Re: MegaDemo Rom03 Fix on ftp.cco.caltech.edu

[m_spect@vega.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Ian Schmidt <irsman@drift.winternet.com> wrote:
>
>In article <3im3am$4pi@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>,
>James L Brookes <jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>>... in incoming.
>>
>>Zat's all, folks.
>
>And best of all, it doesn't work.  Sure, now it recognizes disk 2, but when
>you go back to the main menu it wont recognize disk 1, so you have to reboot
>after every demo.  Why must ROM 3 users be second class citizens? :)

	Your right, it doesn't work, although I have a different problem
after installing the patch. The scrolling stars/text in between demos is
slowing down! I think it turns on some kind of interrupt to recognize the
second disk, the scrolling text is very jerky and the stars as well. I've
also noticed the music will sometimes slow down now (more interrupts). This
is _only_ a problem during that "intermission" screen, the diskette with a
gun, robot, spaceship, scrolling stars and text.  

	One other flaw I've noticed (before I installed the patch), when
you run a demo, then quit back to the Main Menu, the music becomes very
distorted. It guess it's not properly doing RAM-to-DOC swapping because 
something else eats that memory space. :/ Well, now that I've seen the
whole demo straight through, I have to admit it reaches new standards in
the GS world! At times I felt as if I were watching a current day Amiga
486 demo! :) 

>Ian Schmidt - irsman@drift.winternet.com - Rush in '96! - INSOC:
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Mitchell Spector
m_spect@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca