FPU, software, and a Classic II

[MrFahrenheit]

I made myself one of these FPU cards and, apart of the fun of doing it, I didn't find much use for it.
Do you know of any game (maybe some using 3D) that makes use of the FPU?

There was a pinball game, called Tristan, that required an FPU for some strange reason. I ran it on my IIsi using SoftFPU back in the day. I was sad when I upgraded to a Q605, which had no FPU, and SoftFPU no longer worked, crashing the game.

 

[William Hern]

I think there were some others ... I remember having some software from CDs refuse to launch on my LC back when. Might have been drawing apps? Was Painter already around on 68k, or did that start with PPC? I'd expect it was likely a drawing/audio editing app or a game, as that's the majority of apps I'd have been running back then.

Maybe Adobe Photoshop had support for the FPU? You could try a few of the early versions that are part of the Macintosh Garden (such as this one - https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/photoshop-201 )

 

[William Hern]

Were you able to find a license for v2? I am having trouble finding something that will actually let me run calculations using the kernel - I was hoping to see how much memory both front end and kernel use together.

I don't think that I needed one for v2.0 (or there was one included with the software - I forget). Have you tried installing the copy of v2.0 that's present in the Macintosh Garden?