Atari Falcon 060 - unlocking higher resolutions to play Warcraft more better!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Quick ramble video here...
I finally got around to spending some quality time with the Blowup resolution modding software for the Atari Falcon. Upped the resolution from 640x480 at 256 colors to 960x608 at 256 colors.
Besides the pretty desktop background (Battletech forever!) This also makes Macintosh II emulation and games a much improved experience.
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A beautiful screen for the desktop.
The Falcon seems like a really nice computer for a hobbyist collector with all these upgrades and additions to squeeze out more performance, would be nice to have one.... doubt I'll ever see one in my area so thanks for the videos on it.
Wow! Really cool to see WC2 at all on an Atari system. I played it a few years ago on an AMD K6-3+ retro system I temporarily had, and it felt like a game far beyond what an Atari (or Amiga) could do. This is great!
I first played it on my first PC, a Pentium 100mhz and loved it! I’m just having fun getting to run in a playable state instead of just a slideshow.
@@powerofvintage9442 but do you run it on Falcon or CT63?
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 The CT63 is the 060 accelerator for the Atari Falcon. So "yes" to both.
@@powerofvintage9442 I know, just dont know if you had it enabled or ran onboard 68030... in case you mentioned it in video I must have missed it, thats why Im asking.
Running game on CT63 is kinda like running it on Pentium...
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 Ah, gotcha! Yes it is definitely closer to a pentium in power.
Trying to find other software/games that can be run on the system is less a matter of power and more a matter of software / coding.
The Basilisk emulator helps to open up the late Macintosh 68k library and these tweaks with the resolution and color depth help to make that library not just runnable, but playable.
I've never even seen a falcon in the wild.
Ah that's really interesting to see a video on how it performs without graphics card!
I've only seen it running on my 68030 ST with and without graphics card.
I do think that the 68060 helps just a little bit. Thank you SOOO much for adapting Basilisk for the ST! I'm having a blast with it.
This is indeed very cool. I wanna see darkforces ❤
Need to copy over to the hard drive image and then transfer to the Falcon.
Ok, was able to try out a few more games including Dark Forces. Tested out Master of Orion 2 (works great) and Dark Forces (is nearly a slideshow). Games in the queue to test are Heroes of Might and Magic (1 and 2), Warcraft 1, Master of Orion 1, Civilization 1 (VGA graphics on Mac). With the CD games, finding a no-CD crack is needed because the Falcon doesn’t have enough space on a partition for a 500mb hard drive image and a CD-rom image.
which configuration ??? freemint, easymint ??? xaaes, naaes ? cache on/off ??? is it 32mhz videl clock ??? i can get 960*608 on vga with 256 colors (dont have rgb) i get basilisk running under easymint until the apple desk comes then it freezes .... with freemint it does not start ... falcon 060 14+512mb ram, 68882 fpu, ssd and vga only, netusbee and gotek floppy
Lots of great questions: Freemint, xaaes, cache on
VERY IMPORTANT settings that took me a while to figure out: Memory Protection Off, do NOT load TOS into RAM. I have not been able to get Basilisk to run with sound on (freezes, so turn it off).
Quadra 650 ROMs. I've found OS 8.1 is more stable with the Falcon 060 than OS 7.5.3 (although I could get it working).
For the high resolution, I am using VGA with 960*608 with interlacing and 32mhz Videl. However, it also works with OS 8.1 at 640*480 (standard VGA). Do not use the final version of Agranlund's Basilisk, use the release just prior, from July I believe.
I didn't include all the details here because this is SUCH a niche trick. Feel free to shoot me a direct email and I'll be happy to help troubleshoot!
@@powerofvintage9442 great i try now
where to get a working blowup soft ??? last version i download was commercial demo i heard its free now even the sources ? so maybe somebody can compile a new good version without serial
www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=935
if only atari falcons werent so pricey, lol.
how can I contact you direct?
contact.powerofvintage@gmail.com
i wonder how age of empires, other late 90's games can run.
maybe halo can now run, lol. sicne you need only 256c colors. which is interesting.
The limit at this point is that Apple switched to the Powerpc architecture in 1994 which most games adopted soon afterwards. If they don't really need the powerpc CPU or if I can disable the check, I might be able to get some of them to work.
@@powerofvintage9442hopefully that goes well.
@@powerofvintage9442 - I've wondered a bit "what might've been" had Atari taken a similar path to Apple, and switched to PowerPC. I talked to someone about that a few years ago, and he said it would not have been possible, because of software compatibility issues. The way Atari structured their OS would've made existing ST software incompatible with such machines, which would've been deadly for such a platform, because the market for Atari's computers had already withered away.
The short of it is Atari didn't plan for such a transition, and provide support to developers so they and their customers wouldn't be left in the lurch if Atari moved over to something else. So, they were stuck with the Motorola 68k series, which as you've demonstrated, kept up with the early Pentium, but not beyond it.