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Title: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 01, 2007, 11:03:49 AM: Hi

I just get GVP HD8+, I connected it to my a500 and installed OS wb 1.3.

I haven't had a500 with hd ealier, so I 've forget how ugly and limited it is.

Is there any programs to enhance it ? There is plenty prorams to enhance wb2 or newer.
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: motorollin on March 01, 2007, 11:14:58 AM: Yes upgrade your Kickstart ROM and install the corresponding version of Workbench.

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moto
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 01, 2007, 11:21:14 AM: Thanks but no thanks :) I've another machine with 3.1 roms and OS3.9

I would like to continue using 1.3 rom

Any hints left ?
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: motorollin on March 01, 2007, 11:35:04 AM: Well if you own a license for an additional 2.x or 3.x ROM then you could softkick a ROM image which will make your A500 act as though it has that ROM version installed. I'm not sure how easy it is to do that on an A500.

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moto
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 01, 2007, 11:41:11 AM: I thought softkicking but didn't found any way to do it with 1.3 roms

I've just looked from aminet and found nothing, surely there must be some kind of system enchangements to wb 1.3
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: cpfuture on March 01, 2007, 01:00:02 PM: http://aminet.net/util/boot/MKick19.lha (http://aminet.net/util/boot/MKick19.lha)

This one works fine with 1.3 on an A500 as long as you have at least 1MB of memory. You will still need to obtain the ROM files yourself, because they're obviously not included.
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 01, 2007, 01:25:58 PM: thanks
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: motorollin on March 01, 2007, 01:27:34 PM: I don't know what you mean by "enchange". Are you looking to upgrade your KS/WB version without replacing the KS ROM, or are you looking for system enhancements which run under 1.3?

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moto
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: Oli_hd on March 01, 2007, 01:32:19 PM: Quote
I haven't had a500 with hd ealier, so I 've forget how ugly and limited it is. Is there any programs to enchange it ?

Try and pick up a fredfish CD (the one that came with the CDTV would be great) and have a look through that.
There are lots of silly things to make 1.3 look better including things like copper bars as the background (those are the HAM 4096 colour bars like found on uridium2 and other games) you can add the tracking eye's and all that stuff too.
Dont know of any icon enhancements for 1.3 though, although you can make some real nice icons with the four colours if you wanted, I remember putting a disk in once and this massive disk icon came up, it was about 500% larger than the normal one. :)
But anyway PD is your friend
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: guru-666 on March 01, 2007, 05:21:36 PM: enchange = enhance...
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: motorollin on March 01, 2007, 06:13:34 PM: Quote
guru-666 wrote:
enchange = enhance...

In which language?

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moto
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: guru-666 on March 01, 2007, 06:28:49 PM: in common sense.
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 01, 2007, 06:39:26 PM: I just tried MKICK

Couldn't get it to work I put it to ss before setpatch

c:mkick devs:kickstatrs/kick20.rom FAST

Result is guru

I would like to improve 1.3, or atleast I woun't remove 1.3 rom

I've some PD cds put, moust of them are for a1200 too new, have to look at them
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: motorollin on March 01, 2007, 08:06:11 PM: @guru-666
Doesn't make much sense to me, since it's not a word.

@utri007
Make sure the ROM file you are using is specific to the A500 not another model of Amiga or it won't work.

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moto
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: bloodmoney on March 01, 2007, 10:45:37 PM: There used to be a program called 8 color workbench or somthing like that. I believe it was the same tool used to make Compute!s Amiga Gazette look so nice. It was available on one of there disks I think.
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 02, 2007, 09:35:13 PM: Thanks for advices , you gods guys

I did found magicwb 1.3 from aminet it does that trick :)

I still have couble of problems, they are

How to change RAM DISK icon ? wb 2.0 and 3.0 trick doesn't work

Where to find copy icon program that works with wb 1.3
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: guru-666 on March 02, 2007, 09:54:44 PM: Quote

motorollin wrote:
@guru-666
Doesn't make much sense to me, since it's not a word.

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moto

LOL I guess you lack common sense then.
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: adz on March 02, 2007, 09:58:11 PM: Quote

utri007 wrote:

How to change RAM DISK icon ? wb 2.0 and 3.0 trick doesn't work

Find the icon file you want to use and then copy it to RAM: at startup, ie. add the following line to the startup-sequence making sure you fill in the appropiate information;

copy :/disk.info to RAM:
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 02, 2007, 10:04:41 PM: It name should be disk.info ??

And because you knew that how I change default disk icon ?
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: adz on March 02, 2007, 10:09:33 PM: Quote

utri007 wrote:
It name should be disk.info ??

Yes, sorry, its been a while.
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 02, 2007, 10:10:31 PM: It's quite difficult to find anything to OS 1.3

These are best I've found

MagicWb1.3
DirWork 1.62
MyMenu

There must be somekind of ultimate imprver

I can't choose multiple icons
Menu is poor

Things that I haven't foud yet

copy icon utility , :) would be nice

PS. I've analogic TV card, seems that they have use still :)

PS.. How say Ram-disk icon where to stay :) nic boy ;) that is biggest problem now
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 03, 2007, 12:40:05 AM: more tips needed
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 03, 2007, 01:45:33 AM: Suicide solution : my civilization disk 4 is dead
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: Amiduffer on March 03, 2007, 02:09:55 AM: If you can locate them, get the CD's that have all the Fred Fish disks, because a lot of the public domain programs on them, are for the older operating systems, generally. You should be able to find plenty of programs to make your miggy look super. 8-)
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: utri007 on March 03, 2007, 06:31:59 PM: Fred Fish disks are great, only problem is they have so many allmoust 1000

I never have hd with a500 before or tried to use wb 1.3 its really difficult to find anything usefull, I just don't know what to look
Title: Re: How to enhance WB 1.3
Post by: madsjm on March 04, 2007, 12:59:32 PM: I'm amazed they made MagicWB for 1.3, I never knew.
I had my trusty old WB 1.3 when my friends had updated to newer versions, so I made new icons for myself. :-)

(http://www.sprocket.no/bilder/wb13icons.jpg)
Title: Re: How to enchange WB 1.3
Post by: Tomas on March 04, 2007, 01:05:14 PM: Quote
Doesn't make much sense to me, since it's not a word.
Odd that i understood it, considering that i am not even a native English speaker. I have a feeling that you just likes to nitpick on simple spelling errors.