What did you do on your amiga this weekend?

[Ral-Clan]

I did some short (2 second - 30 frame) animations in Disney's Animation studio and in DPaint in order to better understand the programs.  Then I ran them through filters in ImageFX.  My goal was to see if I can take animations done in 320x240, scale them to 640x480 with antialiasing turned on, and then run a few filters to remove jaggies.

That way I could do animations in lo-res Amiga resolutions and convert them for better display on a television or Youtube, or burning to DVD.

It actually sort of works with animations because they are line drawings.  Some of the filters thicken up the lines and make it look like it was drawn with felt-tip marker.

[Ral-Clan]

Found out that if you make a folder in the winuae mapp, named Overlay and put a png picture of a monitor with the screen removed( so its transparent). You could then choose this in the ”filter tab (first overlay then the pic name) and have winuae appear on the monitor in the png picture. You could make some fun things with this.

That's really cool!  I use WinUAE quite heavily and never knew about this feature.  So how do you make sure the WinUAE emulation is scaled properly to fit inside the transparent "hole" in the monitor screen.

I wonder also if there is some way to use this feature so that when running a 4:3 aspect Amiga screen on a 16:9 monitor, you could have an image of your choice fill the black "pillarboxed" sides.

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@Ral-clan

I also used winuae forever but started to yank the controls and suddenly.....

Thanks for that....yes it would be nice if the WinUAE documentation was updated.

[Ral-Clan]

Found out that if you make a folder in the winuae mapp, named Overlays and put a png picture of a monitor with the screen removed( so its transparent). You could then choose this in the ”filter tab

Hmmm....I made an "overlays" folder in my UAE folder and put the PNG in it, but when UAE starts it still says "No Overlays Available" in the Filter settings tab.

I also made something like this in another way, instead took a big amiga picture (see pic below) made it the desktop background, then I let the winuae window cover the monitor. I then went into “Miscellaenous and changed “Windowed style from standard to borderless...

Well, I don't have this "Windowed Style" setting in my miscellaneous folder.  That is strange.  See my screeshot.  I am using WinUAE 2.2.0 (click to enlarge):



....[edit] Ah....I think this borderless windowed mode and overlay support is only in 2.3.0 (Since I am using Amiga Forever I cannot yet use 2.3.0).