Regarding Eat the whistle, I have done a bit of testing.
I have used the HD installable disks found on the EAB server:
Eat the Whistle - France 98 v1.0 (1998-10-05)(Epic Marketing)(AGA)(Disk 1 of 4)[h HF][HD]
I have also grabbed the CD version, I'll test that later.
On disk 1, you can find HF-ETW.nfo (cracker/supplier info) which states AGA 4 Meg.
I tested the following:
- 68020 AGA 2 MB chip and 4 MB Fast (my usual test configuration for AGA games): works fine
- 68020 Full ECS 2 MB chip and 4 MB Fast: works fine too
- 68020 AGA 2MB chip only: Got to the menus, launched Free Kick training sessions, after a bit of loading I got recoverable error and a bit after recovering a software failure.
- 68010 Full ECS 2 MB chip and 4 MB Fast : Software Failure when starting the game
My guess (some EAB members with better technical knowledge might have a better idea) is that the game:
- Needs 4 MB of RAM
- Relies on some instructions found only on 68020s (or higher), which are not available on a 68010.
The AGA chipset does not seem to be needed.
But at the time I guess the 68020 + 4 MB requirements were available mostly on AGA machines (maybe some A3000 could have the required components?).
Edit: Hmmmm, reading the tripod page you linked to, I see it might be a bit more complicated than that, with the earlier versions having lower requirements. I'll need to test the CD version then. I hope it is an early version, because otherwise I don't know where to find an early version that could work with 1 MB of chip RAM.