anyone know what kind of speedup it will give?

In all, using PPC for c2p is rather stupid, at least if the main application is 68k and the 68k c2p routine is any good. It only really pays off if you compare against slow 040 and poor c2p routine.

Compared to 040, some speedup, assuming the 040 c2p routine you compare against is decent.

Compared to 060, probably no speedup at all. Any decent 060 c2p is copyspeed (as fast as writing chipmem can get) anyway, thus PPC can't do any better.

If you could make the PPC c2p run asyncronous then you would get some real benefits (that is PPC would be running c2p for the frame while 68k would be calculating the next frame gfx). however, this would be really hairy to implement with all the cache coherency issues.

[Robert17]

is chipmem acess speed an issue when using P96 RTG?

[Rady_AEG]

Hi. I'm Rady from Ablaze team.

If you have any questions, contact me: ablaze@nextra.sk

[Cosmos Amiga]

Hi,

I'm reposting this request from an italian Amiga newsgroup. A coder has patched the Suzy c2p library from the rtgmaster  library, so that only the parts of the screen that are changed are refreshed. This way, Napalm becomes much faster and playable on a basic A4000.

The problem lies with the distribution of this patch. The library quotes "By Kalms, Adapted by Rady/Ablaze.", and there is apparently no licence mentioned for the c2p and rtgmaster. He has tried to contact Rady Marusa from Ablaze, but the only email address we've found is not active anymore. He could release it as a patch file, to be patched on the original library, although it would be nicer to directly release the patched library.

Can anyone get in touch with Kalms or Marusa, or does anyone know the licence status of the library? The coder would like to be 100% sure that he has the right to release it, before doing so.

Thanks
Varthall

Any good news about this new c2p library ?

[Dwyloc]

This patch helps make it run on OS4 I don't know if it can also be used with OS3.x as napalm even patched will still be a 68k app.

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=game/strategy/napalm.lha