What does your REAL Amiga WB look like? - Page 40

project23 · 15 October 2018, 02:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by indigolemon

Hardware:
Amiga 1200
Blizzard 1260@50Mhz
226MB Fastram
Indivision AGA Mk2
Mediator with:
- Radeon 9250
- SB128
- FastEthernet
- USB Card

Software:
Workbench 3.9 tweaked, and tweaked, and tweaked, and ...
- VisualPrefs
- Birdie
- ...

Gorgeous, if a little colourless... Makes me wonder how difficult it would be to make/port a generalised IM client or a Google Hangouts client for AmigaOS 3.

Sure, you can't browse the web on these things (realistically), but sat next to your main PC they make a great communications station.

John

Marchie · 17 October 2018, 01:02

A2000,
RGB through Indie ECS,
Magic WB
8 Colours
17" CRT

indigolemon · 17 October 2018, 01:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by hUMUNGUs

indigolemon:
Want to share your beautiful visualprefs, icons ??

Sure, I'll try and put a list together at some point of what I use

Quote:

Originally Posted by project23

Gorgeous, if a little colourless... Makes me wonder how difficult it would be to make/port a generalised IM client or a Google Hangouts client for AmigaOS 3.

Sure, you can't browse the web on these things (realistically), but sat next to your main PC they make a great communications station.

John

Yeah, in the home office I use the 1200 for IRC and internet radio streaming

Mr-Z · 17 October 2018, 06:40

My Workbench on the Vampire V2 V600:
Still looks the same as when the screendump was made.

seb132 · 17 October 2018, 13:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marchie

A2000,
RGB through Indie ECS,
Magic WB
8 Colours
17" CRT

Would you share this beautiful background?

Marchie · 18 October 2018, 01:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by seb132

Would you share this beautiful background?

Happy to!

Will 'extract' it to my PC to share this evening...

Marchie · 18 October 2018, 14:24

iff attached. I had to zip it so the forum would accept the file.

BTW seb123 - it says you're in Sydney - there's a user group meeting this Sunday if that's your kind of thing: https://www.saug.org.au/

seb132 · 20 October 2018, 16:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marchie

iff attached. I had to zip it so the forum would accept the file.

BTW seb123 - it says you're in Sydney - there's a user group meeting this Sunday if that's your kind of thing: https://www.saug.org.au/

Thanks a lot for the file, mate.
As for my address, I need to update that : I'm on the Gold Coast now... and currently traveling to Europe and to China for the next 6 weeks (right now in a hotel in HongKong, lol).

Marchie · 24 October 2018, 23:49

Hong Kong - enjoy the fishy smell!

(And pick us all up some cheap SD card adapters and 68882's while you're at it!)

Cobe · 03 November 2018, 15:38

Cd328

Phantasm · 07 November 2018, 14:25

lol, sorry :-)

mr_a500 · 07 November 2018, 15:32

Mine hasn't changed in a decade:

16 colour A500 Workbench 3.1.

seb132 · 07 November 2018, 16:28

Wow, superb. On an A500, really?
Beautiful.
What software is the skin of the player for?

mr_a500 · 07 November 2018, 17:17

You mean what player is it? It's AmigaAMP. The skin is "Expensive Hi-Fi".

redblade · 07 November 2018, 23:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr_a500

Mine hasn't changed in a decade:

16 colour A500 Workbench 3.1.

Nice Workbench. How do you get it looking like that? What IconSet is it? How do you get the black bar at the top? What other utilities do you have running there and what does Homer do???

Thanks

DamienD · 08 November 2018, 00:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by redblade

and what does Homer do???

LOL, I was thinking the same thing

mr_a500 · 08 November 2018, 01:41

That's NewHomer by Emiliano Esposito. It opens a little window on Workbench with an animated Homer that randomly goes through a list of sound clips. His eyes follow the mouse pointer. Pressing "b" makes him burp and pressing "d" makes him "d'oh!". It's silly, but it's great. When you close the window, Homer says, "That's it, I'm outta here!"

