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Title: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: A4000_Mad on November 30, 2010, 10:39:12 AM: Hi Guys,

I'm interested to see what you see when your Amiga(s) finish booting?

Here's what I currently see on the 3 Amiga's I have set up for daily use :)

A1200 Desktop

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200.jpg)

A4000 Desktop

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A4000A.jpg)

A4000 Desktop

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A4000B.jpg)

Thanks,

:drink:
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: tone007 on November 30, 2010, 10:44:04 AM: I usually stick with the standard 3.9 icons and one of the backdrops 3.9 comes with.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Jiffy on November 30, 2010, 11:00:15 AM: Standard 3.9 icons, no backdrop on my A1200. Anything to lower the strain on AGA. :-)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Franko on November 30, 2010, 11:30:38 AM: Custom drawn icons on 128 colour screen for my main Amiga OS3.5 (can't put a pic here as this sites PG and my backdrops XXX).

On my other Amiga's mostly running at 16 Colours, a mixture of custom drawn & standard 3.1 icons and various background patterns randomly selected at each boot... :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on November 30, 2010, 12:20:15 PM: This was my OS3.5 based workbench in 2003, running on BlizzardPPC/BVision
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/810/large/1_1003.jpg)
Stock 3.5 icons.

This was it almost exactly one year later, running a then beta version of OS4. Same machine:
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/810/large/1_1753.jpg)
Yes, I know the clock was screwy in that shot. I'd reflashed my Blizzard and didn't even notice the fact it was set grossly in the future until afterwards :)

This was it running 3.9 just last year sometime. The image was actually taken to show MidiIn running, rather than 3.9 itself:
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/810/large/1_midiin.png)
Not a lot of difference to the 3.5 other than the dock and the fact I decided to drop a resolution. The old eyes aren't what they once were ;)

I don't have a tendency to go for fussy backdrops. Solid colours, gradients, simple(ish) designs or scenery. Occasionally the odd game-related bit of artwork :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Jope on November 30, 2010, 12:56:04 PM: Stock 3.1 icons and a low colour background picture. A maximum of 16 colours in the workbench.

(http://jope.fi/amiga/index.php?sfpg=KmEzMDAwLnBuZyoqaW1hZ2UqKjBkMDQwYTc5MmNjMjA3NTliY2U5NzYxY2FiOTExNTcw)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Arkhan on November 30, 2010, 02:12:29 PM: I had Vanille from FF13, but then I sold the A4000 cause 400$ was alot cooler than firing that thing up to play games I already own for Sega and stuff.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: TCMSLP on November 30, 2010, 02:16:59 PM: Stock 3.0 workbench for me :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: mfilos on November 30, 2010, 02:46:53 PM: My OS3.9 with AfAOS and Ken's Icons. Custom background made by a friend @ AmigaHellas (yep, the BPPC is mine lol)

(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/2154/mywb1.th.jpg) (http://img718.imageshack.us/i/mywb1.jpg/) (http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1516/mywb2.th.jpg) (http://img641.imageshack.us/i/mywb2.jpg/)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: efrenmgp on November 30, 2010, 04:15:11 PM: mfilos:

Nice background image! :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: fitzsteve on November 30, 2010, 06:15:45 PM: Here are my setups:

My A600, with Apollo 620 which is running basic Classic Workbench 68k setup

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0541_pt.jpg)

My A1200 Desktop (Blizzard 1230) Classic Workbench ADV SP

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0539_pt.jpg)

My A1200T, 060/PPC/Mediator/Voodoo5 This has a few setups...

