Demos by Elude - why do NONE work?

[IvanEBC]

Hiya Folks.

I wondered if anyone knows a reason ... or maybe some extra requirement that's needed for demos by Elude to run.

On my real A4000/060 i pretty much run and enjoy demos by most groups, usually the ones that complain the most are ones asking for OCS, but Elude make powerhouse demos to really push the Amiga but i just can't get them to work.
I'm on OS3.9 BB 1+2, got 140mb+ memory and my VA2000 makes sure i have 1.95mb chip at all times.

I noticed quite often files include a huge WAV file and some 14bit driver and i wonder if there's another requirement in there that normal people would have but i'm not normal so i can't tell.

Of the 5 Demos.....so far

Soliloquy - Music plays - black screen.

Kakao - Music plays - screen flashes occasionally

Machinst - Black Screen then error "Device DH1: allocated memory doesn't match memorymask" - have to shut 4000 off, complete lock out.

Reboxer - black screen, music plays

Serenity - Black screen, music. Crashes when exiting #8000 0004.

Sensing a pattern here?

Again to stress, except for some very few exceptions, i have and play hundreds of demos, i just can't understand what this ONE group is doing and gather they might be using something similar in each of their demos....

[UberFreak]

I was never able to run Elude demos properly on an RTG system.
Try to force them to use AGA (with the '-aga' flag, if I remember correctly).

Also, if you have a 50Mhz 68060, don't expect miracles.
Nearly all Elude demos run quite slow on 50Mhz.

[jPV]

Those all have worked fine on my Blizzard 1260@60MHz/AGA/64MB/OS3.1 machine at least... no problems ever, just start and they work.

[IvanEBC]

Originally Posted by UberFreak

I was never able to run Elude demos properly on an RTG system.
Try to force them to use AGA (with the '-aga' flag, if I remember correctly).

Also, if you have a 50Mhz 68060, don't expect miracles.
Nearly all Elude demos run quite slow on 50Mhz.

Yup - that did it .... -aga added to the command line, tried machinist first and i got a loading screen, never seen it before so i'm guessing the rest will work.

Thanks heaps....

And yeah, later down the track i want to get the 4060 upgraded with a faster .. thingo ... to get more speed (want to create a socket so i can switch the part in and out at all.

[thellier]

Certainly those old rtg demos use a special screen mode like r5g6b5pc so ensure that your winuae config use it too in expansion card/color mode

[UberFreak]

Originally Posted by thellier

Certainly those old rtg demos use a special screen mode like r5g6b5pc so ensure that your winuae config use it too in expansion card/color mode

He's using a real A4000, not emulation.

[Mr-Z]

On CGX RTG systems this seems to be a problem that Elude demos doesn't seem to work on RTG, they do however run on P96 based RTG systems.
On my A4000 csppc/cvisionppc i always need to add the -aga (force aga) option.

[UberFreak]

Originally Posted by Mr-Z

On CGX RTG systems this seems to be a problem that Elude demos doesn't seem to work on RTG, they do however run on P96 based RTG systems.
option.

I wasn't able to run them with P96 as well, only AGA worked.

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by UberFreak

I wasn't able to run them with P96 as well, only AGA worked.

Yep AGA worked just fine

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[UberFreak]

NovaCoder, its nowhere near as smooth on my 060@50Mhz.
Your setup is overclocked to 80Mhz, right?

[NovaCoder]

Yep that's my old blizzard running at 80 MHz!

Love that Elude demo..