Awesome stuff!!!
Performance:
- on 68030s: fine on both 1.3 and 2.x and above
I'll be curious to see if this plays on my insane A3K with RTG and an 060 (if it loads at all; gulp!)
- on 68000s: playable with audio on 2.x and above, but pretty slow with 1.3.
I can test this one on 2 different Amiga 1000 setups I use regularly.
- A1K with 8MB modern Fast RAM, 2MB chip, OS 1.3, 14 Mhz AdSpeed, SCSI2SD storage via Microbotics Starboard R2
- A1K (stock) with Parceiro 2.5: 28Mhz, 8MB Fast, unlimited storage, and any OS we want to compare agains (1.2, 2.04 or 3.1)
Of course I can test it on some other less blingy Amigas, too, but one of those ^ will likely be my own personal destination for your Amiga port.
Size:
- it has busted out of fitting on one disk. Is anyone still wanting to PLAY from 2 disks?
Would you have any interest in sending me your intro/outro HAM images and letting me try to convert them to a 64 or 32 color image via Art Department Professional or something similar? You would still have a very impressive and colorful image but the file would likely be much less KB (or are you needing a
lot of additional space on Disk 2)? Just a thought.
If the game fit on a single disk I'd probably play from a floppy. But since you're creating an installer it'd be nuts for me not to put it on a hard drive at this point even if it was only 1 disk. It'll simply load so much faster and quieter, including between levels since it seeks the disk in-between each level (I assume Amiga does the same thing?). Storage is cheap in 2024. =) As a result I personally don't care how many ADFs it takes.
To that end, if there was a CRT'd version that was C128 specific (something I'm not sure was ever created...ever?) that would blow the door off its hinges storagewise. But then again, getting anything to support the 128 that can use CRT files in native C128/80 column mode... yeah.
I only mention this because I'm currently playing a new Japanese-style game on the C64 called
Briley Witch Chronicles 2. It requires the game be loaded off something like the Ultimate II+ as it is a "very large" CRT file. But all of my game saves are written to a 1541 disk drive. Kind of funky, but it works and the game is enormous and amazing.