Star wars Dark forces on the Amiga using MAC emulatoros

[Sandro]

hello I want to know if this game works on the Amiga using shape shifter or fusion emulators
seems this game uses doom engine or something like that

anyone tried it ?

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[Amiten]

I think , cammy show amiga playing this game some where....by shapeshifter

[Sandro]

Originally Posted by Amiten

I think , cammy show amiga playing this game some where....by shapeshifter

are you referring to this thread ?

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57426

[Amiten]

Yes man this one

[Michael Sykes]

I think I will try the download it on Macintoshgarden and try it in ShapeShifter.
They wrote it works on SheepShaver and on system 7.
I'm not even a SW fan and never played it but it looks cool.
Lets hope it doesn't need a PPC.

[Sandro]

Originally Posted by Michael Sykes

I think I will try the download it on Macintoshgarden and try it in ShapeShifter.
They wrote it works on SheepShaver and on system 7.
I'm not even a SW fan and never played it but it looks cool.
Lets hope it doesn't need a PPC.

I just tried the game from macintosh garden
it works great and ultra fast on both fusion and shapeshifter
please note I used winuae, so on a real Amiga must work, but maybe on a real Amiga is slow or not so fast as in winuae

on macintosh garden they wrote it works on sheepshaver because this game it doesn't work on Basilisk /windows , I checked it

[Calabazam]

It runs just fine with Shapeshifter on real 68060 and a RTG card. But long term stability of Shapeshifter can be an issue during a gaming session.

[Rebel-CD32]

I've played it through Shapeshifter on my 50Mhz '030 A1200. I set Shapeshifter to use an NTSC Low-Res screenmode but with a 640x480 screen area and turned auto-scrolling off. Then ran the game from MacOS, put it in the lowest size screen it'll run in and centred it. It's a bit too slow to be fun, but it works.

[Sandro]

Originally Posted by Calabazam

It runs just fine with Shapeshifter on real 68060 and a RTG card. But long term stability of Shapeshifter can be an issue during a gaming session.

on shapeshifter this game sometimes return to finder with error code xxx
try fusion it works more stable, never returned to finder until now

[edd_jedi]

I'd love somebody to make a native AGA port, surely must be possible having seen Doom, Quake etc run at amazing speed on an 060 or even 040

[Cowcat]

Sí, Sandro.
As wrote, it worked OK with SS on a A1200 1230/50 AGA. I played it as other games like After The Dark, like 20 years ago.
Could be cool to code an Amiga port.....

[Michael]

The remastered DarkForces in Warp3D will run mega good.
Can't wait if this ever happens

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by edd_jedi

I'd love somebody to make a native AGA port, surely must be possible having seen Doom, Quake etc run at amazing speed on an 060 or even 040

The difference is that Doom and Quake are open source so porting was actually possible. Dark Forces is not open source as far as I can tell. And unlike what people want to believe: it does not run on the Doom engine.

[edd_jedi]

Originally Posted by gimbal

The difference is that Doom and Quake are open source so porting was actually possible. Dark Forces is not open source as far as I can tell. And unlike what people want to believe: it does not run on the Doom engine.

There is an HD 'port' of Dark Forces here, DarkXL. not sure if that means they needed the source code:

http://xlengine.com/games/