Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood - Amiga Port by Apollo

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by AMike

My line of thinking was obvious to (almost) everyone. Diablo has significantly lower hardware requirements than Robin Hood and runs slowly on 060 CpU

I'll assume that the "(almost)" there wasn't a personal dig at me, since I already agreed with you on that point:

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Of course it could be, and I never tried to say otherwise.

everyone else can sit down and write a 68k port

Except it came to light that:

Originally Posted by Daedalus

And, given that it looks to be a commercial endeavour, it's not really open for someone to produce a better port

that will only run smoothly on PiStorm

And OS4.

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Not sure this game is so great though. It looks like a typical sucky 'modern' PC game.

I feel completely opposite.
Never heard of the game before, and looking at the gameplay videos, it looks very interesting to me. Kind of reminds me of Baldurs Gate, although, I doubt it's that deep and complex.
Gotta try it, when I get some free time.

[AMIPEGUSER]

I have the Original windows Version and the original MorphOS Version here.
The MorphOS Version was published by german Epic Marketing later RUNE Soft.
I was very disappionted these days because the MorphOs Version was extremly slow on my Peg 2.
I never used MorphOS on my Peg 2 again and switched to OS4.1.
MorphOS is just on my Powerbook and MacMini, but I never tried the game there.
Rune Soft also published a commercial Linux Version.
http://www.rune-soft.com/Spiele/Verffentlicht-251

[S0ulA55a551n]

Originally Posted by AMIPEGUSER

I have the Original windows Version and the original MorphOS Version here.
The MorphOS Version was published by german Epic Marketing later RUNE Soft.
I was very disappionted these days because the MorphOs Version was extremly slow on my Peg 2.
I never used MorphOS on my Peg 2 again and switched to OS4.1.
MorphOS is just on my Powerbook and MacMini, but I never tried the game there.
Rune Soft also published a commercial Linux Version.
http://www.rune-soft.com/Spiele/Verffentlicht-251

The macs are a lot more powerful than the peg 2 so should run better

[arti]

Originally Posted by derSammler

Or perhaps the whole port is not even legal, like with Diablo? (which, funny enough, runs fine on the PiStorm, despite it saying it's AMMX-optimized - so either that's a lie or Emu68 can handle those instructions)

Diablo port co-author here. It is not a problem to detect if game runs on Vampire or not. If AMMX instructions are not detected they are simply not used like MMX on PC back in the days.

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

How well does that run if at all, I mean unless you just mocked up these photos with DPaint or your monitor is hooked up to a sick gaming tower with an Athlon and a Rage Fury?

The ppc has 333 mhz with 256 mb ram and a bvision ppc, lets say, its playable but not very fast comparable with the apollo video

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

Kind of reminds me of Baldurs Gate

It's like Commandos and Desperados.

[lukzer]

please make a WOS port.. . I would like to play on the Sonnet PPC.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by lukzer

please make a WOS port.. . I would like to play on the Sonnet PPC.

The source is not available so this is a specific sweetheart deal. But since it's based on Linux and SDL and there are lots of different versions available if the source was available it would take you know a couple days to port. Which won't happen, because the source is not available to anyone other than sweethearts.

[willemdrijver]

Originally Posted by Calabazam

Is it also for V2?

Hi, for now this is an experimental project which is focussed on V4. We do not have made any decision for any release in any form for any platform.

[willemdrijver]

Latest realtime footage from our alpha version of Robin Hood - legend of Sherwood experimental port to Amiga/Apollo. This video shows the integrated "RiVA" based video playback (640x360@23.98fps) which is the current maximum on native Apollo V4 hardware. Intro plays right before actual gameplay and can be skipped with ESC key by user.

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[Seiya]

however certain type of games play in Amiga or Amiga like slowly, better to play on original hardware and original OS.

[Calabazam]

Originally Posted by Seiya

however certain type of games play in Amiga or Amiga like slowly, better to play on original hardware and original OS.

Yes but the big Amiga on my desk is my all entry retrocomputer, not only Amiga, but also Mac, MSDOS PC 386/486, Sega Master System, C64, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, etc, either by software emulation or hardware expansion, so the more old stuff (native ports) is brought to it the better.
Otherwise, i can easily play Robin Hood from steam in the blink of an eye with a Corei7 but it is not as fun. Amiga is the gateway to computer fun.

[grond]

Originally Posted by willemdrijver

Latest realtime footage from our alpha version of Robin Hood - legend of Sherwood experimental port to Amiga/Apollo. This video shows the integrated "RiVA" based video playback (640x360@23.98fps) which is the current maximum on native Apollo V4 hardware. Intro plays right before actual gameplay and can be skipped with ESC key by user.

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This looks pretty slick, well done!

[jaycee1980]

I used to work for Runesoft, who did the Mac, Linux and MorphOS ports of this game. While it is not one of my ports, I was involved with it a little.

This sounds like they have somehow acquired the source code to our port. The original Windows version does not use SDL, but the ports that Runesoft made did.

This source code has NOT been released publically, and the Apollo team should not have it.

[Crom]

Willem did this port as an exercise proof of concept. He has been both working on classic Amiga game programming as well. A good example of an end user being proactive and coding. It's been fun to see the progress on this.

We would like to make clear to our beloved Apollo community that Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood is not open source and we do not own rights and/or license (yet). This means that in the current stage of this project we would very much like to engage you by releasing a fully playable DEMO release, but the reality is that we are not allowed to do any kind of release, even if it's "only" a beta of the Demo level.

Apollo Team is very motivated to bring Robin back alive and you can help us here and now by giving us your feedback in the Discord Poll: https://discord.gg/N7pwVSb3
Your information is essential for us to make a realistic assessment on our (im)possibilities to actually bring back Robin as a Legend on Apollo V4."

[Pyromania]

The progess on Robin Hood - legend of Sherwood is amazing. Thanx so much for all the hard work!

[jaycee1980]

Originally Posted by Crom

We would like to make clear to our beloved Apollo community that Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood is not open source and we do not own rights and/or license (yet). This means that in the current stage of this project we would very much like to engage you by releasing a fully playable DEMO release, but the reality is that we are not allowed to do any kind of release, even if it's "only" a beta of the Demo level.

That's not the point at all. You shouldn't have the code to begin with. Please explain where you got it.

[demether]

Hi Will we see this game on classic amiga, OS 3.2, pistorm, rtg setup ? thank you !

[willemdrijver]

Originally Posted by demether

Hi Will we see this game on classic amiga, OS 3.2, pistorm, rtg setup ? thank you !

Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood is currently no more than an experimental "proof-of-concept" to verify our believes we could make such a complex game run on classic Amiga (using Apollo V4 accelerator). Now that we are in a more mature stage of the proof-of-concept, we are inquiring within Amiga/Apollo community if there is enough genuine interest to bring this project to a next level. Based on the outcome of this inquiry we will make roadmap decisions, including target platforms.

Which platform(s) do you use and would you be interested in a game like Robin Hood Legend of Sherwood for your Amiga?