Risen From Oblivion

[bill.mann]

Anyone been able to get this working on VICE ? Or is it impossible due to the buggy VDC implementation ?

[Mark Smith]

VICE isn't good enough, going to have to use a real C128 :-)

[Style_CHM]

its awesome btw

[xlar54]

Havent seen it yet...is it 64k VDC only?

[Style_CHM]

Nope, it works on 16k VDC also, but some effects are enhanced with 64K

[6502Dude]

I have copied .d64 images to real floppies and booted C128 with disk #1.

I receive a message to switch to 40 column mode. I have done this and just get a black screen.

There is no further disk access activity.

Am I missing something?

[adric22]

Looks like I'm about a month late on replying to this.  I did get the demo to work in VICE when I tried it, but I think some of the effects did not work correctly.   I have heard that the demo is PAL only and won't work at all on NTSC machines.   So, that could be your problem.  I have never tried it on my real C128 due to the PAL/NTSC issue (I live in the USA)

[nikoniko]

Christmas Day saw a new version of Risen out, apparently some sort of bugfix though I have no clue what the bug was. The biggest change that I can see is that it's a single disk release this time around, with the second disk (which I think was meant to be run in 64 mode?) no longer included.

As for running it on VICE, pretty much the first half of the demo works just fine. The last three effects rely on very precise timing, however, and VICE just isn't there yet. At least the last one, a colorful text scroller, runs well enough that you can read the text despite being jerky. It's definitely worth viewing, even for someone like me stuck with x128 until I get a real 128 again.

Important note about the new release: it will crash unless you turn on drive emulation and turn off virtual device traps.

For anyone who'd rather watch it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DipE_QlL08

[Blacklord]

Christmas Day saw a new version of Risen out, apparently some sort of bugfix though I have no clue what the bug was. The biggest change that I can see is that it's a single disk release this time around, with the second disk (which I think was meant to be run in 64 mode?) no longer included.

As for running it on VICE, pretty much the first half of the demo works just fine. The last three effects rely on very precise timing, however, and VICE just isn't there yet. At least the last one, a colorful text scroller, runs well enough that you can read the text despite being jerky. It's definitely worth viewing, even for someone like me stuck with x128 until I get a real 128 again.

Important note about the new release: it will crash unless you turn on drive emulation and turn off virtual device traps.

For anyone who'd rather watch it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DipE_QlL08

Slightly better AVI here - http:\\landover.no-ip.com\images\rfovdc.avi

[nikoniko]

Thanks! I tried to host the AVI version myself, but my FTP server kept disconnecting me every half-megabyte or so and I finally gave up.

[bill.mann]

Christmas Day saw a new version of Risen out, apparently some sort of bugfix though I have no clue what the bug was. The biggest change that I can see is that it's a single disk release this time around, with the second disk (which I think was meant to be run in 64 mode?) no longer included.

As for running it on VICE, pretty much the first half of the demo works just fine. The last three effects rely on very precise timing, however, and VICE just isn't there yet. At least the last one, a colorful text scroller, runs well enough that you can read the text despite being jerky. It's definitely worth viewing, even for someone like me stuck with x128 until I get a real 128 again.

Important note about the new release: it will crash unless you turn on drive emulation and turn off virtual device traps.

For anyone who'd rather watch it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DipE_QlL08

Interesting to note that it has been re-released. Wonder if the author is planning on doing more demos or a further re-work of RFO ?

Bill

[nikoniko]

I'd love to see more from him (or anyone, given the 128's dreadul lack of representation in the demo scene). It seems strange that he'd come back to his demo after some five years just to do a bug fix, so I'm kinda hoping maybe he's been doing some other 128 work recently and just decided to update this one while he's at it.