OS 3.1 graphics

[mr_a500]

Or you could go with 16 colours and save chip RAM. 16 colour WB 3.1 can also be made to look good.

[mr_a500]

Or you could go with 16 colours to save chip RAM. 16 colour WB 3.1 can be made to look good too.

[mr_a500]

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!

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 )

[mr_a500]

@Mr_A500: any chance to put the Sys: partition in a zipped file (no need for the WHDload.key or ROM kickstart images, of course!) for lazy people like me to download it?

I can understand that. I'm very lazy myself. Unfortunately, I'm far too lazy to make a proper archive.

Seriously, if it was legal to upload an image of my entire hard drive, I would. (...and I mean software image, not a photo of my hard drive...which is legal)

[mr_a500]

@Rebel-CD32

What Amiga is that? I'd love to be able to use a screenmode that huge - with all that extra space - but I'm too attached to my 1080. It has a nice glow you don't get on VGA. Besides, that must take a hell of a lot of chip RAM.

I'd describe your theme as "Ubista" - Ubuntu and Vista (too bad I hate both... nice work on the remapping though). My theme is sort of "AOSX". So between us, we've got all the major OSes covered.

Hm, is that AfA that draws window decos, or something else? I think last time I tried, AfA skins on 8bit or lower didnt work. It would be very nice if it did though, then one cold create window decos especially for low depths.

Here's a window decoration for low depth... also low depth decoration in the window.
(...oh good - another chance to show my bikini screenshot...)

[mr_a500]

If you can provide an image of your HDD, I'ld be interested to make a Mr_a500 workbench kit from it.

What happens is, I'll strip your workbench of copyrighted files and write a script which will put them back. Just like the classic workbench setup.

I like that idea because it allows me to continue to be very lazy.

I could zip and send you my Workbench partition, but it'll be around 75Mb. There is one reference to my Work partition that I can't find. Also, as I said, my main hard drive died and this is an older backup which isn't quite up to date - so some icons are crap and I'm too lazy to fix them again. Anybody seeing them would say, "Wait a minute... these icons are crap! What the hell? Mr_a500 sucks!" (...and that sort of thing would haunt me for the rest of my days...)

If you still want it, let me know.

[mr_a500]

The screenshot is from my A1200 030/50 with 32MB Fast RAM, IDE-CF, Subway USB, with an Indivision AGA which lets me run HighGFX screenmodes (up to 1024x768) flicker-free on any VGA monitor. The upcoming InvidisionECS supports the same screenmodes but you'd be confined to 4 colours like other Super-High-Res modes. Thanks to FBlit, I never run into any ChipRAM problems unless I open too many high resolution screens. With Workbench open and the full-screen wallpaper I have a little over 1.5MB Chip free, and it barely declines at all when I start opening applications.

I've tried FBlit many times, but it always slowed down my A500 to half speed. It must have something to do with the colour-depth/bandwidth problem because in 4 colour mode, it works fine and is very fast. In 16 colour mode, it is super-slow. I can't use it.