Doom for TT030.

[Atarieterno]

Hi guys;
I've seen on YouTube this video of "Doom for Atari TT", and excuse my ignorance about adaptations of games but: where are there links to download games like Doom or Quake for Atari ?, is it real or is it a fake?
I have TT and Falcon (without accelerating) and I would like to try them.
Greetings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pDN4dPYZg

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[Moulinaie]

This is a reality:

Patrice Mandin (a french guy) made the adaptation:

http://patrice.mandin.pagesperso-orange ... -jeux.html

Guillaume.

[Atarieterno]

This is a reality:

Patrice Mandin (a french guy) made the adaptation:
http://patrice.mandin.pagesperso-orange ... -jeux.html
Guillaume.

Thanks for answering, Guillaume.

José Antonio.

[kcr2000]

It's real, but not playable at this speed on the TT...
For a stock Falcon BadMood is the best Doom.

[Eero Tamminen]

Purely CPU based Quake ports are even less playable than CPU based Doom ports.

BadMood runs at playable speed because it has highly optimized rendering engine written from scratch to take full advantage of both Falcon CPU & DSP (by a person why had written games for living, both for Atari and e.g. for Playstation). I think in total it took several man years of effort, that was freely contributed to Atari users. Falcon DSP is more powerful than the CPU, without it BadMood couldn't be even nearly as fast as it's now.

BadMood supports (at least it supported at some point during its development) both Doom I and Doom II WADs. Doom II WADs are generally more complex (more things visible at the same time, so more calculations & rendering needed) and therefore clearly slower than Doom I WADs.

DML had also code for *rendering* Quake levels on Falcon, but that didn't include any game play support (in BadMood, Doom game logic calculations took about half of the CPU cycles, and it includes some simplifications e.g. to sound propagation, compared to PC version).

[julyan]

This is a reality:

Patrice Mandin (a french guy) made the adaptation:

http://patrice.mandin.pagesperso-orange ... -jeux.html

Thanks for the clarification!

[mrbombermillzy]

Purely CPU based Quake ports are even less playable than CPU based Doom ports.

How about the Wolfenstein port then? If anything, its too fast for the TT!

It can be picked up from Ray/TSCC.

I know its not quite Quake or Doom, which was the original request, but its less painful to play on stock hardware. (No pain at all on the TT.)

[boratintheuk]

How does BadMooD even run so well on a stock Falcon? It's basically unplayable on any Amiga or Mac with a 68030 and it looks just as good as the 386 if not better. I'm still an Atari noob over here so forgive me.

[jury]

How does BadMooD even run so well on a stock Falcon? It's basically unplayable on any Amiga or Mac with a 68030

Its not the Falcon 68030 "responsible" for this ( Atari TT has faster 68030 and it does not help run Doom better )
It plays this way on Falcon as many calculations are done by the second processor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_56000

[AnthonyJ]

How does BadMooD even run so well on a stock Falcon? It's basically unplayable on any Amiga or Mac with a 68030 and it looks just as good as the 386 if not better. I'm still an Atari noob over here so forgive me.

Eero essentially answered above. The two key things are that the Falcon's DSP is a very powerful co-processor (which is not just for sound), and it has a completely custom rendering engine written by a talented developer that takes full advantage of the Falcon's hardware, rather than a simple "port + optimise" of id's code.

[Eero Tamminen]

BadMood custom rendering engine requires also game data to be pre-processed to a more optimal format, before game starts. Its sound engine (soft synth + sound mixing) is also a custom one.

On the upside, custom rendering engine allows additional features like mouse look (in ID SW that came only with Quake), 16-bit graphics instead of 8-bit (*), and transparency.

(*) On Atari Falcon, 16-bit graphics are nearly as fast as 8-bit graphics for game like this, because unlike Amiga, Falcon doesn't support chunky 8-bit format, only planar 8-bit mode.

[mikro]

unlike Amiga, Falcon doesn't support chunky 8-bit format, only planar 8-bit mode.

I guess you meant here like Amiga. :) Chunky mode is possible only with a gfx card, like on Falcon.

[leech]

unlike Amiga, Falcon doesn't support chunky 8-bit format, only planar 8-bit mode.

I guess you meant here like Amiga. Chunky mode is possible only with a gfx card, like on Falcon.

Ha, I was going to say, a lot of Amiga developers were stumped why Commodore didn't add a Chunky mode, whereas Atari did on the Falcon.

