Hi all,
Does anyone play Shogo on their machine? I've owned the Amiga version for 10 years, but have only just got sufficiently fast hardware to run it. However, attempting to launch it on my Mac Mini G4 (Morphos 3.1) machine only results in screen corruption. Is there a particular trick that people are using to convince it to run?

Hi

I've tried Shogo on my Pegasos 1 April2, I can lanch it, but it's not be able to set keyboard or mouse, for example you can't change weapons. Then can[t hear any sound:"Could not initialize sound. Please make sure you sound card is configured correctly." I set AHI sound.
I have a problem with the sound card and I don't understand if the issue is hardware or software. I had open a post few deay ago... Ambient can't play CDs from a windows, but I can using VLC for example...
Tried Payback too and I can't play the music CD while I can hear the sound game.
In some old forum I had red to set disable movies and menu music to start Shogo, have you tried it?

Hmm... I don't recall seeing a separate config icon, but I'll take another look at the weekend and report back.

I think I used this:

http://www.meta-morphos.org/download.php?op=mydown&did=553

Oddly enough in the menu system, I could hear sound, but when I started the game, all sound cut out.

I had last tested this on my eMac, but have not gotten around to it on my mini yet (too busy moving).

Others said they had not issues at all with sound.

What ever it is, I'd LOVE to see it resolved!

Installed Shogo on Powermac and the ptoblem is the same: no sound and the error Goodman reported. No probs with the game itself that is playable and graphically ok but.. damn! No weapon selection, neither with keyboard nor mouse. I didn't have any launch problem but I tried the launcher update Xdelusion wrote with same results. I remember I had the same problem on Pegasos but I can't confirm since I deleted Shogo (not a big pain to install it again) and I don't remember. I can say Heretic II has the same problem of Payback (sounds ok, cd music not reprodeuced) and the strange thing is that on Pegasos I can't hear any sound... The same for Quake II (plays ok on Powermac). I'll take another look next days but I guess major problem (sounds, keyboard) are caused by the game that is too old (1998): everytime I exit from Shogo, I obtain error messages (AHI and something else illegal address) or a system crash.

No idea about the sound, but anyway it needed luck to make them work properly even back then on OS3.x + WarpOS/Warp3D.
Heretic2 and especially Shogo are really buggy in several areas...

> it needed luck to make them work properly even back then on OS3.x + WarpOS/Warp3D.

However, Shogo worked quite well (including sound, cutscene audio was distorted though yet intelligible) on my Pegasos I with Radeon 9000 and MorphOS 1.4 :-) Problems with that game (non-working sound) emerged with upgrade to MorphOS 2.0, even without change of hardware.

> I guess major problem (sounds, keyboard) are caused by the game that is too old (1998)

The Amiga version of Shogo and thus the AmigaOS-related code (sound, keyboard) was released in 2001.

@Andreas_Wolf:
Right, I was thinking about the first release date of Shogo and not Amiga release =)

Well, I tried to play Shogo after a fresh install on Pegasos II and the result is the same: error for sound card, no sounds and no music but here weapon selection is working at least and this allow to play the game, though without sounds it's not really enjoyable.....
Then I tried on MorphOS 1.4.5 (yes, it's still in my hard disk ) and after launched an application meditating stops everything. Tried with update and same result. Deleted Shogo and installed again via MorphOS 1.4.5 but nothing changed, with original launcher and with update.

I guess we've lost this game as well. I guess I'll have to stick to the Windows version for the moment.

I notice that some of the source code was release several years ago, though it doesn't seem to have been taken up by anyone in the interim. I took a quick look at it but couldn't find anything related to the game engine itself.

Edit: Alternatively, I notice that there's a Mac port as well.

[ Edited by transmorpher 24.11.2012 - 13:49 ]

I just tried and I can still start the Shogo demo, create a new game and quit without any crash with MorphOS 3.1 on my Pegasos2.

> I notice that some of the source code was release several years ago, though
> it doesn't seem to have been taken up by anyone in the interim. I took a
> quick look at it but couldn't find anything related to the game engine itself.

Exactly. This source code was released even before the Amiga port of Shogo was started.

> Alternatively, I notice that there's a Mac port as well.

Btw, this Mac port was done by the same company as the Amiga port (as well as the Linux port).

If source code ist available, can sombody do a clean port of the game to MorphOs which
will work with the amiga cd release?

The full source of Shogo was never released, just the gameplay logic. The LitTech engine remains closed source.

We can run this, but with no sound. It's the same as it always was, MorphOS is in dire need of it's own Nalle Puh/Puh Der Bear

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Shogo has AHI support and it (Shogo) *did* work on MorphOS. Maybe AHI has been changed.

[ Edited by KennyR 31.12.2015 - 19:42 ]

Hello!

I just made a try, on the Efika, with the demo for now (having to trick with usb cdrom reader or so to install the full game);
It wasn't had sound, but now it's ok!
It seems that just setting the AHI unit ot "1" in Shogo Launcher makes it go forth!

Now I have too, to find a way for using an usb joystick (mine is usless for now)...

MorphOSian regards!

It worked fine for me under MorphOS 1.4 + pegasos II + radeon 9250.

You can see it at 7:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfr1yLuhx8

No adv, but shogo is currently 75% off at gog.com till 4.jan

It's for Windows only, which do not own.
Well, there aren't any patches for Shogo from Hyperion.
Does it work on AS4?

I couldn't install it on MorphOs (the registration
stuff does not work).

@eliot: Yep, it's for win, but you need the same data-files on MorphOS too i guess. Dunno where to get the executable...

> there aren't any patches for Shogo from Hyperion.

http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/LauncherUpd
http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2001-05-00218-EN.html

> Does it work on AS4?

Only with software rendering, and of course only on CPUs the WarpOS wrapper is compatible with, i.e. G2, G3, G4 and PPC440EP.

> you need the same data-files on MorphOS too i guess. Dunno where to get the executable...

Everybody who has the executable automatically has the required data files, unless there're illegal activities involved.
And I seem to remember that the Windows version uses Smacker format for the videos while the Amiga version uses QuickTime.

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As far as I remember, the installer on the CD release was broken and a patch needed to be downloaded before you could install the game. I don't have it any more I'm afraid. When I migrated to MOS I just used the existing install and everything worked except CDDA.

Maybe someone should upload the files somewhere since if MUI4 theft is anything to go by, Hyperion don't care about piracy any more? :)

> As far as I remember, the installer on the CD release was broken and a patch
> needed to be downloaded

It was the launcher (see comment #22).

> before you could install the game.

The original launcher failed under certain circumstances (see link in comment #22).

> Hyperion don't care about piracy any more?

They do: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1059297 ;-)