What does your REAL Amiga WB look like? - Page 4

Amiga1992 · 04 July 2002, 19:25

What's upwith the Nature theme?

Wooden AmigaAmp
Trees background

Nian · 05 July 2002, 01:48

Yeah I admit that topaz is kinda boxy/ugly and has had a bad name for ages but when it comes to a clean neat square and small font for icons you a seriously limmited in your choice, sure I have hundreds of fonts in my fonts: dir but flicking through them time and time again I still find topaz does the cleanest job. If you notice every other font is diferent however.

Mmm nature, get back to nature. What would you prefer? Me to show you my old Pink Anime/Hentai theme? Or perhaps my satin sheet textured theme? I kept it clean for you guys. Besides forest backgrounds are relaxing.

Amiga1992 · 05 July 2002, 03:48

I suppose the pink hentai think was a stab to my Workbench

.

I just found it curious!

When I get time i'll make an abstract constructivist theme for you :P

whiteb · 05 July 2002, 04:53

Quote:

Originally posted by Nian
Well I may not have gotten my a4000 back but I did get my old Harddrive back and with a little bit of work I managed to copy my entire old HD onto the pc and unbelievably WinUAE actually worked with my old Workbench with only the change of the spectrum graphics card I used in Picasso96 to UAEgfx. Nothing else has been changed and this is my workbench as of May2001. I'm sure I can make it better after a year but this is what I have atmo.
Oh and its 800x600x16bit, the same res as on my real amiga.

My wife says its plain without a squirrel or cat picture.

Nian · 06 July 2002, 07:47

Hrm actually I wasn't even thinking of your workbench when I said "Pink Hentai theme", I realy do have one, its rather nice, I even made some good difference cloud textures for it.

I have been swapping from anime to demo art to landscape/forest themes for years now. Right back when I was using 16 set colours for everything, MagicTV realy is a great patch for old aga systems, ofcourse it takes allot of effort to get it to look good with only 16 colours.

BuZz · 09 July 2002, 04:20

Well.. I posted my WB showing Exoticons on another thread recently. But heres some grabs.

First from my a4000

and a slightly older a1200 one

and finally a 16 colours one for use with magictv. and i think it looks quite ok for 16 cols...

the wb on my a1200,a2000,a3000 and a500 are a bit boring currently.. not worth showing

sorry for increasing the size of this already large page

Twistin'Ghost · 09 July 2002, 04:43

Very sexy, BuZz! Especially the A4ooo!! Ya think the PeeCee will ever have properly transparencied icons? Me neither.

Hey, isn't that Deborah Harry on yer A12oo?

BuZz · 09 July 2002, 04:48

It is indeed. Painted by H.R.Giger.

Paul · 09 July 2002, 09:45

Thanks for showing your cool WorkBenches

Paul · 09 July 2002, 10:37

This is how my A600 HD Now looks like

NB This pic is from the emulated copy of my A600 as my HD is only 20MB not 512M as the pic shows.

Mozzy · 09 July 2002, 13:43

right i have an a600 with 2mb ram and 250mb hd (my old laptop hard drive) how the hell do i even get a picture on my desktop using workbench? i hate the horrible blokyness of the standard set up and some ot those WBs look well smart

Nian · 09 July 2002, 14:09

Kewl A4k screen grab, I love Giger he kicked ass.

Is this an unexpanded A600 you want to improve? You realy need an old a630 with 8mb+ fast ram if you want to add eye candy, 2mb chip just doesn't cut it. Infact Having more than one HD partition and 80 buffers on it would almost be too much in 2mb chip to do anything. Ofcourse if you must do something then get yourself MultiCX and or MCP, They will do basic upgrades and use minimal memory. Also both give you screen blankers and other great things like black borders. My a500 with a floppy used a basic 4 colour rock backdrop that looked nice and munticx, it did the job. Ofcourse if you want to make your workbench look good and don't mind gray scale then 4bits in 16gray lets you do some great looking workbenches, infact I setup AWeb for 4bits in full gray and it was perfect. (Great for AGA using MagicTV)

Amiga1992 · 09 July 2002, 23:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Mozzy
right i have an a600 with 2mb ram and 250mb hd (my old laptop hard drive) how the hell do i even get a picture on my desktop using workbench? i hate the horrible blokyness of the standard set up and some ot those WBs look well smart

have you looked at me A600 workbench? Flick some pages back...

