EAB Users workbenchs - Page 2

Marcuz · 23 January 2007, 11:50

This is my original custom workbench. it works on a 3.0 (the real original, that i used on my A500, rom 1.3 i've lost). i made this baby in 1993 i think.

It's built around the program XCopy, that i used a lot back then; i've redrawn the pointer to look like the Bullfrog' logo, the disk icon and the font, with the programs that came with workbench 1.3, the icon to look mean, the font to look like the one in The Day of the Tentacle, but this i tend to use just for screenshot not for daily routine. you can see it in the last couple of pics.

the main window has only the Shell icon, the rest is up there in the menu, using mymenu. i squeezed in a 880kb single disk everything i used: diropus, xcopy, bootX, even the database program miamiga disk, an hex editor, a disk salvager, degrader, a text viewer and a text editor and more.
most of the program used the reqtools library and the asl library, so those were there. i compressed most of it all with powerpacker, and tweaked the appearance of the most used program to match my favored color scheme. i tend to like green in my desktops...

Legerdemain · 23 January 2007, 13:04

Rather old grab... but since I at the moment can't grab a newer one I'll go with this. My aim was to have a nice and clean look... not bothering about having folders instead of drawers as icons, and also not bothering about the iconset not really having anything to do with the Amiga...

DamienD · 23 January 2007, 15:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

Found it...

What does your REAL Amiga WB look like?

Akira's 2.05 WB preview

Classical Amiga WB 2.05

Nice work there Paul

I tried searching for "Workbench", "Desktop" and something else but wasn't successfull

The thread I was talking about was the 1st one you posted above. Some nice screens in there.

coze · 23 January 2007, 16:06

Yes paul, those're great links ! Thanks !

mr_a500 · 23 January 2007, 18:31

Here's what my WB looked like back in 1990 - screenshot taken a few years ago. (...with WinUAE I'm afraid to admit, but I had no choice - you can't capture copper rainbow otherwise. I'd like to point out that WinUAE was on my work computer. I only use Amiga at home.)

boing_1000 · 23 January 2007, 21:00

@mr_a500

I would love to mod my workbench like that! How did you do it??

mr_a500 · 23 January 2007, 21:44

Quote:

@mr_a500

I would love to mod my workbench like that! How did you do it??

You mean my WB1.3 with rainbow and dropshadow? You just need two programs named (..coincidentally) "rainbow" and "dropshadow". I can throw them in the zone if you want.

Dropshadow is not recomended for regular use. It has two problems - the dropshadow gui must remain open and the more windows you open, the slower the system gets. Rainbow has no problems and can be run in startup-sequence (as long as you "run >nil:")

Notice that my WB1.3 screen is 660x436 (usable space). This was a strange side-effect of opening WB1.3 prefs with WB3.1, then saving. Normally you can't use overscan in WB1.3 (should be 640x400 for NTSC). Of course, back in 1990 when I had a WB like this, it was only 640x400. (...and I didn't make those folder icons until 1995 after seeing MacOS 7)

ppill · 23 January 2007, 22:15

@mr_a500
Zone them. Eye candy is always welcome

I'm thinking of adding a program that draws bubbles in a cli window to Hombre just for kicks

ppill · 23 January 2007, 22:26

bubbles.zip
Here's a recording from WinUAE showing how this little hack(Bubbles) works. You can get it from lsd-legaltools disk 85.

mr_a500 · 23 January 2007, 23:03

OK, they're in the Zone. I added "rainbow2", but it looks like it's meant for non-interlace - the copper rainbow only goes halfway. Warning: don't attempt to use "Dropshadow" in WB 2.0+. It will crash. The rainbow programs work in all WB versions.

pTah · 25 January 2007, 16:16

that's mine:

HighRes, 64colors

-> CD32/SX32pro (030+FPU @ 50mhz, OS3.9, 64MB)
(ok, it's an old grab with only 16mb...

)

Hobbe · 26 January 2007, 08:05

Here's mine. Nothing particularly impressive though

mombasajoe · 26 January 2007, 09:11

Nothing special, but I like it

(A1200, OS 3.5, no GFX-Card)

mr_a500 · 26 January 2007, 17:02

@pTah

I like yours - a nice clean, simple... error message. (Image Error)

@Hobbe

What the hell is the background? Is that a smiling clam, a pineapple with dentures and a happy starfish? For some unknown reason, I like it.

@mombasajoe

Is that a 68060 taking a piss on the boingball? Maybe it should have been a leaky battery pissing on a motherboard.

I never did figure out what "Intel Outside" actually means.

Hobbe · 26 January 2007, 18:28

That's a screencap from a music video called "Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior. The song is rubbish I warn you, but the video is an awesome display of pixel art power

StingRay · 26 January 2007, 19:34

Here's mine.

AMIGAZ · 26 January 2007, 22:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by StingRay

Here's mine.

Looks very 1996-97'ish

Is that GoldED font you use in Dopus?

AMIGAZ · 26 January 2007, 22:35

Since I've fiddled some with my new A4000 built into a Micronik tower I took a screengrab from it

DDNI · 27 January 2007, 12:57

You got Amikit running on your A4000? Damn I am gonna have to look at that package! Was it easy to do?

