The WHDLoad '040 compatibility problems list

[AmigaFriend]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Cheers xpect, appreciate you taking the time to test these. Will update my first post later...

No problem Graham glad I can add my contribution also.

Tomorrow I'll test more thoroughly Zool 2 AGA to see if with other options I can pass the joystick problem. And I'll have to compare Zool 2 ECS in WinUAE to see if the slowdown is a feature of the game, because I've never played it before, or a problem also with my 040 board.

I'll test also Shuttle, the only one lacking of your list.

EDIT: OK Graham I confirm the slowdown of Zool2 ECS as stated

[Irek´72]

I think it's great that other users are involved in the 040 problem list.

@Xpect: A game was still forgotten Can you pleas "Enchanted Land" on your 040 board to try? there are graphics problems in game with 040 and 060 Blizzard.

@Graham: You can Xenon to the list add .The game freezes always into level 1, it happens to different places(I know from another Amiga Board that also the PPC users are affected by this bug)

[AmigaFriend]

Originally Posted by Irek´72

@Xpect: A game was still forgotten Can you pleas "Enchanted Land" on your 040 board to try? there are graphics problems in game with 040 and 060 Blizzard.

No problem Irek, I'll include it in my next round of tests later today.

[Irek´72]

Originally Posted by xpect

No problem Irek, I'll include it in my next round of tests later today.

Thanks.

[Graham Humphrey]

Thanks Irek - will add Xenon to the list and will try it on my Apollo sometime this weekend and see what happens.

[ungi]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Bit of a generalisation there - I think we can safely discount your "nearly nothing works" claim as a lot of games do work (in my experience) but there are certainly a good proportion that don't work 100% correctly, and a few fail altogether.

However that's a point - I'm trying these on OS3.0 so if anyone is using a different OS it might be worth mentioning that too.

well, actually i was NOT too much generalizing here... i changed a 030 card for a 040 card and tested about 20 installed whdload games - maybe 5 worked. the rest did not, even after playing around with the tooltypes. i had various errors displayed. i decided that the 040 is unusable. then i read somewhere: try it with 3.1. so i put the 040 in an amiga 1200 (escom) with Kick 3.1... and suddenly nearly everything worked... apart from some small problems, like desribed in this thread.

So my advice: DO NOT USE AN APOLLO 040/25 with KICK 3.0!!!

hope this helps some other ppl here :-)

[AmigaFriend]

Last games tested.

Zool2 AGA is a no go. Joystick doesn't work, for much that I tried settings.

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Shuttle: No sound in the 3D sections, also extremely slow 3D updating. - no sound in 3D or cockpit - 3d updating is normal

Originally Posted by Irek´72

@Xpect: A game was still forgotten Can you pleas "Enchanted Land" on your 040 board to try? there are graphics problems in game with 040 and 060 Blizzard. - All moving sprites flicker during gaming. If NOCACHE is used cannot startgame and the credists don't appear, only character running and background scroolling, nothing else.

@Graham: You can Xenon to the list add .The game freezes always into level 1, - confirmed and playability is 2 times slower than normal

[Mad-Matt]

Which 040 board ? Zool2 ecs/aga works fine here(apart from being abit slow) on BPPC 040 and cd32 joypad.

[Retro1234]

Its not WHDload - I know I pointed out the CD32 version of Zool 2 has no slowdown - Theres also now hitchhikr`s version this is probably now the best version works from HD I didnt get any slowdown - CD32 pad or joystick options worth a look

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=41598

[AmigaFriend]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

Which 040 board ? Zool2 ecs/aga works fine here(apart from being abit slow) on BPPC 040 and cd32 joypad.

A3640. Same here but I cannot start game. Fire button doesn't work on Zool 2 AGA.

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Its not WHDload - I know I pointed out the CD32 version of Zool 2 has no slowdown - Theres also now hitchhikr`s version this is probably now the best version works from HD I didnt get any slowdown - CD32 pad or joystick options worth a look

Nice Boo Boo. Although I was only testing the games of this list to be able to do a report if the A3640 had problems or not with them, it's nice to know we have an alternative on Zool 2. Thanks!

[daxb]

Tested on APollo 1240/40 32MB OS3.1
WHDLoad 16.9 [build 4672] (05.02.2009)

World of Commodore:
Slave: Version 1.4 (24.04.2000)
Tooltypes: Preload, NoCaches (without to fast)

After the first logo appeared I get: Exception "Level 3 Autovector (COPPER/VBLANK/BLITTER)" ($6C) at $272D6 occured.

Pinball Mania:
Slave: Version 1.3-B (07-nov-03 21:48:25
Tooltypes: Preload

Played Tarantula Table a bit an got: Exception "Access Fault" ($7008) PC = $A544 (Task 'Initial CLI') Word Read from $3D20412
after the ball "locked" in something on the right side.

Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge:
Slave: Version 1.1 (04.06.2006)
Tooltypes: Preload, ButtonWait

When the race should start I get: Exception "Level 3 Autovector (COPPER/VBLANK/BLITTER)" ($6C) at $787BC occured.
Hey, but LOTUS ESPRIT TURBO CHALLENGE - 96K VERSION works fine.

Lotus2:
Slave: Version 1.9 (27.02.2007)
Tooltypes: Preload, ButtonWait

Works fine.

Lotus3:
Slave: V1.3 r2 (20-Apr-2002)
Tooltypes: Preload, NoCache

Works fine. Without NoCache access fault when race begins.

Zool CD32:
Slave: V1.2 (13-jan-08 22:02:04)
Tooltypes: Preload

Slowdowns when many action is on the screen.

Zool ECS/AGA have no slowdowns. Also Zool2 seems to have a good speed.
I hope you all have a look on the WHDLoad bugtracker.

[Graham Humphrey]

Awesome, thanks for this

[Irek´72]

The game "Paperboy" can be removed from the 040 WHDLoad problems list. The solution can be found here.

[Graham Humphrey]

Thanks, good work

Will remember to try the Expchip option more often...

[daxb]

I want to know if someone of the 040er users have "Space Hulk" running without problems? Alas I never got it working here.

[Irek´72]

Originally Posted by daxb

I want to know if someone of the 040er users have "Space Hulk" running without problems? Alas I never got it working here.

Try it with "NOMMU" option, it should work.

[daxb]

Originally Posted by Irek´72

Try it with "NOMMU" option, it should work.

Does that mean it works for you when you use NOMMU Tooltype? Here it doesn`t work. I`ve also added a bugreport on whdload mantis but without result. Maybe my APollo1240 is responsible or only a bad install. I want to figure out this.

[Irek´72]

Yes, the game works but only with NOMMU option on my 040 Blizzard, otherwise the game crashes at the beginning with a fault.
If you have problems with WHLoad version, try it with the JST installer.
The JST version works here without problems.

[Irek´72]

I have a good news for all 040 users it is a new update for the game Xenon on the WHDLoad page released.
Of course, I have tested the new slave and the game works without problems on my Blizzard, so I think that this title can be removed from the WHDLoad ´040 problems list.
Thank you Psygore!

[Graham Humphrey]

Removed - thanks Irek for the news and thanks to Psygore for fixing it