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Offline brianbTopic starter

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Poor success rate running demos?!
« on: February 01, 2009, 09:16:49 PM »

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions getting old demo's working?  Is there anything like WHDLoad (amazing app) for Demos instead of games?  My current success rate is probably 33%.  Most of the time Demo's won't fire up, cryptic error, garbled graphics, etc.

Any suggestions for sites that host Demo's more likely to work?   I've downloaded most from Aminet so far...

Testing Hardware:  A1200 and A500.

Thanks.
 

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Re: Poor success rate running demos?!
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2009, 09:21:14 PM »
There IS WHDLoad for demos.

http://www.whdload.de/download.html
Time to move on.  Bye Amiga.org.  :(
 

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Re: Poor success rate running demos?!
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2009, 09:23:15 PM »
Ha, can't believe I missed that..  Thanks!!!