@database "SHSH-Comp-List" @$VER: 1.3 @node "Main" "Contents" S H A P E S H I F T E R C O M P A T I B I L I T Y - L I S T -------------------------------------------------------------- @{i}Version 1.3 (22.01.97)@{ui} @{bg shine} ©1996-97 by Andreas Etzrodt "SHARKsoft"@{bg back} @{" Why this list?  " link "why" 0} - Just read this chapter... @{" Legal stuff     " link "legal" 0} - Very IMPORTANT !!! @{" People who helped " link "Helfer"0} - These people helped creating this list @{" What you need... " link "need" 0} - ... to play games on Shapeshifter @{" 3D-Dungeons " link clones/main} - Dungeon-action-games @{" Action " link action/main} - Action games like Shoot'em ups @{" Adventure " link adventure/main} - Adventures like those from Lucas Arts @{" Children " link child/main} - Games for children @{" Manager " link manager/main} - Management games like Theme Park @{" Misc " link misc/main} - Uncategorizable @{" Role " link role/main} - Like Dungeon Master @{" Simulations " link simulation/main} - Simulations like Flightsimulators @{" Sports " link sport/main} - Sports-games like Golf @{" Strategy " link strategy/main} - Games like Command & Conquer @endnode @node "Why" "Why this list?" Why this list? -------------- You may know that there are not too much games especially written for the Amiga. Or think that there are about 40 or 50 new games for PC per month, but only 1 or 2 will ever be converted. The Macintosh game scene is far from being complete but some very good games will always be converted to the Mac. So why not using SHAPESHIFTER to run the Macintosh-games that will never be available for Amiga-players? Here is the problem: Is my hardware good enough to play this game? So I'm trying to collect as much information as possible on the subject: What game needs what kind of hardware (RAM, processor)? The version 1.0 of this list consisted only of *my* own games. Since V1.1 there are *many* tests from @{"other" link "Helfer"0} people. But if you want that I include some text from you there's no problem. Just send it to me. I will mention @{"here" link "Helfer"0} that I got it from you. I only need the name of the game, the genre and the hardware specs where the game has been tested. If the game has been tested without a graphics-card, please state which gfx-driver you used. That's all! Oh, and when you know a source, where to find on the Internet a demo version of one particular game - then it's excellent !!! So everybody could at first look at the demo version. Send your text to: Andreas.Etzrodt@eure.de or Andreas Etzrodt Hauptstr. 15 49835 Wietmarschen Germany (Sorry for my bad English!) @endnode @node "legal" "Legal Stuff" Legal stuff ----------- I can't be held responsible if you buy a game because I wrote it works and it doesn't work on your machine !!! Use this information at your own risk!!! If you want to copy this list make sure that you copy the whole directory because there are some "invisible" files! This list is contribution-ware. This means that if you find it useful you have to help creating an unbeatable list of games - "The Shapeshifter compatibility list". *My* games have been tested on: - Amiga 4000/040 - Cyberstorm 040/40MHz - Cybervision 64/2MB - 18MB FastRAM - 2MB ChipRAM - Kick and WB 3.0 - MacOS 7.5.3 - 4XSpeed CD-ROM drive (ATAPI) - 260 MB AT HD on internal IDE-adaptor - HD-Floppy - 17"-Monitor (64kHz) Shapeshifter has been used in the latest version 3.7. Shapeshifter is © by Christian Bauer Oh: Of course I am a registered user of Shapeshifter... To contact me: E-Mail: Andreas.Etzrodt@eure.de S-Mail: Andreas Etzrodt Hauptstr. 15 49835 Wietmarschen Germany @endnode @node "Helfer" "Other people" Here I want to thank the following people for their support/interest: (in no special order) - Riccardo Carletti (thanks for your tests) - Mikael Westergren (thanks for your tests and suggestions) - Stefan Byttner (thanks for your tests and suggestions) - Matthew Schinckel (thanks for your tests) - Cyberwlf (thanks for your tests and suggestions) - John Millington (thanks for your tests and suggestions) - Niko Tomatsidis (no tests, but interest - thanks :-) - Steven Lyon (thanks for your tests) - Mikael Johansson (thanks for your tests) - Craig Howard (thanks for your tests) - Espen Berntsen (thanks for your tests) - Adam Burns (thanks for your detailed tests - and for your "What you need"-text) - Denis Zwornarz (danke für Deine ausführlichen Tests) - Benjamin Dauhrer (danke für Deine Tests) - Mario Laflamme (thanks for your tests) - Erwin Weigert (danke für Deine Tests) - Esa Martiskainen (well... you know what I mean :-) - Marco Siegel (muss ich Dir jetzt danken, dass Du mir Tests geschickt hast, oder soll ich sauer sein, weil Du mir unterstellst, dass ich dem AMIGA den Ruecken gekehrt habe? (diese Liste ist ja ein guter Gegenbeweis!!!)) @endnode @node "need" "What you need..." What you need to play games on Shapeshifter: Note that most of these games have been tested with a graphics-board. I think that having a Cybervision (or some other GFX board with chunky-to-planar GFX conversion built-in) is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HAVE if you are going to run Shapeshifter. The second most important thing would be an accelerated processor with local ram. (Either Cyberstorm, Warp Engine, or even the old Excalibur) Finally -I've found that a faster CD-ROM and faster Hard Drive can go a long way towards speeding up the Mac side. (I now use a Micropolis 4221 for the Mac side; It spins at 7200 rpm, has a 512K cache, and gives me 6 megs per second sustained on the Amiga side... That helps a lot on the Mac side.) To keep it together: To run most (68k-)Macintosh-Games fast enough I recommend: - 16 MB FastRAM (you should have at least 10 MB RAM for Shapeshifter) - a Graphics-board like Cybervision64 or Picasso - Kickstart 3.1 speeds up the emulation a little bit - a 68040 with 25MHz (the faster the better!) - of course in many cases you could also use a 68020 with 14MHz or above but it's no fun playing games with such a "slow" processor! - a fast (SCSI) Hard Drive - a fast (SCSI!) CD-ROM Drive (4X and above) @endnode