Quake 2 WorkShop

[trixster]

What is the difference between thr normal gl renderer and ref_glnolru? ref_glnolru Is 0.5fps faster on my system than ref_gl. Rather than 8fps with standard libraries I now get 10fps for demo1.dm2 using matthey's libraries.

[Cowcat]

trixster:

The difference is "ref_gl" removes textures & frees memory from time to time so lags a little, in comparison to "ref_glnolru" that only frees textures when changing levels. Just works OK for 68k versions.

[trixster]

Is it possible to get cd audio playing? I have it selected in the menu but no cd tracks play.

[Cowcat]

Some chip memory is used to allocate resources for cd, so something is doing (see if on ENV: exist a Quake 2 directory and a couple of vars about cd). Didn't check if really worked on my last beta.

Unfortunately my Frankenstein seemed to die yesterday (BlizzardPPC at least) so I need some time to RCP it if I'm lucky (doesn't look good).

So well, no more "another fucking quake port" for now.
And no, I'm not gonna join the "cult of vampires without floating point arithmetic" -Although kind of like vampires and all that monster stuff-

Fuck it. I'm pissed off.

[trixster]

Ah man, that sucks, I hope you get your machine fixed! Your ports are fabulous by the way, your work is massively appreciated! And I'm sure I speak for many people in saying I hope you can port more stuff to 68k and PPC!

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

Some chip memory is used to allocate resources for cd, so something is doing (see if on ENV: exist a Quake 2 directory and a couple of vars about cd). Didn't check if really worked on my last beta.

Unfortunately my Frankenstein seemed to die yesterday (BlizzardPPC at least) so I need some time to RCP it if I'm lucky (doesn't look good).

So well, no more "another fucking quake port" for now.
And no, I'm not gonna join the "cult of vampires without floating point arithmetic" -Although kind of like vampires and all that monster stuff-

Fuck it. I'm pissed off.

Well I'd be willing to contribute to getting you a replacement machine, for the time being you could temporarily switch to WinUAE for WarpOS development. Maybe we can get you a little higher spec than you had before. Anyone else want to donate hardware? Let us know what you want. Another BlizzPPC? An A4000 with all the bells and whistles?

[trixster]

I'd definitely donate some cash to get replacement kit.

[Cowcat]

Thank you guys

Still to figure out what's going on with my miggy. Yesterday it retaliated me by melting in seconds the old handmade 2,5" - 3.5" IDE cable that I was using in conjunction with an IDE splitter for years. Maybe using it solely with only the hard-drive was a bad idea (short-circuit by chance ? ) so pyrotechnics started, smoke, good finger scar from pulling out the cable but meanwhile the miggy started workbench from disk as nothing happend.

So I have to check out about the reliability of the system before taking decisions. In its vanilla state seems to work ok, but never saw IDE little cables melt in seconds

[trixster]

I had an idefix splitter on my A1200 do something similar a couple of years ago. One of the chips on the board fried itself, the ide cable on the second channel burnt too.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

Thank you guys

Still to figure out what's going on with my miggy. Yesterday it retaliated me by melting in seconds the old handmade 2,5" - 3.5" IDE cable that I was using in conjunction with an IDE splitter for years. Maybe using it solely with only the hard-drive was a bad idea (short-circuit by chance ? ) so pyrotechnics started, smoke, good finger scar from pulling out the cable but meanwhile the miggy started workbench from disk as nothing happend.

So I have to check out about the reliability of the system before taking decisions. In its vanilla state seems to work ok, but never saw IDE little cables melt in seconds

Did you make any progress on this?

[Cowcat]

Did you make any progress on this?

Waiting for a meet with another Amiga owner to check my ppc before sending it to "boxes" for a hopefully revival. Forget about melted IDE cables: A pissed off mind leads always to do silly things...

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

Waiting for a meet with another Amiga owner to check my ppc before sending it to "boxes" for a hopefully revival. Forget about melted IDE cables: A pissed off mind leads always to do silly things...

Don't know what kind of drives you're using but if you want I can send you a large CF (or two). Lots of developers had a hard drive failure end their Amiga adventures.

[Cowcat]

Got an IDE 44/40 converter so my HD (classic old Seagate I think) seems to be ok: Can't fully boot from it for obvious reasons, but probably all information is not damaged. Yep 2mg chip + floppy workbench + hd partitions lists can't go a lot further.

Nevertheless I have backups of my last source projects & a couple of brain cells left to deal with ongoing projects/ideas or past ones.

And well, here I use to upload the majority of stuff.

[Cowcat]

....Inside this old hard drive there's something like a future version of (non finished/non shared)...

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[trixster]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

Some chip memory is used to allocate resources for cd, so something is doing (see if on ENV: exist a Quake 2 directory and a couple of vars about cd). Didn't check if really worked on my last beta.

This works for your blizquake port. You can set ENV:quake1/cd_device and ENV:quake1/cd_unit

but similar does not seem to be the case with quake2. Snoopdos does not seem to show quake2 searching for an ENV variable in the same fashion as blizquake.

[trixster]

One more random question - is it possible to get smooth hand/gun animation? The animation on the pc version is super smooth but the Amiga port seems to be deliberately slowed. I can't seem to find a console command for this.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by trixster

One more random question - is it possible to get smooth hand/gun animation? The animation on the pc version is super smooth but the Amiga port seems to be deliberately slowed. I can't seem to find a console command for this.

How do you mean? I've never noticed this. Like on a grenade throw?

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

Got an IDE 44/40 converter so my HD (classic old Seagate I think) seems to be ok: Can't fully boot from it for obvious reasons, but probably all information is not damaged. Yep 2mg chip + floppy workbench + hd partitions lists can't go a lot further.

Nevertheless I have backups of my last source projects & a couple of brain cells left to deal with ongoing projects/ideas or past ones.

And well, here I use to upload the majority of stuff.

Did you get any further with your Franken1200? Or get to test your BPPC?

[Cowcat]

According to Stachu blizzardppc is toasted, so...

Now getting used to crosscompiling, UAE, etc. Now it's a clumsy & slow process but will see if some new stuff can arise from my experiments.

Maybe a switch to Morphos & apple hardware can put me on the track again given the fact that is the cheapest solution & high compatibility with warpos.

My old 1.4.5 morphos powerup worked ok with BlitzQuake. Quake2 had some issue with sound/stuttering render & GLHexen2 didn't work at the time to start the level. Pretty odd compatibility issues, but couldn't check further. Maybe 15 years later that is no problem.

Pissed off but shit happens.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Cowcat

According to Stachu blizzardppc is toasted, so...

Now getting used to crosscompiling, UAE, etc. Now it's a clumsy & slow process but will see if some new stuff can arise from my experiments.

Maybe a switch to Morphos & apple hardware can put me on the track again given the fact that is the cheapest solution & high compatibility with warpos.

My old 1.4.5 morphos powerup worked ok with BlitzQuake. Quake2 had some issue with sound/stuttering render & GLHexen2 didn't work at the time to start the level. Pretty odd compatibility issues, but couldn't check further. Maybe 15 years later that is no problem.

Pissed off but shit happens.

Well, if that's what you want to do. I'll start an initiative to get you a replacement BPPC if you'd like to go that route. Or an A4000 with some kind of PPC...