26.Aug.2022
Kas1e (ANF)
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OpenGLES ports: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are the third and fourth part of a series of first and third person shooters set in the Star Wars universe. The source code of both games was released years ago, shortly after that ports for AmigaOS 4 were released, which were still based on MiniGL at that time.
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has now ported these MiniGL versions to GL4ES, which according to him provides a noticeably smoother gameplay - on his system consistently at least 30 FPS or more, while the MiniGL versions at high detail levels quite possibly only managed 12-13 FPS. In addition, according to Kargin, various display errors and crashes are now a thing of the past. In a video the developer demonstrates the new versions of both games extensively, in an article on amigaworld.net he gives further explanations about his updates and tips for the performance increase of the 3D subsystem in AmigaOS 4.
Both games require the recently released Enhancer 2.2. The engines ported by Kargin can be downloaded for free from the OS4Depot (Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy), additionally a copy of the original commercial release of the respective title is still required. (cg)
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