Port Requests

[ible]

i mean there is already the open source clone, OpenRA...

but i did love this game growing up. wish they had lego versions of the tiberian units.

 

[levi]

And assets?

 

[ible]

it says it will prompt you to download on first play. i don't remember having difficulty playing OpenRA back when i tried a couple years back, except for the fact that the AI was a lot better than me...

 

[PokeParadox]

Native port of Agony possible?

 

[Farox]

Great! Thanks for posting, hope someone take the game to modern OS, will be nice to play Agony on Linux/Win/Mac without an emulator.

 

[TrashyMG]

Wonder how much code makes use of the Amiga only features like The Copper in the Agnus chipset, which did a ton of tricks for game graphics.

 

[levi]

Agony was already ported to the Acorn Archimedes as I recall. And I think I have it on my Wii already, thanks to homebrew.

 

[TrashyMG]

Agony was already ported to the Acorn Archimedes as I recall. And I think I have it on my Wii already, thanks to homebrew.

But from what I understand from where this code came from this is the Amiga Source files, maybe it contains other platforms, I just need to actually look at it I suppose. If it's already been ported to other platforms, I'm then just curious what was needed to port it, was it straight up 68k or did they have to re-write some Amiga specific methods.

 

[levi]

Ah, sorry my mistake. Seems I was thinking of Abuse, which was a late DOS release which apparently made its way to Amiga OS 4 and almost everything else that's 32 bit and up in the time since, because the engine got open sourced early. Agony by Psignosis never reached any platforms I own.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

@PokeParadox : thanks for the heads-up !

@TrashyMG : a nice article from the game artist Franck Sauer:

Agony

From fat pixels to tiny triangles. Game content since 1986 by Franck Sauer

francksauer.com

Looks like they made some extensive use of Copper

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[TrashyMG]

Didn't know this was a thing, but seems an open source engine for some of the bioware 3D games like Kotor and such...

GitHub - xoreos/xoreos: A reimplementation of BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives). Pre-pre-alpha :P

A reimplementation of BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives). Pre-pre-alpha :P - xoreos/xoreos

github.com

May take a stab at this on the OMAP5 devboard or the Pandora. Don't know much about it yet, just stumbled on it before leaving work.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all,

'Amnesia: The Dark Descent' and 'A Machine For Pigs' Are Now Open Source:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs are now open source

Get the code on Github

www.polygon.com

GitHub - FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

Contribute to FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Amnesia is now open source! – Frictional Games

frictionalgames.com

@ptitSeb : would the Pandora and / or Pyra be powerful enough to run those games ?

Cheers, Magic Sam

Post automatically merged: Sep 24, 2020

Hi again,

Older game from the same developers is also open source:

GitHub - FrictionalGames/HPL1Engine: A real time 3D engine.

A real time 3D engine. Contribute to FrictionalGames/HPL1Engine development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

GitHub - FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture: Penumbra: Overture is a first person horror game, using the HPL1 Engine.

Penumbra: Overture is a first person horror game, using the HPL1 Engine. - FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture

github.com

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ptitSeb]

Well, I tried running with box86, some time ago, and the OpenGL part didn't worked. I also tried on a Pi4 with Mesa and the OpenGL part was still buggy. Maybe it could be easier with the sources, but that will probably not be an easy build'n play game...

EDIT: Also, it seems to be using Autodesk closed sources SDK for FBX loading

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all,

@ptitSeb : thanks for giving it a look

Could this legacy project be of any use to you, regarding the FBX loading issue ?

LoadingFBXFiles (Field)

web.archive.org

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ptitSeb]

I haven't started porting or anything on this. Just reporting that info...

The ASSIMP library is well maintained and is able to load FBX, that's not really an issue. But that's still a lot of work to go from one API to another...

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi @ptitSeb ,

I just meant thanks for having a look at the code. Whether you decide to give the port a go is up to you as always. I'm glad either way

On a side note, wouldn't the older Penumbra Overture (HPL1 engine) be a better candidate ?

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ingoreis]

Wohoo ..i found a Fork of MKXP.

GitHub - mkxp-z/mkxp-z: Open-source cross-platform player for (some) RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace games. A very heavily modified fork of mkxp. RGSS on steroids with a stupid name.

Open-source cross-platform player for (some) RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace games. A very heavily modified fork of mkxp. RGSS on steroids with a stupid name. - mkxp-z/mkxp-z

github.com

Maybe its more combatible to many RPG Maker XP Games than MKXP itself.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

GitHub - ZDoom/Raze: Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech. Currently supports Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage and Powerslave/Exhumed.

Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech. Currently supports Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage and Powerslave/Exhumed. - ZDoom/Raze

github.com

Raze is a fork of Build engine games backed by GZDoom tech and combines Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior and Exhumed/Powerslave in a single package. It is also capable of playing Nam and WW2 GI.

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[b_o_b]

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/
Seems to be a very good e-reader with some very nice features (tts - annotations - dictionaries).

Main dependencies:

• gjs >= 1.52
• webkit2gtk
  (gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 for Debian based distros)
• meson >= 0.40 (required for building)
• gettext (required for building)

Possible to get it to work on the Pandora?

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

GitHub - TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer: Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games. - TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer

github.com

Cheers, Magic Sam