Games Compatibility

Please read the notes on compatibility information.

Passed

• 3D Virtual Pinball - runs only with PC Pro; intro screen flickers badly; sound works except during game; playable with 486DX2/66 but 2D version crashes
• 7th Guest (all versions) - runs only with PC Pro; sound is supposed to work with latest version of PC Sound Professional, but may not; some people have apparently got sound working without it (setting RetraceEmulation to 0, and "Soundblaster" and "General MIDI" in the game's own options seems to be the trick here); music requires MIDI (seems to work fine with ESP midi synth); scrolling sluggish with StrongARM and 486DX2/80
• A-10 Tank Killer (Kixx/Dynamix) - interesting but not stunning military flight sim; soundblaster sound doesn't work
• Absolute Zero (demo) - runs only with PC Pro; sound works with 16-bit sound card without MIDI support; in-flight sections are very slow with ARM610 and 5x86; seems to need plenty of RAM
• Abuse (demo) - platform shootemup; much faster with StrongARM than without; sound fails without PC Sound Pro, but we've been told by R-Comp that it works well with it
• Aces over Europe (CD) - sound effects highly effective with MIDI support
• Actua Soccer 1995 (Gremlin) (demo) - works with PC Pro v2.01, but not with !PC 1.92. Very fast with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86 in low-resolution mode once you are in the actual stadium
• Advanced Tactical Fighter - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Air Force Commander WWII - problems with display? (screenfuls of green dots...)
• Aladdin - no in-game sound, requires screen mode defining (comes with GameOn!), "slower than a real PC but playable" on DX4/100 card, fine on 5x86
• Albion - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Alien Trilogy
• Alone in the Dark I-III CD - sound and games work fine; playably fast with ARM710 and 486SX but animations can be slow (possibly due to slow CD-ROM)
• Another World - no sound, rather fast
• Anvil of Dawn - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Apache Longbow - no sound
• Arcade Pool
• Armour Alley - needs to be configured to use PC speaker sound rather than Soundblaster sound in order to work
• ATF (Electronic Arts, demo) - runs only with PC Pro v2.02 or later and 16-bit sound; rather slow with ARM610 and 5x86 (considered unplayable by some), but it is too slow to be playable on some real 100MHz Pentiums as well; no sound
• Azrael's Tear (Mindscape, demo) - runs only with PC Pro
• B-17 Flying Fortress (Microprose, CD) - crashes often, apparently "the trick is not to do too many things at once"; soundblaster sound fails
• Bad Mojo (Pulse Entertainment, demo, Windows) - sound perfect with 16-bit sound but no MIDI support; speed acceptable with ARM610 and 5x86; apparently it "gives you a glimpse of what life can be like in a run-down apartment building - from the point of view of a cockroach!"
• Battleground Ardennes (demo and full version, Windows 3.11) - sound effects and video sequences all work fine with StrongARM, 5x86 and PC Pro, even without PC Sound Professional; for a couple of the very largest scenarios you will need to allocate at least 20MB to the PC card to get reasonable speed (this would be the case for a real PC too); otherwise speed should be fine even for slower cards
• Battleground Gettysburg (demo)
• Beneath a Steel Sky - only MIDI sound works; sluggish with ARM710, fine with StrongARM and 5x86
• Bermuda Syndome (BMG) (Windows) - platform game
• Big Red Racing - playable in full screen VGA with ARM710 and 5x86, a bit faster with StrongARM and 5x86
• Blackthorne - very slow with 486DX4/100; graphics distorted
• Blake Stone (Apogee / iD / Jam Productions 1993) - Wolfenstein 3D in space
• Blam! Machinehead - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Bomb25 - "Worms"-type game
• Broken Sword - adventure game, runs only with PC Pro, sound excellent but graphics rather sluggish even with StrongARM and 5x86
• Brutal - Paws of Fury (demo) - sound fails, far too slow to be playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Buried in Time - works from CD
• Cadaver - slow with ARM610 and 486SX; problems with gameplay; no sound
• Campaign 2 (demo) - works fine with PC Pro, ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Carmaggedon - slow but playable with StrongARM and 5x86, sound works but causes lots of crashes
• Casino Expert for Windows (Expert Software, 1993)
• Championship Manager
• Championship Manager II - runs only with PC Pro; sound works with PC Sound Pro; saved games don't work correctly
• Championship Manager Italia
• Championship Pool (Windows) - 2D pool and snooker game
• Chronicles of the Sword (demo) - runs only with PC Pro; excellent graphics, speed reasonable with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86, would probably benefit from CD-ROM drive faster than 2x
• Chronomaster - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Civilisation 1, Colonization (originally sound apparently needed to be turned off for these, but Civilisation is faster with it enabled, even without a sound card), Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, and Pirates!Gold - these all from "Sid Meier's Classic Compilation" (or similar title) on CD for DOS - speed can depend on mode you start each game in, graphics need to be in 16 colours; in Civilisation (and possibly the others too), select MCGA graphics and PC speaker sound, and ensure Video ReTrace Emulation is set to "Normal" (0) (for most other games you can set it to "Fast B" (2) for a tiny bit more speed)
• Championship Manager I
• Championship Pool (Wizardworks) - 2D Windows pool game, also does snooker etc., not terribly good
• Civilisation for Windows - map redraw much faster with faster PC card (but still acceptable without); appear to be even more increases in speed (although relatively minor) with PC Pro; ensure Video ReTrace Emulation is set to "Normal" (0) for this game (for most other games you can set it to "Fast B" (2) for more speed); select MCGA graphics for best speed
• CivNet (network version of Civilisation) - can allegedly be made to work over a LAN using TCP/IP (not IPX) with latest patch version
• Civilisation 2 (Microprose) - sound and graphics fine on 486DX2/80 in RPC700; video clips too slow but not needed anyway; recommended; rolling demo works too
• Close Combat (Win95, demo)
• Comanchee versus Apache - works under PC Pro if you define an MDF for it, but not under earlier versions?
