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04 March 2007, 13:12
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Motorollin
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Noob to classic WB (Wallpaper/CF)
Hiya all just installed classic workbench full and its working great!
makes things a lot easier to use Just wondering in the scalos (workbench) window is there a way to change the wallpaper or is the only way through scalos and pattern? also whats the best format to use tried JPG`s and they look fairley grainey even with a fair amount of colors) Also got a compact flash adaptor coming in post is classicwb already set up for those things? Cheers Mike |
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04 March 2007, 13:46
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hastala vista winny vista
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Last time I checked it was not there, but installing compact flash drivers is not so difficult. Just get & install fat95 and cfd from aminet. Place the cf0 in your devs:dosdrivers or somewhere else as you desire and that's it. If you have fat95 in your L: and compactflash.device in devs: it's already installed.
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04 March 2007, 13:59
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Motorollin
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 so its a case of turn amiga off put card in turn amiga on and it will show up as a disk drive? Cheers Mike |
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04 March 2007, 14:08
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hastala vista winny vista
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No, it's even better than that
you don't have to turn the amiga off, you can just hotswap
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04 March 2007, 16:45
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Ya' like it Retr0?
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I just love amigas!
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04 March 2007, 16:47
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Motorollin
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used to stupidly complex install scripts for windows workstations its never as easy as that with a windows install lol oh btw you posted that ram yet? lol Mike 
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04 March 2007, 18:54
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Ya' like it Retr0?
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yepo... should be with you monday / tuesday
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04 March 2007, 20:09
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Motorollin
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..still trying to figure out why just installing classic wb has fixed the problem lol Cheers Mike
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05 March 2007, 15:48
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Hi Mike, about the wallpaper. You only change it via Scalos Pattern prefs, NOT Workbench Pattern prefs which should have nothing selected.
JPEGS will look grainy due to dithering on the limited colour display mode. Any file used for background wallpaper should be sized and colour optimised to match your Workbench screenmode requirements for best results. PNG files are nice as they're not compressed - just make sure you map them to a lower number of colours (remember newicons need some free colours to display properly as well). It's a juggling act when you only have a max of 256 to work with. |
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05 March 2007, 16:09
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Motorollin
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Tried with a few backgrounds and they either display very badly or not at all ..dont suppose anyones got any good backgrounds they want to share?
btw cheers bloodwych classic wb has saved me a heck of a lot of time and fixed a problem i thought i was going to have to start replacing hardware for Cheers Mike |
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