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Posted by: Kwahu on 2020-03-06 15:38:46
Hi guys,
just wanted to let you all know that we are extending the development of our Amiga & Atari game to also include 68k base Macintosh systems š
Would love your inputĀ
VergeWorld devlog update - ADDED ship model (with shadow) and intergrated music
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Posted by: PowerPup on 2020-03-06 15:51:27
That's insanely incredible! 8-o You've really got something in the making here!
I'll happily buy a copy when it's released! š
Do you have any plans on recording Programming sessions? (I love watching/learning the process of coding for these old machines.)
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Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-03-06 18:42:05
Sweet! Ā The game looks great so far -Ā love to see new games for older systems.
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Posted by: Jinnai on 2020-03-06 22:14:46
That looks incredible! Considering a Mac has weaker graphics for games than an Amiga, what kind of hardware would we need for it to run like in the video?
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Posted by: Byte Knight on 2020-03-07 06:00:14
That looks incredible! Considering a Mac has weaker graphics for games than an Amiga, what kind of hardware would we need for it to run like in the video? I'm guessing that you would need at least a 68040 to run those 3D graphics...
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Posted by: Kwahu on 2020-03-07 06:19:37
I'm guessing that you would need at least a 68040 to run those 3D graphics... Currently it's playable on a 68020, and we want to have it working on 68000 after rewriting it from C to asm
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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-03-07 06:29:45
That's really, really impressive.
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Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-03-07 06:29:52
This would be the perfect thing to try on my new IIfx!
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Posted by: Crutch on 2020-03-07 07:55:38
Thatās awesome. Ā Would be interested to know your approach. Ā My first reaction was āthereās no way to do full-screen blitting fast enough on a 68k Macā but either (1) Iām wrong (but I donāt think Iām wrong) or (2) you are only double-buffering the area around the ship, and the rest of the background is being drawn direct to screen with hidden surface elimination, which is pretty clever.
Iām not sure how much of a perf boost you will get moving from C to asm, though, depending on where the code is slow and assuming youāve already done all the obvious things like loop unrolling, which Iām sure you have. Ā (And of course, no color Macs had a 68000 anyway.)
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Posted by: dr.diesel on 2020-03-07 08:45:21
Wow that is great!Ā I'd love to hear more about your Dev environment, shared code base betweenĀ Amiga/Atari/Mac, howĀ you achieved it etc.
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Posted by: Kwahu on 2020-03-07 12:23:21
Thatās awesome. Ā Would be interested to know your approach. Ā My first reaction was āthereās no way to do full-screen blitting fast enough on a 68k Macā but either (1) Iām wrong (but I donāt think Iām wrong) or (2) you are only double-buffering the area around the ship, and the rest of the background is being drawn direct to screen with hidden surface elimination, which is pretty clever.
Iām not sure how much of a perf boost you will get moving from C to asm, though, depending on where the code is slow and assuming youāve already done all the obvious things like loop unrolling, which Iām sure you have. Ā (And of course, no color Macs had a 68000 anyway.) Currently we only have Amiga and Atari versions, I have just bought Macintosh Performa 475 and will start porting like next month. We don't use any custom chips so I assume that porting is doable.Ā
We are using 2 environments right now, one is Cygwin and the other is Ubuntu on Docker
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Posted by: Kwahu on 2020-03-07 12:24:39
BTW. The whole engine code will remain open source
Link to github
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Posted by: Kwahu on 2020-03-07 12:37:45
Full disclosure, we do not expect to achieve more than 12 fps on pure 68k, we will try to adjust the game play so that 12fps is enough to play and beat the game
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Posted by: adespoton on 2020-03-27 14:21:14
So do you have plans to support dithered B&W output?Ā That'll run on a 512x342 display?Ā That'd be amazing if you could, even at 12fps!
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Posted by: dan.dem on 2020-03-31 05:26:09
Your demo looks very promising. Some thoughts: A monochrome variant for the original 68000 is a completely different beast than colour games for the later models. However considering the original Flight Sim ran on an Apple II a game like yours is surely doable on a 68000.
The demo seems to require only 16 colours - on a Mac freely picked out of a 24bit palette. This helps with the original LC's slower system bus.
Your screen size seems also quite moderate. It may fit on the original monochrome's 512x342 pixels, and the popular Macintosh 12" RGB display (512 or 560 x 384).
For me the flight scene looks so attractive, I would want to see it embedded in a full game story.
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Posted by: John_A on 2020-04-01 07:08:57
+1.
With some modification to the color palette, the flight scene could be the sequel to Another World, after the ending scene, perhaps?
Rewriting the horrible Heart of the Alien, that fortunately never made it to the Mac.
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Posted by: Nightmonkeyii on 2020-04-06 05:28:46
Looks fantastic. Multiplayer would make this one of the best 68k games available (pod racer type races)
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2020-04-07 01:55:20
I don't know how I missed this but this is pure gold! Keep up the good work!
Can't wait to fix the Q950 to play this!
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Posted by: snes1423 on 2020-12-15 18:37:32
did this ever get released???Ā
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