• Command & Conquer (Westwood Studios) - video clips work; sound works (but not brilliantly) with PC Sound Professional, otherwise leave it switched off as it may cause crashes; speed quite acceptable (considerable improvement with faster PC card, particularly video clips; additional speed improvements with PC Pro); also runs under Win95; installation takes a while; CD version requires 35MB disk space if installed to hard drive; CD-ROM drive faster than 2x beneficial for video clips; minor mouse pointer problems on some systems (?); demo works; Covert Operations mission disk also works although installation program crashes after finishing; Ultimate Command & Conquer patch works; network play options work with both null modem cable and proper networking, but a real PC will have the advantage
• Command & Conquer Red Alert - DOS version runs (display problems on some systems?) but Win95 version (including level editor) won't because it uses DirectX; sound works (but not brilliantly) with PC Sound Professional, see additional setup details; network play options work with both null modem cable and proper networking, and it's possible to defeat opponents who are using real Pentium PC's; Counterstrike update works; video works nicely with StrongARM, 5x86 and PC Pro; Ultimate Red Alert patch works
• Connections (The Discovery Channel, demo, Windows) - sound perfect with 16-bit sound but no MIDI support; "appears to be some sort of interactive adventure thing"
• Creature Shock (demo) - works on !PC v1.91 or later; perfectly playable with ARM710 and 486SX33
• Crusader : No Regret (Origin, demo) - runs only with PC Pro; just about playable with ARM710 and 486SX if frame skipping turned on and animations off; very playable (including with animations) using StrongARM and 5x86; sound and music works (without MIDI) but is rather crackly (or "perfect", depending on who you believe); sound skips in FMV sequences (turn subtitles on); turning sound off improves speed
• Crusader : No Remorse (Origin, demo) - runs only with PC Pro; just about playable with ARM710 and 486SX if frame skipping turned on and animations off; very playable with ARM610 and 5x86 (although some say scrolling very slow); sound and music works well (without MIDI) except in FMV sequences (turn subtitles on); turning sound off improves speed
• Cybermage - playably fast with ARM710 and 486DX2/66 in small VGA mode
• Cyberstorm (Windows) - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Daemons' Gate (Imagitec, 1993) - overhead view swords n' sorcery
• Dalek Attack - slow on some systems, sound works, needs custom screen mode
• Daggerfall - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Dark Forces - unreliable (PC Pro doesn't help); slow with ARM710 and 486DX2/66 (playable even with 486SX if screen size reduced); sound works well both with internal speaker and SB16 options
• Dark Seed 2 (demo) (Windows)
• Dawn Patrol (demo) - runs only with PC Pro; too slow to be playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Day of the Tentacle - speech works from CD but may cause crashes. Speed acceptable with ARM610 and 486SX
• Delta V (demo) - playably fast; in-game sound fails
• Descent - runs fine with PC Pro as well as earlier versions; benefits from extra RAM; playably fast with ARM610 and 486SX; sound works with PC Sound Professional but not otherwise (?)
• Descent II (Interplay) (demo) - vast improvement with faster PC card; sound fails (?); runs fine with PC Pro as well as earlier versions
• Desert Strike (demo) - runs only with PC Pro; too slow to be playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Destruction Derby (demo) - sound works, but too slow to be playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Destruction Derby 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• The Dig - problems with sound, better with faster processors
• Discworld (Terry Pratchett's) - speech works from CD, music can be made to work with ESP MidiSynth; scrolling jerky on 486SX, but perfect on 5x86/100 or 133, and fine on ARM710 & 486DX4/100 combination; minor bugs in the game, such as sound disappearing occasionally, appear on real PCs too, and patches are available from Psygnosis
• Discworld II (CD) - Win95 version fails due to needing DirectX, DOS version will run but only with PC Pro; speed sluggish with ARM710 and 486DX2/80, still slow even with StrongARM and 486Dx4/100; sound works if configured to be "Creative Labs Soundblaster or 100% compatible", but not terribly well; 2MB video RAM (and 2MB allocated for PC display) essential; EMM386 must be removed from CONFIG.SYS for the game to work; loading very slow on many CD-ROM drives
• Doom - sound often distorted on normal drivers, but much better with PC Sound Professional; needs monitor definition file changes for full-screen view; noticeable but not huge improvement with faster PC card, massive improvement with StrongARM (ARM610 + 486SX gives 2.49 frames/sec, ARM610 + 5x86/100 gives 2.98 frames/sec, ARM710 + 486SX gives 3.68 frames/sec; Doom v1.9 Shareware on small screen/low detail with ARM610 + 486SX gives 7 frames/sec, upgrading to PC Pro gives 8 frames/sec, StrongARM and PC Pro gives 17 frames/sec); hints on running in network mode under IPX are also available
• Doom II - sound distorted on normal drivers, but better with PC Sound Professional; noticeable but not huge speed improvement with faster PC card, StrongARM upgrade gives very worthwhile speed improvement
• Doom Editing Utilities - scrolls rather slowly with 486DX4/100; VESA mode works correctly with PC Pro
• Double Dragon - playable with ARM610 and 486SX
• Dragon Lore - sound can be made to work (although not perfectly); slow in fight sequences with ARM610 and 486SX; demo works with !PCx86 1.72 but not 1.91 (?)
