We have to contribute to everyone who creates/ports programs or games on AmigaOS 4.1

Whether it is by donations for HunoPPC or by buying the games ported by Stpehen from Alinea.

@ktadd:

Baldur‘s Gate 2 is by many named the best RPG game
ever written. It plays in the Dungeons &Dragons world
Faerun also known as „Forgotten realms“, also the place
were the new d&d movie plays. It has fights in a
strategic combat system (a bit like playing a tabletop
RPG) and a lot of talk scenes with npcs were your
talk options really matter on how the story comtinues.

The GemRB package allows you to play 4 games with
the same engine, Baldur’s Gate 1, Baldur’s Gate 2,
Icewind Dale 1 and Planescape:Torment.

Here is a video of GemRB on a Pegasos 2 (runs faster
on a A1222):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UT8a-33z2o

@noXLar: yes both play fine on Sam460

@TheMagicSN
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Just ordered Stratagus (WarCraft II). Used to watch my son play it back in the day. I am not familiar with Baldur’s Gate (GemRB). I'll look into it.

@kishigo

Happy to hear that you got it sorted and running stable!

Okay, Final Update:

After going through various attempts at getting my X5000/040 in order, it's finally running solid. No periodic lock-ups for a few days. It seems that there were several issues.
So if anyone has stability issues on their X5000/040, here are the three things I think helped, in order of importance:

1. Populating both memory slots with matched memory.

2. Utilizing video drivers from A-media's Rescue Stick.

3. Utilizing memory recommended by the manufacturer.

I'm not sure why having both memory slots occupied helped so much. My (less than educated) guess is that since the RX 580 is a higher performing video card,
a single ram stick couldn't keep up. Having both slots occupied engages interleaving, which increases memory bandwidth enough to keep up with the card.
If anyone else has any insight on this, feel free to chime in.

At any rate, everything runs much smoother. And faster.

@TheMagicSN

i also plan to buy both of these..as they are among the best games i ever played. will be on sam460ex. and its perfectly playable?

I just received the following message from HunoPPC, and he kindly gave me permission to share it here.
To those of you who have already supported him, or are thinking about doing so, it looks like your encouragement is already making a real difference and giving him a solid morale boost.
This is a very promising sign for us A1222 users!

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Wow, I’m honestly really positively surprised by all the donations and support. Thank you to everyone who has followed my suggestion and contributed. It truly shows how much we appreciate HunoPPC’s work on SPE-optimized software for the A1222. I’m sure he’ll be pleasantly surprised when he sees the donations, and I hope it will motivate him to keep working on this important niche.

While we absolutely don't want him to stop working on ports for the X1000, X5000, or SAM, it's great to know he has the A1222 in mind, and we all value what he’s already done for our machine. Hopefully, this support shows that we truly care and appreciate his efforts. Let's keep showing love and support for other developers in our community too!

Another example would be @TheMagicSN, who has created A1222-specific ports of games like Warcraft 2 (Stratagus) and Baldur’s Gate (GemRB). These ports are available for purchase on Alinea Computer's webshop (https://www.amiga-shop.net/). Me playing Warcraft 2 on my A1222: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJhZh_f_qY

Please feel free to add other examples of people who are working on or have already created software with A1222 in mind. There are certainly more out there, and the more we can support, the better!

Looking forward to potential projects ahead. Like a possible DarkPlaces Quake port, which could really push the system and our Radeon RX 5xx cards in a way we haven’t seen before, filling a gap we currently have!

Hi everyone, long-time lurker and A1222 owner. I’ve sent a donation to HunoPPC his efforts are very much appreciated! :)

@SinanSam460

Thanks for testing. About whats the best way. I started to use Term for testing. The general
problem seems to be that a lot of software using a serial port assumes that the device will
always be the serial.device.

So I was thinking about a configure option to let the pl2303.usbfd register the device as
"serial.device". Thus most old programs would than work without the need to be patched/modified.
But I don't know if that would work reliable. At least that should work as long the real "serial.device" hasn't been opened.

Can even provided me with the log output which is happening before the crash?

@trixie

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Absolutely, and you’re right – subscribing is definitely a great way to support Huno in the long run

I just thought it might also be a good time to remind him that there are A1222 users who care specifically about his SPE-optimized efforts, especially after the somewhat disappointing WipeOut experience. He likely has no way of knowing whether most subscribers are actually A1222 users or not, so a visible gesture or a few comments tied to that platform might help him feel that the time he puts into SPE support is noticed and appreciated.

It’s not about replacing ongoing support, but maybe giving a little focused encouragement so he knows there’s still interest in pushing what the A1222 can do.

@TheMagicSN
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Thanks for the reminder, I had actually planned to buy your GemRB port, and I’ll go ahead and do that right away!

Also, I already purchased your Stratagus port and have been very happy with how it runs on the A1222. Thanks for the great work! (And check your email.I replied earlier to let you know that I managed to play the intro video without the machine crashing, using the command you suggested in your last email.)

Really appreciate your continued efforts to bring quality ports to our platform!

@Mr_byte

I don't own an A1222 and I don't play games very much, but I've been Huno's bronze-level supporter for over a year now. It would make sense that gamers wanting to give meaningful support to Huno's efforts subscribe at one of the available tiers.

@TheMagicSN
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I plan to get Stratagus. Do you have a link?

Btw - with my recent ports of GemRB (Baldur’s Gate) and Stratagus you
can get titles running on the A1222 now. They are not specific SPE optimized
but run fine (GemRB runs at 20 fps, Stratagus at same speed like on a
x5000).

Up to now the sales numbers of both titles is not
that great… i especially wonder in case of GemRB-
not many other great rpg‘s available on AmigaOS…

And yes to see full support we would need a full SDK
supporting SDK. Currently only some titles can support
it.

@Mr_byte

donated:)

@Mr_byte
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Thanks for the reminder. Just donated. Let's support the A1222.

If you want to see more software for A1222 you need to get full SDK and GCC compiler support.

@Mr_byte
I can't agree more with you.

I'll get back to the topic thread a bit....


*****!!! - Many thanks to EntwicklerX for the unpaid access to the full games they created for AOS4 for testing and testing on the QEMU GPU passthrough. - !!!*****


I'm currently testing M.A.C.E - it's hard to tear myself away from this game, so for starters
Game running on full screen 1680x1050 setting ‘high’
fps:
main mode - 274-190 frames
gameplay - 180-72 frames depending on the number of objects.

screenshot -> https://ibb.co/7xwTwRcG
screenshot -> https://ibb.co/gZwJJwNP
screenshot -> https://ibb.co/jk84Q98F


Super Star Blast - works very well. Just as terribly addictive as M.A.C.E.
Game running on full screen 1680x1050

Vsync = yes
Holds 59-60 fps in gameplay
Vsync = no jumps 67-82 fps in gameplay
Slight sound problems do not exist in reality. I saw them when I was ripping the video. This is a problem with my phone. I accidentally gave recording in 4k and my phone is a bit too slow.

Video - > https://youtu.be/Kd_a9kpbXtQ


to be continued.....

legend:
- the games must be purchased which I strongly encourage you to do.
- the games have been donated to me at the moment on EntwicklerX's own initiative and will not be shared with others.
- The game film, if not included, will be added later.
- In order not to create a new topic, all tests will be added here and later moved to the first topic.
- If there are changes to the emulation of qemu, the test results will be corrected with a description.