What demos or games take advantage of the Turbo mode of the Chameleon? I do not mean to take advantage of the speed, like any game that accelerates it, but to recognize the cartridge.
I know the game "Slipstream" and the demo of Cosine "MD201706"
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What demos or games take advantage of the Turbo mode of the Chameleon? I do not mean to take advantage of the speed, like any game that accelerates it, but to recognize the cartridge.
I know the game "Slipstream" and the demo of Cosine "MD201706"
Interesting question... i remember one of the demos by "zed yago" used the turbo, but i forgot which one that was.
I think all ported games for the SuperCPU will take advantage of the TC.
(There is a website dedicated to this subject, but i dont know if its allowed to put the URL here …, but its easy to google
Some games like TestDrive will benefit, Some early 3d games are ported to the C64 to and only run on a accelerated c64 (doom, wolfenstein)
It depends on how exactly they deal with the turbo. Ideal are games which have C128 support (like testdrive)
Interesting to read. Does the games that were made with SuperCPU in mind work out of the box with the TC64 ? I mean, does the game "see" the TC64 Turbo-ability just as if it was a SuperCPU plugged in ?
No, TC64 does not emulate the SCPU registers
Also, keep in mind that the SCPU uses the 65816 CPU, which does NOT have the illegal opcodes of the 6510, but it does have some 16-bit operations that the 6510 does not have.
This means that some software that was specifically written for the SCPU may even crash, because it attempts to activate 16-bit mode. That's, however, the minority of programs. Most of the SCPU programs use the "fast 6502" mode of the SCPU only. These will either just work out f the box, or they only require small patches.
The "big plus" of the Chameleon turbo is that it emulates the 6502/6510 illegal opcodes. This is a "first" in the history of C64 accelerators, and it benefits just everything that was ever written for the C64. Take GEOS or the emulated "Printfox" cartridge for example: These become really worth working with, without changes to the existing software.
continued here: Games that work in turbo mode
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