• Dr. Brain (Sierra) (Windows) - crashes occasionally on some systems if screensaver left running (it does this on a real PC too, apparently); use ALT-TAB to switch to Program Manager and back again if sound disappears
• Dr. Draco's Madcap Chase (Windows)
• Dreadnoughts Plus (On-line Entertainment)
• Duck Hunt 1.0 for Windows ... oh dear
• Duke Nukem' 2 (Apogee) - sideways-scrolling platform shootemup; sound fails
• Duke Nukem 3D (3D Studios) (Shareware 1.1) - Doom-clone with improved graphics; averages 2 frames per second on ARM610 and 486SX ("unplayable"); others claim playable with ARM610 and 486SX; fairly playable with ARM610 and 5x86 card; very playable with StrongARM and 5x86; requires 8MB (or even more?) RAM allocated to PC card, so probably 10MB+ Risc PC absolute minimum requirement; use of PC Pro allows 640x480 and 800x600 SVGA screen modes to work, but these are only playable if you have a StrongARM; sound problematic, game is faster if you turn it off, setting SharedMemFlags to 0 can help but read your documentation first; try setting sound for 3 voices and 8-bit stereo
• Dune - sound works with PC Sound Pro; note that this game is nothing like Dune 2!
• Dune II CD - sound "sort of works", best to leave it off; can be rather slow with ARM610, 486SX33 and !PC 1.92; N.B. native RISC OS version also available
• Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog, DOS version) - only tested with PC Pro; needs !PC video memory to be set to 2MB on some systems; is playable in low detail (and intro sequence plays well) and also in hi-res (but rather slowly) with StrongARM, 486DX4/100, 8x CD-ROM and plenty of RAM
• Earthworm Jim - sound works with PC Pro, possibly fails on some other systems; unplayably slow with ARM710 and 486DX2/66, playably fast with StrongARM and 486DX4/100
• Ecstatica - animation of characters good with 486SX card, but backgrounds wobbly when moved over
• EF2000 - runs only with PC Pro; needs lots of disk space; far too slow to be playable with StrongARM and 486SX card; plays at a reasonable speed with StrongARM and 486DX4/100 card, but still only 4 frames per second with a StrongARM and 5x86/100; sound works but may cause reliability problems; anyway problems with keys make it more or less unplayable
• Elite II - no sound
• Elite Plus
• Empire 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Endorfun (Time Warner, demo) - puzzle game
• Entombed 1.0 for Windows shareware version (Chaos Concepts, 1993) -mouse-controlled graphical exploration puzzle game
• Epic Pinball (Epic Megagames) - graphics good but flickery and slow even on "slow PC" setting; no sound (not yet tested with PC Sound Professional)
• Evasive Action (demo) - reasonably fast, but problems with controls
• Extreme Pinball - slow and annoying redraw errors with ARM610 or ARM710, but "faster than a real PC" with StrongARM and 486DX4/100 (in fact, slowing it down a little with "*cache ID" in a TaskWindow before running it will help it to play at the right speed); also adjust USER.TXT file inside Extreme Pinball directory for your favourite settings; sound fails; scoreboard doesn't work properly
• Euro '96 (Gremlin) (demo) - menus are in colour with PC Pro but only b/w with !PC 1.92; high-res mode when playing is quite slow with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86, low-res nice and fast
• Eye of the Beholder I and II - fine apart from slow intro
• Eye of the Beholder III - problems with colour mapping
• Eye of the Storm - like Elite but worse
• F-14 Fleet Defender
• F-22 Lightning - sound works with PC Sound Pro if you select 8-bit sound
• Fade to Black (Delphine) - 3D puzzle game, slow (reduce size of playing window for improvements); sound and music perfect with soundblaster emulation but too slow with in-game video sequences; select 320x240 or 320x200 options unless you have PC Pro, which can support 640x480; "a damn good game"
• Fantasy General (demo) - runs only with PC Pro; a bit slow with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86
• Fatty Bear's Fun Pack (1993) - colourful, tuneful, American-spelt software for kids
• FIFA '97 - sound works with PC Sound Pro "alternative" setting; far too slow to be playable with StrongARM and 486DX4/100
• Fighter Duel (Jaeger Software, demo) - runs only under PC Pro, but unplayably slow with ARM610 or ARM710 and 486 or 586; may be better with StrongARM?
• Flashback
• Flight of the Amazon Queen - in-game sound fails
• Flight Commander 2 (demo, Windows) - runs only with PC Pro; perfectly playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; sound works (but only with PC Sound Pro?)
• Flight Simulator 4 (Microsoft) - runs ok, although fairly slow at around 6 frames per second
• Flight Simulator 5 (Microsoft) - works fine in VGA 320x200, in VGA 320x400 with annoying problems (but some say still playable); also in 640 x 350 x 16 (EGA) and 320 x 400 x 256 (VGA); SVGA mode works with PC Pro and playable on DX4/100; use expanded memory not extended
• Flight Simulator 6 (Microsoft, CD) - a little slow with StrongARM and 486DX4/100; copying files from CD to hard disk before installation may help with installation problems(?)
