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Doom RPG Amiga Port

   Author:       id Software, Erick194, port by Szilard Biro
   Uploader:     col lawrence gmail com (Szilard Biro)
   Type:         game/role
   Version:      1.0
   Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.0.0
   Date:         2024-05-12
   Readme:       http://aminet.net/game/role/doomrpg-re.readme
   Downloads:    78

http://aminet.net/game/role/doomrpg-re.lha

Doom RPG is a first-person turn-based role playing game set in the Doom

universe. Developed specifically for your mobile device, you reprise the role

of the Doom Marine made famous in the groundbreaking id Software titles Doom,

Doom II, and Doom 3. Say goodbye to humdrum mobile gaming and prepare yourself

for the return to Mars in a showdown with the legions of Hell!

Requirements:

- 68020 CPU

- RTG (High Color) or AGA chipset

- 4 MB Fast RAM

- 5 MB free disk space

Unsupported features:

- menu music

Game data:

The game is abandonware as it's no longer available for purchase, but you

can still find it on places like archive.org by searching for Doom RPG BREW.

Only the doomrpg.bar file is needed from the package:

https://archive.org/download/doomrpg_brew/doomrpg.zip/doomrpg.bar

Installation:

Copy doomrpg.bar into the game's drawer, then run BarToZip. This is a one time

process that will extract, convert then repackage the data into DoomRPG.zip.

If you need to restart the conversion for whatever reason remove DoomRPG.zip

and run BarToZip again. If everything is working correctly doomrpg.bar can be

deleted to save space.

AGA support:

The game renders in 16-bit color, on AGA this is displayed using the HAM8

mode, where 1 chunky pixel corresponds to 4 HAM pixels. The largest resolution

that can be refreshed at a reasonable speed using this method is 160x128,

which becomes a 640x128 native screen. Kickstart 3.1 is recommended for its

Super-Lores mode that fits this resolution well. The processor speed has no

significant impact on this, the main limitation is Chip RAM bandwidth.

With RTG resolutions up to 800x600 are supported provided the graphics card

supports high color (15-bit of better) screen modes.

Video:

Most settings like the resolution or fullscreen only takes effect after you

restart the game. If the game won't start with the selected options, delete

the Config file to revert to the defaults.

The floor/ceiling textures can be toggled on the fly, switching them off can

make the graphics more readable at lower resolutions.

Sound:

Both AHI and Paula are supported. For AHI it'll use the Music Unit, but if

it's set to a Paula mode or AHI isn't available it'll fall back to using

audio.device.

Controls:

The game supports keyboard and CD32 compatible gamepads. To see the current

mapping or customize it, open "Options / Input" menu. One action can

have up 10 mappings, the menu will cycle through them if there are multiple

ones set.

To set a new mapping select the action, press Enter, then the key/button you

would like to be associate with the action.

To remove the mapping you have already set, select the action and press the

key/button again.

At the bottom of the list there's an option to restore the default mappings.

Ignore all the in-game hints and help regarding the controls, those were

written for the original mobile phone buttons and don't apply here.

Only the "Options / Input" menu contains accurate information.

Source code:

https://github.com/BSzili/DoomRPG-RE/tree/amiga

https://github.com/BSzili/celp13k/tree/amiga

Special thanks:

- Doom RPG: id Software, Fountainhead Entertainment

- DoomRPG-RE: Erick194

- QCELP decoder: RupW

- HAM8 C2P routines: Kalms

- GCC6 toolchain: bebbo

Contents of game/role/doomrpg-re.lha

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
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[unknown]                  391     576  67.9% -lh5- d537 Apr 17 20:53 DoomRPG.info
[unknown]                  930    1054  88.2% -lh5- 3023 Apr 17 20:53 DoomRPG/DoomRPG.020.info
[unknown]                29195   45788  63.8% -lh5- 8367 May  9 21:54 DoomRPG/BarToZip
[unknown]                  990    2434  40.7% -lh5- 82ed May  9 21:52 DoomRPG/BarToZip.info
[unknown]                89228  196492  45.4% -lh5- 850f May  9 18:16 DoomRPG/celp13k
[unknown]                40687   87324  46.6% -lh5- fac5 Dec 31  2021 DoomRPG/Zip
[unknown]               128716  234580  54.9% -lh5- 07b9 May 11 12:17 DoomRPG/DoomRPG.020
[unknown]                  673     964  69.8% -lh5- 2ea9 Jul 25  2023 DoomRPG/doomrpg-re.readme.info
[unknown]                 1811    3469  52.2% -lh5- f91f May 12 17:20 DoomRPG/doomrpg-re.readme
[unknown]                 1665    3971  41.9% -lh5- 44c3 Apr 20 09:20 DoomRPG/LICENSE-celp13k
[unknown]                 1584    3412  46.4% -lh5- 71da Dec 31  2021 DoomRPG/LICENSE-Zip
[unknown]                12633   35149  35.9% -lh5- 7065 Jan  5 20:29 DoomRPG/LICENSE
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 Total        12 files  308503  615213  50.1%            May 13 02:02