Northstar Fairlight Megademo III

Yesideez · 16 October 2018, 08:42

Absolute classic piece of demo history right here but unfortunately it needs an A500 with Kickstart 1.2 to get past Celebrandil's demo towards the end which has the Popcorn music.

It doesn't even like a 1.3 A500 and I've tried it on my rev8 A500 with Kickstart 1.2 and it still crashes. Not sure what other chips changed when Commodore released Kickstart 1.3 but it failed to load on my machine (1.3) which I bought not long after a mate bought his 1.2 A500. I was gutted, it was my favourite demo and is now my second favourite (Demons Are Forever has already been WHDLoadified

StingRay · 16 October 2018, 09:41

The patch for NS&FLT megademo 3 is almost finished (for quite a long time already) but I still have to fix a lot of OCS only stuff to make the demo run properly on all machines. I'll have a look at finishing the patch in next weeks/months.

Yesideez · 17 October 2018, 19:41

Amazing - thank-you!

StingRay · 17 October 2018, 20:33

My pleasure, it's quite a classic demo which deserves a patch, I already spent a lot of time patching the parts as there are lots. I also had a look at the patch code today (source has a size of more than 30k already) and it turns out I fixed all the OCS only stuff back in the June 2016 already (first work on the patch was done in 2011) so it might be possible the patch will be released soon.

StingRay · 06 May 2020, 21:14

The patch is now available.

kriz · 06 May 2020, 23:01

Amazing work Stingray !

Estrayk · 07 May 2020, 00:38

great StingRay!

Mark36 · 07 May 2020, 17:00

Great work StingRay

veper · 08 May 2020, 14:44

Thanks!

StingRay · 08 May 2020, 16:08

Thanks guys.

I got a report that part 17 didn't run correctly on some machines and updated the patch accordingly.

Antiriad_UK · 10 May 2020, 19:54

I’d never seen this. A couple of the scrollers look cool, I think I’ll nose around the copperlists

. They weren’t spamming scroll registers in 89 were they?

16 October 2018, 08:42	#1
Yesideez (2b)\|\|!(2b) Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cranbrook, Devon, UK Age: 50 Posts: 241	Northstar Fairlight Megademo III Absolute classic piece of demo history right here but unfortunately it needs an A500 with Kickstart 1.2 to get past Celebrandil's demo towards the end which has the Popcorn music. It doesn't even like a 1.3 A500 and I've tried it on my rev8 A500 with Kickstart 1.2 and it still crashes. Not sure what other chips changed when Commodore released Kickstart 1.3 but it failed to load on my machine (1.3) which I bought not long after a mate bought his 1.2 A500. I was gutted, it was my favourite demo and is now my second favourite (Demons Are Forever has already been WHDLoadified

16 October 2018, 09:41	#2
StingRay move.l #$c0ff33,throat Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Berlin/Joymoney Posts: 6,863	The patch for NS&FLT megademo 3 is almost finished (for quite a long time already) but I still have to fix a lot of OCS only stuff to make the demo run properly on all machines. I'll have a look at finishing the patch in next weeks/months. Last edited by StingRay; 16 October 2018 at 10:15. Reason: typo

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17 October 2018, 19:41	#3
Yesideez (2b)\|\|!(2b) Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cranbrook, Devon, UK Age: 50 Posts: 241	Amazing - thank-you!

17 October 2018, 20:33	#4
StingRay move.l #$c0ff33,throat Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Berlin/Joymoney Posts: 6,863	My pleasure, it's quite a classic demo which deserves a patch, I already spent a lot of time patching the parts as there are lots. I also had a look at the patch code today (source has a size of more than 30k already) and it turns out I fixed all the OCS only stuff back in the June 2016 already (first work on the patch was done in 2011) so it might be possible the patch will be released soon.

06 May 2020, 21:14	#5
StingRay move.l #$c0ff33,throat Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Berlin/Joymoney Posts: 6,863	The patch is now available.

06 May 2020, 23:01	#6
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,185	Amazing work Stingray !

07 May 2020, 00:38	#7
Estrayk Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Spain Posts: 511	great StingRay!

07 May 2020, 17:00	#8
Mark36 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: uk Posts: 56	Great work StingRay

08 May 2020, 14:44	#9
veper EAB fan Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Slovenia Posts: 29	Thanks!

08 May 2020, 16:08	#10
StingRay move.l #$c0ff33,throat Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Berlin/Joymoney Posts: 6,863	Thanks guys. I got a report that part 17 didn't run correctly on some machines and updated the patch accordingly.

10 May 2020, 19:54	#11
Antiriad_UK OCS forever! Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 418	I’d never seen this. A couple of the scrollers look cool, I think I’ll nose around the copperlists . They weren’t spamming scroll registers in 89 were they?

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