• Football Masters - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Forgotten Realms - Dungeon Hack 1.0 (Official 2nd Ed.) (Dreamforge/Strategic Simulations, 1993) - problems with display
• Formula One Grand Prix - gives 8 frames/second with ARM610, 9.5 frames/second with ARM710, 15 frames/second with StrongARM
• Formula One Grand Prix 2 - just about playable with 486SX card and StrongARM (around 8 frames/second in VGA with textures off), but much better with faster PC card (11 frames/sec in VGA with textures off using 486DX4/100 and ARM610, and 8 frames/sec with textures on, 21 frames/second in low-res with StrongARM and 486DX4/100); sound works with PC Sound Professional but not without; SVGA mode works with PC Pro but very slow
• Fritz 4 (Chessbase, CD) - high-ability chess game; works perfectly
• Frontier First Encounters (remastered version on CD) - game slow, especially video, with ARM610 & 486SX card
• Full Throttle (LucasArts, demo) - graphical adventure; speed reported as either poor or acceptable (affected by having sound on?) on both 486SX and 5x86; Soundblaster2 is the recommended sound setting with the latter, but tends to be out of synch especially with 486SX
• Fury3 (Microsoft) (Windows) - Terminal Velocity-style shootemup; slow with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; demo also works but is also slow
• FX Fighter - sound works with PC Sound Pro (use Blaster system variable)
• Gabriel Knight
• Gabriel Knight 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Galactix 1.5 (Cygnus 1992/3) - Star Striker/Moon Cresta
• Gene Machine (demo) - runs only with PC Pro 2.02 or later; rather slow ("unplayable") with ARM610 and 5x86; sound works perfectly with 16-bit sound and no MIDI support
• Gene Wars (Bullfrog) - humorous ecosystem strategy game; runs only with PC Pro; sluggish but playable with StrongARM and 5x86; video sequences don't work properly; sound works well even without PC Sound Pro
• God of Thunder - fast enough to be playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66, but has graphics problems
• Gods - rather slow with ARM610 and 486SX; no sound; possibly fails under PC Pro?
• Grand Slam Bridge 2 for Windows (Electronic Arts) - very pretty
• Grand Prix Manager (Microprose, Windows) - select palette option in !PCconfig
• Great Air Force Battles (demo) - runs in VGA 320x200; very slow with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; problems with pointer
• Guilty (demo) - sound fails
• Gulf War
• Hardball V - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Heretic - use "HERETIC -DEBUG" and/or v1.2 or later (update patch (and the game itself?) from iD Software); sound effects distorted but satisfactory without PC Sound Professional (music fails); needs MDF for full screen play; nice fast frame rate for a game of this type (playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66), and even faster with StrongARM
• Harpoon Classic - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Heroes of Might and Magic (New World Computing) - runs only with PC Pro, scrolling a little sluggish with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86
• Hexen (Raven/iD Software) - slower than Heretic but faster than Doom; sound slow and problematic with normal drivers (music fails), but works properly with PC Sound Professional; needs MDF for full screen play; "gameplay more involved and has some nicer effects" than Heretic; ARM710 + 5x86/100 gives speeds equivalent to a real PC (8.35 frames/sec), StrongARM apparently makes it a fair bit faster; multiplayer co-operative games work well with null modem cable
• Hind (Digital Integration, demo) - helicopter game; runs only with PC Pro; slow and jerky even with StrongARM and 5x86, more or less unplayable
• Hover (Win95)
• Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis - PC speaker sound only (no soundblaster sound)
• IndyCar Racing (Papyrus Publishing) - substantial speed increase with faster PC card
• IndyCar 2 (Papyrus Software) (demo) - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Inferno - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• International Tennis (Zeppelin) - Select second VGA option to get it to work
• Isle of the Dead
• Jazz JackRabbit - works slowly in strange VGA mode
• Jim Power -lost dimension of 3D (Loriciel, 1993) - platform, a tiny bit sluggish
• Journeyman Project Turbo - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Joust (Windows, demo)
• Jungle Strike (demo) - possibly unreliable
• Jurassic Park - Slow but playable with ARM610 and 486SX, but scrolling odd
• KA-50 Hokum
• Kill, Krush 'n' Destroy - unplayable slow
• King's Quest 6
• Kyradia or Kyrindia (?) - runs from Windows, MIDI sound works, no digitised sound
• Lands of Lore - sound works with PC Sound Pro "alternative" setting; dialogue can't be skipped
• Leisure Suit Larry 1, 2, 3, and 5 - some titles require VESA and so will run only with PC Pro; sound works with MIDI support if configured to "Roland MT32"
• Lemmings 2 - The Tribes (pretty much unplayable due to speed and graphics problems)
• Lemmings for Windows 3.11 - very slow with ARM710 and 486SX33; get the RiscPC version instead!
• Lemmings 3D (Clockworks Software, demo) - works after configuring EMS, but slow and awful anyway, even with ARM710
• Links 386 (golf game) - runs only with PC Pro; works very nicely; turn off "verify" setting if using sound (only works with PC Sound Pro?)
