What does your REAL Amiga WB look like?

[watertonian]

Can't decide between Star Trek and Frontier Elite II...

[ppill]

Originally Posted by Vegas

@ppill: is there still any chance to get these icons?

I'll upload them tonight. I've been getting a few request... watch this space.

[Vegas]

Sweet, thanks!

[ppill]

http://www.box.com/s/ysqy92o7cr5u61eipj0m

Here's the link. Just the hires-laced ones for now since my Amiga is in storage (maybe later today I'll try to hook it up and add the hires version). Standard .info files, 4 colours.

Preview:

[AmigaFriend]

What a great set of icons ppill. Many thanks, you're a very gifted artist.

[ppill]

Originally Posted by xpect

What a great set of icons ppill. Many thanks, you're a very gifted artist.

Cheers!

[fitzsteve]

Here's how my Micro AmigaOne is looking these days

[Akira]

Awesome, ppil, and I love the Geneva mac oldstyle font... Where did you get that?

Awww, look at my old A1200 WB

[ppill]

Originally Posted by Akira

Awesome, ppil, and I love the Geneva mac oldstyle font... Where did you get that?

The font's called ApplePL (part of the Polish Locale package).

[watertonian]

My daughters A1200's new theme, based on (one of) her favorite cartoons.


Gotta be a better way to screengrab copper stuff than writing rgb values from copperdeamon and plugging them into a gradient background in a paint proggy. (same with mouse pointer, actually, minus rgb stuff of course)

Pretty basic setup though, easy for her to find the igame launcher icon.

[fitzsteve]

I've been tinkering a little with the new Superplus 800x600 driver on my A600 with ACA630 & Indivision ECS

I've customised CWB ADV a little, I'm pleased with how it's coming along and 800x600 is working really well in 8col

Runs nice and quick with the ACATune enhancements (plus my ACA is overclocked to 40mhz)

[Retrofan]

Fine, fine, fine. Cammy was going to remap some Sonic wallpaper too http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=795978&postcount=67, but for 8 colors it's really great! And your icons are nice for them too. I like it

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Fine, fine, fine. Cammy was going to remap some Sonic wallpaper too http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=795978&postcount=67

Thats a nice backdrop, maybe I'll use it on one of my RTG setups

I found the above Sonic backdrop on my magicWB CD (it had a folders for 8col/16col & 256col), oh and I found lots of Images on there I think you'd like

I'll get the CD uploaded to the EAB file server if it's not on there...

[Retrofan]

I've edited my post as I hadn't seen the icons. They are great. I haven't seen much for 8 colors. Are they the normal ones of the pack with only 8 colors?

Although they look pretty nice, I still think there should be made more to choose, made for 8 colors only.

[Bloodwych]

Some impressive work here - isn't it great how Workbench can be made in SOOOO many different flavours?

When doing the ClassicWB packs and choosing the icon sets, I never envisaged people running such high resolutions on ECS Amiga's!!! The packs for 8 colours have always been the GAAE, 68K, LITE and FULL, which work great in 8 colour 640x256 traditional screenmodes.

The recent release of support for the A600 (accelerators, display drivers) have made this possible of course. The ADV looks ok in 8 colours, and the ADVSP isn't too bad, but the icons are not optimal for 8 colour ECS Amiga's, which are sluggish in 16 colour screenmodes.

The only icon set I'm aware of that supports 8 colours at high res is the traditional MagicWB set. I guess the Newicons version could also be converted to 8 colour oldicons too - not sure what that would looks like. Who knows what the future brings!

I do have a script I wrote for the ClassicWB 1.3 themes that extracts all icons and settings from a Workbench install to a single drawer, which can then be copied over another Workbench to replace all the icons! I zip them up, then extract them to the target Workbench (that's how the WB 1.3 Themes install).

If someone converts their ECS Workbench to a high enough standard, this script could be used to share their efforts if they wish. I may get around to putting something together myself for the next packs, but not anytime soon. It's a time consuming process replacing all the icons and selecting good choices - just ask mfilos!!! And I've had enough for now after doing the WB 1.3 ones!

[mfilos]

@Bloodwych
My friend, my altered ClassicWB Full is almost complete. I will write a review once I finish so all can see the extra drawers and icons used (damn that was a tough one) and I'd gladly use your script so I can share my work with others as well

@all
Also, you can all take Sonic backdrops which I made for many resolutions (not rescaling but expanding the background) bellow:

- 640x512 --> For Hi-Res Laced PAL
- 800x600 --> For SuperPlus or RTG
- 1024x768 --> For HighGFX or RTG
- 1280x1024 --> For RTG (normal)
- 1360x768 --> For RTG (wide)

Enjoy

[Lord Riton]

I like your name, Bloodwych. It remembers me i want to create a bloodwych-like game, .. soon

What ? this thread is for showing my WB screen ? You don't want to see it, it's all gray, 4 colors , 640*256

Ah well i will show it anyway:



I guess my WB screen could win the most ugliest WB screen contest

But really nice WB screens some people here have. I like a lot Ancalimon's WB design, makes me almost want to change my WB screen too

[Bloodwych]

LOL Lord Riton, it's the TRUE Classic Workbench look. My A500+ had the same look back in the day.

