https://github.com/vsimko/dqh-amiga
Devil's Queer House - An old game for Amiga
https://github.com/vsimko/dqh-amiga
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Devil's Queer House - An old game for Amiga
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vsimko/dqh-amiga
- Owner: vsimko
- Created: 2015-12-04T20:42:22.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-07-07T17:53:38.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-28T21:45:52.899Z (10 months ago)
- Language: LOLCODE
- Size: 1.54 MB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Devil's Queer House (1994-1996)
[](https://youtu.be/QQKVzZpXTpQ "Devil's Queer House - Youtube Video")
## Download
* [Original DQH Game emulated using (E/Win)UAE available for Linux and Windows](https://github.com/vsimko/dqh-amiga/releases)
* Linux version tested on Ubuntu 10.4 32bit and Linux Mint 17.1 64bit
* Windows version tested on WinXP 32bit
* [Graphical patterns used in the level design and animations](dqh-patterns.png)
## First prototype
I started programming this platformer game in 1994 using the awfully slow AmigaBasic interpreter.
The first version consisted of a huge animated background image with 2 frames.
In order to achieve 15fps, I had to limit the window-size to some 200x120 pixels and to use the blitter HW support to copy the window content from the off-screen buffer to the visible window. Using a double buffering technique, I was able to smoothly follow the main character as he walked in front of the background image.
However, only one visible monster was supported at a time.
## Version v1.0 for Amiga 500
Later, after I lost half of the project's data due to an invalid floppy, I decided to completely rewrite the code.
I also changed the approach how levels were created. Instead of drawing a complete background image, [I used a single image as an archive of patterns](dqh-patterns.png). Using the level editor, the patterns would be mixed to form the level graphics.
Every level consists of 10 screens linked together in an arbitrary way. The engine supports **multiple animated monsters** to be visible simultaneously on a single screen. A screen might also contain **teleports**, **locked doors** and **traps**.
Again, I continued developing the game in AmigaBasic and later, in 1995, switched to [GFA-Basic](Screenshots/web/dqh-gfabasic.png) which significantly improved the speed of development as well as the game.
The Amiga version of Devil's Queer House was finished in 1996 with 7 levels and no final boss.
## Features
* the game contains 14 animated characters + the main character called "Palko"
* contains a level editor (written in AmigaBasic:
* [GFX-Editor](editor/dqh-editor-gfx.lst)
* [DATA-Editor](editor/dqh-editor-data.lst)
* 8 colors that together with a dithering technique give a feeling of some 36 colors
* all the graphics was created in '''Deluxe Paint IV'''
* the game runs on 7Mhz Amiga 500 with 1MB of memory (CHIP RAM)
## Level 1 - Gandma's House
## Level 2 - Secret Underground
## Level 3 - Factory
## Level 4 - Mines
## Level 5 - Castle
## Level 6 - Garden
## Level 7 - Robots
## Ending
