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

[murple]

You need to write the DMS to a floppy disk.

Then you need to install WHDLoad and SKick and the ROM images for Amiga 500.

Then you need to download the State of the Art WHDLoad Installer off the WHDLoad site.

Run the installer. It will ask you to insert the State of the Art disk.

You then have SOTA on your hard drive and you can run it by clicking its icon. You wont be able to run it without WHDLoad because the demo isnt quite AGA compatible. WHDLoad fixes that. The "disk failures" youve had may be due to AGA incompatibilities more than the disks being bad.

[murple]

I have SOTA running on my 1200. You will need to follow the steps I gave before. As far as I know there is no other way to run it on a 1200 other than to use WHDLoad along with the A500 ROM image (by way of skick). You can use the AmigaForever ROM images if you have that, or there are numerous pirate copies of the ROM floating around the net which we cant list here. If you use the AmigaForever ROM be sure to copy the rom.key to DEVS:Kickstarts/ too.

There is a program to make a ROM image on an A500 yourself, but I guess if you still had a 500 you wouldnt be trying so hard to make it work on a 1200

[murple]

Maybe telling you to install the files wasn't clear enough...

You dont run skick! Just install it. WHDLoad will use it, or rather I think it only uses the RTB files. This is *all* you need to do... Please do ONLY these steps. If you go off and decide to try running various programs without knowing why you're running them, you may not get the expected result. You only need to have these programs on your drive.

1) Install SKick, and its .RTB files
2) Install ROM images to DEVS:Kickstarts as Skick docs say.
3) Install WHDLoad
4) Put State Of The Art on a floppy
5) Get the State Of The Art installer from www.whdload.de
6) Un-lha the installer, run the Install file in it
7) Insert the State Of The Art disk when asked
Go to the dir where you installed SOTA and click its icon
9) Watch demo
10) Get laid due to girlfriend impressed with your geek skills

Dont do anything else. Don't try running random parts of Skick or WHDLoad. JUST install them. You just need the files in place.

I don't guarantee step 10, but if you do the other steps, you will be able to watch State Of The Art.

[murple]

Yeah, theres a few copies of it on YouTube. They look like total crap though, all the pictures are blocky and distorted.

[murple]

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?

[murple]

SOTA:

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

How did you run the installer? Which version of SOTA did you use?

What does your S:whdload.prefs look like?

Where did you get your ROM? Make an image, download, or Cloanto Amiga Forever CD?

[murple]

If you had to reboot and use the early boot screen, you didn't get it working. If you get WHDLoad working, ALL of this crap will work for you, with no silly stuff like having to reboot and pick ECS.