Duke Nukem 3D and Quake for Atari Falcon 060!

[Trixster]

Hi, sorry to pull up an old thread.

I'm enjoying trying Quake on my new CT60e under TOS, however could someone explain the frametime commandline option. At the moment Quake appears to run too fast in some circumstance, like the frame pacing is wrong. I think this is due to the -frametime mentioned in the version 1.00 readme. When launching the quake.tt is this the time to add the -frametime line? The readme says the default is 0.1 but changing it with -frametime 0.5 for instance does not seem to make any difference.

Any ideas?

Also, the fps reading at the end of timedemo demo1 seems way too low. Is this normal?

[1st1]

Hello, I hope to get my ct60e running these days (still miss the memory module).

So what files do I need to get Duke Nukem, Quake and Doom to run? I think I still have fullinstallation of Doom with additional WAD files for DOS on my fileserver. I think also have a full DOS quake installation there. But no Duke Nukem.

What and where do I need to downloard for my future Falcon 060? Please help.

[Trixster]

https://mikro.naprvyraz.sk/download.htm

Download Atariquake 1.03 and the quakedemo.zip. If you already have Quake on a different system then ignore quakedemo.zip and copy your original pak0 and pak1 files from whatever machine you have then on onto the Atari.

UnZip to your atari. Make an id1 directory, copy the pak0.pak into there. Make sure fpu is on in ct60cont.prg

Load, enjoy!

[mikro]

As mentioned on Facebook, make sure you have the 5s delay cache feature disabled. It's set in CT60's CPX.

[Trixster]

Hi mikro. Thanks for the reply here and fb. I have cache set correctly. Quake runs really well but sometimes it runs too fast, like the frame pacing is wrong. Is this fixed with -frametime?

[mikro]

If I remember correctly, -frametime used to simulate the game tick on OSes which do not have precise enough timestamps available. Then I switched to the system timer on TOS so there was no need for it anymore.

That being said, you're going to get best performance on FreeMiNT. It was so long time ago I don't remember any details, sorry. :-/

[mzry]

I noticed a guy on the facebook falcon page who posted a video with his new ct60e and atari quake, it was too fast in some areas too. This looks to me like it is running in timedemo mode as it just seems to be pushing as many frames as fast as possible, which is why it goes slow and fast depending on the rendering detail.

Any thoughts mikro? Maybe they just need to try it under FreeMiNT?

[mikro]

Well, its 200 Hz timer. I assume if the scene is rendered in a time interval which is not close to modulo 1/200, it might misinterpret the flow of time. FreeMiNT provides super high resolution timers so the problem doesn't exist there.

[jury]

Yes, but a doesn't a synchro make sense only if the game is too fast?
And if it goes for Quake on atari its far away from being too fast. Its playable, of course ( and I played it much time, and will play more ) but the max frame it gets on this platform ( at least so far ) is around 20 fps in not too complicated scenes vs 2-3 fps in worst scenes I have seen so far. And if an FPS do not want to be just a wannabe FPS it absolutely needs 50 fps! Just imagine all the Amiga platformers dropping to 20 fps ( or sometimes to 5 )

[mikro]

No, you don't understand. Those are ticks which power the whole game engine. How fast enemies move, how quickly a bullet hits you and so on. If the time doesn't flow naturally, all those events are accelerated / slowed down randomly.

What could possibly work is to revert back to the '-frametime' parameter and using it -- that way you'd never get strange speedups but on the other hand you wouldn't get as smooth experience as possible on faster hardware.

[Trixster]

Even with host_framerate set to 0.08 when I go into simple areas (ie a corridor or corner) then the game speeds up too quickly - movement is too fast etc.

I'm assuming host_framerate is the correct setting to use? I could not see to get -frametime to work, although I could very well be doing it wrong Is this done as a commandline option before the game loads? Or in the quake in-game console?

[mikro]

As mentioned, "-frametime" had been removed in 1.01 so it can't have any effect.

[mzry]

Trixter try host_framerate 0, as that is the default for the Quake engine. Anything higher or lower will speed up or slow down.

[Trixster]

Host_framerate 1 is much too fast, 0 is far too slow

0.07 or 0.08 seem best but again the speed of the game fluctuates and it's still too fast in the corners.

[Trixster]

So bearing in mind I'm a complete noob to the Atari I installed VanillaMint this morning. It seemed to go fine, mint 1-1.19, mint060.prg etc.

However when I run quake.ttp the game crashes after the first couple of lines saying it cannot find files. Do I need to specific anything in the command line to get it working?

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[Trixster]

Ok, so if I launch Toswin2 first, navigate to the quake folder and then select quake.ttp the game loads fine. The crash happens if i double click on quake.ttp.

Any ideas how to get it running from a double click?

[joska]

What happens if TosWin is running and you *then* start Quake from the desktop?

[Trixster]

If Toswin is running first and then I start quake from the desktop it loads and runs fine!

[joska]

Sounds like a bug in either tw-call.app or Teradesk then. Working directory is changed when tw-call.app is run.

[Trixster]

I fixed this by ensuring toswin2 is launched in the background at system boot by editing xaaes.cnf

And just to round off the other issue I was encountering - whilst I can't work out how to resolve the speed problem with Quake under TOS, under mint it works perfectly with host_framerate 0

[mikro]

Sounds like a bug in either tw-call.app or Teradesk then. Working directory is changed when tw-call.app is run.

Thanks for spotting this, I'll try to fix it.

[calimero]

I fixed this by ensuring toswin2 is launched in the background at system boot by editing xaaes.cnf

And just to round off the other issue I was encountering - whilst I can't work out how to resolve the speed problem with Quake under TOS, under mint it works perfectly with host_framerate 0

hm.
I must try again but few years ago, when I did try DukeNukem and Quake mikros ports, they did run like slideshows in TOS but in MiNT they run just fine...

[Sturm]

I tried with TOS and Mint (ct60e) and it does not work, even with Toswin open. The system stops and i have to reboot.

[Trixster]

Is your fpu turned on in the ct60 control panel?

[1st1]

I just yesterday in the evening copyied all files I have for quake and duke_nukem onto the falcon, but I still miss the addon files for DN which need to copy from PC. I have to see where to get them (any tipp, also through PM?). Does the Quake program also supports Quake II and III levels?

Are I am right that Quake and DN need to be started unter MiNT, no plain TOS? Which MiNt distribution recommened, does it need additional patches/updates/modifications to run Q and DN?

I also did a cleanup with my DOOM installation, removed all unneccesary files from my oldPC installation, this now works fine, but there I have additional questions which I will post in the other thread. It's mostly about WAD files (I have many) and that badmood prg.