18 July 2024, 14:09 | #1 |
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Sim City 2000 End of slowdown
Hi EAB,
I would like to share with you how (with the Winuae emulator) to launch it with as much fluidity as the PC version at its best. 68040 JIT FPU & NTSC, 2M chip, 8 Fast Ram, 32 bit Chip 16Mb (very important). For a few days, I wanted to play this game again on Amiga, but I absolutely couldn't stand these slowdowns. Good game |
18 July 2024, 18:21 | #2 |
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becasue Amiga version is bad programmed and bad optimized,
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18 July 2024, 18:53 | #3 |
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640x512 (or even 640x400) is just never going to be fast with native chipset modes. The game doesn't seem to be especially badly programmed (looks like a C port from disasm), and actually has fairly advanced C2P functions for the time. OS functions are used for nearly everything, so hard to fault them when it's just a late-ish port.
With RTG it's very fast and playable with WinUAE. A bit meh speedwise even on my pistorm though. Looked at patching it recently before I realized there was already a patch on aminet. That one requires modepro to work though, so maybe I'll consider patching the patch.. |
18 July 2024, 20:25 | #4 |
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AGA version is not 256 colors and as it's a direct porting from Mega Drive, i suspect that you have 64 colors or maybe less.
with Pistorm/Amithlon/WinUAE is good and playbale, but this game was developed to run on stock A1200HD with some Fast RAM. However if you are able to patch it to have a better improvement to handle 640x512 will be a big thing. |
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Mega Drive port? You meant windowed PC DOS port, right? If you really want to play it without slowdowns on a real Amiga, just use the Shapeshifter emulator & Mac version. Problem solved.
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Only if you want to force it to use an RTG screen, and not even then if you have the latest P96 - all you need to do then is select one of the special 4bit RTG modes. Of course a patch would still be welcome for those not using the latest P96... |
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