Games with enhancements for 1040STFM owners? (or 1mb 520STFMs)

[oky2000]

Somebody was talking about Star Wars by Domark having more samples if used with a 1mb ST which I think I heard back then, also IIRC there was more samples for Gauntlet 2 if you had 1mb but not sure now. Is there a list of STFM games that are enhanced if the extra RAM is detected on boot-up?

 

I never had anything other than my 520STM + SF354 set up back then so although I had the games I never could have seen a difference. 

[8bitrocket]

Lamatron for sure has more samples in the 1MB version. 

[Zogging Hell]

I think Afterburner played a sampled tune if you had 1mb, but I'm struggling to think of enhanced commercial games. Normally it either needs 1mb and doesn't work on less or it just needs 512kb. Chaos (PD) had a 0.5mb and 1mb version with the latter having more samples.

[tresas]

I remeber "Starglider 2" in one megabyte version, had a wonderful sampled sountrack! 

If i remember well, in the Falcon game (flight simulator), you could hear radio voices from the base. 

Edited December 16, 2023 by tresas

[oky2000]

Hmmm forgot about the sampled sound aspect. I think Starglider 1 is another and Gauntlet II had a much longer intro sample with a 1040, plus IIRC you got more in game samples on Gauntlet II if you had a 1mb ST.

 

What about games that had less disk swaps if you had 1mb? This was a thing on the A500, a little image of a trapdoor RAM exp would pop up indicating the game would use the extra 512k found and buffer more data for less disk swapping.