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Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:53 pm
by siskavard
I love going through the massive library of C64 demos & seeing what I get. I've noticed however that most of them don't get past the loading phase, or if they do, the graphics are garbled. Just wondering if anyone else experiences this.
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:39 am
by jalbarracin
I tried several demos (even complex things that use a "hidden" sid mode) and all of them work. One problem you will have is that most demos are for PAL so you have to change the video settings to PAL. Also change the SID if required.
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:17 pm
by Grumpy-Old-Gamer
There is some issues in demos currently but not many I've raised the issue on GitHub
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:48 pm
by J3RK
Most of the ones I’ve run work great!
PAL is the key for 95% of demos.
Even the modern demos that really push things work well for me. (Bonzai Unboxed etc.)
I have transfers of many of my old demo floppies from the 80s and early 90s. Those still work as well.
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2021 7:20 pm
by Bas
Maybe they also glitch on the new default disk drive plumbing and Dolphin DOS that's non-standard?
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:36 pm
by siskavard
Hmm yeah, I've tried switching to PAL for some of these but no dice.
Maybe I'll jot down some of the ones I've been trying & see if anyone else is having the same issue.
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:23 am
by akeley
siskavard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:36 pm
Maybe I'll jot down some of the ones I've been trying & see if anyone else is having the same issue.
Yeah, that's the only way to see what's up.
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:20 am
by Hackshed_Carl
I haven't had any issues with this myself but happy to test some of the ones you mention and see if they work.
It *could* be your romset
I had a similar issue with my Dragon32 roms. I've had them for years and all worked with emulators but wouldn't run on the MiSTer core.
I downloaded a new set of roms and they all worked.
Just a thought
Re: Is it normal for most demos to not work?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:32 am
by arromdee
Bumping old thread. I went to
https://c64.ch/productions/demos/toprated and tried a few (in PAL).
Biba 2 worked, but figuring out how to load this one was arcane.
Deus Ex Machina crashes past the title screen if you have two disk drives.
Dutch Breeze locked up after the BML screen (and pressing space) and does not show the cow screen from the screenshots. Using one disk drive didn't help. Swapping disks before pressing space didn't help either. Interestingly the online emulation does the same thing.