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- Incomplete list of programs that work with UAE. If you have something to add,
- mail me.
- Most Kickstart versions work. I think I've also had success reports about
- 68020 Kickstarts. Some special A600 ones which apparently rely on an IDE
- interface or the PCMCIA port being present don't work properly.
-
- The following programs were tested by me:
- - Powerpacker 2.3b
- - DME, DICE (compiles at least transdisk and transrom)
- - Turrican I: Works 100% now, unlike in previous versions.
- In world 3 (the vertically scrolling levels) they achieve multi-level
- scrolling by means of _awful_ copper and sprite tricks. It works, but these
- levels are tremendously slow.
- - Katakis (also known as Denaris)
- - Zork Zero
- - Corruption, Fish
- - Holiday Lemmings 1994 (always nice to watch them blow up)
- - Champions of Krynn (including harddisk installation on the unixfs.device)
- - Cybernoid II works, sort of. It occasionally crashes.
- - AmigaCPE (my CPC emulator :-)
- - SimCPM (CP/M emulator, ran some Infocom adventures with it)
- - DMS 1.11
- - Lots of demos
- - TheA64Package
- - AIBB 5.5 and AIBB 6.5. These work, but you need the "-S 3" option for
- maximum sound hardware compatibility (or start AIBB with the "-b" switch).
- Otherwise, the stupid beep when pressing gadgets doesn't work and the
- program gets into an endless loop.
- Oh yes, and the CPU is detected as running at InfMHz :)
- - AmigaBasic
-
- The following programs (among others) were tested by other people:
- - Games: Silkworm I, BattleChess 2, Monkey Island, IK+, Giana Sisters,
- Arkanoid, Team, Vertical Mayhem, The Faery Tale Adventure, various
- incarnations of The Bard's Tale, The Empire Strikes Back, Worms/OCS,
- Shanghai, R-Type 1 & 2, Battle Squadron, The Sentinel, Elite II (Frontier)
- - Directory Opus
- - Deluxe Paint IV
- - Devpac 3.04
- - Maxon Assembler 1.1
- - KinkWords
- - FileMaster 2.2
- - ImageFX 2.0
- - Aegis Images
- - Atari Lynx development tools
- - CygnusED Prof.
- - DiskMaster 1.4
- - Several packers (PP 4.0, LHA, PKAZIP). Some of these don't like the unixfs.
- - MUI
- - Brilliance
- - Several Cloanto programs have been by Michael C. Battilana from Cloanto
- Software: Personal Paint, ColorType, Personal Fonts Maker and Personal Write
- (all versions)
- - Shapeshifter. This requires 68020 emulation, and apparently you need to use
- "Prepareemul A1200". You may run into problems with the filesystem code, in
- that case use the hardfile.
- - others
-
- I've removed the incompatibility list, since these things vary a lot. There
- are still some programs that don't run.
-
- "Brokenness" notes
- ==================
- Some programs only work on some Amigas, or with some configurations of UAE.
- If you have information about more programs, please tell me about it, because
- this could be very helpful for other users, too.
- Generally, everything that relies on exact timing won't be compatible with
- 68020 and higher Amigas either.
-
- Incompatible with more than 512K chipram:
- - Silents "ICE" demo (characters missing in sinusscroll part with more chip)
-
- Requires exception 3 and is therefore incompatible with 68020+ CPUs:
- - Katakis (Denaris)
- - Cybernoid II (this one relies rather heavily on all sorts of exception
- related behaviour of the CPU).
-
- Requires slow memory (-s option), even if there's plenty other memory:
- - Silents "Global Trash" demo
- - Anarchy "Seeing is Believing" demo
- - Andromeda "Decaying Paradise" demo
- - Spaceballs "State of the Art" demo
-
- Requires exact timing of system componets (exact CPU or blitter timing, etc)
- - Silents "Hardwired" demo (times multiplication instructions and refuses to
- work if they are too fast)
- - Andromeda "Multica" demo (directly processes blitter output without
- waiting for the blitter)
- - Phenomena "Enigma" demo: modifies data while blitter is working on it.
- - Turrican I: Only the "Rainbow Arts" intro, it will abort too early and
- continue loading if the CPU is faster than a 68000. Otherwise fine.
-
- Programs that set reserved bits in custom chip registers:
- - Andromeda "Seven Seas" demo uses EHB and sets the AGA "KILLEHB" bit at the
- same time... It almost seems as if it _wants_ to use EHB on OCS machines
- and a regular 6 plane display on AGA machines.
-