C&C Red Alert for OS 3.x !!!!!!!!

[Nobby_UK]

Quick Video:
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[arti]

Here's full game archive with latest beta

https://tinyurl.com/5bw3j69b

(movies are not enabled yet)

Have fun

[arti]

Movie playback fixed

Red Alert SDL & CGX
http://netsurf.baderman.net/vanillara

http://netsurf.baderman.net/vanillara-cgx

C&C Tiberian Dawn
http://netsurf.baderman.net/vanillatd

http://netsurf.baderman.net/vanillatd-cgx

Full archive can be found here:
https://arcziii.itch.io/vanillaconquer

[jurassicman]

Has anyone ever compiled this for PPC cpu? I wrote a PM to Cawcat long time ago but I never heard back...

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by jurassicman

Has anyone ever compiled this for PPC cpu? I wrote a PM to Cawcat long time ago but I never heard back...

Yeah I got it semi working at one point a long time ago but it wasn't good enough for release, as I recall there was some problem with sound, and videos were all jacked up.

Probably would not be all that much work, but I think it works fine on Dosbox WarpOS so...

[jurassicman]

I never tried Dosbox WarpOS... I could give it a try but I'd appreciate a lot (and I'm sure i wouldn't be the only one) a "native" PPC version if you'd ever had time to look at it...

[amigoun]

Is there a chance to make DOSBox WOS work with CPPC+Zorro Gfx board? I tried but only blank screen even when render settings set to surface.

[Seiya]

very slow this game. i tried with WinUAE jit, and 1 fps
what difference with "Vanilla and Vanillatd" and "vanilla-cgx and vanillatd-cgx"? with both vanillatd the game don't run.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by amigoun

Is there a chance to make DOSBox WOS work with CPPC+Zorro Gfx board? I tried but only blank screen even when render settings set to surface.

Should probably not crap up this thread with WOS stuff. Post in the DOSBox WOS thread.

But usually it's a sign that it started, allocated some memory but it ended up fragmented. You also need to specify a very low amount of RAM for CSPPC, like 8MB or less, probably 4MB, but it's not going to run anything above maybe 1000 cycles anyway since JIT mode needs a lot more memory.
Also core needs to be =normal
Don't start the PPC until Workbench is already up.

[arti]

Originally Posted by Seiya

very slow this game. i tried with WinUAE jit, and 1 fps
what difference with "Vanilla and Vanillatd" and "vanilla-cgx and vanillatd-cgx"? with both vanillatd the game don't run.

Slow on WinUAE JIT? What PC are you playing on, 200Mhz?
This port works fast even on 85Mhz V4 Vampire:
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Not 'vanilla' but VanillaRA, that is exe for Red Alert.Vanilla TD is Command and Conquer 1 Tiberain Dawn.

VanillaRA uses SDL which has advantage of original animated cursors.
VanillaRA CGX plain CGX/P96. Videos are working fine. Same for TD.
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[Seiya]

Originally Posted by arti

Slow on WinUAE JIT? What PC are you playing on, 200Mhz?
This port works fast even on 85Mhz V4 Vampire:
[ Show youtube player ]


Not 'vanilla' but VanillaRA, that is exe for Red Alert.Vanilla TD is Command and Conquer 1 Tiberain Dawn.

VanillaRA uses SDL which has advantage of original animated cursors.
VanillaRA CGX plain CGX/P96. Videos are working fine. Same for TD.
[ Show youtube player ]

all your porting on my two computer run very good and fast (i7 2600 and i7 7700). Only VanillaRA is very slow, impossible to play. I use the same operating system and the same configuration for every your game.
i will made a movie to show this thing.

[Aladin]

For RA, you must set the difficulty to “Normal” to have the normal speed of the units, otherwise they are ultra slow…

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by Aladin

For RA, you must set the difficulty to “Normal” to have the normal speed of the units, otherwise they are ultra slow…

wow, it's true. With difficult set at "normal" the game is fast and very fluid. But i didn't understand. It should be run at the same speed at any difficulty settings.
however in the Arti videos he set "easy" and the game is fast and fluid.

[arti]

Game difficulty sets different speed of game for Easy it's slower and faster for Hard.
There is bug with timer then if speed doesn't equal 1 for Normal. I suspect float vs double types problems on Amiga. Maybe I will fix this when I have some free time.

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by arti

Game difficulty sets different speed of game for Easy it's slower and faster for Hard.
There is bug with timer then if speed doesn't equal 1 for Normal. I suspect float vs double types problems on Amiga. Maybe I will fix this when I have some free time.

ok, thanks

[wiz12]

Playing this on a Pistorm and am getting a consistent yellow recoverable alert error message whilst playing this in full screen mode only, doesn't occur in window mode?

[arti]

On which version does it happens, CGX or SDL?

[wiz12]

SDL, when I run CGX version it just causes a system reboot.

This is the error message.

Recoverable Alert. Press left mouse button to continue.
Error: 0100 000C Task: 082B9268

[arti]

Do you have all game files?
I recommend CaffeineOS distro where this game is installed and works.

[BigD]

Originally Posted by arti

Do you have all game files?
I recommend CaffeineOS distro where this game is installed and works.

But does it play the FMV videos?