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I have already looked at this before, and there's some issues regarding porting this to classic Amiga.

OpenGL and OpenAL will definitely be a problem. SDL2 could possibly be solved in the same way it was solved for DevilutionX.

LUA: I don't really know if it would be easy to port, and if it is, if it would run at a decent speed on Amiga.

These libs are known working on Amiga: Freetype, vorbisfile, theora, modplug, mpg123

But, with that said. For DevilutionX to actually be playable, Samuel Devulder spent a lot of time painstakingly optimizing parts of DevilutionX with assembly.

Even though the 68080 is the fastest 68k based CPU, it doesn't matter when modern games are made with no consideration to optimization of their code, since they don't really have to do that kind of optimization on an modern Ghz processor with loads of RAM to spare.

So even if a game looks pixeled/low-res and looks like something that would run on Amiga, it probably won't without loads of work.

Also, something to have in mind is that data-files on PC are stored in little endian, while Amiga requires big endian. This is one of the main reasons why porting DevilutionX took Arczi and I over a year from start to finish, and that was before Sam put his teeth in it to optimize it further.

There are a lot of shoddy ports to Amiga that has been put on Aminet over the years, where people basically got it to compile for Amiga, but then never bothered to optimize it or didn't understand how much effort was needed unfortunately.

We have further ports in the pipeline. But we'll see what it'll be. :)

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I didn't say it was impossible, but I said it would take a lot of effort and time.

The biggest issue with LÖVE is that it uses OpenGL and OpenAL. The SAGA Gfx does not support OpenGL yet, and using some sort of soft rendering would make it really slow.

Putting in some work to make LUA usable on Amiga would perhaps be a good idea, since it could be re-used for other games that also make use of it. If it hasn't already been optimized by somebody else already.

Before starting to work on a port, we need to do some research on what needs to be done, and that takes time too.

Without knowing much about graphic routines on Amiga (or anywhere), would it be possible to replace OpenGL usage with, say, AmigaOS routines instead?

Nothing is impossible. But we need to weigh in a couple of things, like would it be worth the effort? are there enough good games that use this engine? would it be fun for the developer? :)

We all do this in the spare time, so it definitely helps when it's an app or game that you'd personally like to see ported. Diablo on Amiga was a given, of course.

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LUA is AFAIK used in Hollywood. So it is possible.
I'm not sure if it is jit compiled there but on classic it's not the fastest.

Manfred

What's AHI code?

Number of (good) games already available in the engine, don't know. Maybe there are other more suitable engines to consider. But it *is* a pity that we have no good open-source game engine on Amiga (that I know of)!

So yeah, maybe this could be split in two separate projects:

1) Port Lua (and LuaJIT?) to Amiga;

2) Choose a game engine (possibly one that uses Lua) to port, with an already existing game library.

Worst alternative: Create a new game engine from scratch. But maybe most fun?

The JIT compiler, too?

  List from slant, with LÖVE having most recommendations: https://www.slant.co/topics/2590/~best-2d-lua-game-engines