Strap on your combat sandals...Lo Wang is coming to the Land of the Rising Sun
to turn out the lights. Experience total blood immersion. If you can't touch,
kill or drive something...then blow it away! Whether you're wielding shurikens,
an Uzi, or a freshly plundered Guardian head...you've got your work cut out for
you. Enter the world's most interactive 3D environment...and cut yourself some
sushi!
Requirements:
- 68060 processor with FPU
- Kickstart 3.0
- AGA chipset or RTG card
- 16 MB Fast RAM
- 50 MB disk space (+ more for the audio tracks)
Unsupported features:
- voxels
- multiplayer
Game data:
Visit this site for links to the Registered and Shareware versions:
http://www.jonof.id.au/buildgames/sw.html
The only file you need is SW.GRP, do not copy SW.CFG from the DOS version!
It's incompatible if JFSW, and will prevent you from properly saving your
settings.
Shadow Warrior Classic Complete on GOG includes two expansions for the game.
As these replace the original levels it's recommended to keep them in separate
drawers. For Wanton Destruction remove SW.GRP, and put WT.GRP into the drawer.
For Twin Dragon, keep SW.GRP and copy the contents of the "dragon" folder,
except SW.CFG.
Performance considerations:
FFS is quite slow at seeking in large files which can lead to pauses in-game
when new data has to be loaded from the GRP file. It can be improved by adding
more buffers, but it's recommended to run the game from a PFS or SFS volume.
The texture/sound cache is also sensitive to memory fragmentation, so if you
have 32 MB or less memory, it's best to start the game after a clean reboot.
To enable the framerate counter in-game press [T], type "swloc", then press
Enter.
Vampire V2 users:
If the 060 executables don't work, please use the 040 executables.
Sound:
The game defaults to stereo Paula DMA audio, but AHI is also supported for
sound card users.
To use AHI, after the first start open SW.CFG in a text editor, and in the
[Sound Setup] section set FXDevice = 8 and ReverseStereo = 1. The game will
use the Music Unit for sound playback, make sure it's properly configured in
the AHI prefs. To switch back to Paula, change both values back to 0.
Music:
The Shareware version of the game uses MIDI music which is not supported.
For the Registered version PCM WAV files are supported. I recommend 22 KHz
8-bit mono, which is a good balance between sound quality and size. The music
is streamed from memory, so it might not fit if you have less than 32 MB RAM.
Modern releases of the game come with the music tracks in Ogg Vorbis format,
which can be converted to WAV using various tools like FFmpeg, SoX or Audacity.
I have also uploaded a converted WAV music pack to my site:
http://bszili.morphos.me/stuff/sw-music.zip
Keyboard and mouse controls:
In the menu open Options / Input menu, and pick Apply Modern Defaults.
Warning: this will reset all of the customized controls.
To enable Mouse Aiming, press the [U] key in-game.
Controller or keyboard-only controls:
In the menu open Options / Input menu, and pick Apply Classic Defaults.
Warning: this will reset all of the customized controls.
The game supports 7-button CD32-compatible controllers.
Fullscreen:
The game asks the OS for the best Mode ID for a given resolution, but this
can lead to unexpected results if there are unused monitor drivers in
Devs:Monitors. I recommend putting these away into Storage:Monitors, but if
this is not possible, you can use these tooltypes to force specific modes:
- FORCEMODE: filters the available modes via the mode name. possible values:
PAL, NTSC, DBLPAL, DBLNTSC, EURO36, EURO72, SUPER72, MULTISCAN
- FORCEID: forces a specific mode, the value is a Mode ID in hexadecimal format
Windowed mode:
You can play the game in window on high color (15-bit) or better RTG screens.
The game will still render in 8-bit color, the higher color depth is required
to avoid the expensive color remapping necessary on paletted screens. This is
not a issue in fullscreen, as the game can freely change the palette of its
custom screen.
To release the mouse pointer bring up the in-game console. This is bound to
the Tilde [~] key by default. To override which public screen the window opens
on, you can set the "PUBSCREEN" tooltype.
Level editor:
The Shadow Warrior-specific version of Build Editor is also included, but it
requires a 640x480 screen, so it's best used with RTG cards.
Source code:
https://github.com/BSzili/jfsw/tree/amiga
Special thanks:
- Shadow Warrior: 3D Realms
- Build Engine: Ken Silverman
- JFShadowWarrior, JFBuild, JFAudioLib, JFMACT: Jonathon Fowler
- 68030+ assembly: Dante/Oxyron
- 68060 optimizations: Cosmos
- 8-bit C2P routines: Kalms
Changelog:
1.1
- the 040 executables no longer use FPU emulation in the game code
- Caps Lock now only shifts alphabet characters
- synchronized the palette updates with screen updates
1.0
- initial release
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