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

[SamuraiCrow]

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

[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.

[AmigaMance]

 I have watched this demo on a A1200 with a 68030 and some fast-ram using WHDLoad, without any problems. It was long ago and i was using an older version of WHDLoad. So perhaps the demo has problems with newer versions, although i doubt.
 
 You say that every HD disk that you have tried failed even when you cover the second hole. Well, that shouldn't happen. They should have work like normal DD disks. I suspect that there is something wrong with your setup.

[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

[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.

[HellCoder]

 :lol:
You better not tell your lady the trouble you went through. She won't be impressed then.
 :lol:

[vic20owner]

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

[TjLaZer]

The WHDLoad version works well on the A1200, did it work for you?

[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.

[vic20owner]

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

[HopperJF]

I would love to see this, is there any YouTube videos of this demo?

[eidofoor]

Broken fingers?? Search for State of the art with your nose!  :-P
Doesn't look really well in chunky youtube quality.

[murple]

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

[DamageX]

Did all of that and end up with:

"nmi autovector" ($7C)

Did you get that error when trying to start the whdload version? If so, try adding the parameter NoAutoVec

[TjLaZer]

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

I did all that in like 1 minute and emailed the OP the LZX file but I guess he did not get it.  I have the archive if anyone wants it.

10) Get laid due to girlfriend impressed with your geek skills

Working on that!  Just got back from a first date.  

[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.