OK thanks. I will publish it in my DENISE group.
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Yes I know and I hope, that Amiga-AGA will also come in the future (mostly because of the two games "Slam Tilt" and "Bubble Heroes"). Because of your group - so far, I haven't even signed up for Facebook, because I never needed to. But this would be necessary then, in this case. I'll have to think about whether to do it, therefore.
Of course I know "Pinball Dreams" and I had nearly all known Amiga500 pinball-games on disk, back then in the 90's (also "Pinball Fantasies" and "Obsession" and so on). They are all good, but "Slam Tilt" is the best of them all, if you ask me. There aren't many AGA games that interested me back then (I never owned an A1200, either), and the vast majority of my favorite Amiga-games are ECS/OCS titles, but "Bubble Heroes" and "Slam Tilt" I really like alot and they are only available on AGA, sadly. Anyway, let's get back to the nice Adrian C64-game, before we keep drifting off-topic more and more. :-)
I didn't even know Denise existed. I haven't really looked into it further, other than testing this game on it. But one thing that bothered me during that quick try was that C64 and Amiga stuff are mixed together in the menus and settings. Personally, when it comes to emulators, I prefer software to be consistent around a single system. In any case, it's a very nice piece of software.
Well, the functions of the two systems aren't exactly mixed together in Denise. There are two main-menus named "C64" and "Amiga," with the respective sub-menus for each system located underneath them. Incidentally, you can also disable one of the two systems (emulation cores) in Denise, if you don't want to have it visible. To do this, go to "Options/Settings" and then navigate to "Core Selection" and disable that system, you don't want to have, then it's menus won't appear anymore.
Therefore, you can also set it up in a way, that you have two seperate instances of Denise on your PC. One emulator instance running as a C64 emulator then and the other as an Amiga emulator. Additionally, you can detach one of these two instances from automatic-updates, for example, the Amiga instance via "Amiga/Configurations" and then "Undock". This then allows you, to configure both of these instances independently and differently, as undocking causes that instance's settings-files, to be copied directly into its own folder on your PC, while the setting.files of the other instance remain under "Admin/AppDate/Roaming/Denise". When you then eventually update that version sometime, you can simply copy those setting-files over to the new version's folder, manually.
Really alot of things are possible in Denise. You should also read the unofficial short-manuals, in the MISC section of the Denise Sourceforge website. There are good tips to some functions. But okay, this website here, is about the Adrian C64-game, therefore, back to it. :-)
No problem, I hope that they can also help "ntpr"? And I just saw now, that I had written, the unofficial short-manuals could be found on the Denise homepage, under the menu-point named "MISC" there. But in reality, this menue has the name "WIKI" :-) And yes, Adrian is really a great game, just like its predecessor Crystian.
Just to clarify, though, I’m not the programmer behind the Denise emulator, that’s PiCiJi. But I did contribute to some of its features (mainly regarding ideas and really alot of testing) and I was in permanent contact with the programmer via PM for years. Since some of my ideas are incorporated into the emulator, I’m naturally very familiar with it and those mentioned, unofficial manuals for example, are my work too.
Feel free to do that, ntpr and mention Denise as well, on your website of the game. I am absolutely certain, that PiCiJi won't have any objections to that after all. Why would he, it’s a good thing. And by the way, HOXS could also be mentioned, as it plays in the same league of compatibility as Denise and VICE and I also know David Horrocks, its programmer. Just like in the Denise emulator, HOXS also allows the user, to freely configure the controller-buttons and map keyboard-keys to them, for example. Therefore this emulator, just like Denise, is also highly recommended for gaming. In this mapping-keys regard, VICE still lags somewhat behind the other two emulators, but on the other hand, it can emulate a wide variety of hardware.
I don't know one single C64 game (and there are thousands), that don't work perfectly in these mentioned three emulators, so you could confidently recommend them all, for playing your games, ntpr.