Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!wicat!sarek!gsarff From: gsarff@sarek.UUCP (Gary Sarff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: demo problems Message-ID: <00404@sarek.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 90 14:24:50 GMT References: Organization: Programmers in Exile Lines: 21 In article , MSW@mplvax.sri.com (Mark S. Williams) writes: >I just downloaded the demos "seven-sins" and "solar" from xanth, and >they're giving me problems. Am I doing something wrong or are they just >messed up. The second object in "seven-sins" is very broken up, then it >crashes my machine (a 2000 w/3 megs, running demo from hardisk). >"Solar", a supposed 3-part demo, crashes my machine when an attempt is >made to go to the second part by clicking mouse button. > >Any pointers would be appreciated. > >Thanks, I got those demos sometime in January, and after running seven-sins for a while my machine guru'ed and when it was rebooting, popped up a requestor asking me to please insert volume DH0: scary. I had to fiddle with the mountlist on my floppy and run disksalve, to finally get the thing to come up and recognize the hard drive. I haven't run that demo since, nor have I ever run Solar which I got at the same time. All these demos look the same to me anymore, syncopated music, some moving objects and text moving/scrolling at the bottom whose literary content looks like it was produced by a twelve year old.