The icons I mostly did myself. I'm using VisualPrefs, MagicMenu, Birdie, etc.. I just discovered that I forgot how to take a bloody screenshot - so here's another old one showing the palette, Tools menu icons and Homer in action:

I just noticed that these two screenshots I uploaded became slightly blurred when posted. I wonder why. The originals are crisp.

lesta_smsc · 08 November 2018, 02:59

In all it's glory... whilst trying to get my compact flash to work.

This screen always brings back a lot of pleasant memories. For me, this simple interface defines the Amiga. All the other 'updated' themes seem to remind me of Windows Desktop Themes lol.

mr_a500 · 08 November 2018, 13:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

In all it's glory... whilst trying to get my compact flash to work.

This screen always brings back a lot of pleasant memories. For me, this simple interface defines the Amiga. All the other 'updated' themes seem to remind me of Windows Desktop Themes lol.

I can understand that. However, I have no nostalgia for later versions of Workbench. Back in the day, I never made it past Workbench 1.3. But even then, I customized. Here's basically how my Workbench looked in 1990 (4 "modern" icons in there from 2002):

(Screenshot made about 12 years ago using WinUAE because Amiga screenshot program couldn't capture the copper background.)

mr_a500 · 08 November 2018, 14:05

One last shot, showing a bunch of my icons:

17 October 2018, 01:02	#782
Marchie Registered User Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: Sydney / London Posts: 589	A2000, RGB through Indie ECS, Magic WB 8 Colours 17" CRT Attached Thumbnails

03 November 2018, 15:38	#790
Cobe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Belgrade / Serbia Age: 41 Posts: 999	Cd328 Attached Thumbnails

07 November 2018, 14:25	#791
Phantasm Not a Rebel anymore Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: UK Age: 51 Posts: 497	lol, sorry :-) Attached Thumbnails

07 November 2018, 15:32	#792
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	Mine hasn't changed in a decade: 16 colour A500 Workbench 3.1. Attached Thumbnails

08 November 2018, 01:41	#797
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	That's NewHomer by Emiliano Esposito. It opens a little window on Workbench with an animated Homer that randomly goes through a list of sound clips. His eyes follow the mouse pointer. Pressing "b" makes him burp and pressing "d" makes him "d'oh!". It's silly, but it's great. When you close the window, Homer says, "That's it, I'm outta here!" The icons I mostly did myself. I'm using VisualPrefs, MagicMenu, Birdie, etc.. I just discovered that I forgot how to take a bloody screenshot - so here's another old one showing the palette, Tools menu icons and Homer in action: I just noticed that these two screenshots I uploaded became slightly blurred when posted. I wonder why. The originals are crisp. Attached Thumbnails

17 October 2018, 06:40	#784
Mr-Z Registered User Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Netherlands Posts: 80	My Workbench on the Vampire V2 V600: Still looks the same as when the screendump was made.

24 October 2018, 23:49	#789
Marchie Registered User Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: Sydney / London Posts: 589	Hong Kong - enjoy the fishy smell! (And pick us all up some cheap SD card adapters and 68882's while you're at it!)

07 November 2018, 16:28	#793
seb132 French in Australia Join Date: May 2012 Location: Gold Coast Age: 52 Posts: 507	Wow, superb. On an A500, really? Beautiful. What software is the skin of the player for?

07 November 2018, 17:17	#794
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	You mean what player is it? It's AmigaAMP. The skin is "Expensive Hi-Fi".

08 November 2018, 02:59	#798
lesta_smsc Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 3,173	In all it's glory... whilst trying to get my compact flash to work. This screen always brings back a lot of pleasant memories. For me, this simple interface defines the Amiga. All the other 'updated' themes seem to remind me of Windows Desktop Themes lol. Attached Thumbnails

08 November 2018, 14:05	#800
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	One last shot, showing a bunch of my icons: Attached Thumbnails Last edited by mr_a500; 08 November 2018 at 14:35.

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