No but it`s worth a try...What else can I do but ask?

I already pointed to the following shader compiler: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300Compiler

it's supposed to be more or less driver independent: "no code in the compiler may depend on any headers that are part of Mesa or of Gallium3D. All data structures are specific to the compiler. This causes some unfortunate minor code duplication, but it also allows us to be more flexible in changing our data structures.

The compiler is written in plain C99; it uses no additional external libraries (it might use some GNU C extensions; not sure about that). "

So maybe there`s a good chance Kiero will say yes then - once the R300 driver is done!

I think kiero and bigfoot already did some preliminary work in this regard for the MorphOS 3.0 release, rewriting a good part of the lower levels of TinyGL if I understood correctly. I do hope they will update it with shaders support and and updating to at least partial OpenGL 2.0 level, and then I am sure that more sw will be ported (for instance by BSzili, but also kiero and bigfoot themselves). Personally, I would contact Paolo of Virtual Grand Prix fame, last time I did this we got a very nice VGP2 port, so it would be good to do. But I have been waiting for the infrastructure of the OS to be good enough (R300 drivers, shaders and OpenGL 2.0...).
To be short: at this point kiero (the megahero!) and bigfoot are the guys to get motivated

Kind regards,
Andrea

I already contacted the VGP guy, no joy yet though but I haven`t properly looked for him yet.

Is Everquest 2 something impossible to port?

> Is Everquest 2 something impossible to port?

Yes, it is.

Would this game be possible to port?

http://www.smokin-guns.org/

Quote:
Doom on Voodoo 2

Also got a version of XU4, still needs some work, and probably should write better installation instructions (everything needed to play is free, but I think I can't include it all with the port anyway)

I know about that "patch", I think I might even tried it in the mid-2000s when I still had my Voodoo2 SLI setup. It's a heavily customized GL driver, which delegates most of the work to the CPU, and uses the Voodoo as a triangle rasterizer. It was an interesting gimmick, but it's not very fast, and the game looks terrible without the normal and specular maps.

@BSzili

Can you port Smokin Guns?

It uses the ioQuake3 engine, so I probably could, but the game only has a handful active players so it's not worth the effort.

It looked like a fun game, but it's a good reason not to port it.

Does anybody know if SuperTuxKart has made it into a running Version or if it is still in development ?
Because its that kind of games i really miss - like Flyin'High for example.

I'd dig up a copy of Smokin Guns to play that under MorphOS.
I really like the quality of games created with that engine.

@Jim

Yeah, and there seems to be some buzz about it at the AOS 4 camp as well. Maybe it will become a NG Amiga game in the end?

> Does anybody know if SuperTuxKart has made it into a running Version or if
> it is still in development ?

http://www.pegasosforum.de/viewtopic.php?p=52368#p52368

I love threads like this. Still got my fingers crossed for DOOM 64 EX. Though of course Odamex 0.7 will certainly keep me busy in the mean time! :)

@Yasu:
Smoking Guns can be played on Quake III since it is a mod for that engine. It was developed as Western Quake III before it became a stand alone game.
I tried quickly on G5 and it works.. better it works until my Quake III arena crashes (it crashes even when I'm playing the Quake game).
Download it here:

http://www.fileplanet.com/158369/150000/fileinfo/Quake-3:-Arena---Western-Quake-3-beta-v2.2-[Full-Client]

unzip and place directory inside Q III directory. Then run Q III and select the mod.
Last minute news:
I read somewhere that is possible to run the stand alone version inside Q III arena too. Investigating....

Edit:
Sorry... With the mod I linked above I only managed to play two games (Canyon and Hang me high). For team games and other I obtained always a "hunk_alloc failed on <number>" error.
The game keep on crashing on the G5.....
I tried with the Smoking Guns 1.1 stand alone version and since there are only team games inside the hunk error was the only result. Let's try it on the G4.... =)

[ Edited by Jambalah 21.04.2014 - 15:35 ]

Jambalah : Quake 3 based games crash on MorphOS + Power Mac G5. So your crashes are "normal".

Exiting with the hunk_alloc failed error is not a crash. Most of id's engines allocate a piece of contiguous memory, and manage it internally. id Tech 3 has two types of memory, the zone and the hunk. The original limits are way too small for new mods. You want to increase the latter with com_hunkMegs, preferably from the command line, so it takes effect before the memory system is initialized.

@Daff:
yes I know but I hoped it didn't.... well =)

@BSzili:
thanks for the suggestion man! Now I'm playing with the game almost flawless: some slow motions for a few seconds and not so frequently, nothing that makes the game unplayable.
I started Quake III via shell using "quake3 +set com_hunkmegs 256" and that was enough to start all kind of scenario inside the mod. On PMac MDD game goes well, about the G5... well, as Daff wrote above crashes are usual inside Q III...

What about the recent news that the AmiDARK Engine sources are up for sale?

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39012&start=0&post_id=733830&order=0&viewmode=flat&pid=733827&forum=15#733830

Have any MorphOS developers evaluated the current status, and the future potential of the AmiDARK Engine GDK, to see if it is worth supporting and using in the future?

What kind of games might we expect could be created or ported to MorphOS, and that will run well on our currently supported hardware, if/when a stable 1.0 release of the AmiDARK Engine is finished?

Edit: Is Fraggle still around here? If the best MorphOS programmers think that the AmiDARK Engine is a viable GDK that would be a useful tool to many existing and/or future MorphOS programmers, I would like to see it become an Open Source project. We could encourage a bounty to buy the source code, unless Fraggle wants to fund it all by himself.

[ Edited by WB_Coder 09.05.2014 - 15:03 ]

> Is Fraggle still around here?

"Last Login: 2013/4/15 0:34"
https://morph.zone/users/3726.html

> Is Fraggle still around here?

Sad if true:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7293&start=20#94081
http://euaejit.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-sad-day.html

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 12.01.2015 - 19:06 ]