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Problems running PPC demos - Please help!
« on: March 18, 2003, 12:21:40 AM »
Hi all!
I have been having these problems for a long timwe. And I though now its about time I do
something about it..

a LOT of PPC demos crash or run badly on my
machine.

Some Mawi demos worked, but without sound,
i downgraded to AHI v4 and the sound seems
to work, but the demo crashed after like, 0.3 seconds.. weird..

Planet potions runs (badly) sometimes, sometimes
i doesnt.

What could be wrong? What version of AHI, WarpOS,
mpega.library (mpega libmad possibly?), PowerUP emu, and such things do you guys use?

It is not a heat problem, a lot of apps and games runs, but few demos..

this is making me mad!
I also got a lot of ramlib crashed but not after installing the MMULib package.

... any help is welcome! i dont have a clue!
 
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Re: Problems running PPC demos - Please help!
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2003, 03:06:48 PM »
>mr spot... umm well since its a demo it may not >work on your system, its rather sad...but it wuld >help if you stated what kind of system you have ... >and what OS you have.

a1200/BPPC/BVision/OS3.9/Melody1200pro.
I  use CGX4. (The latest version i think).

>for the sound issues, well try to read the docs at >times as many of em require SPECIAL modes only, >also dont use v5 of ahi..use V4.. doesnt mean diddly >squat if you have a ppc or not as there is no AHI >ppc for classic, atleast not how its supposed to be..

OK. I am using AHI v4. I learnt from my past misstakes, so i won't upgrade untill i get my A1. :)

>also it would help to take 1 by 1 demo/product to >make it clear what kinda problems you have.

I don't think any PowerUP demos run.
Due to the powerup emu maybe?
The files load, but after that I get various errors..
 
>oh and yeah... alot of the new'r ppc products uses >ENV alot, so you should be pretty sure that there is >no files in there which may do some weird >things..ie duplicate files...and u press save and it >doesnt save etc (known VA prob)

OK, I will clean up my ENV then. Thanx for the tip.

>oh and yes, check how much MEMORY you have >free on your RTG card, as most products needs >ATLEAST 6 megs to run properly, some needs 8 to >work at all, and there is a few which needs 12+ >megs .

How do I check that?

Well, I gave it another go last night after tweaking
my system a little, and it seems to like PPC demos
a lot bether now, i tried to run the latest Mawi demo
from workbench and it ran just fine!!! =)
I will give it the final test with planet potion today!
That one is a beast to get working! (Always have
been on my machine atleast!)
Infact almost all potion prods crash, except that
really old ppc/aga intro.. their first one I think.. what was it called again?.. hmm...

Could someone post a modified Startup-Sequence that will take me directly to shell, with all things set up for PPC/CGX/AHI? Like a boot without startup sequence for RTG/AHI/PPC that would be REALLY neat! I tried to make one, but i must have failed, as the demos didn't run properly, but from wb they did.

And last, a VERY good feat to the PPC demo page would be some info on some cranky prods, how to get them to run and such...
As I have experienced some PPC demos are bastards to run!

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Re: Problems running PPC demos - Please help!
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2003, 10:44:13 PM »
Ok.. i thought my system was cool with most
PPC demos now... but some Mawi demos hang right after the loading picture...
This gotta be a memory problem...

Hmm... someone, please post that startup script I
asked for in my earlier post! (3-4 posts up in this thread...)
Someone gotta have such a script?
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