29 March 2024, 23:01 | #221 |
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This is a lovely port and it's great how you have targeted different configs - shuts up the 'where is the AGA port?' brigade.
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thanks everyone. Updated a new version on itch. Fixed ECS and even slightly better visuals for all versions.
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I really admire you, all the arcade conversions you have done are impressive, because you get an exact approximation of these arcade conversions. Maybe many don't know it, but on emulators, there is usually lag, but if you play the Amiga version on a real Amiga and a CRT monitor, there is no lag, it is really a much better way to play these games, more similar to the original. Please keep doing things that make you (make us) happy. |
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Really nice. ECS version now also working on AGA machines (probably not that important but still ). About the only graphical problem I can see left is missing a line or two below "You have broken a record!" text
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Thanks Toni it really means a lot. When I did the tech explanation it was not for the people who criticize minimum specs for such a game, but for everyone who is interested.
I'm glad that people play my conversions (and other amiga games) on real machines and not on emulators. I had a game on Moon Patrol AGA on my A1200/060 last night and it ran even better than on the emulator in cycle exact. There is still the 50/56 Hz difference that I have to solve, not trivial. I was not aware of the lag when running on an emulator. One thing is sure: MAME is double buffered, but on the amiga version, hardware scrolling & hardware sprites are not, which reduces the lag. That is very encouraging to keep porting more games. Anyway I just don't really enjoy playing on emulators anymore. I must be sick or extremist or a sick extremist for that aspect. Yes there's still this annoying missing line. I'll fix that when I know why it happens (else I would already have fixed it) This bug is repeating like a broken record |
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Do You tried to call game logic at 55Hz?
Add 1 extra call, for every 10 VBL calls. And saving record time for every etap is supported? |
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Wait, wait! Have you actually checked how much (frame time) you are really away from 50 fps? Because according to your technical breakdown there are some possibilities to improve.
For example you say that you blit all three layers. But you shouldn't have to do that (unless you were to save so much time by having so many bobs and you can skip lots of bob restoring). Even if there are 3 layers and you don't use dual playfield you can hw scroll one layer. Theoretically even hw scrolling 2 of the layers is possible: the blue mountains and the ground layer hw scroll and only the green layer is mask blitted: the upper part of it mask blit in front of blue mountains. the lower part of it mask blit behind ground layer. Similiar to common wraparound tile scrollers (like Turrican) this requires bob drawing to take split line/point into consideration and possibly split up blits in two, if a bob crosses the line. How fast does the game run if in a quick test you disable blitting of ground layer and blue mountains. Still only 25 fps? |
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Or You can try something like this. It can works at 56Hz under 50Hz VBI, if no my faults.
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VBI bsr.w GameLogic addq.b #1,Counter1 cmp.b #10,Counter1 bne.b Skip clr.b Counter1 bsr.w GameLogic addq.b #1,Counter2 cmp.b #5,Counter2 bne.b Skip clr.b Counter2 bsr.w GameLogic Skip bsr AmigaStuff rte Counter1 dc.b 0 Counter2 dc.b 0 Last edited by Don_Adan; 30 March 2024 at 23:09. |
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DonAdan thanks this method you suggested a long time ago worked very well with all other remakes since Pacman but here it doesn't work for 2 known reasons and possible hidden ones
First, no game work the way you're writing your loop. There's some infinite loop (possibly in sync with the IRQ) and the IRQ The IRQ runs at 60 or 56 Hz or whatever, and yes, most of the time, ticking twice once in a while works, but here it doesn't. If I do this: - Title screen appears at the wrong time. Because game mainloop sets a target timer value and waits for it, but double tick makes it miss the tick first time: big delay... I could fix it manually but... - Demo mode recorded controls fail. Jeep misses a jump or something similar. This is a big no no if things like that happen because it means that the game logic is wrong - all other snide differences that could be related to above. My best options ATM: - remain at 50Hz, so people can enjoy the game and a Xanax at the same time - try to perform IRQ in custom copper interrupts. I can go 100Hz and then control when I call the IRQ. Last time I tried I got unexplained crashes - follow your advice with CIA interrupt. Crashed badly probably for the same reason as above, plus music is strange and not sure hacking it would work. Quote:
Plus you seem to forget that we must redraw blue mountains a lot because of bobs passing into it, and also green mountains. The best option would have to go ECS dual playfield, but 8+8 colors is too much a constraint even with HW sprites to save slots, regardless of what trolls think. I've tried several times and gave it up. To save colors with sprites, you have to assign HW sprites to all sprites using those colors, which isn't trivial. Example: at high levels, you can have NINE bloody UFOs, so it's not even possible to go all HW sprites for UFOs. Quote:
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At first for test disable totally music, if You try to use timer.
If it works ok without music, then handling music is very easy. I can help You with music handling. Last edited by Don_Adan; 30 March 2024 at 23:10. |
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Tested on my A4000/060 NTSC setup and the disk did not work. Game loaded up at title and froze. Hope that helps (Set NOCACHE in ES. If set to PAL it worked)
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Okay. Game isn't designed to run in NTSC. Someone said that it worked on his NTSC A1000 though.
I tried again with level 1 interrupt and crashed without reason. BUT adding another copper interrupt in the middle of the screen doesn't crash, and it works!!! updated technical details in above post. Last edited by jotd; 31 March 2024 at 00:16. |
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Ross is interrupt expert. Im not expert. From my memory for WT cracktros, I must changing code position in VBI AddIntServer routine. Or cracktro doesnt works correctly on 68040. It was any code race problem in copper, I think. I change also server priority (I dont use vectors). Perhaps music interrupt routine was at end too call from VBI. If Protracker player from Moon Patrol works on timer, not on VBI then music has big prority. Better is changing to VBI source. Also if You will be use AddIntServer, then You can use 2 VBI servers in game with different priority. One for game logic and one for Amiga stuff/part. Maybe it can help too?
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Awesome to see more good progress on this. Thanks jotd!
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VBI and copper bottom-of-frame are too close to be useful for extra tick. Mid-screen copper interrupt works very well. Updated soon! |
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Hi JOTD,
I downloaded Your latest ADF (01/04/2024 00:28). I have a problem with the ADF.... On my A500 ACA500PLUS ONLY, When I use A500 Profile F3 Standard A500 KS 1.3 + 1MB CHIP, Just after the menu selection, I obtain this message error : Software error - task held Finish ALL Disk activity Selecct CANCEL to rest/debug. Could someone test it with another ACA500 plus with 1MB CHIP or with an A500+ 1MB CHIP ? Because in mode A500 KS 1.3 512k+512 k all works correctly. Many Thanks. Pascal EDITED : OK SAME ERROR UNDER WINUAE QUICKSTART MODE A500 1.3 ROM ECS AGNUS 1 MB CHIP RAM Last edited by PascalDe73; 01 April 2024 at 13:18. |
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Must be a problem with the menu, as game is not launched yet. I've asked Damien about the issue.
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I just tested the latest ADF in FSUAE, A500/1MBChip/1.3ROM mode, and it worked fine both in PAL and NTSC mode. In this case, it looks like the game running is the OCS version - I can tell because the green layer protrudes into the border a bit in the OCS version, but it's all flush in the ECS version. Not sure what are the other differences between OCS and ECS?
PascalDe73, maybe try running the ECS version of the game manually on your setup? If it's not already on the ADF, I'd copy the exe from the HD package. |
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