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Radioactive Workbench
« on: September 20, 2010, 02:46:02 AM »
Here's a theme I'm working on for our upcoming Workbench distribution, which people have dubbed "Modern Workbench" but I don't know what it'll be called. Probably Modern Workbench if we can't think of anything better.
There will be a choice of glow effects for your icons. Along with the classic dull yellow glow, there's this new "radioactive" glow, complete with green themed window borders.

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I've designed everything to be compatible with any Amiga running Kickstart 3.0/3.1, although VisualPrefs may not run on 68000 so we'll need to include a simpler window-border hack that will still work with Birdie.
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Re: Radioactive Workbench
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2010, 03:37:40 AM »
Cammy and I are working on it together, but if we ever have a forum where we can work on these kind of projects together we'd gladly accept help from anyone else.

I guess I use the term "distribution" in the same sense they do with Linux, although it won't actually include the copyrighted system files. The installer will prompt you to insert a Workbench floppy disk during installation, the same as Classic Workbench, AmigaSYS and AmiKit do.

If you haven't already checked out the existing Workbench packs/distributions, they're pretty good:

Classic Workbench - http://classicwb.abime.net/
AmigaSYS - http://amigasys.ultimateamiga.co.uk/
AmiKit - http://amikit.amiga.sk/

It's basically a pre-installed Workbench setup, packed with programs, customised and snapshotted in position, ready for anyone to jump in and use so they don't have to spend months or years doing the job from scratch.
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