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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Amiduffer on November 10, 2006, 06:22:33 AM

Title: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: Amiduffer on November 10, 2006, 06:22:33 AM

Help jog my memory guys. Back when I had OS2.1 on my A2000, there was a program that went with Magic WorkBench that had the name ______prefs and turned the boring old C= requesters into animated requesters, like having a disk going into a floppy drive, and a neat animated info screen with star trek alarm sound.

Now if I remember, it was limited to OS2.1 (I think). Is there something similar for OS3.5?

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: kvasir on November 10, 2006, 09:08:25 AM

are you thinking of the old ARQ proggy?

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: zipper on November 10, 2006, 09:10:20 AM

I think he did; ReqAttack is the descendant, OS3.x+ needed.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: Amiduffer on November 10, 2006, 06:06:32 PM

I'm not familiar with either of the two you mentioned, but I'll check out ReqAttack. Thanks.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: sundown on November 10, 2006, 06:37:23 PM

Was called ARQ.

ARQ (http://home6.inet.tele.dk/jail/enhance/looks/arq.html)

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: Amiduffer on November 10, 2006, 07:06:24 PM

Arq! Yeah, that was a neat program.

For some reason, I was thinking of Nickprefs.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: kvasir on November 10, 2006, 10:34:13 PM

Loved ARQ myself, but had probs with it under 3.9. Can't remember what, though. I noticed somebody mentioned reqattack, and I looked for it on aminet. Unfortunately, I found it, and subsequently wasted 3 hours on configuring it. Nice proggy, think I'll keep it.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: zipper on November 11, 2006, 06:26:43 AM

ARQ is 3.5/3.9 incompatible.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: kvasir on November 13, 2006, 01:20:04 AM

Thanks alot guys... now you got me playing with reqattack. My girlfriend thinks I'm cheating with her with somebody online. LOL Anyway, I just did this little animated logo with DeluxePaint IV, PPaint, and an image I ripped off the macintosh os8 scrapbook using shapeshifter and some shareware mac gfx proggy I had. http://www2.powercom.net/~watertonian/os39.gif The colours did't turn out how I liked, so I'm guessing I'll have to do it in ham8, then drop it to 256 aftwerwards.

Title: Re: trying to remember animated requesters for OS2.1
Post by: Amiduffer on November 13, 2006, 06:51:11 AM

Thats a neat little animation.

Girlfriends and wives always feel threatened by computers. So in a sense, you are playing around with another "amiga".  :-)