Amigasys4AGA

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0536_pt.jpg)

Classic Workbench P96 (the WinUAE version setup for real Amiga)

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0537_pt.jpg)

And Stock 0S3.9 with WarpOS/Warp3D as this is the best way I found to get all the WOS/Warp3D Games to work :afro:

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0535_pt.jpg)

Lastly my A4000, this has a PicassoIV and is running Classic Workbenc OS3.9 (Yes you guessed it I'm a big fan of Classic Workbench) :banana:

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0540_pt.jpg)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: zipper on November 30, 2010, 07:26:01 PM: with PTLens in a minute:
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/62/medium/1_IMG_0541_pt.jpg)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on November 30, 2010, 07:41:10 PM: @fitzsteve

Could you not get a copy of QuickGrab (http://aminet.net/package/gfx/misc/QuickGrab1_1) from aminet?
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Cammy on November 30, 2010, 07:53:48 PM: This is my A600's Workbench background and icons. It's only 4-colours and not using any extra patches, just personalised the standard preferences and edited the icons.

(http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/GrabIFF6.GIF)

This is how it looks on my A600, the screen turned out very glary so it doesn't look as nice as it does in real life. My A600 is kept clean and dust-free by this awesome dust cover given to me by my good friend fitzsteve! :) (Thank you again for the lovely gift, Steve!)

(http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/A600andA1600.JPG)

Oh, and behind the A600 and monitor you can see my A1600 netbook, which is connected to the monitor's VGA port while the A600 is connected through S-Video, so I can switch between OS3.1 and Aros without moving away. While the PCMCIA SRAM card is plugged in, I can use the Serial Null-modem cable connected to a USB adapter in the netbook to go online (well that's the plan, just need to finish setting it up) so I can go online with 4MB of RAM instead of just 2MB when I use the PCMCIA Ethernet card. The A600 is faster with the SRAM too.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: TheGoose on November 30, 2010, 08:18:53 PM: My screen is GREY! set off by a really nice accent of GREY! Not happy with it though, cause the window borders are a plain blue, and not GREY! A work in progress...
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: fitzsteve on November 30, 2010, 09:11:59 PM: @Zipper thats what I need - cheers, come back later for the updated pics!

@Karlos I didn't try that one but I tried some others and they didn't work so I gave up, but will try that one later...

@Cammy, You're welcome. I'm glad the A600 cover arrived safe and that you're pleased with it :)

Steve.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: XDelusion on November 30, 2010, 09:29:05 PM: What software do you guys use under MorphOS and classic Amiga OS, to make all images load in Fast RAM rather than the Video RAM? If I could get around this, I'd start using desktop images. :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: stefcep2 on November 30, 2010, 10:33:44 PM: If you use 3.1 and newicons there is a setting in in newicons prefs to use fast ram.

AFAIR (I'm still setting up my A4000 with a compact flash card) in 3.9 there is a setting in workbench prefs (?) that lets you use fast ram for icons at least.

Cybergraphx prefs has an option to use fast ram instead as well-but even then some chip ram is is still used, but a lot less.

If all you have is AGA then i'd just use magic workbench in 8 colours with one of its patterns or do a color reduction of a backdrop you like (or one of the gazillion available on Aminet) using the magic workbench pallette in PPaint, or ImageFX with high dithering settings (Floyd Steinberg worked best for me). Its still fast, looks OK and doesn't chew up a lot of chip ram.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on November 30, 2010, 10:40:15 PM: Quote from: stefcep2;595693
If you use 3.1 and newicons there is a setting in in newicons prefs to use fast ram.

^ This. Also, FBlit is a must-have.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on November 30, 2010, 11:09:07 PM: Quote from: fitzsteve;595661
@Karlos I didn't try that one but I tried some others and they didn't work so I gave up, but will try that one later..

I'd be surprised if it didn't work, was always the one I relied on until I got an RTG card and used cybergrab and later sgrab.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 01, 2010, 12:12:38 AM: Quote from: fitzsteve;595600
Here are my setups:

Fitzsteve, nice setups, but doesn't it bother you when you use a 16:9 monitor and a 4:3 screenmode and all your icons and background are stretched out like that?
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: fitzsteve on December 01, 2010, 12:51:44 AM: Quote from: ral-clan;595753
Fitzsteve, nice setups, but doesn't it bother you when you use a 16:9 monitor and a 4:3 screenmode and all your icons and background are stretched out like that?

