testing 68k ports

[wawrzon]

i would like to ask if there are people here willing to test apps im compiling for 68k. primarly games at this point. as these are mostly sdl/opengl based im targeting the owners of well upgraded machiery. i expect 040 to be a requirement, as well as a 3d gfx card. i am trying to get a picture what is possible on amiga in this direction. usually i am able to test most of it for myself but im currently a bit far away from my mediator setup, also there might be problems i do not notice on my machine. since sdl, in consequence many if not most of the programs will require the 62.1 ixemul.library from bernd rosch.

[wawrzon]

none here interested to have a little more software choice on 68k? how disappointing..

[Opus]

I am, and many other are!

[AmigaMance]

Hey, i am interested. I have a blizardPPC 68040/25 and a BVision. I doudt that my CPU will be fast enough for sdl stuff..

[commodorejohn]

I'm interested in more 68k software, but I'll stick with my 030 and ECS video, thanks.

[LoadWB]

I'd be happy in my spare time.  I have: stock A3000, A4000/060/PIV, A2000/060/Spectrum, A1200/060/AGA, A500/030-50/ECS.

[fishy_fiz]

none here interested to have a little more software choice on 68k? how disappointing..

I suspect you'll get more response if you actually had something for people to look at rather than just asking a hypothetical question. Also, good luck with SDL software working at a usable speed on '040. I'd be surprised if even a pacman clone using SDL on '040 didnt suffer problems with speed  

[ddniUK]

BPPC 330mhz with 060 @ 60mhz.
Voodoo3 Gfx card.

Very happy to beta test any app!
Always very appreciative of 68k coding efforts!!!

[utri007]

66mzh 060, but no 3d

´Never seen useable SDL application for 68k amigas. I know there is many of them but using/playing them is painfull experience

[theformula]

I am happy to help. I have a A1200 with blizzard 1260 040 and a Voodoo 3 Pci Card

[wawrzon]

in case opengl is involved those who do not have hardware 3d could regard wazp3d as possibility. do not ecpect usable speeds on real 68k though. as for screen depths below 16 bit (say aga and such) ive already watched gl demos on 8 and less bis screens once, must have been mesa software mode. but if it works on planar aga, i would have to test.

as for sdl being too slow, yes thats true most of the time. todays programs have other hardware expectations. but some time agi i have already uploaded to aminet a game that is working fine. this is a question of choice. and testing what can be done.

[wawrzon]

okay, so for starters here is blockout2. it is playable without jit on my uae. it is compiled against storm mesa, so you need agl set of libraries on your system, needless to say hw 3d is actually a requirement. i tried to compile with full sound support, but it is turned out by default. i cant confirm it works. and if it works i expect to slow down everything to the death. you can access all options from the game. the file will remain available for a few days. sorry its zipped, i was too lazy, my uae gets on my nerves.

http://www.daten-transport.de/?id=BB79c5HnSTdB

[wawrzon]

and since i have uploaded this earlier

the name is kuklomenos, this also requires mesa. no sound support yet, but there is no much sound anyway.
http://www.daten-transport.de/?id=XN4K3EvYPreW
windows version for comparison might be downloaded here:
http://mbays.freeshell.org/kuklomenos/

it has been reported to work with 6fps on 060/voodoo.
you should be able to resize window. please tell me if this influences the framerate (much).
other thing i'd like to know is if cursor keys controls the movement well, just like in windows version. it doesnt in my uae, but it might be uae settings fault.
watch for if it starts to turn like crazy when holding an arrow key for little too long.

[wawrzon]

yet another project ive uploaded for a friend to test few days ago. still online apparently.

foobillard. it has been stripped of a few features that amiga mesa do not provide, and the glu tesselation part had to be adopted to the available api. dunno how well it work.
http://www.daten-transport.de/?id=6khstmYL2CGx

it is actually more of a proof of concept. its around 1fps on fastest mediator setup ive heard of. i have two other billards, billardgl and apoolgl, both slower yet. dont see much room to improve. might be a candidate for a warpos build, would i have a backend. generally i dislike warpos a little, but could give it a try, just not to throw away all the work.

[yssing]

50mhz blizzard 1260 I can run some mesa based games/programs, but not very fast.