Ponieważ prace nad Wings dla AmigaOS przedłużają się Daniel napisał kilka słów do osób które złożyły pre-order.
1. Prace nad Wings Remastered (AmigaOS) są zawieszone do momentu ukończenia Tower 57 (AmigaOS).
2. Napotkano na więcej problemów z kodem niż sędzono wcześniej (optymalizacja).
3. Daniel nie odpowiada za problemy wynikłe z niewywiązania się z pre-orderów przez Cinema Retro - dotyczy "Defender of The Crown". Część ludzi nie otrzymała przesyłek do dzisiaj (?!?)
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Hi guys,
I was just informed of this thread and asked by somebody via FB, "I'd like to know why my order for Defender of the crown has been on hold since Nov 2016. Also will I ever get wings?? Its a bit crazy to not get a reply back on these things."
Here's my reply:
I have nothing to do with Defender or Rocket Ranger or Wings-PC, I am only the programmer of the Wings-Amiga port. So for anything related to the other stuff you have to ask Cinemaware Retro.
Wings-Amiga-Port:
Yes, unfortunately it takes muuuuch longer than initially thought. No, it's not done yet and anyone claiming anything different spreads fake news.
However, CinemawareRetro sends boxes to some people who reserved it. Those boxes only contain a recent unfinished dev-build. Those people know what they get, of course.
It's meant for people who explicitely asked for it because apparently for them it's more important to have the box already instead of the finished game (pure collectors it seems).
Anyway:
note that Wings-Amiga is no Kickstarter or whatever. By paying you simply reserved your copy. If you are tired of waiting you can simply cancel it and get your money back.
The money was not touched. I have not seen / spent a single dime.
Wings-Amiga will still require some more time to finish. I won't do any further estimation though. Right now it's completely on hold until Tower57 is done. After that I will continue and hopefully be done soon.
@Niding
That turned out to be true, unfortunately. It was hard to forsee though:
1. the work required for Wings turned out to be much higher than initially thought. This has all kinds of reasons but mostly it's due to the extreme degree of asset optimizations required plus the high amount of large levels which have to be checked over and over again, whenever applying a more heavier optimization or whatever. Simply strongly underestimated this.
2. Tower57: bad luck. When I agreed to do those ports I asumed that what I was told was right: that it's simple basic OpenGL etc. That's why the Kickstarter-stretch-goal was that low and why I thought that it would be a straight simple some-weekends-port like e.g. BattleSquadron Deluxe was.
Unfortunately it turned out that the game's code was running so extremely slow (or not at all due to RAM requirements) on even mediocre NG-Amiga-hardware that I essentially had to insanely optimize / rewrite huge parts of the game completely to get decent performance. And on top of that I had to go the software-rendering route because many NG-Amigas couldn't handle the huge textures / huge VRAM requirements. And also come up with a hicolor-version for systems with < = 512 MB RAM like the 440ep or old PowerMacs.
So the point is: I asumed that this would only allocate very few of my time and it turned out to be a nightmare consuming man-month over man-month.
Anyway, for T57 we have a release candidate, my testers are very happy so this will be done very soon. And then back to the other nightmare, Wings
Cheers,
Daniel
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Daniel nie skończył jeszcze wszystkich prac nad kodem, poza tym Cinemaware pracuje nad zremasterowaniem i ponownym składem instrukcji. Postarają się dostarczyć grę w okolicach czerwca (pożyjemy zobaczymy).
"Almost" mostly because there's still one soldier missing, a guy with the french flag standing on the roof to the right. This guy is particularly hard to get right because during my texture-and-mesh-merging step in C4D I lose its initial pose, so the vertex-weights don't match the bones anymore, he then moves as if made of clay... (with the other soldiers I had more luck because their default pose equals the one in the first frame of their respective animation, so while I faced the same technical problem it's almost not noticable). Anyway, it already pretty much looks like the original, with the difference that the Amiga versions adapt to all kinds of different aspect-ratios and aren't nailed to 16:9. And the polygon-count is only a fraction of the original. As always "porting" in terms of this project means coding from scratch and spending lots of time with model-conversion / reduction steps and C4D scripting 