Thanks for the kind words, nope not too bothered about the stretching. I can always change it to 4x3 like in the A1200D shot, that was taken on the same screen. I would setup the workbench in 1280x768 but the damn TV just wont take the Picasso Screen Mode, always out on sync...

The WarpOS games like Doom/Quake/Wipeout all look fine in squashed 4x3 mode so I tend to leave it that way for PC input which is how the RTG is connected to the TV :)

The best thing about the 16x9 screen being an LCD TV it has RGB Scart so the native stuff like AGA games are displayed nice and sharp, plus games that have black borders can be zoomed out to fill the screen in 16x9 or 14x9 :afro:

Steve.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: zylesea on December 01, 2010, 01:09:07 AM: I have a very pure environment on my main maschine.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on December 01, 2010, 01:14:25 AM: Quote from: zylesea;595771
I have a very pure environment on my main maschine.

Audrey Hepburn, eh? From the days when women weren't afraid to have eyebrows :)

Try this one (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Hepburn-afternoon.jpg)...
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: zylesea on December 01, 2010, 01:42:26 AM: Well, she's just lovely. Was sad day when she died a couple of years back.
And of course Truman Capote did a brilliant thing with 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. The movie, albeit the modified end, is great, too.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Thematic on December 02, 2010, 03:38:12 AM: Not long ago I had a proper 4:3 screen for the A1200, but I didn't do any screenshots recently. So here's a 16:9 one. It tends to look "too sharp" in the picture, because the display device is actually a not-extremely-configurable television (at least I get RGB AGA by a flick of the remote).

Link(http://usera.ImageCave.com/fkstos/stuff/icth_widebench.png.jpg) (http://usera.ImageCave.com/fkstos/stuff/widebench.png)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: redfox on December 06, 2010, 06:31:06 PM: I hope people can see these ok.

Here is my favourite background on my current system.
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_grab10.jpg
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/2_grab11.jpg

This is my Amiga Workbench 3.1 running on E-UAE.
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_QuickGrab1.gif
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_QuickGrab2.gif

I used the same Dragon background on my A2000HD, which is currently offline for repairs.

---
redfox
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Damion on December 06, 2010, 07:10:24 PM: An old one from my A2000. I've since disabled AfA and gone back to a basic 3.9/glowicon setup for speed and nostalgia. :P
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: tone007 on December 06, 2010, 07:54:43 PM: It's been so long since I had any of my Amigas turned on I can't remember what my WBPatterns are. This will probably change as I just got a care package from Poland with an A1200 busboard! Time to start cutting up the massive PC tower I've been saving...
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Templario on December 07, 2010, 02:14:56 PM: Well, in my WinUAE I have one background with.... yeah the great Freddy Krueger altough the last movie (the worst of alls) and in my Sam I have one Fairy in a forrest, but both case I use PNG icons, mines and the others designers.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: A4000_Mad on December 07, 2010, 08:59:34 PM: WoW! Some great backdrop pics and icons there, and Cammy's A600 setup is awesome!!

I've just changed my backdrop pic to let Santa know what I want for xmas ;)

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/xmas.jpg)

:drink:
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: lsmart on December 07, 2010, 09:56:40 PM: Until recently I had an X1000-themed backdrop. My drawers & trashcan look like they are from WB 1.3 (slightly enhanced to fit the resoution & color depth). OWB is my hands holing a glowing globe. AmigaWriter is my black & white drawing of a quill in ink and CygnusEd and Multiview have had some makeover too.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: NovaCoder on December 07, 2010, 10:33:31 PM: My old AGA backdrop

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/5682/1_laytex.jpg)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: A4000_Mad on December 07, 2010, 10:49:22 PM: WoW! That's a really gorgeous backdrop for an AGA machine NovaCoder :)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: radzik on December 07, 2010, 10:59:57 PM: Quote from: Karlos;595699
^ This. Also, FBlit is a must-have.

