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Software News : Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Posted by xeron on 2009/2/13 22:39:22 (2121 reads) News by the same author
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In the early 90's, the shareware games "Wibble World Giddy" and "Giddy 2" were released for the Amiga. The proved pretty popular, but then in 2001 the third game, "Giddy 3" was released for MS-DOS!

In 2008, I contacted the author and obtained the assembler source code, and converted it to C, and now its available for AmigaOS 4.1!

Download it from OS4Depot.

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Rigo
Published: 2009/2/14 2:03  Updated: 2009/2/14 2:03
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Joined: 11/19/2006
From: London, England
Comments: 1381
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Sorry to say Pete, but it doesn't work here.

I get a black screen, "Detected MiniGL V2.0" and "Activated screen bodge" in the console, then the black screen closes.

On the serial I have:

[os4video_GL_Init] Initializing OpenGL
[os4video_GL_Init] Creating context from bitmap 0x6717A0B8

So I assume it fails to create the context for some reason.

Simon
xeron
Published: 2009/2/14 9:19  Updated: 2009/2/14 9:19
Not too shy to talk
Joined: 11/28/2006
From: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe
Comments: 413
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
@Rigo
Hmm very strange. Maybe i'll wang it in the SVN so you can have a look?

@Everyone
I've created a facebook page for it, so if you like the game and are on facebook, why not become a fan? :)
xeron
Published: 2009/2/14 23:29  Updated: 2009/2/14 23:29
Not too shy to talk
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From: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe
Comments: 413
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Version 1.1 should be hitting the Depot any minute which fixes some bugs, so you are encouraged to re-download.
PEB
Published: 2009/2/15 0:23  Updated: 2009/2/15 0:23
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 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Thanks for the fixes!

Version 1.0 only crashed my system (?A1), but version 1.1 works well.
Rigo
Published: 2009/2/15 14:58  Updated: 2009/2/15 15:00
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Joined: 11/19/2006
From: London, England
Comments: 1381
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Just to let you know 1.1 runs fine here, but it locks intuition on exit, needing a reboot.

Simon
nexus
Published: 2009/2/15 18:21  Updated: 2009/2/15 18:21
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Joined: 11/12/2008
From: Germany
Comments: 161
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Works without crash on Sam440ep. Exiting the games works, too.
But on AOS4.1 on my Sam440ep everything is "green" and thus looks ugly.

nexus.
xenic
Published: 2009/2/17 18:03  Updated: 2009/2/17 18:03
Just can't stay away
Joined: 01/06/2008
From: Pennsylvania, USA
Comments: 1356
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
How about including an Amiga version string so we can tell which version we have? It really needs a save game function. I'm already sick of seeing the starting point and have stopped playing.
spotUP
Published: 2009/2/17 18:06  Updated: 2009/2/17 18:06
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 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
top rankin' work here xeron!
one of the coolest game releases for os4 so far!
xeron
Published: 2009/2/18 21:52  Updated: 2009/2/18 21:52
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Joined: 11/28/2006
From: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe
Comments: 413
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
v1.2 is about to hit the depot. Changes:

All versions
- Giddy's speech bubbles and some other texts stay on the screen for a bit longer.
- The appearance of the hint bulb is a bit more obvious
- Fixed a nasty bug which meant that if you did things in a certain order the game became uncompletable.
- Included an Amiga version string
- Includes joystick support, but it is untested because SDL doesn't seem to find my joypad even though AmigaInput supports it. I'm guessing SDL might need an update.
salass00
Published: 2009/2/18 22:28  Updated: 2009/2/18 22:28
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Joined: 11/30/2006
From: Finland
Comments: 1876
 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
Quote:

- Includes joystick support, but it is untested because SDL doesn't seem to find my joypad even though AmigaInput supports it. I'm guessing SDL might need an update.


It works fine with my competition pro usb joystick .
GrumpyOldMan
Published: 2009/2/22 18:53  Updated: 2009/2/22 18:53
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 Re: Giddy returns to the Amiga!
The game crashes every time when I reach the "spaceship level" (where you get when you go through the Stargate-like portal. If I drop down the shaft protected by laser beam and go left the game freezes totally.

I have also experienced some random crashes, but this one happens all the time.

AW, great game - many thanks to xeron for this port
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