Copper-generate WB Backdrop

[Franko]

Try here on AmiNet, lots of different utils/patches for creating a copper background on WB...

CopperMaster for example...

http://aminet.net/search?query=copper

[Franko]

I looked back over some of the documentation just now - if I'm not mistaken, Copper MOVEs take 560ns (four cycles) to execute. Running with my true-color idea, that would make a bitmap of 80x(screen height) theoretically possible, though I don't know how stable it'd be in practice.

There were a few programs for displaying copper coloured pics on the workbench on AmiNet years ago (can't remember their names though) but they were very tricky to edit/create pics with and the results were pretty poor, think thats why they didn't catch on...

[Franko]

@ commodorejohn

It's like vidarh said, using a copper background to create a pic will be very sore on the eyes, as every time the HD or floppy does anything or even moving the mouse and opening windows causes the copper display to flicker change colours and be generally just too messy to be of any use...

I'll need to dig out the ones I tried years ago to show you why these utils/patches never caught on, unless you don't mind the eye strain they cause...