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Title: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: darkage on January 26, 2011, 05:20:46 PM
Hi all,

I remember 15 old years ago walking into my friends room with his brand new a1200, he had basically a rainbow effect backdrop on his WB.  

Just wondering how to achieve this effect?

thanks!
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Matt_H on January 26, 2011, 05:27:38 PM
I think that's a feature of MagicCopper.
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: jorkany on January 26, 2011, 05:28:34 PM
Cheap and easy way is to use the Copper to change the color of each scan line. Same method as you can use on an 8-bit Atari.
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: CdreCommodore on January 26, 2011, 05:40:16 PM
Also, WBVerlauf (http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/WBVerlauf20).
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Cammy on January 26, 2011, 06:11:19 PM
You could use either one of these utilities in your WBStartup drawer:

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/Copper-Demon
http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/WBVerlauf20
http://aminet.net/package/game/gag/mrcopper
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Xanxi on January 26, 2011, 07:15:32 PM
Copper Daemon is great. Mr Copper usually crashes my computer.

Speaking of this, i would like to know why there is no such prog for ecs machines? And would it be possible to have such an effect on RTG (with more colors)?
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: CdreCommodore on January 26, 2011, 08:00:17 PM
Quote from: Xanxi;609467
Speaking of this, i would like to know why there is no such prog for ecs machines?

Ah, but there is!  See stripes (http://aminet.net/package/misc/antiq/Stripes).
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Xanxi on January 26, 2011, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: TroyDavis;609483
Ah, but there is!  See stripes (http://aminet.net/package/misc/antiq/Stripes).


Seems to be for wb 1.x only, not specificaly ECS.
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Cammy on January 26, 2011, 08:34:15 PM
Maybe it's time someone wrote a new Copper program with lots of options that runs on OCS, ECS and AGA machines. Is anyone up for the challenge?
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: darkage on January 26, 2011, 10:23:05 PM
Wow thanks for the great response guys!

From memory,  the words 'Magic' and 'Copper' comes to mind.

Perhaps its MagicCopper.   I always assumed it was MagicWB. My friend did have some additional program that came with his A1200, think was a option from the particular computer store..

Now I just have to navigate my way around all the different workbench looks and feels. ie. MagicWB, Scala, etc..  

For me, I would prefer nice and clean WB with some funky 'not over the top' icons and with the copper background :)

Many Thanks again!
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: darkage on January 27, 2011, 10:19:22 PM
Test out all the different copper programs..

Copper-Demon was the one!!!   Whoaoa looks pretty.

Thanks all! :) Appreciate it!
Title: Re: WB 3.x Rainbow background effect
Post by: Merc on January 27, 2011, 11:00:54 PM
I had one of these apps for my kickstart 2.1 A500, I thought it was CopperDeamon but that seems to be AGA-only..  Maybe it was MagicCopper..