• Lion King
• Litil Divil - no sound, crashes frequently
• Little Big Adventure - plays superbly with ARM610, 5x86 and PC Pro, in 640x480x256 (this screen mode will only work with PC Pro); a bit slow with StrongARM and 486DX4/100; speech works but sound a bit dodgy; possible colour problems (?); this game is impossible to finish? (CD version also works)
• Lost Eden
• Lost in Time (CD) - works with !PCx86 1.92 and A1CD.SYS; sound works with PC Sound Pro (?)
• Lost in Time 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro (?)
• Magic Carpet - slow but just about playable with ARM710 or above; music via MIDI, no other sound; SVGA mode works with PC Pro but is too slow even with StrongARM and 486DX2/80; odd colour mapping?
• Magic Carpet II (demo) - works fine with ARM710, 486DX2/66, and PC Pro
• Major Stryker (shareware) - sound fails; playably fast with ARM710 and 486Dx2/66
• Manic Karts (demo) - no sound; too slow with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; possibly only runs under PC Pro
• Master of Orion
• M.A.X. (demo) (only tested under PC Pro)
• MechWarrior 2 (Activision, DOS version) - works fine, including excellent sound (speech, sound effects); needs a StrongARM to make it reasonably playable; VESA screen modes work with PC Pro; see below for NetMech
• Mega Man X (Capcom) (demo)
• Megarace - crashes frequently (not tested under PC Pro)
• Megarace 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Micro Machines 2 (demo) - sound and music both work, game needs two MDFs defining for it; can be unreliable
• Microsoft Golf (CD, v1.00) - runs fine, with sound
• Microsoft Golf (v2.00, 1994) - runs fine, including sound, under Win3.11, !PCx86 v1.91 and ESP Minnie sound card; easy to install; speed more than adequate with 5x86/ARM610 and 8MB RAM allocated to PC card (requires 10MB disk space)
• Might and Magic 3 and 4- sound works with PC Sound Pro, configure as "Roland" card and use "alternative" PC Sound Pro settings
• Millenia sound works with PC Sound Pro, use "alternative" settings
• Minnie and the Mites - slow
• Monkey Island
• Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge (Kixx/LucasArts) - works well with ARM610 and 486SX
• Monopoly - animations too slow and should be switched off, sound can get out of sync
• Monster Truck Madness (Microsoft, demo) - music and sound effects work fine even without PC Sound Pro; 320x200, 320x400 and 640x480 screen modes all work, but 320x200 is much faster; only tested on PC Pro
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Mortal Kombat II - sound effects can be made to work, although some people have had trouble; but music doesn't seem to work; playably fast with ARM710 and 486SX
• Myst (CD) - Windows version runs in 256-colour mode with palette selected; sound works; "good but too easy"; slow speed can be improved by increasing CDFS buffers, or by using CDFast 2; runs faster under Windows 3.11 (playable with 486SX) than under Win95
• Nascar Racing - no sound, rather slow even with ARM710
• Need for Speed - runs only with PC Pro; sound works but only without PC Sound Professional (!!); only playable at small screen sizes with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; Special Edition is reasonably fast with StrongARM and 486DX4/100; can be made faster by changing viewing distance to close and window size to small
• NetMech (MechWarrior 2 for DOS over network) - runs acceptably with StrongARM, 486DX4/100 and PC Pro; PC Sound Pro not needed; Network Links software and a network card required; only tested under PC Pro
• NHL Hockey (demo) - sound works; playable but jerky with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; VESA mode works with PC Pro
• One Must Fall - speed fine with 486SX
• Outpost
• Overlord CD - set to low graphics resolution; sound works
• Pandora Directive (Access software, demo) - runs only with PC Pro 2.02 or later; sequel to Under a Killing Moon; needs plenty of RAM; sound doesn't seem to work
• PC Soccer
• Perfect General 2 - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• PGA Euro Tour (Electronic Arts, demo) - very playable golf game, but sound doesn't seem to work (not tested with PC Sound Professional yet); runs only with PC Pro
• Phantasmagoria (demo)
• Police Quest III
• Populus II - pointer can be sluggish even with ARM710, but still playable
• Powerslave (Playmates, demo) - may require PC Pro and/or 16-bit sound and quite a lot of RAM; seems unreliable; some sound works with 16-bit sound card
• Premier Manager 2 - no sound; playable with ARM710 and 486SX33
• Premier Manager 3 - flickering graphics due to interlacing not in sync (but ok with !PCx86 v1.993 and later), otherwise fine
• Prisoner of Ice - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Privateer - enabling sound makes game unplayably jerky
• Professor TIM (Sierra) - crashes frequently (turn off screensaver?)
• Pyrotechnica (demo) - slow and unreliable
• Putty Squad (demo) - plays well with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; sound fails
• Quake (iD Software) (various versions up to 1.01 registered) - music and CD-audio work with soundblaster but sound effects will only work with PC Sound Professional (either "still not very well" or "absolutely excellent" depending on who you believe); also has an SVGA screen mode, which won't work with PC Pro until it supports VESA 2.0; fast but jerky without StrongARM (between 7 and 11 frames/sec with 5x86?), much smoother with StrongARM (just about playable at 320x200 with 486DX4/100); ensure lots of conventional memory is available to prevent crashes (if you're using Win95, set up a memory-optimised run-from-DOS-mode icon); version 1.06 doesn't seem to work properly; won't run on 486SX cards
• Quarantine II - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Quest for Glory IV
• Raptor - sound effects work although slightly distorted
• Rayman - speed fine with 5x86, too slow with 486DX2/66
• Realms of Haunting - sound works with PC Sound Pro?
