Want to watch state of the art on my a1200..how?

[vic20owner]

Hi, I'm trying to play the state of the art demo on my a1200 to really impress my lady and show her what the amiga can do, but I have a few issues... no DSDD disks to write via DMS, and every HD disk I've tried (despite covering the extra hole) fails.

I can get to the internet from the A1200... any suggestions?

Any way to run this demo from ram disk or HD instead of as a boot loader?

thanks

[vic20owner]

WHDLoad will mount a DMS file?

The problem is how I can get the file unpacked on the Amiga without a floppy disk in the first place.

[vic20owner]

Did all of that and end up with:

"nmi autovector" ($7C)

at $3F97C

after hearing two drum beats.

[vic20owner]

Tried v2 of the state of the art demo and it runs for 5 seconds and then dies, same error.

Any other ideas guys?

I would really like to see this play on a real Amiga.. will it not run on an A1200?

I have a Microbotics 1230 installed.. 64mb fast.

[vic20owner]

I wish but I don't think anyone near me has seen a DD floppy in 10 years.

Will this demo run on a 68030/expanded A1200?

[vic20owner]

Really? On an A1200?  Please email it! That would be awesome.

Did you have to use the A500 roms or anything like that?

vic20owner(AT)tampabay.rr.com

[vic20owner]

Tried that one too... black screen and crash on my A1200.

[vic20owner]

Thanks, I got that one to run by booting with no startup and adding my fast mem.

Still no luck with state of the art... symbolia is pretty good, but the music and general feeling is not as exciting as state of the art to me.

[vic20owner]

Thanks.

I tried skicking the A500 rom (37.175), and when that happens the IDE devices do not work, so I cannot boot or access WHDload.

[vic20owner]

Something I could have done with the emulator in a few minutes is taking 2 days and counting on the real thing.
 :crazy:

[vic20owner]

I think my rom may be named incorrectly... will try again...thanks.

[vic20owner]

Thanks, just got the email. Was busy over the weekend so I didn't check my email.

Will try it when I get home.

[vic20owner]

Hmmm... this still isn't working my A1200 with WHDLoad.

I did DMS it to a floppy and it didn't work either.  it crashed about 4 seconds in.  I did try ECS, but I don't think I selected Nochache.

What type of machine and expansion?

[vic20owner]

What are you doing wrong that it isnt working yet? Haha... Can you show us whats in your SOTA directory, DEVS:Kickstarts and make sure the 2 important WHDLoad binaries are in C:? When you ran the SOTA Installer did it report any problems?

SOTA:

StateOfTheArt           13,672
Disk.1                  901,120
ReadMe                  716
StateOfTheArt.Slave     2,268

DEVS:Kickstarts/

kick34005.a500
kick34005.a500.PAT
kick34005.a500.RTB

c:

WHDLoad
WHDLoadCD32
skick
Patcher
RawDIC
DIC

Version of WHDLoad: 16.7.4217 (16.11.2006)

I've tried just about everything. Still no luck.

I even removed my accelerator board and clock board and booted from floppy with ECS and NOCACHE.

No luck.  I also tried a degrader. No luck either.

I just added NOAUTOVEC and NOMMU and I made it about 5 or 10 seconds into it and it locked up. Arrrgh!!
 :pissed:

Oh wait, I got it!!  I rebooted in ECS PAL and tried again.  Whoot!

Unfortunately I tried the same steps with FutureWars and no luck

[vic20owner]

You must have missed the last part where I said I got it working

I don't remember which SOTA I used. One of the two from aminet (not the exe).  

WHDLOad.prefs has everything commented out.  I wasn't even aware of this file. Looks like I can globally disable a lot of the things I am doing in the tooltypes.

The goal now is to get future wars working.