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Great stuff clebin, hope your friend can manage to find this
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Any luck clebin?
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Might be good to search old shareware compilation CDs from the region where this originated...
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clebins; your friend seems to be the only person who has this working original.
Could you please try to get an .ADF made for the benefit of the Amiga community? It really need to be preserved |
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Hi all,
I found the original disc I bought from a PD Supplier back in the day. I've converted it into an .adf - I just need to work out how to upload it |
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waou, very cool
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Uploaded to the zone
This should include all the assets. It's a cracking game - just as much fun as it was back in the day. I will say that it runs best on a stock 500 I suspect it doesn't time anything to the screen refresh, so even on my modestly accelerated A1200 it's unplayable and too fast http://eab.abime.net/zone/dogfight2.adf Last edited by piratematt77; 09 September 2021 at 13:29. |
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I'm mattmc77 from the earlier post.
Must have registered twice over the years without realising! |
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I haven't touched AMOS in 25 years, but a few options spring to mind without digging into the code too much: 1) Do whatever is the correct way of locking the speed in AMOS!? Is there some kind of frame counter that you could use to time the game? (if FRAME_NUM % 2 == 0...) 2) Use CPU detection if possible, and only wait on 020+ 3) Just have a separate a 020+ version. 3) Compile with the AMOS compiler so that (hopefully) a 7mhz machine can crunch through the main loop quick enough to make the double Wait Vbls work. With the code, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to update it to run at 50fps. The whole game is only something like 1200 lines, including menu screen, load/save and the rest. Having said that, it's not commented and the variable names aren't obvious so it will still take a bit of time. Anyone have any thoughts? |
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As it happens - I'm playing with AMOS again as I'm toying with the idea of joining the Amiga game jam.
I've installed the AMCAF extensions and they have functions which can tell how far the raster has moved. You could use this to create an optional vbl and speed variable changes |
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Hooray, thanks piratematt77!
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