OS 3.1 graphics

[marcfrick2112]

mr_a500: rather nice screenshot there! Any chance you could share that DCTV icon?

@sjprohaska:  As mentioned, without a graphics card, you will run out of colours/ Chip RAM, sooner or later. For my backdrops, I use ImageF/X to reduce the colours of the background pic.. can help with appearance, and to conserve chip ram... (a bit)  It can be tricky, but OS 3.1 can be made to look pretty. You may have to experiment....   The sad thing is, my old A500 WB looked prettier than my current A1200 WB.... but a lot has to do with laziness, and losing a great deal after a HD failure.... :madashell:

Best of Luck!

[marcfrick2112]

I'm putting that DCTV icon up on eBay. You can bid on it. No reserve! Better hurry.

OK, I'll attach it here. Just rename DCTV.zip to DCTV.info. I hope you appreciate it. You don't know how much I could have gotten on eBay.

Speaking of HD failures, I just had another one die. This one was my backup to the other one that died - so I lost some recent stuff. Modern 2.5" drives are absolute crap! I'll never buy another one. From now on, it's flash all the way.


Edit: Oh crap - I just realized my DCTV icon will probably be useless to you. It's not in Newicons format because Newicons has a 93x93 limit. It's standard format, mapped to my palette. Oh well. (...that also means whoever bought it on eBay would have given me a "Not as described" feedback )

Hey mr_A500: Actually the icon shows up fine on my 1200T, I may need to remap the background color of the icon, but basically it still looks pretty nice. Thanks!

'Vintage Amiga icon, sold AS-IS, as I no longer have a computer/electricity/brain, I am unable to test. Bid accordingly.'

Man, seeing some of these screenshots makes me think I have to improve my WB's look for like, the 37th time