Amiga OS 3.9 backdrop images...

[yorgle]

I'm working on setting up an Amiga OS 3.9 development environment/UAE box.  I have it mostly working, but with a few quirks right now.

Namely, workbench backdrop images are not showing up.

If i set a backdrop picture of type IFF, it silently fails.  If i select a JPG (all images provided with the 3.9 install, Prefs/Presets/Backdrops/#? then I get "Error: Can't load picture"

Patterns work fine, just not images.  Are one of my datatypes screwed up, or is it something else?

(I've used 1.3 and 2.04 for years, but this is my first time with 3.9)

Any help/suggestions/pointers would be appreciated.   (I know this isn't necessary to get my dev environment running, but I want everything to work, you know?)

[amigadave]

Download and install the Amikit archive of files.  It will give you one of the best, if not THE BEST AmigaOS3.9 emulation setup you will ever see.

Then if you like it and appreciate all the extras that you get with Amikit, please consider donating to the project.  If you have never seen it before you are going to be blown away when you do.

Check it out at:

http://amikit.amiga.sk/

[yorgle]

Looks like AmiKit requires Windows or Linux to set up. I have neither available for this project.  I really am happy with everything I've set up so far, I just can't get background images to work.  I don't think that requires a 100meg download.  (My current environment with tools is roughly 30megs, zipped)

[Matt_H]

Sounds like a datatypes issue. What happens if you try to load these images from Multiview? Try doing it from a shell so you can see if there's any error output.

[yorgle]

Sounds like a datatypes issue. What happens if you try to load these images from Multiview? Try doing it from a shell so you can see if there's any error output.

Aha!  Thank you.  It's been years since i used AmigaOS >= 2.x, and I forgot about multiview.  Turns out it was not a datatype issue, I just didn't give it enough RAM for the image.  Tweaked the EUAE settings, and it loads the image now... very slowly, but it loads it.

Think I'll have to make some nice IFF-based backdrops now