| Readme: | Short: Heretic II -- Raven's 1998 action adventure, playable
Author: Raven Software / m-x-d (Heretic2R project)
Port: Papiosaur (papiosaur2 hotmail fr)
Type: game/actn
Version: 1.0 (port) -- Heretic2R R5 engine
Architecture: ppc-morphos
URL: https://github.com/m-x-d/Heretic2R
Heretic II for MorphOS
======================
Heretic II is Raven Software's 1998 action adventure: Corvus comes home to
find Silverspring rotting under the Seraph's plague, and fights his way out
of it in third person, with a staff, a bow and a spellbook. It runs on the
Quake II engine, and it was the first game to put that engine behind a
camera that follows the character.
This is a port of Heretic2R, the reverse-engineered source port of the game
by m-x-d. The engine is free software; the GAME IS NOT.
THE GAME DATA IS NOT INCLUDED AND CANNOT BE. Heretic II is still sold --
GOG and Steam both carry it. You need to own a copy. See DATA INSTALLATION.
It plays on real hardware. See STATUS for what is missing.
REQUIREMENTS
------------
MorphOS 3.20+, SDL2
ARCHIVE CONTENTS
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heretic2r the executable
heretic2r.info its icon
Heretic2r.readme this file
base/ configuration, default bindings and an empty save drawer
-- YOUR GAME FILES GO HERE
LICENSE GNU General Public License v3
THIRD-PARTY.txt licences of the bundled third-party components
Support where to send reports
The game writes PROGDIR:log.txt on every run, and keeps its configuration
and savegames inside PROGDIR:base. Nothing is written outside this drawer.
DATA INSTALLATION
-----------------
Install Heretic II on a PC and copy the contents of its "base" folder into
the base/ drawer of this archive -- everything except the .dll files. You
should end up with Htic2-0.pak and Htic2-1.pak sitting inside base/.
The data must be patched to v1.06, or models and textures will be missing.
A quick way to tell:
base/models/items/Defense/tornado/tris.fm
base/models/items/Defense/tornado/!skin.pcx.m8
If those two exist, you are at v1.06. If not, install the official v1.06
patch (the "Heretic II Enhancement Pack"), or extract the patch archive
kept in the stuff/ folder of the upstream project.
MUSIC
-----
The original game plays its soundtrack from the audio tracks of the CD.
This port reads them as Ogg Vorbis instead, so the music works without a
disc in a drive -- but the tracks are not ours to distribute either.
Rip them from your own Heretic II CD, encode them as Ogg Vorbis and drop
them in base/music as track02.ogg to track14.ogg. Track 1 of the disc is
the data track, so the first audio track becomes track02.ogg. 44100 Hz
stereo is what the CD holds; anything the decoder accepts will do.
With no music drawer the game runs and stays silent. A missing or
unreadable track is noted in the log and ignored.
Volume is the "Music volume" slider in Options -> Sound Settings. Two maps
are silent by design -- the tutorial levels -- exactly as they were on the
CD; the other 27 each ask for a track between 4 and 13.
KEYS WORTH KNOWING
------------------
Kp_Enter window / fullscreen
F10 camera lock (a 1998 debug macro, kept as it was)
F11 screenshot
F12 quit
e action -- levers, doors, objects
Esc menu
The fullscreen toggle is the console command "vid_fullscreen_toggle", so it
goes on any key you like: bind Home "vid_fullscreen_toggle"
Careful: base/config.cfg is read after base/Default_H2R.cfg and wins. An
existing config.cfg overrides the bindings shipped here.
THANKS
------
MorphOS Team, for MorphOS
m-x-d for Heretic2R, years of reverse engineering that made any of this
possible, and to Raven Software for the game.
NewSense, analogkid, Falcon_11, CptBlood and Divinity for their support
and tests.
LICENCE
-------
The Heretic2R engine is distributed under the GNU General Public License
v3; the full text is in LICENSE, and this port is under the same terms.
Bundled third-party components keep their own licences -- see
THIRD-PARTY.txt.
The game data is a separate, commercial product. It remains the property of
Raven Software / Activision and is not distributed here.
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