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Probably never happen but..

PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:02 am
by foleyjo
OK here is my request though I expect it not to happen.

Would it be possible to make Game-Editor games playable on the Amiga.
The Amiga community is still a large one and I'm sure if it was possible a lot of them would start using Game-Editor.

The best answer I can get here is "Yes and I will go and do that now" , however I think that is unlikely. At most I'm hoping for "Yes,it shouldn't be too difficult but there is nobody available to spend the time doing this". If I do get that answer I shall post on an Amiga forum to see if there is anybody up to the challenge.

Re: Probably never happen but..

PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:47 pm
by makslane
I'm a big fan of the AMIGA :-)
The answer is "Yes,it shouldn't be too difficult but there is nobody available to spend the time doing this"

Re: Probably never happen but..

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:55 am
by foleyjo
I've put a request out on Amiga.org .

I hope someone takes up the challenge.

Re: Probably never happen but..

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:31 pm
by foleyjo
Hey Makslane I got a response that suggests it wouldn't be worthwhile. Just wondered if you agree with it. As I understand it you have experience in writing software for the Amiga and you know this software so you would know best

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Unfortunately OCS/ECS/AGA versions are nigh on impossible unless a person rewrites a large portion of the code, and even then it'd be pretty much unusable. Not because ocs/ecs/aga machines are underpowered for something like Game Editor, but rather that the code base isnt very custom chipset friendly. RTG os3.x, os4, mos and aros should cope ok, but to get something like this that's reasonably capable for custom chipset based 68k amigas the software would have to be written from the grounds up so as to both utilise strengths and avoid weaknesses of the hardware.
Try running Game Editor on a 286 through to a p90 or thereabouts on win/lin/etc. to get an idea of how bad that particular software would run.

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Re: Probably never happen but..

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:42 am
by makslane
I think it is possible, bit He can be right!