Annotation of uae/docs/COMPATIBILITY, revision 1.1.1.3

1.1       root        1: Incomplete list of programs that work with UAE. If you have something to add,
                      2: mail me.
1.1.1.3 ! root        3: Most Kickstart versions work. I think I've also had success reports about
        !             4: 68020 Kickstarts. Some special A600 ones which apparently rely on an IDE
        !             5: interface or the PCMCIA port being present don't work properly.
1.1       root        6: 
                      7: The following programs were tested by me:
                      8:  - Powerpacker 2.3b
                      9:  - DME, DICE (compiles at least transdisk and transrom)
                     10:  - Turrican I: Works 100% now, unlike in previous versions.
                     11:    In world 3 (the vertically scrolling levels) they achieve multi-level
                     12:    scrolling by means of _awful_ copper and sprite tricks. It works, but these
                     13:    levels are tremendously slow.
                     14:  - Katakis (also known as Denaris)
                     15:  - Zork Zero
                     16:  - Corruption, Fish
                     17:  - Holiday Lemmings 1994 (always nice to watch them blow up)
                     18:  - Champions of Krynn (including harddisk installation on the unixfs.device)
1.1.1.3 ! root       19:  - Cybernoid II works, sort of. It occasionally crashes.
1.1       root       20:  - AmigaCPE (my CPC emulator :-)
                     21:  - SimCPM (CP/M emulator, ran some Infocom adventures with it)
                     22:  - DMS 1.11
                     23:  - Lots of demos
                     24:  - TheA64Package
                     25:  - AIBB 5.5 and AIBB 6.5. These work, but you need the "-S 3" option for
                     26:    maximum sound hardware compatibility (or start AIBB with the "-b" switch).
                     27:    Otherwise, the stupid beep when pressing gadgets doesn't work and the
                     28:    program gets into an endless loop.
                     29:    Oh yes, and the CPU is detected as running at InfMHz :)
                     30:  - AmigaBasic
                     31: 
                     32: The following programs (among others) were tested by other people:
                     33:  - Games: Silkworm I, BattleChess 2, Monkey Island, IK+, Giana Sisters,
                     34:    Arkanoid, Team, Vertical Mayhem, The Faery Tale Adventure, various 
                     35:    incarnations of The Bard's Tale, The Empire Strikes Back, Worms/OCS,
1.1.1.2   root       36:    Shanghai, R-Type 1 & 2, Battle Squadron, The Sentinel, Elite II (Frontier)
1.1       root       37:  - Directory Opus
                     38:  - Deluxe Paint IV
                     39:  - Devpac 3.04
                     40:  - Maxon Assembler 1.1
                     41:  - KinkWords
                     42:  - FileMaster 2.2
1.1.1.3 ! root       43:  - ImageFX 2.0
1.1       root       44:  - Aegis Images
                     45:  - Atari Lynx development tools
                     46:  - CygnusED Prof.
                     47:  - DiskMaster 1.4
                     48:  - Several packers (PP 4.0, LHA, PKAZIP). Some of these don't like the unixfs.
                     49:  - MUI
                     50:  - Brilliance
                     51:  - Several Cloanto programs have been by Michael C. Battilana from Cloanto
                     52:    Software: Personal Paint, ColorType, Personal Fonts Maker and Personal Write
                     53:    (all versions)
1.1.1.2   root       54:  - Shapeshifter. This requires 68020 emulation, and apparently you need to use
                     55:    "Prepareemul A1200". You may run into problems with the filesystem code, in
                     56:    that case use the hardfile.
1.1       root       57:  - others
                     58: 
1.1.1.3 ! root       59: I've removed the incompatibility list, since these things vary a lot. There
        !            60: are still some programs that don't run.
1.1       root       61: 
                     62: "Brokenness" notes
                     63: ==================
                     64: Some programs only work on some Amigas, or with some configurations of UAE.
                     65: If you have information about more programs, please tell me about it, because
                     66: this could be very helpful for other users, too.
1.1.1.3 ! root       67: Generally, everything that relies on exact timing won't be compatible with
        !            68: 68020 and higher Amigas either.
1.1       root       69: 
                     70: Incompatible with more than 512K chipram:
                     71:  - Silents "ICE" demo (characters missing in sinusscroll part with more chip)
                     72:  
                     73: Requires exception 3 and is therefore incompatible with 68020+ CPUs:
                     74:  - Katakis (Denaris)
1.1.1.3 ! root       75:  - Cybernoid II (this one relies rather heavily on all sorts of exception
        !            76:    related behaviour of the CPU).
        !            77: 
1.1       root       78: Requires slow memory (-s option), even if there's plenty other memory:
                     79:  - Silents "Global Trash" demo
                     80:  - Anarchy "Seeing is Believing" demo
                     81:  - Andromeda "Decaying Paradise" demo
1.1.1.2   root       82:  - Spaceballs "State of the Art" demo
1.1       root       83: 
1.1.1.3 ! root       84: Requires exact timing of system componets (exact CPU or blitter timing, etc)
1.1       root       85:  - Silents "Hardwired" demo (times multiplication instructions and refuses to
                     86:    work if they are too fast)
                     87:  - Andromeda "Multica" demo (directly processes blitter output without
                     88:    waiting for the blitter)
1.1.1.3 ! root       89:  - Phenomena "Enigma" demo: modifies data while blitter is working on it.
1.1       root       90:  - Turrican I: Only the "Rainbow Arts" intro, it will abort too early and
                     91:    continue loading if the CPU is faster than a 68000. Otherwise fine.
1.1.1.2   root       92: 
                     93: Programs that set reserved bits in custom chip registers:
                     94:  - Andromeda "Seven Seas" demo uses EHB and sets the AGA "KILLEHB" bit at the
                     95:    same time... It almost seems as if it _wants_ to use EHB on OCS machines
                     96:    and a regular 6 plane display on AGA machines.

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