AmiWolf - new 68k Wolfenstein 3D port

[manossg]

Thanks for your great work, Novacoder!

[DamienD]

Heya Novacoder,

Thought I'd give this a try after configuring "Doom" & "Doom II: Hell on Earth" today using your ZDoom port; which work great thanks

AGA version works fine but for some reason the RTG version does this when starting:



If I use SnoopDos the following fails:



Check the protection bits and all is fine.

Any idea why the RTG version fails to start? Just as FYI, I'm uisng v1.4 GOG files which seems to work fine with the AGA version from a quick test.

Also, to save me going through 16 pages of this thread... where can one download the converted SFX / Music files?

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Heya Novacoder,

Thought I'd give this a try after configuring "Doom" & "Doom II: Hell on Earth" today using your ZDoom port; which work great thanks

AGA version works fine but for some reason the RTG version does this when starting:



If I use SnoopDos the following fails:

Any idea why the RTG version fails to start? Just as FYI, I'm uisng v1.4 GOG files which seems to work fine with the AGA version from a quick test.

Also, to save me going through 16 pages of this thread... where can one download the converted SFX / Music files?

The RTG is complied for an 040 + FPU, is that why it's not running for you?

Music packs are on the first post on this thread.

Glad to hear these old ports are getting some use

Thinking about it, there really isn't much point targeting 040 + FPU for AmiWolf/AmiSpear RTG as they don't need that extra CPU power.

I'll do some new builds that support 020-060 without needing an FPU.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

The RTG is complied for an 040 + FPU, is that why it's not running for you?

Music packs are on the first post on this thread.

Glad to hear these old ports are getting some use

Thinking about it, there really isn't much point targeting 040 + FPU for AmiWolf/AmiSpear RTG as they don't need that extra CPU power.

I'll do some new builds that support 020-060 without needing an FPU.

Hi Nova,

Thanks for the reply.

Oh my, I forgot to add the FPU

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

i have a way better solution for the music finally. I have found perfectly refactored midi files for Spear of destiny, and they convert to mus way better than the original ones.

anyone want to try ?

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Both ! i did them both

and another thing, with the music change, there is also a boost, the game is faster now and i can play almost like on my PC

isn't it awesome ?

Another thing, i pick the files on a big wolfenstein website, and those MID files reworked can be freely downloaded, so you can add them directly inside the archive, as well as the SFX. The only thing that you can't add are the *.WL6 and *.SOD files.

How to trigger the cheat mode on amiwolf ? -goobers doesn't work, and TAB key is mapped as the "display map" key

PS : Amiwolf 1.18 with excellent and faithfull 98% to the PC version but with amiga quality in the zone !

* One idea to dig : make the MIDI_instrument file not included in the archive, and instead put it seperately on aminet, and ask to
install it in the workbench instead of game directory, would it possible ?

Can somebody please upload this again?

I found "amiwolf_v1_18_full_midi.lha" on the Amiga File server, not sure if it's Denis's better files though?

...but I can't find the AmiSpear ones.

[DamienD]

Hmmm, also found this on the Amiga File Server: AmiwolfFULL118.lha

The music is totally different to "amiwolf_v1_18_full_midi.lha".

There are more files in amiwolf_v1_18_full_midi.lha though...

Which is the correct one to use?

Edit: also both archives seem to be missing "XTHEEND.MUS" according to the "AMIWOLF_INFO.TXT" file after running the game.

[DamienD]

Also noticed with AmiWolf 1.18 there is music on the PG and Title screens.

Using exactly the same "lsfx", "music", "sfx" files there isn't with AmiWolf 1.31.

Edit: this test version also seems music on the PG and Title screens.

/TheZone/files/_2019/AmiWolf_RTG_040 [AmiWolf RTG 040 for testing (mouse control broken in the last AGA-ECS release).].zip

Anyone know where I can get full versions earlier than 1.31?

[NovaCoder]

As far as I know the 'best' music packs are the ones I put on the first post on this thread.

As far as the music missing from the intro, that sounds like a bug that was introduced in the latest builds. The latest versions are still the best ones to use though because I'm sure I fixed more than I broke

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

As far as I know the 'best' music packs are the ones I put on the first post on this thread.

I thought the ones Denis provide (and I quoted) are better quality / louder?

