Quests Of Nargoth

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 13:47

Hello,

Long time agoo, it was arround 1995-1999, i wanted to make an amiga RPG game. I wanted it to be in 3D (Wolfenstein 3D kind), with turn based fightings (champions of Krynn combat style).
I named it "QON" that stands for: "Quests Of Nargoth".
I never finished the game, we couldn't even really play it, in fact it never past the state of a level editor, but the 3D motor worked and we could move in it with the keyboard or the mouse. We could build real levels with it already, outdor levels or in dungeon levels.
Unfortunatly i stopped to work at it in 1999 when Amiga was more than dead for me.
If i would have know that there are still fans of the amiga in 2011 i would probably never have stopped and probably we could now play it, who knows..

Unfortunatly my amiga HD gave up his life

so i lost all the source files from QON.
But i still have a CD i made with QON on it, and i managed to run it on my WinUAE emulator. It's not the very lastest version i made, but close enough.

If anyone is interested into trying it out, i have added the QON folder as attachment. It's zipped.
I don't know how to do for other emulators, or if you can even manage to start in on your real amiga, but with WinUAE i set it as AGA, with a 68030, 2 Mb Chip and 2Mb Fast memory.
If it doesn't draw the 3D view correctly, try to load a "Climat" with the "Climat" button.

Oh yes i forgot to mention, i'm french, so it's all in french

Edit: get the actual version from there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qon/

DDNI · 18 January 2011, 14:47

wow!

/ddni runs off to fire up the miggy....

gimbal · 18 January 2011, 14:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Riton

Unfortunatly my amiga HD gave up his life

so i lost all the source files from QON.

Aw man

If there was any place where you would have a chance to see it 'finished', it would be this forum :/ Was it all assembly so it could be disassembled by one of the black magic wizards here and restored to a usable state?

DDNI · 18 January 2011, 15:05

@Lord Riton. Great Job!

The editor runs great on my 060 A1200. I tried level one with the Small, Medium and Large options. Small and Medium size 1x1 pixel super smooth and fast. Large 1x1 jerky 1x2 better.
The graphics remind me of Legends of Valour.

Is it possible to continue development?

mfilos · 18 January 2011, 15:15

I tried it under UAE just some minutes ago and works just fine.
Although being only a level editor as you said... It's indeed a brilliant work mate and the movement (3D motor) works very nicely.
Pitty the source was lost

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 15:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by gimbal

Aw man

If there was any place where you would have a chance to see it 'finished', it would be this forum :/ Was it all assembly so it could be disassembled by one of the black magic wizards here and restored to a usable state?

Yes it was made in assember with Devpac 3.0 assembler if i remember well.

Edit: I checked it, and actualy it was made with Devpac 2.11d (don't know why i tought it was 3.0 , probably i planned to buy that one)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDNI

@Lord Riton. Great Job!

The editor runs great on my 060 A1200. I tried level one with the Small, Medium and Large options. Small and Medium size 1x1 pixel super smooth and fast. Large 1x1 jerky 1x2 better.
The graphics remind me of Legends of Valour.

Is it possible to continue development?

Thank you. Unfortunatly i lost the source files, so no i cannot continue it sorry.

zipper · 18 January 2011, 15:43

Really nice, tried in UAE.

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 15:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by zipper

Really nice, tried in UAE.

Thank you.

I must say i'm really surprised about so many replies in this short time.. and i tought the Amiga died befor 2000 ..

QON works best on a real cathodic old TV, because of the HAM8 mode.

DDNI · 18 January 2011, 15:58

@Lord Riton

The Amiga is [ Show youtube player ]

It is a shame that QON is lost... BUT... There are many Amiga projects that need good coders, maybe you could get involved?

Djay · 18 January 2011, 16:18

When I get home I will check it out on my a1200... Maybe if the editor works well maybe we could knock a scenario and workable level set up? Sounds like fun!

Thanks for sharing your work... Welcome back to amiga scene

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 17:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDNI

@Lord Riton

The Amiga is [ Show youtube player ]

It is a shame that QON is lost... BUT... There are many Amiga projects that need good coders, maybe you could get involved?

Nice link, i love that song (and the portal game).

