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

[McVenco]

WHDLoad

[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.

[McVenco]

IIRC the Spaceballs demo (could be Nine Fingers as well though) is part of the Amikit package, where it runs from WHDLoad. I could be mistaken though, but I'm pretty sure I've seen demos running under WHDLoad.

[adolescent]

Just unpack it to RAD (or another virtual floppy like FMS, etc.) and install it with WHDLoad.

[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.

[Amiduffer]

Looks like you'll have to locate a DD floppy and run your Ami in original chip set.

You're telling me that someone nearby can't lend you a few DD floppies?

[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?

[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.

[TjLaZer]

I just WHDLoad installed it, if you want it I can email it to you in LZX format.

[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

[jmbattle]

I believe there is a pre-installed HD version on Aminet:

http://aminet.net/demo/file/StateOfTheArt.lha

I have great memories watching this demo on my A500, back in the day.

Cheers,
James
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[vic20owner]

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

[SamuraiCrow]

Personally, I liked "Symbolia" better than "State of the Art".