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 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
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@{bg shine} 1996-97 by Andreas Etzrodt "SHARKsoft"@{bg back}
 
 
 @{"Whythislist?   " link "why" 0} - Just read this chapter...
 @{"Legalstuff   " 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

 @{" PowerPC - Games   " link powerpc/main} - These games will NOT run on Shapeshifter

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@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.

 Also:  if you know a game which is PowerPC-only and not listed in the
 special chapter of this list please drop me a note.
 

 Send your text to:

 Andreas.Etzrodt@eure.de
 
 or
 Andreas Etzrodt
 Hauptstr. 15
 49835 Wietmarschen
 Germany
 
 (Sorry for my bad English!)
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@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
 - 20MB FastRAM
 -  2MB ChipRAM
 - Kick and WB 3.0
 - MacOS 7.5.5
 - 4XSpeed CD-ROM drive (ATAPI)
 - 260 MB AT HD on internal IDE
 - A2091-SCSI with GURU-ROM V6
 - 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
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@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 fr Deine ausfhrlichen Tests)
- Benjamin Dauhrer  (danke fr Deine Tests)
- Mario Laflamme    (thanks for your tests)
- Erwin Weigert     (danke fr Deine Tests)
- Esa Martiskainen  (well... you know what I mean :-)
- Marco Siegel      (naja, danke...)
- Tiziano Gogna     (thanks for your tests)
- T. L. Trice       (thanks for your tests)

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@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.)

<Adam Burns>


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)

<Andreas Etzrodt>

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