Isn't new beta graphics.library do the same job?
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Karlos on December 07, 2010, 11:15:02 PM: Quote from: radzik;597694
Isn't new beta graphics.library do the same job?

TBH, I don't know.
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: NovaCoder on December 08, 2010, 12:28:22 AM: Quote from: A4000_Mad;597689
WoW! That's a really gorgeous backdrop for an AGA machine NovaCoder :)

Thanks, it got a few stares at the local Amiga meeting I can tell you ;)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: A4000_Mad on December 08, 2010, 12:42:24 AM: Sorry, I was five posts back.. What were you saying? :lol:
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Templario on December 08, 2010, 04:38:49 PM: Quote from: A4000_Mad;597667
WoW! Some great backdrop pics and icons there, and Cammy's A600 setup is awesome!!

I've just changed my backdrop pic to let Santa know what I want for xmas ;)

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/xmas.jpg)

:drink:
Nice, Santa, woow, I like the Magic Kings, but with this Santa, humm, now I belive in Santa Claus
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: fitzsteve on December 13, 2010, 12:32:11 AM: Here is my new Bvision/PPC setup:

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/fitzsteve_workbench.jpg?t=1292200199)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: djnick on December 13, 2010, 03:28:48 PM: Here is my Amiga... It still looks more or less the same, just changing backgrounds. I set it up like this 7 years ago :)

http://fc01.deviantart.net/images2/i/2004/08/3/2/my_amigaOS_3_9_workbench.jpg
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: countzero on December 13, 2010, 04:19:41 PM: Fire in the hole ! *runs away*

(http://jfhaslam.atari.org/images/jinnee.gif)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: lsmart on December 13, 2010, 07:53:00 PM: Quote from: countzero;598450
Fire in the hole ! *runs away*

Uh? Is this an Atari? It has Windowzes "Hyperteminal" icon, right?
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: ribdevil1 on December 13, 2010, 08:16:15 PM: (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/7267/2_WB4.1u2_1.jpg)

Well, this OS4.1u2 in my SAMy with 1Gb RAM and 9250 1Gb Graphics
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: PanterHZ on December 13, 2010, 11:27:59 PM: Here is a shot of the Workbench of my main Amiga 1200 where I use a screenmode of 1360 x 768 pixels.

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/6716/large/1_WBgrab1.jpg)
More info: http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3391 (http://www.amiga.org/forums/../gallery/index.php?n=3391)

Here is a shot of the Workbench of my main Amiga 1200 after I have booted up a custom made Amiga911 floppy, I get access to all my HD partitions since I have included both IDEFix & NSDPatch on the disk.

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/6716/large/1_WBgrab2.png)
More Info: http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3392 (http://www.amiga.org/forums/../gallery/index.php?n=3392)
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: Tempest on December 14, 2010, 12:55:41 PM: Here's my current setup on my a2000 (also on my a1200):

(http://home.xmsnet.nl/toto/wb31_2.png)

(http://home.xmsnet.nl/toto/wb31_1.png)

Just for fun an old screenshot on the same Amiga from around 1995:

(http://home.xmsnet.nl/toto/oldwb.png)

Two old screenshots from my a4000/ppc (don't have it anymore):

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2456/1_2662.jpg)

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2456/1_2177.jpg)

And a screenshot of my old 1.x MorphOS setup:

http://home.xmsnet.nl/toto/morphos.png
Title: Re: What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?
Post by: obscurepanic on December 14, 2010, 01:08:07 PM: Quote from: Tempest;598595
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2456/1_2177.jpg)

You have an interesting taste in wallpapers. War of Genesis III: Part 2 characters drawn by Hyeong Tae Kim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyung-tae_Kim)