New Mr Beanbag demo

[Tricky]

We've uploaded a new version of the Mr Beanbag playable demo on our website now.  People were mentioing the look-ahead camera system making it hard to see where you would land, so I've adjusted that a bit.  I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who found that a problem, when they try the new version.

Also this update has already made it to amiga-news.de!  Someone there mentions it doesn't work on his A4000 (also not on A2000 but that's no surprise!) so if anyone else here has a A4000 they can try it out on for me, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks
www.glastonbridge.co.uk/mrbeanbag/demo.php

[keropi]

from the screenshots it looks really good  :-D
will it be freeware or shareware???

[Tricky]

@ keropi:

No it will be a commercial release!

Seriously!  To be published by Retrosoft/Alten8

[oddmario]

Doesn't work on my A 4000T (CSmk2 060 adriane 2 picasso 4)
I'll try the adf later.
Works on my A1200 Though:-)
Looks good.
Then again i am a huge fan of Mario like platformers.

[Tricky]

oddmario wrote:
Doesn't work on my A 4000T (CSmk2 060 adriane 2 picasso 4)
I'll try the adf later.

Please tell me what it does, if anything.  I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work.  If you have a picasso can it still display AGA modes?

[oddmario]

"Please tell me what it does, if anything. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. If you have a picasso can it still display AGA modes?"

Turns into yellow squares.
Tried disable cpu cache,same result.
Yes i can display aga modes.

[Tricky]

@oddmario:

hmm that's interesting.  try putting workbench down to an ordinary AGA mode such as 640x256, 8 colours, then try running the demo again.

[oddmario]

"hmm that's interesting. try putting workbench down to an ordinary AGA mode such as 640x256, 8 colours, then try running the demo again."

That worked.
Strange though since most of the games just opens in a new screen.

[Tricky]

@oddmario

aha, that's it then!  i need to do a bit more work to take the graphics card into account.  not having one myself I never thought about it!

Most games don't open their own workbench screen, but bypass workbench entirely and hit the hardware directly.  It looks like I've got to hit it again to tell it to go into normal AGA mode.

Thanks for that anyway, it was very helpful!

[Framiga]

Incredible Tricky! it starts/works even from MorphOS for PowerUP on A4000/CSPPC+060. :-)

[Tricky]

Ok I have now uploaded the demo LHA again, this time featuring a call to good old "close workbench" at the start.  Hopefully that should make it work on A4000s with graphics cards.  Someone please tell me if it does or not!

@ Framiga:

Thanks for trying it out on your machine, I'm glad it works fine.  Although I knew it works on a 060 because that's what I've got!

[Framiga]

I'm not 100% sure that is using the 060 at all.

From the themperature sensor on the PowerPC, it "seems" using the MOS 68K emulation.

[lumby]

Works whit the following:

A4000T: 144MB, 40GB IDE HD, Cyberstorm PPC604e@233Mhz, 060@60Mhz, CV3D Scandoubler, Cybervision PPC

Great Demo! :-)

[jimmy_n]

I played the last demo that was out, quality game!  :-)

[nasty]

No it will be a commercial release!

Have you got any idea on a price?