Conversion Capers: Rygar

[buzzybee]

Originally Posted by ross

This explain
You need %1100.
Yes, a total bad usage of AGA but this is a simple addition

The game need to be rewritten for AGA (like Tsak suggested).

Bye!
ross

Exactly. Using FMODE %1100 slows down the whole System considerably, therefore no need to change code, but you can´tdo much more than just add another parallax layer to an existing 16 color playfield. Some levels of Rygar could get some additional touches this way, like ditching the whole sprite scrolling idea and instead adding a parallax bitmap in the first level.

Anyway, to me the biggest advantage of AGA is to be found in the 2 MB of chipmem, which gives the coder much more space to play around with blitter objects, big sprites, big copperlists. Don´t think that Rygar needs any of these.

[sandruzzo]

Some EHB PICS

[Greyfox]

Fantastic work

[sandruzzo]

Sooner it'll be available for testing. EHB 64 Color 50 hz?

[dlfrsilver]

Yummy, it looks so beautiful

[saimon69]

\o/

[kovacm]

Can we expect some demo or video? I can wait to see all this sprite moving across the screen

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by kovacm

Can we expect some demo or video? I can wait to see all this sprite moving across the screen

Sooner I'll update a demo

[sandruzzo]

Update small demo ehb 64 colors with sounds. Can someone test on real amiga and see if it works? Should take 1mb of chip mem


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03...ew?usp=sharing

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

Can someone test on real amiga and see if it works?

Didn't work in my setup, let me upload 3 videos for you and post again.

[edit] here goes.
My setup:

Amiga 600 with 2MB Chip RAM and ACA620 accelerator, Kickstart 2.0
1GB CF HD on PFS3

First I booted the game as-is from the floppy. Seems like the accelerator created issues with stuttering (too fast? too slow?) and then it crashed. Sorry, I forgot to record the guru it crashed with! I can try again if it's useful:
[ Show youtube player ]

Second, I disabled the ACA620's cache and burst, and it seems that removed the stuttering, but the game crashed, now not with a guru, just a black screen:
[ Show youtube player ]

Third, I tried copying the folder to RAM and execute from Workbench. All I got is a mess:
[ Show youtube player ]

Hope this helps, let me know if you want me to test more.

[Retro-Nerd]

Same here. Didn't work on my A1200 (with/without turbocard, tried degrader settings). Even in a plain Amiga 500 WinUAE config it doesn't work. Either gurus or garbled graphics, freezed game but the music is playing.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Same here. Didn't work on my A1200 (with/without turbocard, tried degrader settings). Even in a plain Amiga 500 WinUAE config it doesn't work. Either gurus or garbled graphics, freezed game but the music is playing.

Did you get stuttering with the turbocard on?
Maybe a blitter wait problem or something?

[Retro-Nerd]

Nope, only garbled graphics with the music playing. Game is freezed right from the start.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Nope, only garbled graphics with the music playing. Game is freezed right from the start.

So like my third video?
Did you boot from floppy or from WOrkbench?

[sandruzzo]

Maybe some chip issue. Tri it on a WINUAE with a lot of chip mem

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by Akira

Didn't work in my setup, let me upload 3 videos for you and post again.

[edit] here goes.
My setup:

Amiga 600 with 2MB Chip RAM and ACA620 accelerator, Kickstart 2.0
1GB CF HD on PFS3

First I booted the game as-is from the floppy. Seems like the accelerator created issues with stuttering (too fast? too slow?) and then it crashed. Sorry, I forgot to record the guru it crashed with! I can try again if it's useful:
[ Show youtube player ]

Second, I disabled the ACA620's cache and burst, and it seems that removed the stuttering, but the game crashed, now not with a guru, just a black screen:
[ Show youtube player ]

Third, I tried copying the folder to RAM and execute from Workbench. All I got is a mess:
[ Show youtube player ]

Hope this helps, let me know if you want me to test more.

For a while test2 was good.

[sandruzzo]

I'll try to upload some other version to try to catch the bugs

[DamienD]

Just got home and tested this.

Booted my "Classic WB 3.1 Lite" .HDF (AGA / 68020 / 2MB Chip and 4MB Fast RAM), inserted the disk afterwards and ran.

The game starts, no garbled graphics / sound, I can move around and jump but as soon as I press fire the game gurus...

[sandruzzo]

Can someone do some kind of configuration that bring this fire button bugs on the light so I can find it?

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Just got home and tested this.

Booted my "Classic WB 3.1 Lite" .HDF (AGA / 68020 / 2MB Chip and 4MB Fast RAM), inserted the disk afterwards and ran.

The game starts, no garbled graphics / sound, I can move around and jump but as soon as I press fire the game gurus...

Beside bugs, it go at 50hz?.