Introduction
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AMRVoxel
FreeWheel
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AMRVoxel - a 3D racing game
engine
for 68K and
PowerPC Amigas
This project
was started many moons ago, and was originally intended to be a
fully-fledged
commercial release. Unfortunately, events conspired and this was
not
to be.
It became
obvious during the development of this project that the 68030 processor
I was using at the time was nowhere near powerful enough to make
something
like this playable. At the time, the first PowerPC accelerator cards
had
been released for the A4000 and A1200, but I was reluctant to spend
such
a large amount of cash on an aging machine that would be difficult to
repair
or replace should it die...
Then CU-Amiga
magazine and Phase 5 (makers of the CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard
PPC cards) ran a competition, in which the developers of the five most
deserving
projects would be given a PPC card, on the proviso that their project
would
be ported to the PowerPC processor within a year.
AMRVoxel was
submitted to this competition, and was a winner!
Unfortunately
the prizes were never awarded.
During the
coming months, Gateway (or whoever owned the Amiga brand at the
time!) made their shock announcement that the PowerPC processor wasn't
going
to feature heavily in the Amiga's future after all, which I'm sure
dissuaded
a lot of people from buying a PowerPC card, and after several months
with
no progress, the magazine was closed.
In the meantime,
I wasn't going to buy a PowerPC card if there was still
a chance I would be given one!
The end result
of this fiasco is that I never owned a PowerPC card for my
old A4000/030; depite this, I was able to produce a port of AMRVoxel,
using
a friend's card. The result is available for download below,
along
with a 68K version.
Needless to say,
the project is now dead, and since the techniques used within
don't translate too well to modern 3D hardware on PCs, I'm unlikely to
resurrect
it for the forseeable future.
the most recent
version. Contains 68K and PPC binaries - 780k
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