I dont think you need MCP or other blabber to make it run nice, and I sure dont need the A630 to make it look good. Besides, I dont think I can fit an A630 and the hard drive at the same time (I thought MANY times abut upgrading that beast)

Buzz: You got a thing for Giger? I think he rocks

BTW Twistin, how on earth did you recognize the chick? You can't see her face!

mr_0rga5m · 10 July 2002, 01:09

You cant see her face ? I know she's got 1 eye covered by the open folder but its hardly hidden ... Are you thinking he means the pic above it by anychance ?

Twistin'Ghost · 10 July 2002, 02:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Akira
BTW Twistin, how on earth did you recognize the chick? You can't see her face!

Too many years in music!

Nian · 10 July 2002, 05:02

MCP or MuntiCX are brilliant and should be a must for any amiga with more than 1.5mb ram. MultiCX fitted on my custom Workbench floppy for my A500 and helped with many a little thing that needed patching / fixing / adding.

Do you honestly think they would make an 030 cpu card for the a600 that would stop you from fitting a HD? Don't be so naff. Ofcourse you would still have space for a 2.5"

Amiga1992 · 10 July 2002, 05:48

Quote:

Originally posted by mr_0rga5m
You cant see her face ? I know she's got 1 eye covered by the open folder but its hardly hidden ... Are you thinking he means the pic above it by anychance ?

yeah, since he said A1200 and the only pic with teh text A1200 ws the one above, I thought it was that one! So I thought Twistin was psychic

Amiga1992 · 10 July 2002, 05:50

Quote:

Originally posted by Nian
Do you honestly think they would make an 030 cpu card for the a600 that would stop you from fitting a HD? Don't be so naff. Ofcourse you would still have space for a 2.5"

Well it doesn't look like it would fit in there, and if it fits, it must elevate teh temperature far more than what I'd like. The computer gets quite hot at that zone already, with the custom chips and the bloody harddrive.

jmmijo · 10 July 2002, 06:26

Is there anyplace to connect a cooling fan or two? Perhaps a grill could be placed for a top mounted fan? Of course this would gumup the looks of the machine

Amiga1992 · 10 July 2002, 09:02

No chance. I got meself one of thse super-slim cooler+heatsink thingies, and I tried to install it above the hard drive... it just doesn't fit. Of course I'm in no way drilling a hole in the beast, nor will I ever tower it (beats the purpose of having an A600!)

It's not like it gets super hot (well, in summer, it does!), but imagine, the 68000 and the custom chips heating up, aproximately an inch above that (or less) you got the hard drive, heating up like a bastard. Now piggyback the 68030 accelerator board on the 68000 processor (this is in the inch between the mobo and the HD), and presto, you got yourself a microwave oven!

I rather get another machine for expansion. The A600 was never meant to be manically expanded. Besides, I got an expanded A1200, and I like to push the limits of the A600 on its limited configuration.

05 July 2002, 01:48	#62
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	Topaz... Yeah I admit that topaz is kinda boxy/ugly and has had a bad name for ages but when it comes to a clean neat square and small font for icons you a seriously limmited in your choice, sure I have hundreds of fonts in my fonts: dir but flicking through them time and time again I still find topaz does the cleanest job. If you notice every other font is diferent however. Mmm nature, get back to nature. What would you prefer? Me to show you my old Pink Anime/Hentai theme? Or perhaps my satin sheet textured theme? I kept it clean for you guys. Besides forest backgrounds are relaxing.

06 July 2002, 07:47	#65
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	Nah not a stab. Hrm actually I wasn't even thinking of your workbench when I said "Pink Hentai theme", I realy do have one, its rather nice, I even made some good difference cloud textures for it. I have been swapping from anime to demo art to landscape/forest themes for years now. Right back when I was using 16 set colours for everything, MagicTV realy is a great patch for old aga systems, ofcourse it takes allot of effort to get it to look good with only 16 colours.

