Quake on OCS/ECS. Nice joke :)

[keropi]

when Q came out, I was playing it on a 486DX/100 with 16MB ram. it had ~30-35fps and it was excellent.
a p166 should have played it at a constant 60fps, maybe your vga was not good.

[Mad-Matt]

i had crapy tridant 2mb to begin with, but later a matrox mystique. cant remember if it helped quake or not as i dont think quake supported its hardware acceleration. All changed once the voodoo card came about though although i dont think it was quite 60fps

[viddi]

Originally Posted by Zetr0

I had a struggle trying to keep it above 12fps on my 060+32MB+CV643Dmk2 in 640480!

irony is the demo always looked nice.... its just played like crap....

Every 3D 68k game on Amiga sucks above 320 x 256.


I like the way Genetic Species creates its 3D illusions. (Nice effects and great textures)

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by Zetr0

ah but doom / hexen on my 060 and with or without using the CV643Dmk2 was an absolute joy!

Doom is very good on an 040 too. Quake, however, plays like an absolute brick.

[DrBong]

Originally Posted by viddi

@ Photon:

I think there is no ECS version available -> http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/Quake68k

It would be unplayable on A500/040 anyway!

Aye! The min. requirements for any open source conversion of Quake on the Amiga is 020/AGA/KS3.0/16Mb ram, although it's not recommended that you play on anything below 040/060 (and probably a decent gfx card + plenty of memory):

http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/awinquake

http://devnull.owl.de/~frank/Quake.readme

http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/Quake68k (same as quoted url)

http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/BlitzQuake_68k

If you feel compelled to be a masochist and play Quake on 68K Amiga, then you might find the Sushi patches helpful in squeezing out some extra speed (clickBOOM conversion only IIRC):

http://surgeon.users2.50megs.com/quake/index.htm

[Photon]

Resurrected this just to say thanks for correcting HOL, didn't do that before. It was indeed a nice joke.

Shouldn't be an impossibility on A500/040 or A500/060 when A520 comes, but today the ports require minimum AGA/6MB.

Still a bit choppy on my 060 (in signature) even when I shrink the screen size a little, so it will likely be a 1 FPS possibility if it's ever compiled for OCS.

Since my original post, I've learned enough to appreciate the power of 060 as the only CPU that has enough power to overcome the drawbacks of the chipset graphics modes.

I wrote some humble statements possibly allowing the possibility that Quake would run decently on anything but a few hundred ultimate Amigas. I hereby withdraw them.

[Thorham]

Why even bother with Quake on the Amiga anyway, when a sub gigahertz Pentium 3 can do it using OpenGL in native wide screen resolutions at good frame rates?

[roy bates]

quake on mine does 25 fps,in aga only it does 14 fps,doom does 35+fps.


quake on a a3000t on picasso4 =12fps

but then agian it wasent exactly taking advantage of an 040 or 060 anyway (from an fpu point of view)it was a bad port to start with(clickboom)

[spiff]

Quake 3, Sandy bridge 4.0 ~980fps. Engine apparently is capped at 1000fps

Still, Quake on ECS is a bit fun...

[roy bates]

Originally Posted by spiff

Quake 3, Sandy bridge 4.0 ~980fps. Engine apparently is capped at 1000fps

Still, Quake on ECS is a bit fun...

the question is,can you play it at 980fps,a bit pointless really dont you think.

i mean video plays back at 24fps and most peaple are happy with 50fps.
from a visual point of view.

another question is...................can it blend?

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by roy bates

quake on mine does 25 fps,in aga only it does 14 fps

That's a huge difference. Sounds like they screwed up in the c2p department.

I wonder how good Quake could really be on 680x0+AGA.

[roy bates]

Originally Posted by Thorham

That's a huge difference. Sounds like they screwed up in the c2p department.

I wonder how good Quake could really be on 680x0+AGA.

from what i can see it wasent optimised at all,infact if you change the render settings in game it does absolutley nothing.(its terrible)

but with that said, the 25fps is on a voodoo running through warp3d with a 060 at 100mhz at 640 by 480 in 16bit with ahi(blitzquake not clickbooms front end),to be honest i prefer dungeon master for playability(mainly because there is no puzzle eliment in quake)

the aga testrun was on a 1200 with 060 at 100mhz in 320 by 200 in 8 bit lol,not exactly uber fast but still playable.(mine wasent optimisd with any c2p routines at the time,just brute force)clickbooms version.


amiga users have no choice really when it comes to quake the minimum for me is an 040 at 40mhz with rtg to even think about it(it will run on a 030 with 68882 at 50mhz,but not recommended unless you like torture)

the top end is a 060 at 50mhz or above with ahi sound card and rtg,over ten years ago i played it to completion on a 1260 tower at 72mhz with cv643d and ahi sound.and i still enjoyed playing it.although i did enjoy alien breed 3d 2 more,even if it was even worse for optimisations to be fair
baer in mind that the clickboom conversion wasent port of the pc version(more a front end) so i wasent expecting massive amounts of speed anyway,i think it was more a proof of concept,even if it was a commercial release.
what made it worse for me was that it was a front end for the pc version with no optimisations at all.still you can have the addon packs and third party addons running to get extra playability from it though.which was a bonus.

[Photon]

Originally Posted by spiff

Quake 3, Sandy bridge 4.0 ~980fps. Engine apparently is capped at 1000fps

Still, Quake on ECS is a bit fun...

What?