• Rebel Assault - slow, although better with StrongARM and 5x86
• Rebel Assault II (demo) - playable with ARM610 or ARM710 and 5x86 (5 or 6 frames/second); much smoother with StrongARM and 5x86 (18 frames/second); SVGA modes work with PC Pro but need StrongARM to be fast enough; video works but smoother with StrongARM; sound works
• Renegade 2: Return to Jacob's Star (SSI, demo, CD) - runs only with PC Pro; speed considered bearable by some and far too quick for others; takes lots of disk space; sound works with 16-bit sound without MIDI support
• Return of Arcade - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Return to Zork (CD version) - sound can apparently be made to work, although the game is unplayable without it
• Rick Dangerous - speed is fine with 486DX2/66
• Riddle of Master Lu - sound works with PC Sound Pro (?); needs Microsoft Mouse driver 8.2 as replacement for amouse.com
• Ripper (demo) - slow even with 5x86
• Rise of the Robots 2 (Acclaim) (demo) - impressive beatemup; but full version needs VESA driver, and is not yet tested on PC Pro
• Rise of the Triad - runs, but horrific graphics problems? Needs custom screen mode
• Road Warrior - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Rome AD 92 - slow but playable with ARM610 and 486SX; keys can be unresponsive
• Rugby World Cup - unreliable?
• Sam and Max - speech works from CD. Some bits rather slow
• Scorched Earth - highly popular "Worms"-type game
• Screamer (Virgin, demo) - runs only with PC Pro 2.02 or later; reasonably fast with 5x86 card, quite playable with ARM710 and 486DX2/66; sound works only with PC Sound Pro
• Screamer 2 (Virgin) - not fast enough with 486SX; runs at very acceptable speed with ARM710 and 5x86; with StrongARM and 5x86 runs faster than a real 90MHz Pentium; no sound (PC Sound Professional hasn't been tested); 65,000 colour mode fails; occasionally unreliable, although not in main game
• Seek and Destroy - vertically scrolling 2D helicopter shootemup; problems with intro sequence
• Sensible Soccer (Sensible Software) - problems with scrolling?
• Sensible World of Soccer (Sensible Software) - rather slow
• Settlers (Serf City) - VESA mode works with PC Pro; mouse pointer sluggish even with ARM710 and 486DX4/100
• Settlers 2 - runs only with PC Pro and 16-bit sound; sound effects work but music doesn't; slow with ARM610 and 5x86
• Shadow of the Comet - slow, no sound
• Shadowcaster (Raven) - 1st-person viewpoint adventure game
• Shadow of the Comet - sound fails; slow with ARM610 and 486SX
• Shellshock - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Shivers (Sierra, CD) - remove RAMBOOST from AUTOEXEC.BAT; demo appears to fail if 16-bit sound system not present; performance fine on ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86; VESA mode works with PC Pro and looks better
• Silent Hunter - demo runs only with PC Pro; reasonably playable with ARM710 and 486SX; version 1.11 a bit unreliable(?); release version only tested with PC Pro
• Sim City 2000 (DOS version) - runs only with PC Pro (works fine on PC Pro 2.02), "a bit slow when you start burning everything down"; N.B. native RISC OS version also available
• Sim City Classic
• Simon the Sorceror I - speech works from CD; playably fast with ARM710 and 486SX
• Simon the Sorceror II - works with difficulty; some problems with speech (select "Soundblaster Clone" option); music requires MIDI support; press F5 to stop speech sticking, or try increasing the screen memory allocation
• Sim Isle (Maxis, demo) - runs only with PC Pro 2.02 or later; music and sound effects both work with 16-bit sound without MIDI support; quite slow but probably playable; our sources prefer SimCity 2000, apparently
• Sim Life
• Sim Tower (Maxis) (runs in Windows) - some error messages on startup, slow on basic configuration; some people claim it's unreliable
• Space Hulk
• Slipstream 5000 - very playable with 5x86 card; great intro
• Space Cadet Pinball (Win95)
• Space Crusade - game works fine, but gameplay allegedly poor
• Space Simulator (Microsoft) - runs well with PC Pro and 486SX card (although apparently very slowly); runs without PC Pro but only in 320x400 (VGA) which looks awful
• Star Fighter 3000 (Krisalis, CD) - runs only with PC Pro, but very slow with ARM610 & 100MHz 5x86, and "not a terribly good conversion" anyway; get the Acorn version, which is blindingly fast with StrongARM
• Speed Haste - racing game with nice graphics; use low detail settings to improve speed; no sound; run in VGA mode; VESA mode works with PC Pro but very slow even with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary - slow
• Star Command - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Star Crusader
• Star Trek TNG : A Final Unity - runs only with PC Pro; won't run on 486SX; sound works only with PC Sound Professional (a bit distorted)
• Steel Panthers (demo) - runs only with PC Pro, a bit slow with ARM610 and 100MHz 5x86
• Street Racer - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Strife (Rogue Entertainment) (demo)
• Stunts - disable sound option to get it to start
• SU-27 Flanker - runs only with PC Pro (version 2.03 or later); very slow with 486DX4/100
• SubWar 2050 (Microprose)
• Supercarts - slow
• Super Streetfighter II (Capcom) - very slow
• Super Streetfighter II Turbo (demo) - fairly slow
• Swiv 3D (Sci, demo) - 3D version of the classic shootemup, sound effects are OK without PC Sound Pro except for the absence of gun noises; 320x400 mode works but probably too slow on anything other than StrongARM; not as fun as the original
• Syndicate (Bullfrog/Electronic Arts/Hit Squad) - big improvement with ARM710, but well worth playing on ARM610; smaller speed improvement with faster PC cards. Sound works, but slows game down too much to be playable (it does the same on a real Pentium PC)