AMIGAZ · 27 January 2007, 13:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDNI

You got Amikit running on your A4000? Damn I am gonna have to look at that package! Was it easy to do?

Parts of it only, mostly some patches and the themes..I'm using the theme changer "Morpheuz" from AmiKit to change themes easily

it was quite easy to do, yes

23 January 2007, 11:50	#21
Marcuz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: . Age: 48 Posts: 5,562	This is my original custom workbench. it works on a 3.0 (the real original, that i used on my A500, rom 1.3 i've lost). i made this baby in 1993 i think. It's built around the program XCopy, that i used a lot back then; i've redrawn the pointer to look like the Bullfrog' logo, the disk icon and the font, with the programs that came with workbench 1.3, the icon to look mean, the font to look like the one in The Day of the Tentacle, but this i tend to use just for screenshot not for daily routine. you can see it in the last couple of pics. the main window has only the Shell icon, the rest is up there in the menu, using mymenu. i squeezed in a 880kb single disk everything i used: diropus, xcopy, bootX, even the database program miamiga disk, an hex editor, a disk salvager, degrader, a text viewer and a text editor and more. most of the program used the reqtools library and the asl library, so those were there. i compressed most of it all with powerpacker, and tweaked the appearance of the most used program to match my favored color scheme. i tend to like green in my desktops... Attached Thumbnails

23 January 2007, 13:04	#22
Legerdemain Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Skåne / Sweden Posts: 259	Rather old grab... but since I at the moment can't grab a newer one I'll go with this. My aim was to have a nice and clean look... not bothering about having folders instead of drawers as icons, and also not bothering about the iconset not really having anything to do with the Amiga... Attached Thumbnails

23 January 2007, 18:31	#25
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	Here's what my WB looked like back in 1990 - screenshot taken a few years ago. (...with WinUAE I'm afraid to admit, but I had no choice - you can't capture copper rainbow otherwise. I'd like to point out that WinUAE was on my work computer. I only use Amiga at home.) Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Paul; 24 January 2007 at 11:07.

25 January 2007, 16:16	#31
pTah Zone Friend Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Germany Age: 38 Posts: 73	that's mine: HighRes, 64colors -> CD32/SX32pro (030+FPU @ 50mhz, OS3.9, 64MB) (ok, it's an old grab with only 16mb... ) Attached Thumbnails Last edited by pTah; 27 January 2007 at 17:58.

26 January 2007, 19:34	#36
StingRay move.l #$c0ff33,throat Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Berlin/Joymoney Posts: 6,863	Here's mine. Last edited by StingRay; 12 January 2023 at 22:16.

23 January 2007, 16:06	#24
coze hastala vista winny vista Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: mt fuji Age: 46 Posts: 1,335	Yes paul, those're great links ! Thanks !

23 January 2007, 21:00	#26
boing_1000 A1000 Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Eastern USA Age: 37 Posts: 567	@mr_a500 I would love to mod my workbench like that! How did you do it??

23 January 2007, 22:15	#28
ppill CON: artist Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Poland Age: 43 Posts: 1,250	@mr_a500 Zone them. Eye candy is always welcome I'm thinking of adding a program that draws bubbles in a cli window to Hombre just for kicks

23 January 2007, 22:26	#29
ppill CON: artist Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Poland Age: 43 Posts: 1,250	bubbles.zip Here's a recording from WinUAE showing how this little hack(Bubbles) works. You can get it from lsd-legaltools disk 85.

23 January 2007, 23:03	#30
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	OK, they're in the Zone. I added "rainbow2", but it looks like it's meant for non-interlace - the copper rainbow only goes halfway. Warning: don't attempt to use "Dropshadow" in WB 2.0+. It will crash. The rainbow programs work in all WB versions.

26 January 2007, 08:05	#32
Hobbe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Røros Posts: 161	Here's mine. Nothing particularly impressive though

26 January 2007, 09:11	#33
mombasajoe Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: D Age: 49 Posts: 528	Nothing special, but I like it (A1200, OS 3.5, no GFX-Card)

26 January 2007, 17:02	#34
mr_a500 Amiga-based Cyborg Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 808	@pTah I like yours - a nice clean, simple... error message. (Image Error) @Hobbe What the hell is the background? Is that a smiling clam, a pineapple with dentures and a happy starfish? For some unknown reason, I like it. @mombasajoe Is that a 68060 taking a piss on the boingball? Maybe it should have been a leaky battery pissing on a motherboard. I never did figure out what "Intel Outside" actually means.

26 January 2007, 18:28	#35
Hobbe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Røros Posts: 161	That's a screencap from a music video called "Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior. The song is rubbish I warn you, but the video is an awesome display of pixel art power

26 January 2007, 22:35	#38
AMIGAZ Amiga-Mad Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,291	Since I've fiddled some with my new A4000 built into a Micronik tower I took a screengrab from it Attached Thumbnails

27 January 2007, 12:57	#39
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,433	You got Amikit running on your A4000? Damn I am gonna have to look at that package! Was it easy to do?

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