IS the engine generic enough to port it to the new amigas?
by Michael Ewing II · in Torque Game Engine · 11/26/2004 (3:06 am) · 10 replies
I would like to know if the TGE will run on the new amiga systems, running the Amiga OS 4.0? Or will I have to modify the source so that it will.
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#2
There are linux kernel emulation libraries available, and there should
be versions of GCC available on Amiga too.
If TGE is ported to Amiga, It'd be awesome if this made it into the offical TGE too. Would be nice to have instant access to an emerging market like this.
11/27/2004 (4:49 pm)
Porting OpenAL to Amiga shouldn't be a big problem as far as I know.There are linux kernel emulation libraries available, and there should
be versions of GCC available on Amiga too.
If TGE is ported to Amiga, It'd be awesome if this made it into the offical TGE too. Would be nice to have instant access to an emerging market like this.
#3
I loved my Amiga 500 with proper commodore 512k fastram expansion that I got by part exchanging my beloved Battlezone arcade machine.
11/27/2004 (4:55 pm)
Is the mythical re-emergence of the Amiga about to happen..... again......?I loved my Amiga 500 with proper commodore 512k fastram expansion that I got by part exchanging my beloved Battlezone arcade machine.
#4
Thanks for the info Dylan.
11/29/2004 (4:17 am)
Actually, They have a new amiga out called Amiga ONE. You can order them goto www.amiga.com. Thanks for the info Dylan.
#5
11/29/2004 (5:28 am)
The Amiga 500 was ahead of it's time. Those were the days...
#6
(And yes, it's out and available)
As far as I know, the AmigaOS 4.0 is still in beta, but as I understand they are wrapping it up before christmas. (I haven't checked this info in a couple of months)
11/29/2004 (8:22 am)
Yeah, Amigas run G3 and G4 CPU's now and ATI 9600 XT cards if you wish.(And yes, it's out and available)
As far as I know, the AmigaOS 4.0 is still in beta, but as I understand they are wrapping it up before christmas. (I haven't checked this info in a couple of months)
#7
And the rumors of a PPC powered new Amiga have been going on for nearly the past decade...
11/29/2004 (4:00 pm)
Got a direct link to the Amiga ONE ordering page ? 'cause in the Amiga Mall there are no items available in hw ;)And the rumors of a PPC powered new Amiga have been going on for nearly the past decade...
#8
www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1
And for your information PPC powered Amigas has been
in circulation since 95/96 or so.
The first ones had 160MHz PPC as far as I remember.
11/30/2004 (3:16 pm)
Here you gowww.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1
And for your information PPC powered Amigas has been
in circulation since 95/96 or so.
The first ones had 160MHz PPC as far as I remember.
#9
Hmm, I should have worded that bit about rumours differently, as rumours of an impending comeback of the Amiga using PPC chips, as I was aware that some of the Mac CPU Daughter cards makers had made PPC upgrades for Amigas.
Actually, it's the fans that say it regularly, as it seems to me the businesses behind the various Amiga incarnations in the past 10 years haven't been trying very hard to compete with the PC or Mac for marketshare, but content to cater to a niche market.
Btw, are these towers, or just bare bones systems, e.g just a mobo with CPU, etc. ?
And most important, do you own one ? If you do, what's different on it from a Mac, for example ? Does it sport any of the dedicated hw that made the Amiga such a trail blazer in the "old days" ?
On running TGE on them : TGE already runs on MacOS X computers, which use the same CPUs. I also see you can run Linux PPC on those machines, which although not supported by GG, should work with some makefile work, and maybe some tweaking of the x86 Unix platform files, if you have OpenGL hw acceleration.
11/30/2004 (4:25 pm)
Right, thanks for the link, I did find it after posting :)Hmm, I should have worded that bit about rumours differently, as rumours of an impending comeback of the Amiga using PPC chips, as I was aware that some of the Mac CPU Daughter cards makers had made PPC upgrades for Amigas.
Actually, it's the fans that say it regularly, as it seems to me the businesses behind the various Amiga incarnations in the past 10 years haven't been trying very hard to compete with the PC or Mac for marketshare, but content to cater to a niche market.
Btw, are these towers, or just bare bones systems, e.g just a mobo with CPU, etc. ?
And most important, do you own one ? If you do, what's different on it from a Mac, for example ? Does it sport any of the dedicated hw that made the Amiga such a trail blazer in the "old days" ?
On running TGE on them : TGE already runs on MacOS X computers, which use the same CPUs. I also see you can run Linux PPC on those machines, which although not supported by GG, should work with some makefile work, and maybe some tweaking of the x86 Unix platform files, if you have OpenGL hw acceleration.
#10
12/04/2004 (6:00 pm)
The Amiga one does not support any of the old amiga hardware. It is all standard now. And yes it does support all of the old software though emulation. You can run PPC linux on it and use the Mac on linux program to run mac software if you have bought the os mac os X that is. 
Torque Owner Dylan Sale
Assuming you have a C++ compiler and OpenGL is supported then that will get you started. You would need to rework the sound system, unless OpenAL is on Amiga. I dont know.