Adapt WB1.2

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Actually, it's limited to a single color.

I'm sure I remember some little prog that might have come with an Amiga magazine that allowed 4-colour backdrops under 1.3 (dunno about 1.2) - IIRC it came with a pic of a butterfly as an example - I'll see if I can find what it was...

BTW do the little apps that use the copper to draw one of the pens (eg Magic Copper/Copper Daemon) need a newer WB?  If not, that could be a way to get a nice effect with 4 colours :-D

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@evil_nerd

There is one program I definitely can remember called "WBStripes" or something, that made gradient stripes on you workbench backgound - it definitely worked with WB1.3  There are a few other eye candy things I've got around somewhere, like "Exploding Windows", which made windows do a little zoom effect when they opened or closed - hardly a subtle effect though :-D  Reply/Pmail/Email me if you want me to have a dig around for them.

So with this program it would be possible to do something like a Boing Ball or something to? Anybody knows the name of this app? :-)

If it's how I remember it worked (that's a big "if") you could possibly have a simple boing-ball.  Remember though that that would use up two of your available pens - two colours from icons, windows, WB apps etc would have to be red and white (probably not too bad if you changed the orange to red, maybe?)

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BTW I've no idea if both programs could run together (could be a nice effect if they did!)  And I'd agree with other people that you really need to upgrade to do anything serious, even if that's just serious eye-candy :-P

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It would be nice if you had the time to do that, but I'd suppose you can use your time in a better way :-P

Actually, you're lucky - they're both on a disk that I've disk2FDIed onto my PC - I'll see if I can seperate them out and email them (I'm assuming you can transfer stuff to your Amiga - do you want an ADF or an LHA?)

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I see no copyright issues with 15 year old PD, so I've uploaded them for you all to enjoy (a bit of sarcasm there - although they do actually work on modern systems, you'd probably be crazy to use them :-D )  Exploding Windows Stripes ("stripes 0 1 0 0 0" seems to give a reasonable effect and "stripes 2 5 1 8 0" tints your menus (BTW if you've got an NTSC system the last number should be 1) - run the program with wrong parameters to view help).  If these have Amiga or windoze viri don't blame me.

[alx]

They're not hardfiles - they're just the actual programs.  You need to get them into your emulation environment somehow - one way would be to put them in a directory and mount that as a hard drive under UAE (no idea if WB1.2 would recognise a hard drive, so you might have to use a more recent version).

To run them, you could then go into the cli and go to their drawer.  Then type in "ew" or "stripes" (with parameters, as above).  You could launch them from the WB (by double-clicking them, entering in arguments and clicking "OK", but they don't have icons and IIRC WB1.x cannot view files without icons.

To make them load up whenever you load a disk, edit s:startup-sequence with notepad or whatever the WB1.x texteditor is and add something like:

run stripes 0 1 0 0 1
run >nil: ew

That's assuming that they're in your C: drawer

[alx]

Yes, I'd add the directorie. But how to enter the drawer?

I'd imagine that "cd DRAWERNAME" and just "DRAWERNAME" should work...