comment by skan on 13 February 2004
Dunno why, but I like it indeed!!! I feel nostalgia and friendship, I feel high hopes and the right spirit... its simplicity is its strenght. A nice atmosphere driven both by gfx and music... this one gives me good feelings and I'm happy. What? Oh, yes, my medicine... ;)
comment by z5 on 14 February 2004
I'm still wondering why all Ephidrena prods from a certain period don't work anymore on my system :( Older demos work, but stuff like Beer, Norsktoppen 3, Driidirijia and Fusion is my energy don't work. At one point, they did because otherwise i wouldn't have discovered them. From Substral onwards, all demos run fine on my system.
With all these non-running productions, the same thing happens: demo starts up, music plays ok but i don't see colors. I can only see black and one color in which the effect runs. Exactly the same for all demos. Must have installed something on my system... Although i don't install much software and none of the patches, hacks,... Basically, it's a very standard A1200, Apollo 68060 and 16Mb Ram.
comment by rloaderror on 14 February 2004
@z5, it is because of the cruncher used.. I believe we used crunchmania which doesnt work on 060 (unless it is the fixed version).. Anyways.. Decrunching them will make them run.. (I hope).
xfddecrunch <prod>
may solve the problem..
comment by z5 on 15 February 2004
@rloaderror:
nope, no change :( The productions do actually run, i see the effects and the music plays, but the whole thing is shown in two or three colors. Same happens with every demo from that period. Very strange.
comment by rloaderror on 15 February 2004
hmm.. maybe there is something wrong with the copperlist or something.. I think Ive seen that problem (check screenshot of byte on pouet).. I have no clue what is wrong though, and the sources are gone.. Atleast the new stuff works on most machines.. ;)
comment by z5 on 15 February 2004
yep, exactly the same problem as the screenshot from Byte on Pouet. Must be a combination of something or something installed... i am absolutely sure that they ran fine on my setup at some stage.
comment by skan on 16 February 2004
@z5
I have the same problem, but booting with no startup solved the whole thing. OK, not a cool solution, but lots of demos work only this way... ;)
comment by z5 on 17 February 2004
@skan:
Nope, doesn't work for me, even without startup-sequence :( Thanks for the tip anyway ;)
comment by skan on 17 February 2004
@Z5
Really? On my Miggy it works fine: just run a clean boot (i.e. no startup-seq, but everything else enabled - AGA, caches, 060, etc...) and run SetPatch (latest official version for OS3.1) from CLI. Then type the name of the demo and you're done. Avoid LoadWB. If it keeps on failing... DUNNO!!! :)
comment by rloaderror on 17 February 2004
maybe the sources lack the much rumoured need for two calls in a row to the graphics.library waittof() function.. Do you have fancy monitors?
Frequent said something like.. youve got to fix this for my advanced monitor.. and then I said something like.. yeah.. Ill put it in there.. But the 4ks have none of that waittof() stuff at all though...
well, just thinking loud to the internet here.
comment by z5 on 17 February 2004
Hmm...don't think so. All stuff from a certain period doesn't work: Byte, Beer, Fusion is my energy, the demo with the name who is too difficult to remember but starts with Drii and probably also Eph vs cpu (dunno about that one). All the same problem. Stuff like Puppets, Photons,... does work. You must have put something very nasty and evil in that sourcecode...it wouldn't surprise me :)
comment by rloaderror on 23 May 2004
I wonder if Leonardo Da Vinci had the same problem with his paintings... "Damn.. Mona Lisa crashes in all London galleries.. Maybe I shouldnt have done that hack in the background landscape after all.."
comment by ToAks on 23 May 2004
yep this and many others stopped worked on my setup ages ago, they used to work atleast, anyway i have had 060 since 95 so it aint that!
and now the rating...., this prod is weird and the party was weird but damned fun :-) , anyway this is very oldschoolish and i love that so check my vote :-)
comment by kUfa on 26 May 2004
The two waittof calls are required if the current screen is in interlaced mode, but none of us use such configs for their wb ;)
And, well, the pain..erm demo works fine in london ;)
comment by sp on 21 October 2005
bah, ephidrena could do much bether.
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