Demo Collection (Testers Needed!)

[Higgy]

Hi,

I managed to get an eye infection, so watching flashing demos was the last thing I wanted to do It is better now so please put me down for M & N.

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by Higgy

Hi,

I managed to get an eye infection, so watching flashing demos was the last thing I wanted to do It is better now so please put me down for M & N.

Bugger, yeah not good for watching flashing images!
Sure thanks Higgy.

[Amigajay]

Finally got around to spare a couple of hours retesting some of your findings today, have updated the first post.

Keep posting your results and i'll update and recheck the next batch when you are ready.

[Higgy]

M and N done. Please put me down for 'R'.

I will only list demos with issues:

Materialized - works fine but if joypad was mapped to mouse buttons you can skip sections.
Maximum Velocity - hangs just after 'Mushroom Cloud' pic near beginning.
Mesmerised - an intro logo and pic is missing but most works fine
Metal Melissa - crashes after pic at the beginning.

Negative FX - crashes after bouncing ball txt 1min 40sec in.
Nonteraquous - keeps looping at end text multiscroller. It might be OK, but I could not find YouTube etc video to check.
Nop - does not load.
Not Again - loops then finally crashes on zooming screen, 30sec in.

Cheers.

[Amigajay]

Thanks Higgy

[Amiga1992]

Hey guys, sorry, I went on vacation and couldn't finish this before I left. Where was I?? I can resume testing this week.

[Amigajay]

No worries Akira, there's 3 letters left to test

[Higgy]

R done. Only demos with issues are mentioned. Put me down for 'S'.

Rampage - says AGA disabled. It crashed on me 2x at 2 different places. CD32 Debug screen.
ReRun - is it a short demo? No YouTube of it. Seems to get to greetings quite quickly then if controller is put in port 2 and RED pressed it resets.
Red Empathy - again no YouTube, but there seems to be some glitches although it does run through. I think glitches only appear once on 2nd disk.
Reflex - stops after 'Presents' screen near beginning.
Rink a Dink - stops at 'contact' screen about 2mins in. Disc access light is flashing.
Rink a Dink Redux - slight gfx glitch on Plasma bit near beginning, but everything else is good, so I would personally keep it in.

Cheers

[Amigajay]

Akira, if you can do P please that would be great, Higgy is doing S, i'm retesting 20 odd from the last batch, and will do the last failures from P and S, then do a final test burn, all things going well, i hope with your help to get 0.2 public release released 1st May.

[Amiga1992]

Hey Amigajay, I'll try to do this today, might have an open spot. Been pretty occupied with other stuff.
Sorry about bombing out :/

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by Akira

Hey Amigajay, I'll try to do this today, might have an open spot. Been pretty occupied with other stuff.
Sorry about bombing out :/

No problem whatsoever, you have done more than enough anyway to help, its one of the projects i just want to finish atm well this version at least, need a long break from Amiga projects

[Amiga1992]

OK, done going though the letter P!
As a general advice for the compilation, I'd suggest instructing the user to have the controller plugged in on port 2 instead of 1, so most of the demos that require fire button to proceed would respond easily.

Also, can shoulder button or left-right page skipping on the menu be possible? it'd make navigation a lot better.

Anyway, here goes my report of what doesn't work or present issues. everything not mentioned seems to work fine as far as I tested.


Plastic Passion - some flashing, it's mostly OK.
Poro Trip - Doesn't work.
Project Beat - Doesn't work

Everything else seems to be working fine!
Anything else that needs testing?

[edit] I just thought that if there's a way to run a random demo upon pressing a certain button on boot, that would be absolutely fantastic. This disc really rocks!

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by Akira

OK, done going though the letter P!
As a general advice for the compilation, I'd suggest instructing the user to have the controller plugged in on port 2 instead of 1, so most of the demos that require fire button to proceed would respond easily.

Ok will add a line to the readme part.

Originally Posted by Akira

Also, can shoulder button or left-right page skipping on the menu be possible? it'd make navigation a lot better.

Not sure why it's not working, is using the same ags as my other larger compilations.

Originally Posted by Akira

Anything else that needs testing?

Nope that's it for me ta!

Originally Posted by Akira

[edit] I just thought that if there's a way to run a random demo upon pressing a certain button on boot, that would be absolutely fantastic. This disc really rocks!

Probably is but I'm not the guy who knows!

[Higgy]

Right, 'S' is done!
Only demos with issues are mentioned:

Seeing is believing - very end credits don't scroll properly.
Sequential - crashed twice at 2 different points.
Software - crash's about 10mins in. I checked this twice.
State of the art - Has gfx errors at around 3mins 30sec. I tried again and got CD32 debug screen around the same time.
Static Chaos - demo runs fine, but you can't select chiptunes at very end of demo. Need mouse control I think.
Status Quo - Need controller in Port 2 to exit scroller early on. If you exit 2nd scrolled at 12mins in you get a 'you need memory expansion' message and simple end credits. On YouTube after 20mins it goes onto another section, but I waited and the 2nd scroller just loops.
Substance - need controller in Port 2 to get past scroller 9mins in.

Cheers