Will we ever get a Sundog ST->Amiga conversion?

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Angus

WHDLoad patch (with RTG, 060 Superscalar and Tea making facilities)!!! ;-)

It won't be making bloody tea when i've finished it.

For all those wondering, i'm actually doing this, but I have to do something else first to ensure it will run.

As Meynaf has already pointed out, the code in Sundog is HORRIFIC, its really no fun at all because of the mix of languages they used.

So I had a brainwave of how to get it to work, and that brainwave is actually working to some degree, just a few stability issues and having to reduce memory requirements so that Sundog will actually fit into a 1 Meg A500.

This is no two second endeavour.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by Angus

WHDLoad patch (with RTG, 060 Superscalar and Tea making facilities)!!! ;-)

Well that comes free when you get an accelerator in your 1200, since is so hot you could even fry an egg^^

[Angus]

Sounds entirely reasonable to me. :-)

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

It won't be making bloody tea when i've finished it.

For all those wondering, i'm actually doing this, but I have to do something else first to ensure it will run.

Awesome, Phill. As ever, very much appreciate the work and mad skills (down with the kids) involved. Well, I say I appreciate them, but how can I when basically it is sorcery as far as I'm concerned? :-)

[AmigaHope]

Necroposting, but did this ever work out?

[Megalomaniac]

It surprised me that Sundog had never been ported unofficially, you'd think a game without 'action' would be easier to convert than things like Oids or Metrocross, but this explains why. Is there an Apple ][ emulator for the Amiga, that can be used partially if some old ][ code is left in there? Presumably emulating GEM directly enough to access the code directly wouldn't be feasible?

[A500]

Originally Posted by Megalomaniac

Presumably emulating GEM directly enough to access the code directly wouldn't be feasible?

Meynaf might be the person to ask this if he's interested, he did the Oids port which to my understanding "simply" runs the ST code on an A1200. I might be wrong though. Still, an Amiga native port would be amazing to have for many reasons. I hope the project has not been abandoned.

[AmigaHope]

I keep hoping Galahad will come through with this. I hope his plans bear fruit someday. It's definitely a challenge, from all the descriptions -- you'd have to have some sort of TOS/GEM ABI shim in it it seems like.