New Games possible?

@All
I upload on os4depot final port of "Super Tux Kart". No more crashes/freezes/lockups on exit (they was because of that the same problem called "minigl not check on present/unpresent state to avoid overhead, but many coders think that opengl should do that for them (well, on linux/win32 it is)", so i just comment out few "delete", and while it will eat some memory on exit, it will works without lockups (ugly fix, but better than lockups). Of course bugs still possible, so feel free to say about and i will try to fix them.

The whole archive are 110mb, with all data included , what mean you not need to download anything else (like data files) from somethere, just download archive, unpack and test.

Be sure that you have the latest OS and MiniGL (maybe it will works on other than 4.1 u 2, but becase of the past bugs which was fixed, the last version of OS are the best choice as usual). Game compiled statically, without refering to any .so , so all what you need its right libs and latest aos.

Be carefull, game are pretty slow even on Pegasos2 with 1ghz, due to our slow OpenGL realisation. In 640x480, few tracks are pretty playable (for example "Around the LightHouse" or "Snow Mountain"), but others mostly un-playble slow (5-10 fps) even on 1ghz. That all happenes because of our OpenGL, which for first do Transformation, Lighting and Clipping in software mode (i.e. by CPU), and because of that, CPU speed are matter, and for second it works over old interfaces (like warp3d). But even with that realisation of OpenGL, even single core at 1.8ghz will be more than enough (fingers crossed for x1000 tests)

If you want to see how fast (or slow) it works on peg2/1ghz/radeon9250, i make a little video and put it on youtube:

video in action

In others, all what you need its unpack, and run.

Enjoy !

@Joeled

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Sorry for very late answer (i miss your question, only see it for now). For the moment Egoboo are unplayable, but not because it slow, it just not works at moment. These screenshots which i show, its just by some luck somehow loaded texture data, but other texture data are totally fucked up. I contacted with authors on their forum, but looks like they can help much, and they think that problem somethere in our opengl. I almost trace where bugs and why happenes, but for last time not works on it (hope soon).

@kas1e

Hope you upload the source. I think I tried porting this once.

@MickJT
Nope, no sources, it was a bit mess (with all those fixes, pathes, plib-dependences, missing includes/declarations and so on). But if you want i can upload it somethere for you just for check.

@kas1e

Thanks mate, i will try as i come back at home

@kas1e

Thank you for the update on Egoboo. I hope you get it working before X1000 arrives Are you and the Egoboo community close to solve the problem?

@Joeled

You can follow the progress here

@kas1e

Excellent!!

@kas1e

@samo79

How is your porting going?

@Joeled

My project is stopped, no time at the moment but it's not dead, just in pause

Keep in mind that i'm not a "real developer" so for all my "actions" i need constant feedbacks from my devs friends

@kas1e


What do you think about this game? Possible to port?

http://www.energietycoon.de/en/

FWIW I started work on porting "Penumbra: Overture". I got pretty far with compiling the OALWrapper but got stuck because of lack of swprintf function in OS4 SDK.

@salass00

And the screenshots look pretty hot.

@kas1e

Did you manage to successfully port SuperTuxKart or is that still on-going?

@salass00

Dont give up now!

@djrikki

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Did you miss post 207 ?:) (there is all the info, video in action, and it also uploaded to os4depot already).

@salas00
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Did you try already to rip off "swprintf" from unix, and just add it to SDK ? (i do it for few functions already, but maybe swprintf its something not so easy?).

Btw game looks very fresh. Did it use only plain opengl, without shaders ?

@kas1e

I must have done. xD

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-s1x-PWNyg

Shows a console window on the left of the screen... is this visible in the final release?

@djrikki

Another one for my still to be unrevealed web site. :)

@Joeled
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I downloded source, and in the readme:

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While no problems with tinyxml, all other stuff looks new to me. If i remember right OGRE was ported (but maybe not), but i cant found it on os4depot for now (maybe it was ODE, do not remember).

All other libs maybe will be not so hard to port , but "boost" one are the problematic one (for me). Because when authors say "need boost library", they not point what exactly libs from boost are need it for (there is many). And while some of them are can be compiled fine (i know that afxgroup compiled few already, and hunoppc compiles few), still need only check manually all the stuff to understand what exactly are need it for.


I also check the all the sources on words "shade" (for shaders checking), and while in game itself i not found it, i found it in the "Editable Terrain Library". I check the source, and its indeed use shaders:

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So, there is 2 ways: wait for mesa port (i hope it not so far for now), and trying to just cut off shaders stuff, and trying to build it without, to have it "almost working" but with bugs :)

@djrikki

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If you run it from shell - then yes. If you will run it from icon - then not (but if yes, it can be swithed off from the icon if i remember right).

@salass00

Good luck mate, Penumbra can be the best 3D game on Amiga