What did you do on your amiga this weekend?

[cicero790]

Played some Dune2 and some AB3d. Found out that there is a patch on aminet that should make it playable with mouse and keyboard at the same time, but haven’t tested it yet.

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 (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.

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, also giving the impression that you sit in front of the real deal.(I think nullfilter also have to be chosen in the filter tab for the resizing to work.)

Here are some links if someone feel the urge.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Amiga500_system1.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/i/1084bezel16101920x1200.png/


Here is a screen grab of the desktop test. It's a functioning winuae on the monitor.(actually did this test the 5 but continued with it over weekend).

[cicero790]

@Ral-clan

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

I think the winuae follow the windows size then nullfilter is chosen in the filter tab. This is when resizing a windowed winuae. For the desktop test above I had to go back and fourth a couple of times between standard and borderless to find the right fit. (It cant be resized when borderless is chosen. Nothing to grab onto.)



The other thing with fullscreen, filling the empty sides can probably be done with this Overlays.

Make a folder inside the winuae folder and call it "Overlays".
Put a suitable png pic inside and it will show up when you choose Overlays in the filter tab and then to the right of that choose the pic.
(I had to make a new config from the start for the Overlay to be present.

Then all controls underneath in the filter tab is to make the size and position to fit in the ”Overlayed” pic.

Here is a pic on settings I use for the Overlay with fullscreen on the second pic link above.

Hope this helps. It would be nice if a winuae expert could put together some guides.

[cicero790]

@Ral-clan

Yes its winuae 2.3.0, should have written that.

Quote:
“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. “
End Quote:

It happen to me also when I loaded one of my old configs. The overlays/masks was greyed out and non selectable.

But overlays was “enabled” and “selectable” when I first start winuae 2.3.0, before I loaded an old config.

So I made a new config, setting it up with Hds and all the other things, plus the overlay which is then editable an working and then saved.

I'm not certain that I use this overlays as it was meant. Since there is Overlays and Masks, they are probably meant to be used in conjunction.

Perhaps it was too early writing about this. But it was fun discovering this. It will probably be explained when the guides is written on how to use overlays/masks properly.

Anyway, very useful features.