• Tempest 2000 (Atari) (demo) - shootemup
• Terminal Velocity (demo) - shootemup; not playable with ARM610 and 486SX, better on high-end PC cards (use smaller screen sizes on 486 cards); SVGA mode works with PC Pro but is very slow; music and sound work
• Terminator 1.02 - Unplayable with 486SX, slow but playable with 5x86; needs lots of RAM; sound will work with PC Sound Pro, but without it it's best left off to prevent crashes
• Terra Nova (Looking Glass) (demo) - 3D texture-mapped first person shootemup; runs only with PC Pro and 16-bit sound support; sound effects work but music doesn't
• X-Com: Terror from the Deep (possibly set L2 cache to write-through to get sound to work)
• Test Drive III - playable with ARM710 and 486DX4/100; no sound
• TFX - we've previously been told it's unreliable, but those using PC Pro report it as working fine, including sounds and music, and as fast as a "real" PC
• The Lion King - no sound, requires screen mode defining (comes with GameOn!), "slower than real PC but just about playable" on DX4/100 card, fine on 5x86
• Theme Hospital (Bullfrog) - possibly only runs with PC Pro; Windows95 requires DirectX and therefore won't work; hi-res mode sluggish but playable with StrongARM and 486DX4/100; low-res mode ok (but ugly); can crash (?); requires !PC video memory to be set to 2MB on some systems
• Theme Park (Bullfrog, CD) - Simcity-style game; no sound, but music works if you have MIDI support and PC Sound Professional (although the sound with the introductory video still fails); VESA mode works with PC Pro, but is slow even with ARM710 and DX4/100, although not with 5x86 (and StrongARM?)
• Thunderscape - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Tie Fighter - no or poor sound, difficult without joystick, "a bit slow" without StrongARM
• Time Commando (Adeline) (demo) - 3D adventure game with lots of action, from makers of Alone in the Dark; scrolling poor but animation of characters good on ARM610 and 100MHz 586; both !PC 1.92 and PC Pro 2.01 give 320x240 screen resolution, rather than the supposed 640x480 available; sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Timegate (demo) - sound works with PC Sound Pro; start game by running templier.exe
• Tomb Raider (Eidos, CD) - 3D adventure/action game with excellent graphics; fast and playable with ARM610, PC Pro and 5x86 in VGA mode, smoother with StrongARM, PC Pro and 5x86 in VGA mode; sluggish in SVGA mode even with StrongARM, PC Pro and 5x86, but fine if you reduce the screen size (F2 or F3) which can be nice for some of the tunnels etc.; without PC Sound Professional, CD audio atmospherics work but sound effects and music don't; we're told by R-Comp that with PC Sound Professional sound works fully, but our testers don't entirely agree (it is good though); only tested on PC Pro
• Torin's Passage - best played in Windows; sound and music work (MIDI support needed for music?), although not very well with 486SX
• Tornado (Digital Integration) (demo)
• Toshinden (demo) - Japanese martial arts game; runs only with PC Pro; not terribly good; playable at low resolution (320x120) with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• Track Attack (Electronic Arts) - runs only with PC Pro (ignore install program which claims it won't work). Not terribly good
• Transport Tycoon - displays and runs fine with PC Pro, but moving around the map very difficult, even at low detail
• Tube (Bullfrog) (demo) - 3D shootemup
• Tyrian - crashes frequently, slow, no sound
• Tyrian II (demo)
• UFO Enemy Unknown (CD) - sound works, speed good
• Ultima 7 - sound and music fail but speech works
• Ultimate Soccer Manager
• Under a Killing Moon - runs only with PC Pro; turn sound off to prevent it crashing; can be slow in places with ARM710 and 486SX
• Unnecessary Roughness '96 (Accolade, demo) - runs only with PC Pro, needs plenty of RAM. It's an American Football game, what more can you say...
• U.S. Navy Fighters (demo) - runs both with PC Pro and without, but SVGA mode only available under PC Pro; SVGA mode too slow anyway with ARM710 and 486DX2/66
• USS Ticonderoga - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Virtual Pool (Interplay, demo) - runs only with PC Pro
• Virtual Snooker - sound works with PC Sound Pro if settings selected manually
• Virtuoso - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Vortex - Quantum Gate II - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack - this will work under Windows 95 if you install the Windows 3.1 version of the Fun Pack, together with the 16-bit (Windows 3.1) version of Quicktime for Windows; presumably works under Windows 3.1 as well; all games and the customiser work; the film clips are somewhat jerky
• Walls of Rome (Mindcraft) - tactical strategy wargame
• Warcraft - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• Warcraft 2 (Mindcraft) - swords n' sorcery strategy game; works only with PC Pro; sound effects, speech, and music work fine (and add much) even without MIDI support on !PC v2.02; movie sequences work fine, although CD-ROM faster than 2x recommended; scrolling is considerably faster with StrongARM, but still very playable and recommended even with an ARM610; upgrades beyond version 1.0 do work, despite problems some people have had with them; internet multi-player games work with port 0x3f8 (COM 1), irq 4, i/o ports 3F8-3FF, and direct access to serial port enabled
• War in the Gulf - no sound
• Wasteroids (Windows) - Meteors/Asteroids type game
• Westwood's Hand of Fate - Kyrindia 2 - works very well on DX2-66 ASIC 1, needs General Midi sound for sound support
• Wetlands - sound works with PC Sound Pro
• White Death (CD) - mouse and graphics shaky with ARM610 and 486SX33 (?)
