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I have now posted on every subject on the 1st page of the General forum! I should get a medal for this y'know...

[Edited by eddyosaysyo2 at 15:56, 14/11/2004]

If it requires a licence then very unlikely.

Somebody tried to port Duke Nukem but unsuccessfully IIRC.

Heretic 2 doesn't have any source available so thats not gonna happen.

Hexen 2 is based of the Quake engine for a start and we all know how much effort there has been to get Quake running at a decent speed. Any port would require a load of work to get running well. The other issue AFAIK is that the code is from the Portal of Praevus pack and the code will not run the original game or the demo. They were supposed to release the original source, but I don't believe it has happened.

As for Duke 3d... it shouldn't be far off. Barring some sound related issues. I've gone and said too much

When sound is playing it doesn't appear to be triggering necessary callbacks in the game engine (or thats what it seems) - the sound plays, but the game hangs at various points waiting for triggers. Beyond that the quality of audio support appears fairly poor and hinders the performance.

As for the music... its not really legal to provide (WAV/MP3/Ogg/whatever) versions of the tracks. On 26bit machines its not a prob as its possible to use hardware/software emulation layers to play the midi files.

I do have various potential solutions though... we'll just see how it goes.

This sounds promising
BTW David, a PC version of Elite: The New Kind is available on CD in the RISC OS market. Would this be possible for your RISC OS port?

Sorry got a bit confused by that... do you mean that someone's released a CD with TNK on ?

If so can you post a link ? I had a brief Google but couldn't spot anything obvious.

However if there is any question mark over releasing a version I won't do it... I'm sorry, but I'm just starting at a new job on Monday and I'm not willing to jeopardise anything.

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Woah! This post now 2 pages and nothing to do with Hexen 2 on Risc Os anymore!

[Edited by eddyosaysyo2 at 17:08, 24/11/2004]

I've been having a look at Duke3d as well and got stuck with exactly the same problem.
Are you using the the RISC OS version of the SDL libaries? If so you may want to try the latest versions from the unix porting project to see if they make any difference to the sound quality (they won't help with the callbacks).
I'll leave the program alone now that I know you are looking at it, let me know if you give up on it though:-)

I'll have a look at the latest version... although I'll probably just rewrite the sound code to use SharedSound and do some magic with the callbacks.

How far did you actually get with porting it ? I'm just intrigued as there were quite a few nasty issues that I had to resolve before it would run properly.

<blockquote><font color="#667799">I've been having a look at Duke3d as well and got stuck with exactly the same problem.
Are you using the the RISC OS version of the SDL libaries? If so you may want to try the latest versions from the unix porting project to see if they make any difference to the sound quality (they won't help with the callbacks).
I'll leave the program alone now that I know you are looking at it, let me know if you give up on it though:-)</blockquote></font>

I'll have a look at the latest version... although I'll probably just rewrite the sound code to use SharedSound and do some magic with the callbacks.

How far did you actually get with porting it ? I'm just intrigued as there were quite a few nasty issues that I had to resolve before it would run properly.

I got as far as the menu to start the game. i.e. As I clicked on the "Let's Rock" menu option it hung waiting for the sound to play.
To get as far as I did I had to run it in a Window and turn off optimisation due to a bug in the GCC 3.4.1 compiler that causes it to generate invalid code in some circumstances.

The sound in the startup screens didn't seem too bad though.

If you find the reason the callbacks aren't working I would be very interested as I'd like to modify the sound handling in SDL if that is the cause.

Only about 8 years overdue this time. You can download a test version of a port for RISC OS of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion from http://www.cgransden.co.uk/hexen2.zip .

There don't seem to be any data files included. Are there no shareware IWADs for this game? It's a bit useless without.

EDIT: Also - Heretic works on the Iyonix, but not on the BeagleBoard. Double-clicking !HHeretic causes the computer to freeze for a couple of seconds, then apparently do nothing, until the next time you double-click on something in the Filer, at which point the whole system goes down with a 'Filecore in use'. On an ARMini (BeagleBoard-xM) running ARMini OS update 4 (the 1GHz upgrade) and Iyonix running 5.18.

There don't seem to be any data files included. Are there no shareware IWADs for this game? It's a bit useless without.

Keep up the good work Chris! Have you got any other ports in the pipeline at the moment?

EDIT: Also - Heretic works on the Iyonix, but not on the BeagleBoard. Double-clicking !HHeretic causes the computer to freeze for a couple of seconds, then apparently do nothing, until the next time you double-click on something in the Filer, at which point the whole system goes down with a 'Filecore in use'. On an ARMini (BeagleBoard-xM) running ARMini OS update 4 (the 1GHz upgrade) and Iyonix running 5.18.

Try turning alignment exceptions off. Also check the 'stderr' file inside the !HHeretic folder.

Alignment exceptions are off (it's the default state on the ARMini). And I checked stderr too, but nothing had been written to it since the time it successfully failed* to start up because I'd forgotten to install the WAD file.

Other possibilities. Is !UnixHome installed and the version of the DigitalRenderer module. v0.55 is the latest.