and a Bit torrent client : I notice that when you click on the link for download you get a ~13K file downloaded. Is this all that is needed? Surely that would be an afternoon's work for any decent RISC OS programmer?

Quake 2: does RISC OS have suitable libraries or whatever yet?

Can't remember the link, just when you look at music videos (etc) you get this small file to download first. I'm not exactly sure what Bit torrent is, whether it's a standard or not but Python exists on RISC OS.

It's currently not in a playable state as I was using the GameSupport module (I think that's the modules name) as used by the original Quake port for keyboard support and I don't have a 32bit version of it.

But AFAIK Simon still hasn't worked out how to get IyonixMesa running on the new GeForce cards, so don't expect me to provide any help in porting anything 3D

I justt wanted to check if you received the source. I got a bounce the first time I attempted to send it but it appeared to go through on the second attempt.

I'm not sure what the license is for the 32bit version of the module, so we can't be guaranteed to get a copy from RCI.

I'd love to try to get to port properly off the ground and welcome help from anyone that feels like chipping in. Getting it running using IyonixMesa would be fantastic even if the performance was terrible as I suspect it would then classify as the first OpenGL RISC OS game

I'm not sure what the license is for the 32bit version of the module, so we can't be guaranteed to get a copy from RCI.

I'm pretty sure that it was written by Peter Teichmann so it may be worth attempting to get in touch with him. He was very helpful when I decided to use it for the original port, supplying me with full documentation.

The port as it stands also contains a slightly modified version of his floating point library although it's probably a better bet to use GCC 4.x once it's available as I believe it now uses softfp. It would certainly be a lot easier to work with as replacing the floating point code was time consuming and rather boring .

With any luck I might get enough free time in the near future to start looking at the code again. I had wanted to do some serious profiling work to determine where most of the time was being spent in the renderer although I suspect that the major bottleneck is the Iyonix's memory system (I'd be interesting to see how it performs on an A9).

I'd love to try to get to port properly off the ground and welcome help from anyone that feels like chipping in. Getting it running using IyonixMesa would be fantastic even if the performance was terrible as I suspect it would then classify as the first OpenGL RISC OS game

I managed to get Doom playing on an A3010 when it was released with reduced resolution and screen size. It'd be interesting to see something like Q2 on a RiscPC if similar options exist.

I'm not sure how much faster the retail version of Quake was than ArcQuake, but I'd be surprised if a RiscPC could run Quake 2 at a reasonable speed without spending an incredible amount of time optimising it.

The newer GeForce FX cards just don't seem to tick over correctly with IyonixMesa. Nothing is drawn on screen because the drawing commands are not processed. I am not sure why, but there is a way around it (by using DMA).

And now the game is running Albeit rather slowly so far, but it is in 32bpp 1024x768 and MUCH prettier.

Cheers,
Rich.

And now the game is running Albeit rather slowly so far, but it is in 32bpp 1024x768 and MUCH prettier.