09 July 2002, 10:37	#70
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	This is how my A600 HD Now looks like NB This pic is from the emulated copy of my A600 as my HD is only 20MB not 512M as the pic shows. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Paul; 09 July 2002 at 10:43.

09 July 2002, 14:09	#72
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	Hrm... Kewl A4k screen grab, I love Giger he kicked ass. Is this an unexpanded A600 you want to improve? You realy need an old a630 with 8mb+ fast ram if you want to add eye candy, 2mb chip just doesn't cut it. Infact Having more than one HD partition and 80 buffers on it would almost be too much in 2mb chip to do anything. Ofcourse if you must do something then get yourself MultiCX and or MCP, They will do basic upgrades and use minimal memory. Also both give you screen blankers and other great things like black borders. My a500 with a floppy used a basic 4 colour rock backdrop that looked nice and munticx, it did the job. Ofcourse if you want to make your workbench look good and don't mind gray scale then 4bits in 16gray lets you do some great looking workbenches, infact I setup AWeb for 4bits in full gray and it was perfect. (Great for AGA using MagicTV)

10 July 2002, 05:02	#76
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	... MCP or MuntiCX are brilliant and should be a must for any amiga with more than 1.5mb ram. MultiCX fitted on my custom Workbench floppy for my A500 and helped with many a little thing that needed patching / fixing / adding. Do you honestly think they would make an 030 cpu card for the a600 that would stop you from fitting a HD? Don't be so naff. Ofcourse you would still have space for a 2.5"

04 July 2002, 19:25	#61
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,644	What's upwith the Nature theme? Wooden AmigaAmp Trees background

05 July 2002, 03:48	#63
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,644	I suppose the pink hentai think was a stab to my Workbench . I just found it curious! When I get time i'll make an abstract constructivist theme for you :P

09 July 2002, 04:20	#66
BuZz Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oxford / UK Age: 47 Posts: 583	Well.. I posted my WB showing Exoticons on another thread recently. But heres some grabs. First from my a4000 and a slightly older a1200 one and finally a 16 colours one for use with magictv. and i think it looks quite ok for 16 cols... the wb on my a1200,a2000,a3000 and a500 are a bit boring currently.. not worth showing sorry for increasing the size of this already large page

09 July 2002, 04:43	#67
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Very sexy, BuZz! Especially the A4ooo!! Ya think the PeeCee will ever have properly transparencied icons? Me neither. Hey, isn't that Deborah Harry on yer A12oo?

09 July 2002, 04:48	#68
BuZz Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oxford / UK Age: 47 Posts: 583	It is indeed. Painted by H.R.Giger.

09 July 2002, 09:45	#69
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Thanks for showing your cool WorkBenches

09 July 2002, 13:43	#71
Mozzy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: England Age: 43 Posts: 82	right i have an a600 with 2mb ram and 250mb hd (my old laptop hard drive) how the hell do i even get a picture on my desktop using workbench? i hate the horrible blokyness of the standard set up and some ot those WBs look well smart

10 July 2002, 01:09	#74
mr_0rga5m Tik Gora :D Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Round yo momma's Posts: 1,273	You cant see her face ? I know she's got 1 eye covered by the open folder but its hardly hidden ... Are you thinking he means the pic above it by anychance ?

10 July 2002, 06:26	#79
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Is there anyplace to connect a cooling fan or two? Perhaps a grill could be placed for a top mounted fan? Of course this would gumup the looks of the machine

10 July 2002, 09:02	#80
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,644	No chance. I got meself one of thse super-slim cooler+heatsink thingies, and I tried to install it above the hard drive... it just doesn't fit. Of course I'm in no way drilling a hole in the beast, nor will I ever tower it (beats the purpose of having an A600!) It's not like it gets super hot (well, in summer, it does!), but imagine, the 68000 and the custom chips heating up, aproximately an inch above that (or less) you got the hard drive, heating up like a bastard. Now piggyback the 68030 accelerator board on the 68000 processor (this is in the inch between the mobo and the HD), and presto, you got yourself a microwave oven! I rather get another machine for expansion. The A600 was never meant to be manically expanded. Besides, I got an expanded A1200, and I like to push the limits of the A600 on its limited configuration.

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