| From: | Thomas Schulze |
| Date: | 25 Aug 2000 at 18:34:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Game technique |
Hi Allen,
>> I want to make my first game for the amiga.
>> I really don't have a clue to start...
> Same here!
Well.. if it's just the display question, I recommend my personal favourite:
ChunkyPPC. It is both PPC and 68K, it is fast, it supports Hi/TrueColor and
the rest is upto you. As most of todays graphics algorithms aren't supported
by the system you mostly have to do it for yourself anyways. Just think of
transparency, distortion effekts or anything similar.
ChunkyPCC has one big disadvantage: The slow ZorroII bus. It needs approx. 70
ms to copy a simple 320x240x8 screen to the graphics mem, resulting in max 15
fps. Even AGA and ChunkyToPlanar is faster. Of course, it's always possible
to only copy the regions that have changed. This way even an hiColor version
is possible at ZorroII GFX boards, but it might be a bit of overkill for a
little pacman clone.
As a conclusion: I prefer ChunkyPPC, if you also do so I have some example
sources here.
Bye, Thomas
XFire I/II, YATAG, VoxelRace, Between The Lines