Post Apocalyptic Petra

Devlog

• Sound Blaster 16 fix for Petra 0.99o
  July 11, 2023 by Bad Sector

  This is a minor fix for Petra 0.99o that i wrote ages ago and uploaded to VOGONS for testing as some SB16 systems didn't work correctly, but i never managed to put anywhere else. This is only relevant... Continue reading
• Petra Engine on Codeberg
  May 29, 2023 by Bad Sector

  Uploaded the Petra Engine to Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/badsector/PetraEngine Codeberg is an alternative to git hosting sites like GitHub and GitLab that is based on Forgejo , an open source, se... Continue reading
• Petra Engine now its own thing
  July 25, 2022 by Bad Sector

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  The engine behind Post Apocalyptic Petra (which i decided to call "Petra Engine" :-P) is now its own project that hopefully will make it slightly easier to start new retro 3D game projects: http://run... Continue reading
• Added an archive file for all downloads
  July 25, 2022 by Bad Sector

  If you want to download all files (e.g. for archival) instead of clicking on all 60 of them one by one now you can download the PetraAll.zip file which contains all the other files. Perhaps in the fut... Continue reading
• Version 0.99o is out, some big improvements for the DOS and Windows versions
  June 02, 2022 by Bad Sector

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  The new version contains several changes to the engine to improve performance under DOS and retro Windows PCs - under a new benchmark mode the game has it can do between 16 to 19 fps on average on a 1... Continue reading

  
• Piece Model Editor
  November 01, 2021 by Bad Sector

  While the source code of the game was released back when it was first made for the jam, one piece that i didn't release was the tool used to create the animations for Petra - this was because some of... Continue reading

  
• Added ARM Linux build for Raspberry Pi
  September 12, 2021 by Bad Sector

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  This is a minor update to add an ARM build for Raspberry Pi devices. It should also work with other ARM devices that run Linux and provide SDL 1.2 and OpenGL as it doesn't use any RPi-specific functio... Continue reading

  
• Fix for S3 Virge, should work for real now...
  June 30, 2021 by Bad Sector

  Turns out the latest version didn't work with S3 Virge, despite what i thought. The real issue is that i do not have an actual S3 Virge but i used 86box's S3 emulation. However as i discovered 86box d... Continue reading

  
• Posted version 0.99n, major sound improvements, also better performance and S3 Virge support
  June 12, 2021 by Bad Sector

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  This improves the sound backends to fix (most) glitches, especially for the DOS and Windows versions. The Windows version may still have some issues with slow CPUs under Windows 95/98, though (NT-base... Continue reading
• Added DOS floppy disk image
  April 20, 2021 by Bad Sector

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  I added a DOS floppy disk image with a simple installer. If you want to play the game on a retro Pentium (preferably 200MHz or above) PC running DOS (or through a full PC emulator like 86box or PCem)... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99m, macOS version, HW renderer optimizations, minor other stuff
  March 15, 2021 by Bad Sector

  Version 0.99m of Post Apocalyptic Petra adds a new platform: macOS. I have only tested this on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) which is the latest version that my aging iMac (late 2009 model) supports, but... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99l, Android version with touch support and big hardware accelerated version improvements
  December 05, 2020 by Bad Sector

  The two big changes in version 0.99l is adding support for Android devices, including some rudimentary touch support (see below) and a big performance improvement in the 3D hardware accelerated versio... Continue reading

  
• Added Android version for devices with controller support (OUYA, Shield, etc)
  December 04, 2020 by Bad Sector

  Just added Petra099kAndroidAlpha1.apk which should work on any Android device with a gamepad. It does not support touch input nor any form of suspend/resume - ie. if you try to move away, it'll just s... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99k, bug fixes and performance improvements
  December 03, 2020 by Bad Sector

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  Version 0.99k fixes a few bugs and improves improves performance a bit for the hardware accelerated backends. It also improves compatibility with OpenDingux devices that use more recent community-made... Continue reading
• Added GCW Zero / OpenDingux Port
  December 01, 2020 by Bad Sector

  This is a tiny update, it doesn't affect the other versions so i didn't change the version number. I just ported Post Apocalyptic Petra to the open source handheld GCW Zero which is running a Linux di... Continue reading

  
• Posted version 0.99j, Linux version and SDL Windows version
  November 29, 2020 by Bad Sector

  Post Apocalyptic Petra version 0.99j is now available. This version completes the SDL support to add audio and fixes wall texture loading under Linux. Also adds two additional Windows executables that... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99i, performance improvements, Direct3D and DirectDraw backend, windows-based config tool, etc
  October 04, 2020 by Bad Sector

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  The version 0.99i of Post Apocalyptic Petra is now available. This versions adds several performance improvements, especially in the software rendering version - the DOS version is about +40% faster,... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99h, OpenGL renderer, mouse&gamepad controls, misc fixes
  August 25, 2020 by Bad Sector

  This is a large-ish version, i had this under wraps for a while (though i wasn't really doing anything... 99.9% of the work was done last month, i just wanted to fix a couple of minor glitches). Versi... Continue reading

  
• Posted version 0.99g, fixes a possible crash
  June 20, 2020 by Bad Sector

  Version 0.99g is a minor bugfix release that fixes two bugs: A potential crash (via unhandled exception) when accessing a computer. This was caused when you had a selected message in a computer at an... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99f, "f" for "fix" because last timing bug fix had a bug :-P
  May 18, 2020 by Bad Sector

  Last update fixed a timing bug but introduced a much bigger bug itself - entity motion slowed down. Version 0.99f fixes this. Also fixes right click camera panning in free camera mode in the editor... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99e, better Windows version, Win9x support and timing fixes
  May 17, 2020 by Bad Sector

  This update adds a slightly better Windows version that allows selecting a custom resolution. The game still uses GDI and scales to the desktop resolution, just now it isn't locked to 320x200 nor uses... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99d, minor fix for pure DOS compatibility
  May 11, 2020 by Bad Sector

  This is a minor fix build for pure DOS compatibility. Animated textures were defined using a foo+n naming scheme in the filenames but pure DOS doesn't accept that. It works under Win9x (where i was te... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99c, important fix and a config tool
  May 10, 2020 by Bad Sector

  This version fixes an important bug with the keyboard input handler that caused Petra to walk slowly when the numlock key was on and the player used the arrow keys from the arrow pad instead of the nu... Continue reading
• Posted version 0.99b
  May 09, 2020 by Bad Sector

  Day #1 patch :-P Fixed a bug with the camera at the last puzzle Fixed a collision bug in map 4 The editor is still at 0.99 version since the camera bug didn't manifest itself in the editor, so no need... Continue reading