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[CU_AMiGA]

Hi,

Was wondering whether Quake would run on the A2000, A500 and A600 with the aid of an accelerator and graphics card? I would imagine it would be possible with an A2000 and A500, with the Blizzard accelerator and Cybervision graphics card. Not too certain about the A600 though...

Regards,

[ltstanfo]

If you have an '060 accellerator and a graphics card (Cybervision PPC, PicassoIV, etc..) the game is playable although there are some very minor screen lags on occasion. I have never attempted to run the game on an '040 with AGA only but I have read that gameplay is not really good due to severe lag. I suspect (opinion only) that play on ECS / OCS is not even a consideration.

Clickboom says that the minimum CPU is an '020 but I don't even want to think about that.

Regards,
ltstanfo

[CU_AMiGA]

Hello,

I still own Quake, even though i have no Amiga to play it on. But it was fairly playable on my A1200 with 060 and AGA, i got between 10-20fps. It was okay, but a 060 AGA is the bare minimum i reckon. It flies pretty well on PPC, i got 30-40fps on my 160. The minimum hardware requirements for Quake are: 020+FPU, AGA and 8meg RAM. So this game will not run on OCS/ECS. That is why a complex setup on A2000 and A500 seems more likely.

[Argus]

I'm going to try tonight and run it on my A2000 with a GVP030/40MHz/PicassoII+/16MB under CybergraphXv.4. afaik there is no ECS/OCS version. The AA version is playable with a 68060 and lots of RAM in low-res mode (320x200). The best AA/CyberGraphX/P96 version is the one on Aminet (Quake68K by Steffen Hauser, et al.). The Clickboom versions are buggy and slow, imho.

[CU_AMiGA]

Hi mate,

That would be cool. I would love to know what happens, any chance of posting a video clip?

Regards,

-EDIT-

The Quake on Aminet was the version i used as well. It flies compared to the Clickboom version. Apparently, Quake 2 runs better than the first one, but this needs a GFX card. I recently copied the WAD files from my Amiga CD to my iMAC to play iMAC, and it is full speed! :-) I have also heard that Clickbooms WAD files also uses special tricks in order for the speed to be good? Is this true?

[ltstanfo]

Argus wrote:
The Clickboom versions are buggy and slow, imho.

Curious...my experience is the opposite. I have on '060 A4000T with CybervisionPPC video (CyberGrafx4) and always got better performance with the Clickboom version over the aminet versions. interesting....

Regards,
ltstanfo

[CU_AMiGA]

interesting.....

[CU_AMiGA]

Would Quake at all run on a A600? I was thinking about that Shapeshifter card - as that can display 256, the same as AGA and GFX cards.

Regards,

[billt]

> If you have an '060 accellerator and a graphics card
> (Cybervision PPC, PicassoIV, etc..) the game is playable
> although there are some very minor screen lags on occasion.

Clickboom's Quake ran about 9FPS average on my 060/66MHz/PicassoIV A4000T. Wasn't smooth at times, but I played through the whole game. There were supposedly ways to improve FPS a bit with certain settings, but I never found a good howto or anything on how to do that and it never happened for me, but perhaps there's some tips to help on a web site somewhere that I never found... There's also been ports of the GPLed codebase that may have been better optimized, and I imagine there's an OpenGL version that would take advantage of a Voodoo3 and maybe even Cybervision64-3d card.

[Lemmink]

In theory it can be startet with a mere 020 and 8 MB fastram on PAL / NTSC (that at least what is stated on the packageing of the official clickboom Version) but that would only be a really slow slideshow.
I played it through on a Blizzard1240 @ 40MHz on a Picasso IV back then and it was damn slow (nearly 1 second beween each shot of the nailgun)
Playable it is only on a 060 with GFX-card in 320x240.

[redrumloa]

On older systems you mentiond (A500, 600, 2000) it is rather painful any way you cut it. The bare minimum I'd recomend is a 060 and Voodoo 3(Via Prometheus). Also newer Quake ports like GLQuake are MUCH better than Clickbooms.

HERE is an old benchmark comparison I did a few years back.

Test system:
A3000 MK-II 060/66 64meg ram
Prometheus w/Voodoo3 3000(SGRAM)

All tests done in full screen(no size reduction), the GLQuake68K version is using the fastrender option.

screenmode | Clickboom fps | GLQuake fps
320x240------------10.8-------------23.0
400x300-------------7.8--------------21.1
512x384-------------------------------21.1
640x480-------------------------------19.9
800x600-------------------------------16.0
1024x768-----------------------------11.9

:-o


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Removed Quake II results, irrelevant. Oops;-)