Want to hold on to my Chip Ram

[NovaCoder]

and in sys:prefs/workbench you set the icons to be loaded to fastram if you use os3.9

But don't do this is if you use FBlit/FText...bad idea.

[NovaCoder]

Just upgraded my A1200 with an A1230 with 32 megs of ram.  Works great, now is
there some way I can put up a decent Workbench image without chewing up all my chip ram?
Is there anyway to load images in graphics programs larger than 2 megs or does every graphics program and the like use only chip ram to display images?
Thanks

Hiya,

Yep the AGA chipset must use chipram to display everything (and play sounds) so that 32 megs cannot be used directly.

I don't know what resolution you are running in but AGA slows right down at 32+ colours in the higher resolutions.  Now if you are running at say 32 colours with a resolution of say 1024x768 you should not end up with a 2 meg image file

What you need to do is take your image and using a paint program, resize it to your WB's resolution and drop the colours (eg palette match) to your WB's bit depth.....easy

[NovaCoder]

And why is that a bad idea? i have no problems with it

It gave me some nasty graphics glitches and if you think about it, it's trying to do the same thing as FBlit so it's better to use one or the other and not both