Re: FTA Weaky demo - what is it?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"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).

>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).

    From memory, it basically was a collection of ripped fonts and graphics
from other demos (GSA's California Demo for example, also the digitized
music from Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga is used in the intro) turned 
into some simple animations surrounding scrolling text. It was more like a
greeting screen on a deprotected piece of software than a full fledged
demo.

    Just had a quick look, it runs fine from KEGS-32 under Windows.

Mitchell Spector