Atari Falcon 060 - unlocking higher resolutions to play Warcraft more better!

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Power of Vintage

Power of Vintage

Ай бұрын

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.
#retrocomputing
#vintagecomputing
#atari
#atarifalcon
#atarist
#atariste
#warcraft2
#macgaming

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@Trialwolf
@Trialwolf Ай бұрын
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.
@jrherita
@jrherita Ай бұрын
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!
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
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.
@madigorfkgoogle9349
@madigorfkgoogle9349 Ай бұрын
@@powerofvintage9442 but do you run it on Falcon or CT63?
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 The CT63 is the 060 accelerator for the Atari Falcon. So "yes" to both.
@madigorfkgoogle9349
@madigorfkgoogle9349 Ай бұрын
@@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...
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
@@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.
@granlund23
@granlund23 Ай бұрын
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.
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
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.
@DeadCat-42
@DeadCat-42 29 күн бұрын
I've never even seen a falcon in the wild.
@AtariLegend
@AtariLegend Ай бұрын
This is indeed very cool. I wanna see darkforces ❤
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
Need to copy over to the hard drive image and then transfer to the Falcon.
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
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.
@gondorianslayer4250
@gondorianslayer4250 Ай бұрын
if only atari falcons werent so pricey, lol.
@markanderson3073
@markanderson3073 5 күн бұрын
how can I contact you direct?
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 5 күн бұрын
contact.powerofvintage@gmail.com
@gondorianslayer4250
@gondorianslayer4250 Ай бұрын
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.
@powerofvintage9442
@powerofvintage9442 Ай бұрын
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.
@gondorianslayer4250
@gondorianslayer4250 Ай бұрын
​@@powerofvintage9442hopefully that goes well.
@mmille10
@mmille10 28 күн бұрын
@@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.
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