Not to be confused with Palace Software's 'Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior', this was one of Psygnosis' earliest games on the Amiga. It had decent graphics and animation, but the button-clicking gameplay and horrible frame rate made for an almost unplayable game. The game did have some Very cool cover art, 'Red Dragon' by Roger Dean.
Barbarian
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- 4230I discovered this game after playing Obliterator, and wasn't impressed. The game was very similar to Obliterator, but controlled even worse.
- 6956This is a horrible, almost unplayable game. The very concept of a point-and-click action adventure seems like the worst idea. The frame rate seems to be around 3 FPS, varying with the number of animated objects on screen.
- 6957I guess you could play with F1-F10 and the arrow keys.
- 6958YOU HAVE COMPLETED 18% OF BARBARIAN.
- 6960I found a map.
- 9269The rip of this game I downloaded has a cracktro with a scrolling text, good for testing PAL vsync. I'm testing running FS-UAE in 100 Hz on my BenQ monitor, but according to Frode Solheim, the author of FS-UAE, the emulator doesn't support 100Hz sync (this post is from 2014, but I couldn't find any newer information about this). I'm looking into using PowerStrip, which may be able to force my monitor to use 50Hz instead.
- 9270I gave up on PowerStrip, which is maybe also going a bit far. I think I tried every combination of FS-UAE options, running in 100 Hz mode (with no other monitors attached), fullscreen and windowed, different vsync methods. Nothing works, and all modes seem to have the same kind of problems.
- 9271I also tried both FS-UAE 2.8.3 and 2.9.5dev3.
- 9272Maybe that GSync/FreeSync stuff would help? It sounds like it could.
- 9273When running with
--ntsc_mode=1 --vsync=1in 60 Hz, everything works perfectly. I guess FS-UAE just doesn't PAL games running on a 100 Hz monitor yet.
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