OpenDUNE OS3 RTG SDL

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE By NovaCoder: OpenDUNE is an open source re-creation of the popular game "Dune II", originally made by Westwood Studios, and released by Virgin Entertainment. It attempts to re-create the original game and apply modern technology to it to allow it to be run natively on most operating systems.

OpenDUNE OS3 RTG SDL v0.9.001: Download


Requirements:

1) An RTG Amiga with a fast 68040 processor
2) AHI installed (v4.18 recommended)
3) 3.1 ROMS (3.0 ROMS may cause it to run slowly)
4) A copy of the PC game data files


Features:

* RTG SDL port
* MIDI support
* AHI Sound support
* Fullscreen and window mode support


Configuration Options:

The tooltype 'CLOSE_WB' can be used to close the Workbench (3.1 ROMS recommended).
You must run OpenDUNE from the Workbench, running from the Shell is not supported.
The AHI device used will be the one configured in your AHI Prefs (Unit 0).
The default game data install directory is 'Games:OpenDUNE/data'.
If you decide to use a different game data directory then you'll need to update the 'opendune.ini' file to match.
You will need to install the CAMD library if you want to use an external MIDI device.
You need to enable your CAMD MIDI device using the 'opendune.ini' file.

[starship]

It is beautiful to play dune 2 on rtg. Hope hi resolution mode in the future.

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by starship

It is beautiful to play dune 2 on rtg. Hope hi resolution mode in the future.

Thanks, yes it already does support high resolution scalers.


MIDI music sounds wonderful too

I did my best to fix up the sound issues, the next Aminet version has correct frequency for the intro speech but maybe too fast for the game. Must be a bug in the openDune engine itself.

[Aladin]

Thank you for this portage

Data for Opendune:
http://www.morphos-storage.net/?page...egacy_data.zip

Dune Legacy would be possible?
http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/we...downloads.html
http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fu...dunelegacy.lzx
http://www.morphos-storage.net/?page...cy_0.96.5b.lha

[indigolemon]

Working great at this end, did wonder about the intro speech lol - cheers NovaCoder!

[slaapliedje]

I can never remember, is it Dune 2 or Dune 2000, which I thought was an upgrade to Dune 2 that OpenDUNE is based upon?
Edit:looked it up myself, it is Dune 2, which actually is out for the Amiga already, right? Though with RTG support, it does make it more playable. I need to give it a try, Dune 2 was fantastic.

[NovaCoder]

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[Kppot]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

MIDI music sounds wonderful too

Tried the game just yesterday, it is brilliant!
But how do I use MIDI music? I downloaded that midi lib, but where to install it?

[James]

Thanks NovaCoder!

Tried downloading the latest version from Aminet, but the archive contained the old version.

One small tip:

Instead of "Games:OpenDUNE/data" you can put "PROGDIR:data" and it should work wherever you move the game drawer.

[slaapliedje]

Originally Posted by Kppot

Tried the game just yesterday, it is brilliant!
But how do I use MIDI music? I downloaded that midi lib, but where to install it?

Going to be doing this as soon as I get my Roland SC88 Pro. At least I think that should work with the Amiga.

[NovaCoder]

Someone posted a nice video of this running on WinUAE (obviously this is playable on real hardware too!).

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[Seiya]

Originally Posted by Kppot

Tried the game just yesterday, it is brilliant!
But how do I use MIDI music? I downloaded that midi lib, but where to install it?

you have camd.library and if you use real amiga, you must have real midi hardware.
In WinUAE you must have a sound card on your PC that has midi enabled (pci or pci-xpress card) and open support midi in "IO port"

[madlax]

Hello,

My setup: A500+, 2MB Chip, Vampire 500 v2, OS 3.1.4, Picasso96 2.2 (the one from Jens Schoenfeld)

By default OpenDune runs in fullscreen mode. When I start it my monitor looses the signal and goes blank. The game does work in window mode.

I had the same issue with Duke Nukem, and the way I fixed it was to change the resolution from 320x200 to 320x240. My 16:9 monitor doesn't seem to handle the 320x200 resolution. I am assuming it's the same issue as with OpenDune, but I can't change the resolution.

I guess my question is can I somehow change the resolution after all or is there some trickery I can do with P96?

Thank you!

[nogginthenog]

Have you tried using ModePro?

[madlax]

Originally Posted by nogginthenog

Have you tried using ModePro?

No, but I will check it out tonight. Thanks!

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by madlax

Hello,


I guess my question is can I somehow change the resolution after all or is there some trickery I can do with P96?

Thank you!

Also try enabling the 2x scaler in the dune config file, I think that will double the resolution.

[madlax]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Also try enabling the 2x scaler in the dune config file, I think that will double the resolution.

I will give that a shot first. Thanks Nova! This is a really great port. thank you for making it! I still fondly remember playing Dune II on my A1200 back in the day.

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by madlax

I will give that a shot first. Thanks Nova! This is a really great port. thank you for making it! I still fondly remember playing Dune II on my A1200 back in the day.

No worries mate, I got a request to make one final 68K SDL port so I thought I'd give it a go and after about 3 days work it was finished

Also, it's funny that you mentioned Duke Nukem because I'm just about to upload the RTG version of my Duke Nukem port (AmiDuke) which might work better for your setup.

[apex]

NovaCoder, godfather of coding. Thank you for your work.

Maybe you are the one for fixing OpenReadAlert on Amiga?

Cant wait to test new AmiDuke... so much great stuff!!!!!

[madlax]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

No worries mate, I got a request to make one final 68K SDL port so I thought I'd give it a go and after about 3 days work it was finished

Also, it's funny that you mentioned Duke Nukem because I'm just about to upload the RTG version of my Duke Nukem port (AmiDuke) which might work better for your setup.

More great stuff in the making I see

So, ModePro worked. Doubling the resolution did not fix it for me. I can use scale2x but it also only works with ModePro. I suppose my monitor can't handle 320x200 or 640x400. It has to be 320x240 or 640x480. Looks like I am the only one having this issue. Perhaps it's time for a new monitor