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Re: To buy or not to buy...
« on: December 04, 2007, 06:58:16 PM »
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A couple of questions which will sway my decision. Is OS4 100% backwards compatible? Put simply, if I run a 68k WHDLoad game from OS4 classic, will it work?


It might.  You may have to disable Petunia using a blacklist and run it under an interpreted mode or try EUAE to get it to work.  If it does work on the first try it should scream!

There are a few gotchas involved in using the Petunia JIT compiler.  I don't think it supports vector base relocation like WHDLoad requires.
 

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Re: To buy or not to buy...
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 04:32:28 PM »
If you want to see what you can run on OS4, why not pay a visit to OS4Depot and see what's been ported to it already.