Icons taking forever to load in Windows running Amiga OS 3.5

[kolla]

I always thought 3.9 was just 3.5 with more third-party additions.

It makes more sense to look at 3.5 as a "beta" or "preview" of what became OS 3.9 - I really don't see any good reasons to prefer 3.5 over 3.9.

[scuzzb494]

When you say Amiga I assume you mean an A1200. The A1200 with an 030 and 2MB chip and 64MB fast is still a slow machine when using graphics on OS3.5 or 3.9 and if I am guessing you have banged up the colours in Workbench to max and have a picture for your backdrop and windows. So prefs set to snail mode. Try scaling down to 8 colours and remove pictures/images and see what happens. [ Screenmode Prefs ].  Then ramp up gently till the turtle leaves Texas. [ sorry about that ]

If you want the fast rendering of a high graphical interface with OS3.5 or 3.9 your best with a big box and a graphics card. Same goes for surfing the web. The 030 is only an accelerator. Otherwise you have to moderate your workbench until you find a suitable balance. Anyhoo... Just use DOpus and ditch the ponty/clicky/windows. No need.

Also it depends on which accelerator you have but it is posible to load the WB into memory but that will be something you would need to refer to the manual of the specific card. Not sure you say which card you are using.

PS I never like ever use 3.5 or 3.9 on an A1200 even with a Blizzard or GVP 1230. Its like walking through treacle at times. Only use the later OSs with the 4000 and the PicassoIV.

And who is this Ken you talk of. Does he know you are using his icons.

[Pat the Cat]

I think they're talking Peter K icon.library (Keuntze?), there was a new release a couple days ago.

Looks amazing compared to a Workbench 3.0. Whether anyone can use it or not is a matter of choice as well as enough resources to try.

You can scale the icons up or down. Means updating lots of other stuff too to use. I don't recognize it. Lots and lots and lots added since the last time I saw it.

[kolla]

I think they're talking Peter K icon.library (Keuntze?),

No, Ken (Lester, aka klesterjr) is not PeterK.

[Pat the Cat]

Yippee! I now have some idea who Ken is.

(Does spontaneous belly dance).

[kolla]

Yes, congrats. His high/true colour icon packages are quite popular, how could you have missed it?

https://www.letmegooglethat.com/?q=ken+amiga+icons

[Pat the Cat]

I've always been wary of replacement con sets. Perhaps there's a way around it?

One issue I've always had - endemic on the Amiga - is that changing an icon removes any loo  settings used by the underlying program.

Plus lookng at icon replacement packages for 30 years can have a certain... numbing effect in the long term.

[kolla]

Loo settings? You mean tooltypes?
So in 30 years time you haven’t figured out how to copy over an icon image without copying over the entire .info file? Really?

[Pat the Cat]

Loo settings? You mean tooltypes?
So in 30 years time you haven’t figured out how to copy over an icon image without copying over the entire .info file? Really?

Pretty much, in the 1.3 days an icon replacement pack turned everything into "random settings" mode. That's no fun.