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My First Release for Vampire Next Week ;-)

Steffen Häuser

Posts 45
25 Apr 2024 08:43


Hi!

Next week finally my first release for Vampire will be coming. Sadly no Heretic 2 yet.

It will be a new Quake 2 port, but with some things AmiQuake2 does not offer:

- Background Music (at least if you have a V4 Vampire, sadly no Background Music for V2 systems - I am using a V4 specific chipset feature here)
- Optional support for the USB Gamepad of the Vampire V4 (for A1200 + V2 Vampire and similar configurations lowlevel.library and PSX Port Adapters are supported)
- You can set 3 sources for an action like in the AmigaOS4 version (mouse, keyboard, gamepad)
- Network Gaming
- Full Support for MissionCDs and Multiplayer Mods
- 68080 specific compiled version included
- New Installer installing Q2 from either PC CD, Mac CD, Gog Data or Steam Data (Gog or Steam Data needed for the Background music, or you can rip the CD Audio from the CD into AIFF format yourselves - Vampire version of my port uses AIFF for background music, if you have Gog/Steam version the installer will do the needed file conversion already)

Note this port will need Picasso96 and AHI installed. Future updates (with potentially more optimization for 68080) might happen.

There is also already a MiniGL renderer, additionally to the Software renderer, so if the Vampire in future gets a working MiniGL Implementation for Maggie this port is already prepared (It is a general 68k port, with special versions for Vampire, PiStorm and 100 MHz 060 systems, you can choose at installation time which of them to install).

initially the following Mission CDs will be supported:

Ground Zero
Zaero
The Reckoning (I list that one last, as levels with these laser barriers run quite slow, might be there will be a future update)

Multiplayer Mods I ported (more might come in the future):

Action
Airquake2
Annihilation
Assault
Awaken2
Basketball
Blastchamber
Battle of the Sexes
Brazen
ChaosDM
Catch the Chicken
Threewave CTF (the normal CTF)
Devastation Quake2
Domination
Faith/FaithDM/FaithTag
FreezeTag
Gangsters (a variant of Action)
Generations
Gameleader
Gloom (not to be confused with the Amiga game of the same name, a very popular Multiplayer Q2 Mod on PC)
Headhunters
Holy
Jabot (a Bot for Q2)
Jailbreak
Ltk (a Bit for Action Q2)
Multigrenade
Napalm2
Nighthunters
OpenTDM
Pig2k
ProCTF
ProRocket
Q2Comp
Quake Racing
Sniper
Sog (also providing some singleplayer levels additionally)
StVitus
Terror
Team Fortress X
Titanic
Toprung
Total War
UrbanCTF
UrbanDM
WarMod
Weapons of Destruction
Weapon Foundry
Wyrm



Steffen Häuser

Posts 45
25 Apr 2024 19:12


Okay, Expert Quake 2 now also works ;-) Another Multiplayer Mod ported. Release of the whole stuff probably early next week.


Eddie Cejvan

Posts 26
26 Apr 2024 01:54


Awesome news. Looking forward to playing.


DiscreetFX Studios

Posts 145
26 Apr 2024 05:14


@Steffen Häuser

This is great news, congrats for supporting Vampire V4!


Steffen Häuser

Posts 45
27 Apr 2024 07:40


DiscreetFX Studios wrote:

  @Steffen Häuser
 
 
  This is great news, congrats for supporting Vampire V4!
 

 
  It is not only V4, according to one of my testers it also runs nice on the V2 (minus the background music, but I am right now experimenting if I can't get CD Audio Support working again which could be a thing for Vampire V2 users for getting the Music). It also runs nicely on PiStorm. There is a 060 version as well but I have my doubts this will run that great. I have a tester for 060 now too so we will see (The installer has 040/PiStorm, 060 and 080/Vampire options for installation).

Maybe adding CD Audio might be delaying the release of this still a bit. But I am still confident about "sometimes next week".


Antony Coello

Posts 154
27 Apr 2024 17:52


Great work.

And a great big thank you for bothering to give support to the V2 (which I happen to own!) ;)


Richard Statham

Posts 50
28 Apr 2024 16:49


Not using maggie then ?


Steffen Häuser

Posts 45
29 Apr 2024 16:44


Maggie lacks features required for Q2. Basically it requires 3 different Blending Modes (but actually if one of them is supported the others could be approximated by it) and it requires glTexEnv both GL_REPLACE and GL_MODULATE (Maggie only supports on of them).
 
  Of course once more features are added to Maggie, this could be supported. A MiniGL Renderer is included additionally to the Software renderer.
 
  The Q2 port is now available BTW: https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Software/Amiga-Games/Quake-2-for-AmigaOS-3-Download-Version::1363.html

The Mods and additional Mission CD should be on Aminet maybe tomorrow, I uploaded them 1h ago.

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