Dark Forces Amiga port

[BSzili]

Originally Posted by Aardvark

Gameplay footage from TF1260, both 100MHz and 50MHz.
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Feature wishlist: Inverted Y-axis, and customized keyboard controls, as WASD doesn't work well using left mouse hand.

Thanks for the video! All of this can be done, it just needs a configuration program. I see you've already figured it out via hex editing, I wonder why Luscious chose a binary file for the controls.

Originally Posted by By7eX

Just wanted to say it works great! No silly AHI mode fiddling required, it just works out of the box for me W/ TF1260@62MHz. Bought the GOG version, like $4, and copied the files needed from there. I got hopelessly lost in level 3 (the sewers) but that's not your fault. I hope it saved my progress, couldn't find any save game option. I assume it saves between levels.

Really good game, this. Love the "CGI" cutscenes with full speech. Confusing level layouts, but give it some time and you'll be totally immersed.
Also thought I'd mention that the midi_instruments improved the Adoom1 and 2 music A LOT, so there's that aswell.

Thanks BSZili, never thought I'd see this game ported and working flawlessly.

I googled the keys for the pc game, and this is mostly correct for this too, except crouch is CTRL not C;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil.../?id=256062464

Anoat City is the level that stumps most people. Here's a hint without spoiling much: the goal is to raise the water level in the circular room behind Door #2, which requires 3 switches.
TFE added quicksaves, but they are not usable in their current state. I might fix them up later, but the game is designed around checkpoints and lives.
There are plenty of issues still, but it's good enough for public testing.

[Jacques]

To play Dark Forces on Amiga is my long-time dream coming true It plays incredibly well on 060, too. Thanks (again)

[Seiya]

i cannot access to your link BSzili. Browser flash every time i click on it.

edit: well, i downloaded with copy & paste. not a real problem.

in anyway, thanks for this great porting.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Seiya

i cannot access to your link BSzili. Browser flash every time i click on it.

I've uploaded the two files to the zone.

[Seiya]

thanks @TCD

[Silverstreak]

This is great news, so happy to this running on our machine.

[edd_jedi]

Amazing, looking forward to checking this out!

[Ponki1986]

Tested under WinUAE. Everything works very well, only I can't get MIDI to work. I changed the setting to use CAMD but it doesn't work. Do you still need SoundFont? MIDI_Instruments is of course in the game directory.

[Aardvark]

Originally Posted by Ponki1986

Tested under WinUAE. Everything works very well, only I can't get MIDI to work. I changed the setting to use CAMD but it doesn't work. Do you still need SoundFont? MIDI_Instruments is of course in the game directory.

CAMD doesn't use MIDI_Instruments, it controls a real MIDI device via serial port. In WinUAE it can be connected on IO Ports settings page.

[Seiya]

for high resolution i think using Mac version files. But i don't know if it works.

[Seiya]

in Winuae, when you enable midi from IO Ports, if you have CAMD.library in Libs, not needed "midi instruments". you have all sounds and musics available

[Ponki1986]

Sorry, I think I worded it a bit wrong. I wanted to say that I don't play MIDI at all. I have a MIDI Instruments file but nothing plays with default settings. After changing midiType to 0 there is also no sound. Of course I have the CAMD library and the drivers in Devs:MIDI. Maybe I have the wrong version of the game, because I found some 1.0.4 online. SnoopDOS showed that upon launch, the game looked for lots of files with the extension .voc, .bm, and many more. But generally the game starts normally.

[BSzili]

Originally Posted by Seiya

for high resolution i think using Mac version files. But i don't know if it works.

It won't work, only the PC DOS version is supported.

Originally Posted by Ponki1986

Sorry, I think I worded it a bit wrong. I wanted to say that I don't play MIDI at all. I have a MIDI Instruments file but nothing plays with default settings. After changing midiType to 0 there is also no sound. Of course I have the CAMD library and the drivers in Devs:MIDI. Maybe I have the wrong version of the game, because I found some 1.0.4 online. SnoopDOS showed that upon launch, the game looked for lots of files with the extension .voc, .bm, and many more. But generally the game starts normally.

That's normal, the game will look for files in the file system before going for the GOB / LFD files. Change midiType=2 for the built in synth, that's the default value. I'll add this to the readme.

[Seiya]

i understood.
Dark Forces working also without music, but if you want to listen to:

if you have real Amiga, i think you need midi hardware interface.
if you have emulator you need only: AHI, Camd.library and midi enabled in IO Port (midi-mapper).

The Dark forces version is not a problem, becuase i have 1.0 and working good with sounds and music

[rabidgerry]

Jesus I need to get in on this action! I'll be downloading later and trying out with my TF1260 also. Seems like a really good frame rate using it at 100mhz.

[Ponki1986]

I changed midiType to 2 and to 0 but still nothing. Does the game using CAMD directly send data to 0ut.0? Because I use a newer library and driver uae.out.0 or alternatively mmp.out.0. Other games that use CAMD have no problem with this.

[VincentGR]

Simply amazing!!!

[Ponki1986]

Originally Posted by Seiya

i understood.
Dark Forces working also without music, but if you want to listen to:

if you have real Amiga, i think you need midi hardware interface.
if you have emulator you need only: AHI, Camd.library and midi enabled in IO Port (midi-mapper).

The Dark forces version is not a problem, becuase i have 1.0 and working good with sounds and music

Can you share your version with me?

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by Ponki1986

I changed midiType to 2 and to 0 but still nothing. Does the game using CAMD directly send data to 0ut.0? Because I use a newer library and driver uae.out.0 or alternatively mmp.out.0. Other games that use CAMD have no problem with this.

MidiType should be "-1"

"Win32.midiout_device=-1"

[Toni Galvez]

Originally Posted by BSzili

It won't work, only the PC DOS version is supported.


That's normal, the game will look for files in the file system before going for the GOB / LFD files. Change midiType=2 for the built in synth, that's the default value. I'll add this to the readme.

It would be nice to get the music as a largue sample for more than 16MB fast RAM, first, because we can save some CPU speed for the game and second, the music can sound much better than the real time AHI mixing.

I would recommend a 8bit stereo iff files for the musics, streaming from fast to chip ram. I have a PiStorm, like most people, I got plenty of fast ram.