An Amiga 1200 demo noob (only owned hardware for 22 years)

part12studios · 02 June 2018, 02:09

Hi everyone, so on June 8th 2018 I'm doing a demo of my Trusty semi-tricked out Amiga 1200. I'm mostly focusing on audio software i've used in the past and found in recent years.

The event is the Boston @party which is a demo scene based event so it seemed very fitting to do a little show and tell session for an audience.

That said I thought it would be a bonus to show off some demos from the original hardware.

However I really never did any AGA demo stuff but i do have a 030 / 40mhz (no fpu) accelerator. 128mb ram.

So i never was great with amiga files even back in the day. I was mostly a GUI user and didn't do a lot of cli shell command. so when i downloaded some of the best ones (from another thread here) i saw that

I have a mac and a CF card reader so i can move files between mac and Amiga seamlessly.. that said i feel very unsure where to put the demo files on the computer or on a floppy in a way that the system runs them.

Thanks,
Caleb

amiman99 · 02 June 2018, 03:35

They should run from any location, probably even from CF card, if the demo is OS friendly and does not require to disable startup-sequence to get the most Chip (Video) RAM.
Copy to and run it from HD if you have one.
Some demos boot from floppy disk.
Try it first.

part12studios · 02 June 2018, 03:36

yea really most mods i ever had used were WB 1.3 floppy based demos where you booted from the floppy. i take it they were more "modern" on AGA systems?

part12studios · 02 June 2018, 06:11

ok so one other help. i dislike dealing with cli commands since i pretty much don't know any of them. i have found some programs that unzip lha and such on my mac so i like doing the unzipping here and then just move thing around on the amiga when i copy them over..

my question is this.. i downloaded some programs from the web and these files have no extension.. for example turbo silver which i'm hoping i can get to run on my A1200 but it was pre AGA and might never work. I didn't have luck last time i tried but i'm going to give it a go again.

ok the question really is.. how do i know what these files are encrypted with if they have no file extension? if not lha, what else could it be?

02 June 2018, 02:09	#1
part12studios Registered User Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Randolph Posts: 25	An Amiga 1200 demo noob (only owned hardware for 22 years) Hi everyone, so on June 8th 2018 I'm doing a demo of my Trusty semi-tricked out Amiga 1200. I'm mostly focusing on audio software i've used in the past and found in recent years. The event is the Boston @party which is a demo scene based event so it seemed very fitting to do a little show and tell session for an audience. That said I thought it would be a bonus to show off some demos from the original hardware. However I really never did any AGA demo stuff but i do have a 030 / 40mhz (no fpu) accelerator. 128mb ram. So i never was great with amiga files even back in the day. I was mostly a GUI user and didn't do a lot of cli shell command. so when i downloaded some of the best ones (from another thread here) i saw that I have a mac and a CF card reader so i can move files between mac and Amiga seamlessly.. that said i feel very unsure where to put the demo files on the computer or on a floppy in a way that the system runs them. Thanks, Caleb

02 June 2018, 03:36	#3
part12studios Registered User Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Randolph Posts: 25	yea really most mods i ever had used were WB 1.3 floppy based demos where you booted from the floppy. i take it they were more "modern" on AGA systems? Last edited by part12studios; 02 June 2018 at 06:13.

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02 June 2018, 03:35	#2
amiman99 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX USA Age: 50 Posts: 1,184	They should run from any location, probably even from CF card, if the demo is OS friendly and does not require to disable startup-sequence to get the most Chip (Video) RAM. Copy to and run it from HD if you have one. Some demos boot from floppy disk. Try it first.

02 June 2018, 06:11	#4
part12studios Registered User Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Randolph Posts: 25	ok so one other help. i dislike dealing with cli commands since i pretty much don't know any of them. i have found some programs that unzip lha and such on my mac so i like doing the unzipping here and then just move thing around on the amiga when i copy them over.. my question is this.. i downloaded some programs from the web and these files have no extension.. for example turbo silver which i'm hoping i can get to run on my A1200 but it was pre AGA and might never work. I didn't have luck last time i tried but i'm going to give it a go again. ok the question really is.. how do i know what these files are encrypted with if they have no file extension? if not lha, what else could it be?

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