I think these are in:

... AmiwolfFULL118.lha
... AmiSpearFULL118.lha

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

As far as the music missing from the intro, that sounds like a bug that was introduced in the latest builds. The latest versions are still the best ones to use though because I'm sure I fixed more than I broke

In the "AmiSpearFULL118.lha" archive there is a "XTHEEND.MUS" file.

If I put this in AmiWolf 1.21 then I have music for the PG and Title screen

...but it's different to the music for the PG and Title screen in AmiWolf 1.18.


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Edit: ok, "music" wise it seems your "AmiSpear_MUS_pack.zip" and Denis's "AmiwolfFULL118.lha" have the same files; but your archive also has "ENDLEVEL.MUS". It's probably worth adding "XTHEEND.MUS" from "AmiSpear_MUS_pack.zip" as then you get PC and Title music in 1.21.

"lsfx" wise it seems again the files in yours and Denis's are same; but your archive also has "000_r8b.wav".

"sfx" wise it seems again the files in yours and Denis's are same; but Denis's archive also has "071.wav".

[hammer]

Originally Posted by utri007

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Runnign Wolfenstein 3D with Atari STfm 68000 7mhz.

For stock Amiga 500, Dread runs with 16 colors which speed up C2P conversion.

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Atari STfm has 16 colors.

[LaBodilsen]

@NovaCoder
Is the source available for this port? (asking for a friend)

[SKOLMAN_MWS]

Originally Posted by hammer

For stock Amiga 500, Dread runs with 16 colors which speed up C2P conversion.

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Atari STfm has 16 colors.

Atari ST version Wolfenstein 3D has 32 colors

- graphics from the apple IIgs version of wolfenstein 3d
- 32 colors at once
https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6142

[lmimmfn]

Originally Posted by SKOLMAN_MWS

Atari ST version Wolfenstein 3D has 32 colors

- graphics from the apple IIgs version of wolfenstein 3d
- 32 colors at once
https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6142

ST can only change colours from programmable scanline's and requires CPU support(similar to old 8 bits) to do so, which will be via a panel as opposed to 32 colours in the play area.
I doubt there would be any slowdown with Dread having a separate 16 colour display panel.

[SKOLMAN_MWS]

It is a pity that this version is not open source only you have to use the emulator KEGS, which is only for AOS4 PPC

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[James]

Originally Posted by SKOLMAN_MWS

It is a pity that this version is not open source only you have to use the emulator KEGS, which is only for AOS4 PPC

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Emufan ported KEGS to 68k a few years back, it should be findable in the Zone archives.

[paolone]

Originally Posted by JanciB

I have no sound and no music with the ECS version. Did the conversion to MUS.
Copied it to music folder. Turned it on in the game. Still no music and sfx.

Well. How did you accomplish this?

I followed the procedure

"First run WolfExtractor (Wolfenstein Redux) to extract all the SFX and music"

This does not extract to single files, but rather packs everything in a wolf.pak file. Luckily, it's easily manageable with 7zip, so I could extract the sfx, lsfx and music drawers with ease.

"Convert the SFX files under the 'lsfx' directory to a lower quality (11025 Hz, 8 bit) using r8brain.exe"

NO PROBLEM with sfx and r8brain, I batch-converted all FXs to 11k/8bit wave samples. I also converted the ones in the sfx directory.

"Convert the IMF music files to MIDI using dro2midi.exe"

PROBLEM is with music. I expected to find it in IMF format, but everything I find in Music is in OGG format! I even tried monitoring the music folder during conversion, with no luck. Am I overlooking anything?

Are there any command line switch for WolfExtractor.exe I should know?

Thanks

[NovaCoder]

You do realise that the music packs for this game are in the first post of this thread don't you??

It's in the readme which I'm sure nobody actually reads

[chr0mak3y]

Random question but is there any reason why the rtg version wouldn't work with Amithlon?

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by chr0mak3y

Random question but is there any reason why the rtg version wouldn't work with Amithlon?

At a guess it might be because it uses the Doom sound library which hits the hardware pretty hard.

[Jacques]

Just noticed that tooltype DISPLAY_MODE=NTSC makes no change (version AGA 1.31). Of course I have NTSC in Monitors and it works in other games.