I fear i don't have time to code on amigas again, and anyway i didn't program anything on my amiga since the QON project, i forgot probably to much. I Lost arround 10 years of my life playing online games like HoMM3, Asheron's call 1/2 and last but not least: World of Warcraft

I'm trying to re-learn my C++ on my PC atm, to eventually find a job as a programmer again. I worked as a programmer in a German companie for 2 years, and lost my job cause of these online games arround 8 years agoo now...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Djay

Maybe if the editor works well maybe we could knock a scenario and workable level set up?

I'm sorry, but the editor is not advanced enough to create a real scenario, if i had worked one more month or so, we probably could have..

Also there is a problem with the number kinda "list boxes" i made, i don't know why, but with my WinUAE i don't see the numbers they seem to be in the same color as the boxes themself. It worked better on my real amiga, but like i said, i more or less lost it with my HD beeing broken.

Djay · 18 January 2011, 18:58

Ok maybe just a level set, I would be using real amiga!

Cosmos · 18 January 2011, 19:06

>i didn't program anything on my amiga since the QON project, i forgot probably to much

Ca revient vite...

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 20:41

OMG ! My amiga is atually working ! with the HD !!

No clue why i couldn't get it to work last time i tryed (arround 2 years agoo now), maybe i accidently pulled the expansion board lever to off or to some middle state (?) or was it that floppy disk button that was half stuck (?)

Well, it works now ! and i tryed out QON of course, on my old TV i have in another room, looks a lot better than on my PC screen

Will try to put it on a CD (lets hope i still have some somewhere) to be able to transfer it on this PC, and then here on this forum

DDNI · 18 January 2011, 20:49

great news! Does this mean that you now have the source for QON?!!

viddi · 18 January 2011, 21:17

Great news indeed!

Nice demo.

prowler · 18 January 2011, 21:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDNI

Does this mean that you now have the source for QON?!!

Let's hope so!

I really love threads like this!

Lord Riton · 18 January 2011, 22:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDNI

great news! Does this mean that you now have the source for QON?!!

Yes, i got all sources files i ever made on my amiga now ! (and i started kind a lot of projects.. finished only very fiew lol)

But sad news, seems my CD player on my amiga is broken. I have no clue how i can transfer files from my amiga to my PC now, it was my window to the internet

Photon · 18 January 2011, 22:05

NARGOTH, eh?? That must be a REALLY COOL AND AWESOME PLACE OR PERSON

I've no idea how you transfer to PC with a CD player, but a common solution is to get a $5 CF-IDE adapter and a $30 CF card, should be able to plug that in instead of the CD.

BippyM · 18 January 2011, 22:05

Compress with LZX or Lha and transfer to floppy disk. Post to an amiga user who will transfer to PC

18 January 2011, 13:47	#1
Lord Riton Registered User Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: France Age: 52 Posts: 507	Quests Of Nargoth Hello, Long time agoo, it was arround 1995-1999, i wanted to make an amiga RPG game. I wanted it to be in 3D (Wolfenstein 3D kind), with turn based fightings (champions of Krynn combat style). I named it "QON" that stands for: "Quests Of Nargoth". I never finished the game, we couldn't even really play it, in fact it never past the state of a level editor, but the 3D motor worked and we could move in it with the keyboard or the mouse. We could build real levels with it already, outdor levels or in dungeon levels. Unfortunatly i stopped to work at it in 1999 when Amiga was more than dead for me. If i would have know that there are still fans of the amiga in 2011 i would probably never have stopped and probably we could now play it, who knows.. Unfortunatly my amiga HD gave up his life so i lost all the source files from QON. But i still have a CD i made with QON on it, and i managed to run it on my WinUAE emulator. It's not the very lastest version i made, but close enough. If anyone is interested into trying it out, i have added the QON folder as attachment. It's zipped. I don't know how to do for other emulators, or if you can even manage to start in on your real amiga, but with WinUAE i set it as AGA, with a 68030, 2 Mb Chip and 2Mb Fast memory. If it doesn't draw the 3D view correctly, try to load a "Climat" with the "Climat" button. Oh yes i forgot to mention, i'm french, so it's all in french Edit: get the actual version from there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qon/ Last edited by Lord Riton; 20 September 2011 at 07:59.

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