It's one of the reasons from what I've read that the Amiga couldn't really do a decent Doom clone without some accelerators / graphics cards. Also one of the claims why the Amiga died, because it couldn't pull off Doom.

I'm curious to know if anyone has ever benchmarked BadMood vs Doom on the Jaguar. Would be pretty funny if DML managed to squeeze better performance out of the Falcon than John Carmack had gotten out of the Jaguar.

[jury]

I'm curious to know if anyone has ever benchmarked BadMood vs Doom on the Jaguar. Would be pretty funny if DML managed to squeeze better performance out of the Falcon than John Carmack had gotten out of the Jaguar.

???
Are you sure you have seen Doom on Jaguar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUH2qUTEfw

No need to do any benchmarks to see which one performs way better

Edit:
And if I remember well, when I read review of Doom's back in the days, Jaguar version was recognized as the best performing Doom engine of all

[Neurotoxic]

Might there also be a 68040 version for the Milan or Hades clones?

[vido]

Might there also be a 68040 version for the Milan or Hades clones?

Yes, pmdoom is compiled for all Atari clones including the FireBee.

[Neurotoxic]

Might there also be a 68040 version for the Milan or Hades clones?

Yes, pmdoom is compiled for all Atari clones including the FireBee.

I'm not sure, but I think I tried to run it on my Milan040 and it didn't work. I think I shall have a look again.

[vido]

Might there also be a 68040 version for the Milan or Hades clones?

Yes, pmdoom is compiled for all Atari clones including the FireBee.

I'm not sure, but I think I tried to run it on my Milan040 and it didn't work. I think I shall have a look again.

Did you try it under GEM? It should run under GEM.

[leech]

I'm curious to know if anyone has ever benchmarked BadMood vs Doom on the Jaguar. Would be pretty funny if DML managed to squeeze better performance out of the Falcon than John Carmack had gotten out of the Jaguar.

???
Are you sure you have seen Doom on Jaguar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUH2qUTEfw

No need to do any benchmarks to see which one performs way better

Edit:
And if I remember well, when I read review of Doom's back in the days, Jaguar version was recognized as the best performing Doom engine of all

Ha, yes I actually own two copies. But then I think when I played BadMood it was on my 060.. And it's been years since I fired up Doom on the Jag. Too bad the JagLink code was broken, my brother and I wanted to try to beat it on Nightmare two player, but it would kill the connection and we'd have to start over.

Recently watched a video about all the console versions of Doom, seems most of them were based on the Jaguar version.

[Cyprian]

Too bad the JagLink code was broken

I read somewhere on AtariAge that JagLink code was corrected

[Neurotoxic]

Yes, pmdoom is compiled for all Atari clones including the FireBee.

I'm not sure, but I think I tried to run it on my Milan040 and it didn't work. I think I shall have a look again.

Did you try it under GEM? It should run under GEM.

I was mistaken. It works! Hardly playable and sound effects that sounds painful but it works!

I tried it under MiNT 1.19 with XaAES and the Thing Desktop. Sometimes it's better not to open an application by a double click via the desktop. In that case TOSWIN2 is opening a window telling me that the process was terminated. But when I'm opening the ttp-file via TOSWIN2 it works!!! Odd behavior! I should it also try on my Firebee.

PMDOOM.jpg

[vido]

I was mistaken. It works! Hardly playable and sound effects that sounds painful but it works!

I tried it under MiNT 1.19 with XaAES and the Thing Desktop. Sometimes it's better not to open an application by a double click via the desktop. In that case TOSWIN2 is opening a window telling me that the process was terminated. But when I'm opening the ttp-file via TOSWIN2 it works!!! Odd behavior! I should it also try on my Firebee.

It was playable on My Milan 060 and its even more playable on the FireBee.

[leech]

Too bad the JagLink code was broken

I read somewhere on AtariAge that JagLink code was corrected

I had read that too. Wonder what the process is of getting that into a cartridge. Not that I have a secondary Jaguar anymore... I still have two Dooms and a Jaglink though.

[vido]

I had read that too. Wonder what the process is of getting that into a cartridge. Not that I have a secondary Jaguar anymore... I still have two Dooms and a Jaglink though.

I guess the easyest way is to use skunk board.

[leech]

I had read that too. Wonder what the process is of getting that into a cartridge. Not that I have a secondary Jaguar anymore... I still have two Dooms and a Jaglink though.

I guess the easyest way is to use skunk board.

Sounds like it'd be cheaper just to set up a couple old computers I do have one Skunkboard though. Still need to actually use it for something. Ha, why can't I retire now and play with my old toys?