FS-UAE - Bezel Appreciation

[Clark Kent]

Can somebody explain how to use these bezels on the MacOS version? I didn’t find an option for that in the GUI?

[Jason H]

@Clark Kent - you first need the files installed in your main FS-UAE directory. Then you need to add the option in FS-UAE Launcher.app /Settings/Advanced/

example;
shader = /Users/<home folder>/Documents/FS-UAE/shaders/curvature.shader
theme = /Users/<home folder>/Documents/FS-UAE/Themes/Amiga/

[Clark Kent]

Thank you, I found that out by myself shortly. Is there some kind of manual what folders should be located in the FSUAE folder and how to use them? I found masks and overlays but do not know how to use them, didn’t find anything about that on the FSUAE website.

[ReadOnlyCat]

I like these bezels as well, however, I would probably prefer if the grey background and reflections were omitted. I think these really are two aspects of a 1084 that do not need to be reproduced.

A 100% black background without any reflection would give more chance for the Amiga picture to shine IMHO. Of course, everyone is entitled to their own tastes on that topic.

Originally Posted by CCRider

I'm not sure I could tell the difference. Maybe it looked even a bit brighter.

I wonder if it may have something to do with me running it on macOS which, I believe, still doesn't have full shader support (a lot of those guest.r shaders doesn't work, for instance).

I also use a Mac (latest Mojave) and many of the shaders often linked on the EAB simply crash FS UAE if I attempt to use them.
Only the "curvature.shader" included in the archived linked in the initial post seems to be working fine, all others (crt-easymode-hl.shader, crt-easymode.shader, etc.) simply crash the launched emulator when starting the game.

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

I mostly like these monitor bezels. Problem: You need a bigger monitor, e.g. 32 inch, or the viewable Amiga image area is too small.

Actually, I just measured on my 27" iMac and the height of the 1084 on screen is 0.5 cm bigger than that of my actual 1084.

So, with that theme, one needs a 27" monitor to faithfully reproduce a 14" 1084.

But all in all, the emulated image only occupies 2/3rd of the total height of my monitor so if the theme image was modified to increase the surface area allocated to the emulated screen, a smaller monitor would still allow to reproduce a CRT larger than what we were used to back then.