Dear Amiga users,

The day after tomorrow - just before Easter - my newest game will be released.

This game is a port of Warcraft 2 (or rather, the open source reimplementation "Stratagus").

In contrast to the earlier "Version 2.1" port of Stratagus:

- Based on "Latest-Git," i.e., version 3.3.3
- Full support for music and intro videos
- Bug fixes for countless bugs (including showstoppers like crash bugs). Version 3.3.3 is also much more "complete" in terms of Warcraft 2 compared to 2.1
- Level editor included
- Optimized for a number of different systems (specific EXEs for x1000, x5000, G3, Sam 440, Sam 460, and A1222)
(Note: A1222 version without intro videos)
- The game can be installed directly from the "Classic" PC CD (DOS or Windows) without the need for a PC.
Installing the Battle.Net Edition or the Gog Edition (the Gog Edition is no longer available for purchase since December) is also possible, but you need a PC decompressor as an intermediate step. Direct installation on Amiga is only possible from the Classic CD.
- No manual tinkering with the installation is necessary; everything is done conveniently via the installer.
- Installation can install both the base game and the "Beyond the Dark Portal" add-on CD, which is also supported (currently both games are single-player only, the campaign is fully supported).
- Graphics optimization via GL (optional).

Minimal specs: Sam 440/Pegasos/MicroAmigaOne or comparable, AmigaOS 4.1 with a minimum of Update 2.

Before anyone asks - I'll try a 68k version again at some point; I'm still struggling with bugs in the C compiler/Mathelib.

The game (without the PC version) is available from the Alinea online shop for €12.99.

I'll provide a detailed link later.

Steffen "MagicSN" Haeuser

@MagicSN

Awesome, great work! Although I no longer own any PPC hardware, this is still great news for the community.

I await any 68K version (if it is possible).

Thank you for your continued fame porting work.

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@Amiboy

I tried a lot with porting it to 68k. It basically failed due to compiler/optimizer issues (my choice of compiler was also not big - Stratagus needs a compiler capable of C++17 - the only one capable of this is one based on a non-stable branch which has to be compiled yourselves).

Probably the games where a 68k version is more likely will be GemRB (once the 68k Python port is available I will port it) and Sin (hopefully, Sin also has compiler/optimizer issues though).

Steffen

@MagicSN

Nice!

@MagicSN

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MagicSN wrote: I tried a lot with porting it to 68k. ...

According to Wikipedia there seems to be Stratagus port 3.3.2 for AmigaOS (with WarpOS) and MorphOS, so it might not be such a problem of not having 3.3.3

https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus/releases/tag/v3.3.2

@MagicSN

Of course I applaud your efforts, and with every game port your skills will improve and hopefully through these improved skills and knowledge you can bring more and better game ports to [holding back the rising bile]AmigaOS4[/holding back the rising bile], Amiga OS 3.x and AROS 68k on Apollo 080 + SAGA, and emu68 + RTG.

That said, I originally played Warcraft and Warcraft II on my expanded A1200 via MacOS on Shapeshifter, almost 30 years ago.

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All the way, with 68k

@agami

It is more and more complicated to do ports for other variants than OS4 though. A lot of stuff is missing for 68k. For GemRB it was Python, for many ports it is SDL2 (yes, in case of a simple renderer it can be reimplemented to SDL1, but many sources use very specific features of SDL2, and especially if the source in question uses other "problematic" things - problematic for OS3.x - this makes porting for OS3.x very problematic). In case of Stratagus we have C++17. Other sources use std::mutex. Or missing 3D Hardware Support. Added to this repeated bugs in the compiler.

Sources from PC platforms of course do use "the modern stuff".

68k, no matter what version, is far behind. I am trying my best to have some more ports to 68k too (I suspect GemRB might be the next) but 68k is really behind on everything and it is pretty hard. Of course once 3D for PiStorm is there this will also give more opportunities.

It is again the A1200 vs. A4000 situation IMHO. The better system has few users, the inferior system tons of users.

@MagicSN

I've sent you a mail regarding Stratagus on Sam460, did you get it?

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@MagicSN

take pistorm as it is
hardware that change amiga into just mouse keyboard and joystick interface for rpi
use linux
write few lines of code that read mouse keyboard and joystick from amiga side
max 2 hours and you will have pistorm port

Last edited by ppcamiga1 on 23-Apr-2025 at 02:12 PM.

@ppcamiga1

Quote:

ppcamiga1 wrote: @MagicSN take pistorm as it is hardware that change amiga into just mouse keyboard and joystick interface for rpi use linux write few lines of code that read mouse keyboard and joystick from amiga side max 2 hours and you will have pistorm port

@ppcamiga1

No this is wrong.

PiStorm only uses ARM for 68k CPU Emulation. For all the other stuff custom chips are used. You can claim otherwise again and again and it still is wrong. Emu68k contains NO Emulation of the custom chips.

This is also why Emu68 is faster than other ARM-based solutions (for example Pi3 is around 10% faster than 600GS). 600GS Emulates everything including custom chips, while PiStorm uses the real Custom Chips (though you can also use the PIStorm as graphics board for OS compatible software of course - but that's no different like you use a graphics board on an A4000 or a OS4 machine).

It's actually the big advantage of PiStorm that it does NOT do what you claim.

And I have actual knowledge of this stuff, different to you.

@K-L

I replied to one mail (sorry for the late reply) today, not sure if this was you. What is your name ?