Quake 2

[Ponos2D]

I bought Quake 2 game at "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003"!

I never liked much 3D FirstPersonShooters, but I
like Quake 2! It runs very fast on my
BlizzardPPC@300MHz+Voodoo3-2000 combo
even at 800x600, but I play it at 640x480, and
it's very, very playable!

Great job Hyperion-Enterteinment!!! :-)

[kd7ota]

I wish I could see myself how good Quake 2 played on a miggy. I have it for pc and was made several years ago. I might have to dig it up and see if I can play against some amiga users.  :-D

[Bodie]

Do many people still play Quake II online? What are the best mods for it (particularly multiplayer)? I'm looking to buy Quake II come OS4.

[PulsatingQuasar]

Yes, Quake 2 does run great on the Amiga. They indeed did a great job.

I played it on my BlizzardPPC 175 MHz with a BVisionPPC but I recently acquired a BlizzardPPC 240 MHz with a G-REx and Voodoo 3 I still need to install it on! Should be running great.

[mikeymike]

Any idea if it runs on an 060 decently like Hyperion says it does?

[MagicSN]

Hi!

Yes, there are still a lot... check www.planetquake.com for resources about finding
servers...

Best Mods for network gaming ? It is of course quite subjective, but many people like:

Actrion Quake
Gloom
ChaosDM
dday
The Weapons Factory
CTF
Devastation

Steffen

[Mike_Amiga]

Apart from playing a demo of Quake one on my Mac the only other thing I played it on was a sony playstation.  It played pretty well considering I had to use a pad, I've still got it but don't play on it anymore.

My playstation is mainly used for music making on Music 2000 and on the PS2 I'm somewhere near the end of Splinter Cell, eer I think.:-?

Could always get a copy for my Mac if I sold my old PS + games and then I could probably play you online, well once I'm hooked up to broad band anyway. :-D

[lempkee]

Yes the 68k version WORKS also , but its not really fast compared to the ppc i have (which i still think is slow..well not superfast anyway)

on my ppc (a1260/66/240) (thats 603) i get 26,2 -> 26.4 fps in quake 2 in 640x480, i have done some tweaking also to get the best speed ..

but i havent been able to see this game on 604 ppc's like a4k or a3k's etc, i am so sure it flies on them, a 604 ppc is alot better than
603 atleast for everything i have seen it do...hmm i think i will go buy one (and a4k)

cheers

[bloodline]

Ponos2D wrote:
I bought Quake 2 game at "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003"!

I never liked much 3D FirstPersonShooters, but I
like Quake 2! It runs very fast on my
BlizzardPPC@300MHz+Voodoo3-2000 combo
even at 800x600, but I play it at 640x480, and
it's very, very playable!

Great job Hyperion-Enterteinment!!! :-)

A BlizzPPC at 300MHz? I don't think so... my 240 runs so hot it's melted it's fan... and how do you get the 68K and memory to run stably at such a high frequency (assuing you adjusted the system clock rather than the PPC clock multiplyer...)

Also what did you expect with a Voodoo 3 gfx card? Quake II runs find on those...

Oops it seems I got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning... actually I'm still on Canadian time... damn I hate Jetlag  :-(

[Karlos]

@bloodline

Really? I got the 603e@240 + 040@25 + SCSI which should be the hottest combination (esp with 040) and I havent seen anything like that happen...

Was your card in a desktop or tower?

As for 300MHz I heard some people had salvaged higher rated 603e's from old powermacs and managed to get them transplanted onto their cards.

Maybe Ponos is one of them?

[Bodie]

Thanks Steffen  :-) .  Hmm, dday sounds if it could take me away from Day of Defeat (just for a bit) :-D .

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
@bloodline

Really? I got the 603e@240 + 040@25 + SCSI which should be the hottest combination (esp with 040) and I havent seen anything like that happen...

Was your card in a desktop or tower?

As for 300MHz I heard some people had salvaged higher rated 603e's from old powermacs and managed to get them transplanted onto their cards.

Maybe Ponos is one of them?

 :oops:  A Desktop :-P Yeah yeah, I know it was going to melt...  :-D

Sure you could transplant a higher rated 603e (though I doubt it given the SMT technology used), but then you would have to change the multiplyer and that is set by a bunch of tiny resistors soldered on the board... all seems like far too much work IMHO...

[Ponos2D]

"A BlizzPPC at 300MHz? I don't think so... my 240 runs so hot it's melted it's fan... and how do you get the 68K and memory to run stably at such a high frequency (assuing you adjusted the system clock rather than the PPC clock multiplyer...)"

It is 300 MHz BlizzardPPC!
It was original BlizzardPPC+ 603@240MHz and 040@25MHz!
Multiplyer was 4 and I made it 4.5!
And I switched original 60 MHz oscilator, with
66.676 MHz oscilator!

4x60=240MHz
4.5x66.676=300MHz

Everithing is in Infinitiv Tower!

Original fan melted when 603e was 240MHz, but
I bought small fan(20 EURO :-o) and replaced it!
I also fixed slightly bigger fan on 040@25, and
another similar fan on 603e heatsink!

I will picure it soon, so you can see my

MONSTERzardPPC card :-D

[bloodline]

Ponos2D wrote:
"A BlizzPPC at 300MHz? I don't think so... my 240 runs so hot it's melted it's fan... and how do you get the 68K and memory to run stably at such a high frequency (assuing you adjusted the system clock rather than the PPC clock multiplyer...)"

It is 300 MHz BlizzardPPC!
It was original BlizzardPPC+ 603@240MHz and 040@25MHz!
Multiplyer was 4 and I made it 4.5!
And I switched original 60 MHz oscilator, with
66.676 MHz oscilator!

4x60=240MHz
4.5x66.676=300MHz

Yeah, ok, I was in a bad mood when I made that post... :-)

But setting the multiplier resistor and changing a crystal must have been horrible...

[Karlos]

Hmm lots of fan melting going on at 240 MHz

I'm getting paranoid now :-)