DOOM on atari st

[Eero Tamminen]

Weird, at least in Hatari it works fine in Falcon "ST low" mode. Douglas, does ST-Ray do any palette switching during frame (which Hatari doesn't emulate)?

[FedePede04]

Not sure what's going on there - it wasn't written for Falcon but doesn't do anything very interesting to make it incompatible. Sounds like the Falcon/Videl palette hardware is still activated so it may just not be in an ST-compatible video mode.

that was my thought so I try it with Backward (Atari ST "emulator" for Falcon) but result are same... weird colors.

When i first test it in STeem, i had it in stfm mode and the wall had a red glow/ color to them. Don't know if that could be the problem?

[dml]

I'll take a look at it sometime but still busy with other stuff just now.

It contains self-modifying code for 68000 which 68030 really doesn't like - so that's not ideal on a Falcon regardless. Normally this would just cause a crash or corrupt graphics but won't know if that's the reason without spending time on it.

[dml]

Hi - have been busy and wasn't sure if I answered this one earlier.

Is it in ascii format or... ?
Does maps need some compiling before use? (but textures would require preprocesing anyway... :/)

The map is typed in as data statements in the code. However it should be easy enough to read them in from ASCII - I can do a version like that if you want to edit the map. I'm not sure if I fixed the map width or not - but the other axis is not fixed. If it happens to be fixed I can probably un-fix it.

There are some problems though - the camera start position needs to be not-inside-a-solid-tile. And the camera AI just wanders and bounces off stuff, so it's tricky to make a decent map which doesn't trap the camera or just look uninteresting. But you can try to play with it

[LaurentS]

Hi Doug,

Sorry to disturb, but I've finally taken the time to upgrade my falcon to 14 Mo today and I was pleased to try BadMood for the first time on my Real hardware (and not under hatari for a change).

BUT :/

When the game arrives at the main menu, my monitor screen becomes black (no signal input).
It's an old 14'' VGA screen.

I thought there may be newer versions of the badmood engine, but looking here and there didn't show anything.

I've been here : http://www.leonik.net/dml/sec_bm.py
But it seems to be related to the very old version from 1998.

So I have 2 questions :
- is there a new version of badmood that could fix my problem ?
- is there a web site with the newest material ?

Best regards

Laurent

PS: I use the same files I copied from my PC and I played under hatari.

[viking272]

The website with hosted releases for Bad Mood on Falcon is www.devilsdoorbell.com There is lots of information in the Bad Mood thread too and a couple of updated engines.

[LaurentS]

Thanks for the link.

I've tested the 0.32 engine, but it seems not to solve my problem.
I'll try with another monitor.

regards
Laurent

[calimero]

laurent, you can also find newer builds here in this thread as attachment.

[dml]

Hi Laurent,

Yes this problem seems to occur on some monitors and is my fault - I have been promising to fix it for a while but did not get around to it yet. However I will fix it it for you and drop you a message when it's done

Best,
D

[LaurentS]

Thanks a lot Doug, it's a bit frustrating to finish on a black screen :/

It's nice of you Doug.

Laurent