Why do You think that only Music.iff contains soundtrack for this game? This game has 5 music files, much more than 300kB in total. Check WT page or Exotica:


https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Batman_(game)

Check this wideo from 4 minutes 30 secs:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lFI88Wu1OI

The link is empty Don. But ok.... The Amiga 2 Disks version had enough space to get the 5 screens missing.

We can see the pictures i have preserved of Wec le mans 16 bits.

Check now, seems to be fixed. Yes, 2 disks version has enough space, but not 1 disk version.

Good, i always want to rip Amiga music from this game. Anyway it looks like better/correct name for this soundformat is perhaps Ocean player not Special FX. Because was used mostly in Ocean's Amiga games.

My point above. Or, Ocean should had used longtracks, like a game as Xenon 2 1 disk version.

There is no music. Only the images i upped remains.

I knew one of the coders on Batman (my desk was next to his at Eurocom), unfortunately he passed away in 2013

Which Batman do you talk about ? Ah ok, Bernie Drummond of Batman 1986 fame ?

No.. Allan Short

Ho wait. You talk about Batman the movie Amiga, he was part of the 3 coders team.

Yes, I'm talking about the game this thread is about ;)

I think I'll just change the 'Amiga original game' from 'unknown' to 'yes' at this point ;)

Hey hey hey. Discussion forums host discussions, discussions go all over the place :)

I can't remember what year WEC Le Mans came out but Ocean never used this 2.5D routine again. Chase HQ used the Continental Circus game engine, S.C.I. used something new. Can't think of any other 2.5D Ocean games except Burning Rubber which is even later and IIRC not on the ST anyway.

Gary Bracey couldn't tell me why the Batman driving routines were not used for Chase HQ in 2019 when I asked him but in ZZAP!64 and Amiga magazine they sent a completely different screenshot for Chase HQ preview (probably Dpaint mock up) and Ocean specifically told the magazines it would use an enhanced version of the Batman routines. To be fair he also couldn't tell my why Terra Cresta never appeared on the Amstrad so it's not a conspiracy type situation :)

I think Batman is the only good 'ST port job' because the ST routines were so well programmed to start with and it isn't 12.5% slower on Amiga like most port jobs, but it doesn't really look much faster and both games are 16+16 colours with a palette split for the status panel at the bottom so that's not an issue either.

Would be interesting to compare Batman level 2 on the ST with footage of Lotus II for the ST and compare framerates.

Chase HQ is a shit job done by Teque London. Batman the Movie was done internally at Ocean.

Mike Lamb was a great coder. So was Jon O'Brien. He did wonders on Z80 computers.

Wish had coder-fu to take the routines of Batman and make the Chase HQ we missed

Disk images is enough to rip Jonathan Dunn music. Or this version has no music like other unfinished/unpublished Ocean Amiga game Renegade III?

I decided to have a look at the game on both the Amiga and ST. Amiga is using the blitter to draw everything in place of ST CPU routines. There's nothing else over and above the blitter that is specifically being used on the Amiga hardware leading me to believe the same code base was used on both machines with the lead machine being the ST.

The same general technique is used for other games around 1989, Xenon 2 springs to mind.