Deluxe Galaga AGA ons Sam flex???

please please tell me I can play Deluxe Galaga on my soon to come Sam Flex....

@328gts

yes you can, with E-UAE !

@Lio
It should be cool if Edgar release the source code of Deluxe Galaga AGA to allow use to adapt it to MiniGL :p

@328gts

I can't get Deluxe_GalageA.lha or Deluxe_GalagaE.lha to work on my SAM 440ep 667MHz (I get DSI errors) but 2.6c runs....the initial configuration screen.

Unfortunately I can't get the config screen to recognise the USB joystick as a joystick in port 1 - nothing happens once the joystick is set up in the lowlevel tab.

(Actually, the config screen asks for the joystick in "Port#2" but since there isn't one i assume this to be port1, the mouse being in port0.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the config screen to pick up the lowlevel joystick?

Cheers

@grim_fandango

I don't think Deluxe Galaga use any API or driver, it just trys to read from a fixed memory address, where hardware is located, most old games do that.

Lowlevel.device was designed for games that supported analog serial joysticks, so in other words don't expect games to support it, because most don't.

@LiveForIt

Thanks for that, I'd assumed LowLevel meant banging the hardware.

Looks like we're knackered then, E-UAE it is. E-UAE's quite slow on a Sam440ep though

@grim_fandango

Yes and Audio is most likely Paula chip banging.

You can force E-UAE in to lowres and setup a custom screen mode, then you can reduce the audio quality and play the ECS/OCS/68000 version Deluxe Galaga that should do the trick.
(At least it will work on the 800mhz version of SAM.)

@LiveForIt

Been experimenting with the settings as you suggest and I got Giana Sisters running at full speed with these settings:

In the DEVS:Monitors/Radeon tooltypes I added the line

MODE=360x284@60

My .uaerc file in the E-UAE folder looks like this:

--

amiga.rom_path=rom
kickstart_rom_file=rom/amiga-os-130.rom
kickstart_key_file=rom/rom.key
sound_output=normal
joyport0=mouse
joyport1=joy0

show_leds=true
gfx_framerate=3
chipset=ocs
gfx_linemode=none
gfx_lores=true
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=true
gfx_width_windowed=360
gfx_height_windowed=284
sound_latency=200
sound_frequency=8000

--

This gives full screen output, with slightly dodgy audio and flickery graphics. If it's not good enough, try increasing the gfx_framerate to 4 and reducing sound_frequency to 5000.

I'm sure you can afford a lower value of gfx_framerate with the 800MHz Flexes, you luck people!

@grim_fandango

I have 1Ghz G4, so it keeps up, I can even plays some AGA games at full speed.

This might speed things up some.

collision_level=none
#collision_level=playfields
#collision_level=sprites

amiga.screen_type=ask
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=true
gfx_fullscreen_picasso=true
ntsc=true
chipmem_size=2
gfx_width_fullscreen=360
gfx_height_fullscreen=284

# 0 = on, -1 = off
floppy0type=0
floppy1type=0
floppy2type=0
floppy3type=0

floppy_speed=200

@freddix

Instead of asking for source which is probably all assembly mumbo jumbo maybe we should ask him for a port of his successor to deluxe galaga:

http://www.warblade.as/index.asp

@murasame


holy crap!!! that looks awesome man...Deluxe Galaga is my favourite game & I'd love to play this new one on Sam

--email sent off to Edgar !!--

let's get those emails off to him guys

@328gts

I have a registered copy of Warblade, it is definitely an updated Deluxe Galaga.

Cracking game, it's a belter!

@328gts

Taken from warblade's home page:



I think that until this PTK Library will remain closed source it will be impossible to port Warblade to AOS4/AROS/MOS without rewriting some portion of the game code

@murasame
I know warblade from its beginning (I did bought it when it was in beta test ;) )

I did already asked Edgar if he was interested in porting Warblade to New Amiga NG .. I did never receive answer :(

@freddix

... and I think that even in case he'll answer it will be something like "ptk lib blablabla closed source blablabla eula blablabla don't have time / interest / whatever you want"

@murasame

http://www.thecryptmag.com/Online/20/EdgarInterview.html

and amiga future 79 also (verry recent).

@Mrodfr
Interesting

I've resend the idea to Edgar concerning DeluxGalaga or WarBlade on AmigaOS4 ...
Hoping for an answer from him :p

@Mrodfr

Quote:

great read!..thanks for the link..I felt much the same way as Edgar but once an Amigan ..always an Amigan