Hi,

Can anyone suggest a good MOS coder I can pay to port games and other programmes?

I'm far from good, but which games would you like to see on MorphOS? Perhaps I can port some of them.

Quake 4 once the R300 drivers are out...

Quake4 isn't possible, because only the game logic is open source, and it's released under a restrictive EULA. Basically you can only use the compiled game DLLs with the original executables. It's a shame because it's possible to get to work with the GPL-ed Doom3 engine apart from a few featues, like portal skyboxes.

Well, any suggestions?
Stuff that will use the features of the R300 like fragment programmes etc...

From anyone?

How about Doom3 itself?

Will you be able to do that once the R300 driver is out?
Are the assets free too?

...and how much money would you want?

> Are the assets free too?

"The source code was open sourced under the GPL on November 22, 2011. [...] Art assets such as 3D models, music, sound effects etc. remain subject to the EULA."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3#Release

I don't know when the R300 driver will be out, so I can't answer that First I have to investigate if the game would run at a playable speed on a powerbook. The rendering is quite CPU-heavy, especially the shadows. Which model do you have exactly?

A1107 - 1.67GHz

Obviously you can wait til the driver is out hehe x

/me want to race: http://www.racer.nl/ ;)

That should be just enough to run the game at a decent speed. Currently the state of the r300 driver wouldn't affect me, because I'd do the initial work on my Mac Mini. There's an r200 optimized shader backend in the renderer, so I might be able to playtest the game in a very small window As for the money, I really don't know. Whatever amount you feel right. We can get back to it after I managed to produce a working test version.

Virtual Grand Prix 3? Maybe the original developer would port it if paid? I don't remember what talks was about it, but wasn't it discussed in some degree earlier... was it depending of how much donations VGP2 got from its MorphOS port or so? Andreaaaaas! :)

> Virtual Grand Prix 3? [...] wasn't it discussed in some degree earlier... was it depending
> of how much donations VGP2 got from its MorphOS port or so? Andreaaaaas! :)

https://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_1731.html :-)

Huhu that sounds like Let Me Andreas That For You ;)

Is the Q4 code out because, if we`re having to buy assets, Quake 4 is a better game than Doom3.

BSzili,
Quote:

Remember tinygl doesn't have shader :D

[ Edited by raistlin77it 16.09.2012 - 16:16 ]

Does that mean no Q4 or D3?

> Does that mean no Q4 or D3?

It means no good-looking Q4 or D3 ;-)

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=10&topic_id=7970&start=21

Forget that then.

I emailed the makers of VGP3 to see how much they want for a MOS port.

@BSzili

So, how much for a damn good and optimised port of:

http://www.racer.nl

Within six months?

Also, no offense intended ( BSzili), but can anyone vouch for BSzili?

What about something like Nexuiz ?
http://www.alientrap.org/games/nexuiz

Fully open source far as I know, and it's a quite exciting game.