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| Porting LinuxDoom to System 7 (or trying to) - progress and questions | |
| Posted by: ArbysTPossum on 2024-04-16 08:15:09 Excited! | |
| Posted by: sailingdarter on 2024-04-22 12:41:37 Any chance that we can get all of this into a source version control repo so performance improvements can be coordinated? I am having visions of making Mac Doom on 68040 just as performant clock for clock as it is on the 80486 | |
| Posted by: Angelov68k on 2024-04-23 03:19:33 I am sharing these visions, strangely to the exact same detail 😀 We could compile the improvements here: GitHub - izne/DOOM-for-Macintosh: Macintosh (68K and PowerPC) source code for Doom which was recently leakedMacintosh (68K and PowerPC) source code for Doom which was recently leaked - izne/DOOM-for-Macintosh
github.com
On my LC630 (68LC040 at 33MHz) there is not much change after the applied patches here. It shouldn't be the lack of the FPU, I guess. There are clues about the efficiency of that 68K drawing routine code. We just need some 68K assembly magician 😀  | |
| Posted by: sailingdarter on 2024-04-27 20:59:33 Thanks for uploading it Looks like GitHub does not know how to deal with /r line breaks. All the code is in a single line when reading it from a browser 😉 Good thing that modern BBEdit still knows how to deal with legacy Mac OS line endings so that one can still read the code on a modern machine | |
| Posted by: Anonymous on 2024-08-29 05:36:54 Any updates to this? Would be nice to have a Fastdoom project of sorts for the mac | |
Posted by: Anonymous on 2024-08-30 10:55:27Any updates to this? Would be nice to have a Fastdoom project of sorts for the mac Actually, now that I think about this, Duke Nukem 3D has also had its source code released, any possibility of that being optimized for Mac? | |
Posted by: Snial on 2024-08-30 13:14:29I am sharing these visions, strangely to the exact same detail 😀Does this version use the automatic scaling feature of the Valkyrie chip on the LC630? | |
Posted by: zigzagjoe on 2024-11-20 07:51:33I am sharing these visions, strangely to the exact same detail 😀 Bit of a necro here, but I had a thought come to mind: Amiga already has a bunch of of 68k-optimized Doom ports. It may well be possible to take some performance-critical routines directly from those (where they aren't concerned with Amiga's odd graphics hardware, anyways) and take pointers from any changes they made on the C side. No need to re-invent the wheel! | |
Posted by: Angelov68k on 2024-12-20 03:40:03Does this version use the automatic scaling feature of the Valkyrie chip on the LC630?It does not (yet)... https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/today-new-demos-for-performa-5200.48047/#post-539604Wow, very interesting! Gets me very excited to try use the example, but first need to understand where exactly within Doom it could fit in and be useful... | |
| Posted by: Snial on 2024-12-20 08:04:36 I've been doing a quick scan for versions of PowerPC Doom that work under Mac OS X, or Mac OS 9 with the double-buffered screen fix. I know this isn't what's been attempted here, but I wondered if someone would know. | |
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