[ws1968]

I have written a little ARexx script for ImageStudio which converts a selection if imagefiles to IFF and applies 'Rebels' palette to it in batch. Just put the BatchPallete.isrx in the Rexx folder and de Workbench16.palette in the palettes folder of ImageStudio and off you go.

Winston.

[seb132]

Akira: looks cool. With a bit of MagicWB could be awesome ! :-D

[Cammy]

Thanks for the handy Arexx script, Winston!

Here's the current Workbench 3.1 setup on my A1200 with 8MB RAM and Kickstart 3.0:



16 colours, of course.

[attila06]

Always splendid your workbench screen Cammy

[FastRobPlus]

Here's my custom Workbench 2.0 running on my Rejuvenated A1000 from around 1990-91. All the icons were hand made.

It looks a bit odd here because this is a printout from the screen onto a Canon PJ1080A. It's all I have left... (Don't put a lot of trust in MFM Hard Drives)

[DDNI]

@Cammy, Sonic CD32 wassat?

[Cammy]

Originally Posted by DDNI

@Cammy, Sonic CD32 wassat?

It's just the silly little Sonic game we were making in Backbone one time, didn't get more than half a level finished though - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU_34AUBCwI

[gibs]

Cammy is back ?

[DDNI]

Aaah yes I remember that now. The comments on your video are interesting... Did you ever look into the "fully dissasembled" code ?

[gibs]

@ppill

Can you please re-upload your icons in the zone ?
They look perfect for my Minimig

[prowler]

Originally Posted by gibs

@ppill

Can you please re-upload your icons in the zone ?
They look perfect for my Minimig

Here's the link from ppill's post above:
http://www.box.com/s/ysqy92o7cr5u61eipj0m

Or I can upload them to The Zone for you if you're unable to download them from his link.

[gibs]

Thanks ! Perfect !

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by Cammy

Thanks for the handy Arexx script, Winston!

Here's the current Workbench 3.1 setup on my A1200 with 8MB RAM and Kickstart 3.0:



16 colours, of course.

Amazing - looks beautiful in only 16 colours! If only todays computers could acomplish the same with the millions!

[seb132]

By the way, what the remote control doing ?

[Cammy]

Originally Posted by seb132

By the way, what the remote control doing ?

It controls my music in EaglePlayer.

[HOL2001]

May be a dumb question, but how could I convert any picture into 16 colours, so that it will work with my system shown in my sig without a too big delay while booting the system?

[ajk]

Most graphics software can do that for you. If you do it on the Amiga for example Personal Paint does a good job at dithering an image to only a few colours.

[watertonian]

Originally Posted by HOL2001

May be a dumb question, but how could I convert any picture into 16 colours, so that it will work with my system shown in my sig without a too big delay while booting the system?

I use http://aminet.net/package/gfx/conv/gfxcon alot on my low-spec amiga (A1200 030 8mb) for converting images (usually jpeg images to floyd-steinberg dithered 16-color iff pics). Should work on a 68k ECS/OCS system as well. Lots of internal strings in German, though. (shouldn't be a problem if your profile location is accurate, though )

[HOL2001]

I think I did not ask in a correct way, so it looks like that my meaning was misunderstood. Sorry for my bad english...

What I wanted to do is to convert a "normal" picture on my windows system into a 16 color picture, to use it as backdrop for my Amiga System.
So I need a converter for windows and not for Amiga itself.

Because afaik as more colours are used for a backdrop as slower the machine is booting, right?

Maybe if someone might suggest to me what would be the best parameters to convert a pic. to use it as an Amiga backdrop. (size and resolution)?

Many thanks in advance!

[ajk]

I understood what you meant, but you can load any kind of images (PNG, JPEG and so on) into Personal Paint for conversion, then save out as a (for example) 16 colour IFF-ILBM image.

On the PC side I usually use Paint Shop Pro to first resize an image to a suitable resolution (depends on your screenmode settings but 704x288 should fit a PAL screen nicely even if fully overscanned) and then further reduce the colours in Personal Paint. Any image manipulation program will do just fine (GIMP, Photoshop etc.)

For the final image 8-64 colours is probably the range you should be looking at, again depending on your screenmode settings.

[HOL2001]

Ah, OK!
I'll give it a try and I will tell you about my success/failure.

[HOL2001]

Works fine now!
Got my favorite backdrop onto my Amiga System!
Many thanks!