Abuse port (no FPS limit)

[red.hexapus]

#10937

There is an Abuse port, that can be downloaded for free, which has the FPS limit removed. If you want to see the comparison between the port and DOS original, here’s the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTwDu3ZNE68

[Evil Taco]

#10953

Nice! I thought Abuse ran very well on our 486SX back in the day. Maybe the 15 FPS cap was a part of that!

[SpaceGameJunkie]

#10955

https://github.com/metinc/Abuse_1996/releases

[watchful]

#11794

Looks like that project has moved to https://github.com/metinc/abuse/releases

[Evil Taco]

#12078

Woof, tried to just grab the DOS version and run it in DOSBox Staging – the run speed just fluctuated quite wildly. Needs a bit of config to run the original in DOSBox? So these ports really do come in handy. (I last played Abuse on a Wii, aiming with the Wiimote!! It.. was functional.)

[TigerQuoll]

#12080

Seems to be a pretty good port! Very playable.

The appimage is a little graphically glitchy on my linux machine though – it borks my multi monitor setup so I have to disable one monitor before I play, and it sometimes does a flickery lockup when loading a new level, but I can fix that be just returning to the menu and then going back into the game.

On a personal level, frame rates have never been a big hangup for me, and in fact high framerates can be a bit jarring combined with chunky pixels and animations with few frames. It’s not as objectionable here as I’ve seen elsewhere, but it does feel slightly off in the back of my mind.

I do like the ability to change weapons with the scroll wheel though!

[forslund]

#12095

I mentioned this in the Linux memory thread as well. I had some issues with the version from metinc mentioned above. The one I ended up running was Abuse 2025: https://github.com/apancik/Abuse_2025

[red.hexapus]

#12105

@forslund I’ve finished the game in May, but I think the port you’ve posted is the one I’ve switched to eventually, because of the issues with the other one I’ve mentioned (mostly losing connection from controls, which made it very hard to finish some sections which required precise input)

[watchful]

#12256

Has anyone had luck getting Abuse 2025 (Apancik) using higher resolutions? I cannot stand the zoomed in look of the original 320×200 scale. Setting both screen_ and virtual_ values in config.txt does not seem to help whilst they do work in the Metinc port.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see that I was editing %APPDATA%\abuse\config.txt (Metinc’s path) and not \abuse\data\config.txt (Apancik’s path).

EDIT2: Sadly Abuse 2025 / Apancik is 15 FPS, albeit with a physics_update option so folks can try 20 FPS for slightly faster play.

[metinc]

#12295

Hi, I am Metin, the developer behind that port and I’m very happy to see that you guys tried it out. I just want to let you know that I got in touch with apancik and merged all his changes into my branch. Today I published v1.0.6 and the hotfixes v1.0.7 and v1.0.8. The changes are huge. Please check it out. https://github.com/metinc/abuse/releases

[Tijn]

#12296

Wow that’s fantastic! Thanks for joining our little community here, metinc 🙂

[red.hexapus]

#12299

Wow, I should have delayed replaying the game, I’ve just finished it today on version 1.0.5. Thanks for keeping Abuse alive, Metin 🙂

[metinc]

#12301

Thanks Tijn!
red.hexapus, make sure to play the fRaBs levels as well. Since v1.0.7 you can select the campaign when you start a new game.

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[Evil Taco]

#12309

That’s awesome! Hate to be asking for more, but any chance of a macos build?

[red.hexapus]

#12319

Awesome, downloading it right now, looking forward to playing frabs 🙂

[metinc]

#12327

Evil Taco, macos build is on my TODO list but I do not own a macos device so I can not test it. I can try it by the end of next week and maybe you could test it for me.

[Evil Taco]

#12332

It’s a deal!

[metinc]

#12383

Evil Taco, please test the latest Abuse release 1.0.8. You can report back by writing a comment here: https://github.com/metinc/abuse/pull/38

[Evil Taco]

#12386

Gave it a quick spin. Good stuff! https://github.com/metinc/abuse/pull/38#issuecomment-5748878193