Results from DJNick's Sam460ex bounty

[djnick]

Greetings to Amiga friends. I decided to release what I've done up to now after Amiga community bought me Sam460ex motherboard in February 2012:

- I've designed complete AmigaOS.net web site:
http://www.amigaos.net/

Credits page:
http://amigaos.net/content/88/website

- Created 1st AmigaOS4+ theme called "Crystal". With this theme you will get:
   - skinned toolbars and windows
   - new mouse graphics
   - redesigned requester icons and all menus / submenus
   - my boot and error sound samples [composed in Renoise tracker]
   - my Amiga Encounter wallpaper in 6 different resolutions (800x600; 1024x768; 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080px)
   - redesigned MUI preferences so it matches Crystal theme set
   - changed Filer preferences so its default colors matches Crystal theme set
   - added new skin for AmiDock and its horizontal and vertical subdocks / submenus.
   - added script for black Shell and colored text

Download link:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=graphics/theme/crystal-djnick.lha

- Created set of 14 full HD wallpapers (AmigaEncounter, Abstract, Abstract v2, Abstract v3, Impact, Matrix [+Matrix col2], Futur, Retro, Retro v2, Space [+Space-green], The Ball, The Ball v2 and Xtra)
resized into 6 different resolutions: 800x600; 1024x768; 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080px.

Download links:
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/misc/djnick-hd_wallpapers_01.zip
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/misc/djnick-hd_wallpapers_02.zip

Some snapshots are in my DA gallery:
http://djnick2k.deviantart.com/gallery

- Composed 14 Amiga Boot sound samples [with and without voices] in Renoise tracker and saved as .wav and .mp3 files:
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=audio/misc/nykk-bootsounds.zip

- Collected 86 FREE good looking and working skins for your AmigaAMP mp3 player [http://www.amigaamp.de/] by Thomas Wenzel [http://www.toms-home.de]
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/theme/amigaamp-skins.zip
Screenshot: http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=modules/snapshot/display&fileid=7964

- Created cartoon music video (that became very popular up to now) with Amiga X1000 in the background here:

Mama voli bebu // Mommy Loves Baby [over 2.3 million views up to now]:
http://youtu.be/FDBqs7GOY_w

English version [over 260.000 views up to now]:
http://youtu.be/3uKFzqmijbk

... so many people are aware about new Amiga existance in 2013.

- Redesigned: Amiga-Look's website logo and header
http://www.amiga-look.org/ and used this site to upload all my work I've done for AmigaOS [and later OS4depot.net]

- Quick background work for Jack.

- Excalibur theme [I think it is not fully implemented and the way I wanted].

- Smaller graphics [logos, backgrounds and header designs] for various users from Amiga world.

* * * F.A.Q: * * *

* WHY IT TOOK SOOOO LONG:

- Bounty is finished in February 2012. Then it took over a month to receive motherboard. System couldn't boot so I had to order SATA cards from Australia. Thank you Belxjander for sending it to me.
- In the mean time I invested [~440 Eur]  into new tower case, UPS, hard disk, DVD Rom, graphics card, USB Flash, keyboard, mouse, USB hub.
- After receiving SATA cards in April 2012 - system couldn't boot for over 3 months of really hard working and setting. AmigaOS4.1 update 2 boots for the first time in June 2012 [again thanks to Belxjander].
- In June I got Maxim baby boy so it took me another 2 months for movements from one town to another and preparing place for family. During that time I had enormous of work for various clients [video production, ads, commercials, animations, music, sfx, games, UI and web design]...
- In September 2012 I started to create themes, but it didn't work as I expected. As I am just deisgner [without any programming knowledge] - creating theme was extremly large and time consuming problem [discovering how system works, where are UI parts etc].
- InBetween Skinning and life I used to create everything others I listed in the beginning.
- And finally 1st theme is finished [with large help from Kas1e] this week, 1,5 years later after bounty is finished.

* VIDEO PRODUCTION ABOUT AMIGA SYSTEM?

As soon as I get fully working 3D driver I will record a video about AmigaOS and put it on my channel [I already have over 26 million visitors, over 9000 subscribers, between 50 and 100.000 viewers every day and over 2 millions comes by month].

My youtube tracking visits link:
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/djnykk

I will not record AmigaOS at current state [as my graphic drivers are not capable of playing video at full speed, displaying Youtube videos, working in Graphics and Desktop Publishing software, composing music... etc.] as it will receive lots of negative votes.

I hope I explained all in very short text. More work will come in future.

Nykk // http://www.djnick.rs // http://www.youtube.com/djnykk // djnick2k.deviantart.com/gallery

[Steady]

Thanks for all your contributions DJNick.

[Hattig]

What I took from this is that settings up a fully working Amiga OS 4 environment on a fairly popular PowerPC motherboard is a difficult thankless task.

[ajlwalker]

What I took from this is that settings up a fully working Amiga OS 4 environment on a fairly popular PowerPC motherboard is a difficult thankless task.

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

[magnetic]

Hello Dj Nick

Nice website, is that wordpress? I thought that you were going to deliver more os redesign. Thats what we need. There is an abundance of amiga oriented websites, wallpapers, and similar stuff out there..

[Erol]

Greetings to Amiga friends. I decided to release what I've done up to now after Amiga community bought me Sam460ex motherboard in February 2012y

Well done for all your hard work!

[djnick]

Hello Dj Nick

Nice website, is that wordpress? I thought that you were going to deliver more os redesign. Thats what we need. There is an abundance of amiga oriented websites, wallpapers, and similar stuff out there..

Yes, there will be more themes. What I will need is - help in code. I am trying to get full working installation script + theme set for all possible window parts [which is madness to create at current state unless you are really good css programmer and are into programming world].

[djnick]

Well done for all your hard work!

Thank you. Here are some snapshots from the archive:

http://djnick2k.deviantart.com/gallery/