27.10.25 at 06:32:52 (UTC)
  D-Bug & Automation Forum › D-Bug & Automation Forum › Coding/Hardware › Coding › Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1 Send TopicPrint
Shadow of the Beast - your experienes! (Read 1867 times)
ggn
D-Bug member
Reboot Member
*****
Offline


D-Bug debugger

Posts: 1462
Location: Somewhere in Greece
Joined: 22.02.07
Gender: Male
Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
12.09.08 at 17:04:04
Print Post  
Well, I think that it's not only me that has over the years taken a look under the hood of this game. I feel I only chopped off the tip of the iceberg with my findings, most notably:

a) 68030 incompatibility due to crap use of traps
b) Glitches on Falcon because he sets ST-low resolution in every raster change (lol!)

Anyone else ever saw the code and went "WTF?"? Please share your findings here, it should be a laugh Smiley
  
Babe, I'm on fire
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Dbug
RoMzkiddiEz
*
Offline


D-BUGer

Posts: 15
Joined: 23.03.09
Re: Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
Reply #1 - 29.03.09 at 12:03:57
Print Post  
I remember that you can speed up the code by a significant percentage by removing the protection related code.

Instead of simply drawing in a back-buffer and swapping the screen address, the code actually draws in a temporary buffer, and then draw it on the back-buffer. When the protection triggers, the copy is reversed so you have the screen mirrored.
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
ggn
D-Bug member
Reboot Member
*****
Offline


D-Bug debugger

Posts: 1462
Location: Somewhere in Greece
Joined: 22.02.07
Gender: Male
Re: Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
Reply #2 - 29.03.09 at 12:41:36
Print Post  
Dbug wrote on 29.03.09 at 12:03:57:
Instead of simply drawing in a back-buffer and swapping the screen address, the code actually draws in a temporary buffer, and then draw it on the back-buffer. When the protection triggers, the copy is reversed so you have the screen mirrored.


LOL. I read on another forum that he was pretty smug about performance and did everything possible to make it run on an ST. So maybe if I remove that bit of code it might run full frame on a TT (it's almost there atm Smiley)
  
Babe, I'm on fire
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Dbug
RoMzkiddiEz
*
Offline


D-BUGer

Posts: 15
Joined: 23.03.09
Re: Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
Reply #3 - 22.04.09 at 20:43:30
Print Post  
Here is what you can add to the game to make it better. I released the full source code of the Shadow of the beast menu (Phaleon Gigademo), which happens to have two soundchip musics made by FFT:

http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/public/atari/demos/next/phaleon-gigademo/...

Would be nice to finally have some music in this game Smiley
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
CJ
D-Bug member
Reboot Member
*****
Offline


D-Bug Founder

Posts: 1205
Location: State of Confusion
Joined: 22.02.07
Gender: Male
Re: Shadow of the Beast - your experienes!
Reply #4 - 22.04.09 at 22:58:25
Print Post  
How about we release the patch loader source and all files and you add it ? Smiley
  
"With only one button, even drooling fucktards like Kizza can play our game!"
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send TopicPrint
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
 
  « Board Index ‹ Board  ^Top   

D-Bug & Automation Forum » Powered by YaBB 2.6.0!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2025. All Rights Reserved.

Valid RSS Valid XHTML Valid CSS Powered by Perl Source Forge