Dune II / OpenDUNE for Falcon (and TT)

[bartek030]

Stock falcon 14mb, fpu, VGA (256c/40lines/double line ON).
Dune 2 1.07 tested with dosbox.
Mouse freezes after intro (play game / ....)

[MM41]

Great the midi music is played !

[nanard]

Stock falcon 14mb, fpu, VGA (256c/40lines/double line ON).
Dune 2 1.07 tested with dosbox.
Mouse freezes after intro (play game / ....)

I don't know what's wrong with my code :
https://github.com/miniupnp/OpenDUNE/bl ... ari_ikbd.s

edit : hum I will have a look at SDL code : http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/b1d2398f2 ... nterrupt.S

[MM41]

At the menu game,i can push up and down keys without problem, the freeze come after press return or mouse move.

@ Bartek030: have you ear a voice in the intro game? My Falcon don't play sound?

[bartek030]

I can watch whole intro with sound,
it has some hiccups but works.

With mouse not used I can start gameplay, but no music.
But sound is working - speech, enemy shots etc.

Tested all three buids, also with superdune mod.

[MM41]

Thanks Bartek030

[Atari030]

I'm not having much luck with my CT2 Falcon. I only get as far as a white screen, tried in single TOS as well as MINT.

Is the blitter being used at all?

[nanard]

@Atari030: no blitter at all

new version : http://nanard.free.fr/opendune/OpenDUNE ... 160509.zip
I very slightly modified the IKBD vector, but I still do not understand what the problem is. As everything works with Hatari, I'm suspecting a CPU cache issue. Maybe updating interrupt vector "on the fly" for receiving mouse IKBD packet is the problem, but SDL is doing the same !

The big change is for TT : each line is doubled, simulating 320x240 in TT Low resolution (320x480)

As mouse has issues, you can use keyboard for many things in this game : in menus, the 1st letter is a shortcut.
In game, F1 is to access Mentat screen (E to exit)
F2 for option menu (check in "game controls" that music / sound are enabled)
F3 construction yard menu

[bartek030]

Still problem with mouse.
Shortcut keys works, so I can get in a game.
Touching the mouse freezes it, but game still works.
Entering Mentat (F1) is possible, but cursor keys don't work properly, exit doesn't work.

[I_am_I]

Just like the others, it works as long as I don't touch the mouse
Slow, but nice! (stock 14mb falcon)

[nanard]

The OpenDUNE mouse handler redraw the mouse sprite. I think it is way too long for an interrupt routine. I'm going to rewrite this.

[nanard]

The OpenDUNE mouse handler redraw the mouse sprite. I think it is way too long for an interrupt routine. I'm going to rewrite this.

here it is : http://nanard.free.fr/opendune/OpenDUNE ... seTest.zip
Fast clicks may be lost, especially on slow machines, but not mouse moves.
I have seen that Mouse code need to be rewritten to separate mouse moves from mouse clicks better, as mouse clicks are queuing events in the same queue as keyboard keypress/key releases, but mouse moves directly move the sprite in the screen buffer !

[MM41]

Well done Nanard ,
the new version run very well on TT , no mouse freeze , screen double line is OK, it's fully playable .
(just TT dma sound is a bit slow but no hiccups, not tested Midi on TT yet )
The text language is only english? (opendune see my TOS but don't change?)

Next, retry game on Falcon

edit: a new opendune.tos have been posted

[nanard]

@MM41: to set language, edit opendune.ini
(or else you can edit the DUNE.CFG with the DOS SETUP.EXE

[NGF]

How's the speed on a 32mhz TT?

[bartek030]

Lastest version works on stock falcon, playable.

[I_am_I]

works for me too now, well done

[kni]

1st mission completed ! on Falcon 14MB ! excellent work ! tnx you for this port ! next is TT ...

[vido]

This is great news!
But I have a question ...
Is it possible to compile OpenDUNE also for the Coldfire CPU?
I believe it would be very playable on the FireBee computer

[MM41]

Opendune mouse test work fine on TT too .
@ NGF: The speed is good (but we want always more speed )

@ Nanard: the DOS SETUP.EXE don't work on my TT .
The opendune.INI file is set to french but not in game

It's better on my Falcon, but i can't play (freeze again after selected a clan)
(may be my HD have weakness)

Thank you Nanard for this game adaptation

[kni]

on TT030 4+64 MB work better ! two times faster then Falcon !!

[nanard]

@ Nanard: the DOS SETUP.EXE don't work on my TT .
The opendune.INI file is set to french but not in game

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[opendune]
language=french

It's better on my Falcon, but i can't play (freeze again after selected a clan)
(may be my HD have weakness)

could be a problem with sound.
Dune II waits for the voice "House Ordos" / etc to be finished at this screen. Do you hear something ?

[nanard]

This is great news!
But I have a question ...
Is it possible to compile OpenDUNE also for the Coldfire CPU?
I believe it would be very playable on the FireBee computer

should be possible as long as GCC and VASM have option for it, and some one code the sound / midi / ikbd/mouse support.

For such version it may be simpler to use SDL, which I thought was too heavy for TT and Falcon's with plain TOS.

[MM41]

OK ,i do erase ";" in the INI file ,
No sound out Falcon (some noises) since beginning of opendune.
The sound is OK when i play an other game.
I use same archive for my TT and Falcon (TT sound is ok).

Next weekend i'll try an external Falcon hard drive to see

[nanard]

I have a question for you TT owners : Does the latest releases restore correctly the original screenmode ?
here what it looks in Hatari when desktop is ST Mid


@MM41:
there may be additional init to do on falcon to initialize STE DMA sound playback. I need to find this and add...