24 November 2016, 16:02 | #1 |
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Heart of Darkness - Amiga port possible?
Seeing as Another World was on the Amiga, Heart of the Alien was ported over from the SEGA CD, do you think it's possible the same can be done with Heart of Darkness, which was on the PS2 and PC?
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24 November 2016, 16:16 | #2 |
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I would hazard a guess at highly unlikely, Another World was designed on the Amiga, the sequel for whatever reason (money for exclusive maybe) was only released on the Mega CD but still ran on the same game engine.
Heart Of Darkness is a totally different game engine, requiring much more horse power with more advanced gfx, looking it up it was originally started in 1992 due on the PC, 3DO, then moving to Saturn, before finally being released on PS1 and PC in 1998, maybe originally in 1992 the engine may have been doable, but i imagine as more input and designers got involved the project moved on alot from Eric's original work. |
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Ah that's a shame
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First news about Heart of the Alien for Amiga was confusing to me as I thought it was about Heart of Darkness.
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24 November 2020, 02:39 | #5 |
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The porting of "Heart of Darkness" now exists thanks to Arti.
Porting Heart of Darkness: Download On WinUAE works well, the screen is slightly shifted to the left, I could not figure out how to center it, for the game I created some Dual-PNG icons. Test Video WinUAE AfA One: Heart of Darkness (Italy version) for optimal mink set the video to 720p |
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Nowhere are the system requirements listed. The readme says "Tested on Vampire computers" and "Amiga 68k port by Artur Arti Jarosik based on WOS sources by Cowcat
that are based on Xbox1 SDL1 sources by ModernVintageGamer" so presumably it would need an accelerated Amiga. RTG card might help too. Still cool to see. Great find, @AMIGASYSTEM! --- EDIT: Looking through the other ports on the site, I'm frequently seeing 68060 + RTG so that's probably the target. |
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On a real Amiga you need an advanced CPU, on WinUAE an 020 JIT is fine (on WinUAE there is not much difference between 020/30/04/060).
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Can it be run on Amiga OS 3.1? |
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24 November 2020, 19:56 | #9 |
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Ok, tried installing on Amiga OS 3.1 / RTG.
Game starts and then WinUAE immediately crashes: Not much information in the "README.txt"; anything specific I need? Haven'y tried using SnoopDos as yet, that's my next step. |
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LOL, maybe the English PC version isn't supported...
I don't see it listed in the "RELEASES.yaml" file. Not sure what the "Heart of Darkness Coca Cola Edition" is; maybe this is English? Failing that looks, like I'll need the "Heart of Darkness NTSC-U (PSX)" version... |
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french version work
Thanks Arti |
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Bah, the "Heart of Darkness Coca Cola Edition" is this:
This special release of Heart of Darkness includes: ... the first two levels of the gameLooks like for English speakers your only option is to source the "Heart of Darkness NTSC-U (PSX)" (which is 2 discs). I can't believe the normal English Win32 CD is not supported (which I have sitting here); absolutely crazy |
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@DamienD
try: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/h...s-a4h#download you need: – hod.paf (hod_demo.paf or hod_demo2.paf) – setup.dat – *_hod.lvl – *_hod.sss – *_hod.mst |
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Same issue as what I reported in post #9. |
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Just tried the PSX version. The files listed as being required only amount to 186MB...
The game starts though but seems to be missing backgrounds: By contrast the English Win32 files amount to 487MB... |
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Bah, from looking at the "RELEASES.yaml" file, it seem all other languages need "HODWin32.exe".
I've now added this from my English Win32 installed gamedir. ...still crashes though |
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Here are the list of files I've used: Code:
Dark_hod.lvl Dark_hod.mst Dark_hod.sss Fort_hod.lvl Fort_hod.mst Fort_hod.sss hod.dem hod.paf HODWin32.exe Isld_hod.lvl Isld_hod.mst Isld_hod.sss Lar1_hod.lvl Lar1_hod.mst Lar1_hod.sss Lar2_hod.lvl Lar2_hod.mst Lar2_hod.sss Lava_hod.lvl Lava_hod.mst Lava_hod.sss Pwr1_hod.lvl Pwr1_hod.mst Pwr1_hod.sss Pwr2_hod.lvl Pwr2_hod.mst Pwr2_hod.sss Rock_hod.lvl Rock_hod.mst Rock_hod.sss Setup.dat |
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Damiano the English version works very well, I think you have some problems in the system.
Heart of Darkness you have to install it on PC and then take the whole folder where you will copy the amiga amiga porting files. Attach your config uae and try to test an OS 3.1 system. |
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