• Wing Commander I & II - no sound
• Wing Commander III - press Escape repeatedly during the speed test sequence if you don't have PC Pro; movies jerky with ARM610 and 486DX4/100, but game itself playable; sound works only with PC Sound Professional, but a bit distorted
• Wing Commander IV - runs only with PC Pro; runs fine with StrongARM and 486DX4/100 except for movies stopping and starting a bit; select "fast decompression" and VGA screen mode for best results
• Winter Olympics Lillehammer 1994 - strange game...
• Wolfenstein 3D - works under 1.8x but not 1.91? You're better off with the RISC OS version...
• World Rally Fever (Team 17, demo) - very poor
• Worms I (Ocean) - video intervals far too slow even with 5x86 and ARM610 (best to press Escape to skip them, or apparently some improvements can be made by going into directory FMV and typing PLAY -noskip avi). Graphics and gameplay quite fast with StrongARM and 5x86. Music and other sound can be made to work if soundblaster set up properly. Run from CD by changing to drive D: and typing WRMS (installation program fails), patch from Team 17's website may also help with installation on some systems; substantial speed increase with faster PC card, especially scrolling. Demo often fails to move from one player to another; can apparently be solved by not changing any of team names, settings, etc. (but this makes things pretty boring); better with !PC v1.993?
• Worms Reinforcements - works, but speech and audio effects sometimes corrupted; this can be corrected by setting cache to "write through" on PC cards with the Revision II ASIC.
• Worms United - fails under Win95 (and maybe Win 3.1?), but should work under DOS. Some sound problems reported
• WWF European Rampage Tour
• X Com : UFO Enemy Unknown (CD) - speed ok, sound can be made to work
• Xenon 2 - no sound
• X-Wing Collection - some sound works, but poorly; difficult without joystick
• X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter - works well, sound configuration options may need changing
• Z - SVGA mode works with PC Pro; StrongARM recommended; sound works with General Midi and "Soundblaster compatible" settings
• Zool 2
• Zork Nemesis - sound works; rather slow even with StrongARM and 5x86

Partly tested

• A320 Airbus Simulator - run from DOS
• Inca II
• Omar Sharif's Bridge Champion (Oxford Softworks, 1993) - title screen/install works ok

Awaiting Testing on PC Pro - require VESA driver so won't work on previous versions

• Rise of the Robots - needs VESA driver
• Hardball IV (CD) - needs VESA driver
• Brett Hull Hockey - needs VESA driver
• Rally Challenge (Silver Lightning Software)
• Hardball 4 (CD) - needs VESA driver
• Panzer General - needs VESA driver
• Velikiye Luki - needs VESA driver

Failed...

...due to Direct X / VESA 2 requirement

• 11th Hour - requires support for VESA 2.0
• Discworld II (Win95 version) - needs DirectX support; DOS version works, see above
• EntoMorph (SSI, Win95 version) - needs DirectX support
• Heroes of Might & Magic (New World Computing) - Win95 version needs DirectX support, demo needs VESA driver?
• Mechwarrior (Activision, Win95 version) - needs DirectX support
• Seventh Guest - demo section can be made to work, with sound; VESA drivers required
• Warhammer : Shadow of the Horned Rat (Mindscape) - needs DirectX support
• Wipeout 2097 - needs DirectX support

...due to other reasons

• Adventures of Batman and Robin - seems very unreliable under both Win 3.1 and Win 95; no sound either
• Archon Ultra
• Black Knight (demo)
• Cannon Fodder - strange scrolling, "you'd have to be very patient to play it"
• Cannon Fodder II (Virgin/Sensible Software, CD)
• Chessmaster 2100 - problems with copyright protection
• CivNet (Internet-based Civilisation) - doesn't seem to work
• Comanche Enhanced Version - crashed PC card (memory driver problem?)
• Cosmic SpaceHead - problems with display
• Darker
• Flight Unlimited - installs but doesn't run
• Hi-Octane (Bullfrog) (demo)
• In Extremis (Delphine) - Erreur : Passage en mode 32-bit impossible!!! Un gestionnaire EMS est sans doute installe. Veuillez le retirer !!!
• Lemmings - problems with copyright protection
• Lucky Casino - nice *FX19 effect
• Magic Pockets
• Mig-29 - huge problems with display
• Mortal Kombat III
• Operation Combat II (Merit Software, 1993) - doesn't appear to do much
• Pinball Fantasies
• Police Quest III
• Powermonger - crashes after installation with !PC 1.9x
• Premier Manager 3
• Ryder Cup Gold (Ocean, 1993) - needs EMS driver, problems with copyright protection
• Space Simulator (Microsoft) - huge display problems
• Total Mania (Domark/Eidos) (demo) (Windows) - fails under PC Pro 2.01
• Virgin Interactive Flight Simulator

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