Re: FTA Weaky demo - what is it?

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> >This thing won't boot on my ROM 03, and on my ROM 01 it goes into some
kind
> >of weird self-test of the Superdrive I have on the system.
>
>     Most European demos were hardcoded to run off floppy disk and expected
> an Apple 3.5 drive (800K) connected to the built-in diskport. For that
very
> reason I kept one connected to my IIgs, rather than daisy-chain it to my
> SuperDrive plugged into a slot based controller card. My SuperDrive and
> controller reside in slot-6 to avoid conflict.
>
>     It may work if you plug the SuperDrive directly into the IIgs's
diskport
> (no need to physically remove the card--or if it still causes trouble,
just
> set the slot to 'Your Card' so the controller is disabled).

Yeah, I just tried this.  I have the SuperDrive on the SuperDrive controller
in slot 5, and everything else hanging off of the smartport.  When I need
the SuperDrive, I just flip the slot to Your Card and live without the other
drives.  I almost never need two 3.5" floppies at the time time anyway.
Hmmm... actually, I have a couple extras lying around.  No harm in adding
one more to the smartport daisychain and one more to the SuperDrive
daisychain, just so I can still have two 3.5" drives available no matter the
setting of slot 5!

> >Is this demo worth watching (i.e. removing the superdrive controller from
my ROM 01)?
>
>     Barely. It wasn't written by the FTA incidentally, although I think
one
> of its members may have composed the techno music it plays during the
> demo (that was the only memorable part of the demo, and you can
> download it separately).

I just got it working - fairly unimpressive.  What was the demo with the
border effects?  I can't seem to recall.

Cheers!
Tim