sim085 wrote:
I spent most of the weekend thinking on this. Realisticly speaking it is impossible to improve WB3.1 (or later) look and feel on an A500+ (regardless of how much fast RAM it has or Processor type) ... unless one is ready to be happy with a little flickering, or having icons using more then 32 colours max right?
I am not saying this in anger or anything like that. I am just seeing what is available or not. If there is nothing I can improve then I am happy to stay with the standard look and feel on my A500+ with WB3.1 
You can use Overscan to stretch the screen a bit, and above 8 colors you can try to tweak the palette and give WB a look to your own taste. Take a look in the photo section of this site and search for screenshots from "mr_a500", it's a pretty impressive showcase of what you can do with the "standard" screenmodes of an A500.
And though they are expensive: a flickerfixer will help you enormously. You can display twice the amount of icons (so to speak) and with a modern screen (be it a TFT or a decent CRT) things look a lot crispier than with an aging 1084 monitor.
