Re: [hatari-devel] Beats of Rage (new Falcon game)

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Did you start coding from scratch or did you use assembly generated
by g++ from the game's C++ sources?  How slow a plain C++ source port
would have been?


It's a full rewrite in plain 68030 (I didn't read their C+ code, except 
for the camera movement).
I've done my own engine (but I think it may be close to paintown code).

I think a portage would not have been possible, the game would have been 
really too slow.


> Both versions work under Hatari, also the one with sound.
With the old UAE CPU, I was able to complete level one without
problems.


Great, I didn't think at testing with the old CPU.
Again, it's only CPU timings that does the problem.
We'll have to fix this once and for all in the new CPU.


> Paradize's Chainz and Jewelz games contain music, but have a key
with which one can skip music.  Maybe your game could also have
a key for disabling sound/music?


I could have done this, but it was less pain to compile 2 versions :)



> Firebee doesn't emulate DSP, so Hatari version might be useful
with that too.  But the code being 030 means that they need to
run it some instruction through emulator...  There's a converter
for m68k asm code, that might be useful too.


Maybe hatari :)


Have fun

Laurent



Le 12/12/2012 10:47, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On keskiviikko 12 joulukuu 2012, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> > I'm happy to give you my first game on Falcon called "Beats of rage".
> > (That's why I was less present these months :)
> >
> > You can download it at the following address :
> > http://dl.free.fr/iR1aPVDZr
> > Don't hesitate to have a look at the
> > readme.txt file which gives more informations.
> That says it's "a free adaptation of the game Paintown available
> at the following address: http://paintown.sourceforge.net/"; and
> "I've written all the code in pure 68030 assembler.   It took me
> 13 months to complete it".
>
> Did you start coding from scratch or did you use assembly generated
> by g++ from the game's C++ sources?  How slow a plain C++ source port
> would have been?
>
>
> > I've coded it exclusively under Hatari (but the final release is not
> > compatible because of the sound),
> Both versions work under Hatari, also the one with sound.
> With the old UAE CPU, I was able to complete level one without
> problems.
>
> WinUAE version got stuck early in the level 1 though, so I guess
> the issue is with that one.
>
>
> > so I've included a version for hatari without sound nor musics.
> Paradize's Chainz and Jewelz games contain music, but have a key
> with which one can skip music.  Maybe your game could also have
> a key for disabling sound/music?
>
>
> > I wish we'll manage to fix this one day.
> Firebee doesn't emulate DSP, so Hatari version might be useful
> with that too.  But the code being 030 means that they need to
> run it some instruction through emulator...  There's a converter
> for m68k asm code, that might be useful too.
>
>
> 	- Eero