What is your Amiga's current backdrop pic and icons?

[TheGoose]

My screen is GREY! set off by a really nice accent of GREY! Not happy with it though, cause the window borders are a plain blue, and not GREY! A work in progress...

[fitzsteve]

@Zipper thats what I need  - cheers, come back later for the updated pics!

@Karlos I didn't try that one but I tried some others and they didn't work so I gave up, but will try that one later...

@Cammy, You're welcome.  I'm glad the A600 cover arrived safe and that you're pleased with it

Steve.

[XDelusion]

What software do you guys use under MorphOS and classic Amiga OS, to make all images load in Fast RAM rather than the Video RAM? If I could get around this, I'd start using desktop images.

[stefcep2]

If you use 3.1 and newicons there is a setting in in newicons prefs to use fast ram.

AFAIR (I'm still setting up my A4000 with a compact flash card) in 3.9 there is a setting in workbench prefs (?) that lets you use fast ram for icons at least.

Cybergraphx prefs has an option to use fast ram instead as well-but even then some chip ram is is still used, but a lot less.

If all you have is AGA then i'd just use magic workbench in 8 colours with one of its patterns or do a color reduction of a backdrop you like  (or one of the gazillion available on Aminet) using the magic workbench pallette in PPaint, or ImageFX with high dithering settings (Floyd Steinberg worked best for me).  Its still fast, looks OK and doesn't chew up a lot of chip ram.

[Karlos]

If you use 3.1 and newicons there is a setting in in newicons prefs to use fast ram.

^ This. Also, FBlit is a must-have.

[Karlos]

@Karlos I didn't try that one but I tried some others and they didn't work so I gave up, but will try that one later..

I'd be surprised if it didn't work, was always the one I relied on until I got an RTG card and used cybergrab and later sgrab.

[Ral-Clan]

Here are my setups:

Fitzsteve, nice setups, but doesn't it bother you when you use a 16:9 monitor and a 4:3 screenmode and all your icons and background are stretched out like that?

[fitzsteve]

Fitzsteve, nice setups, but doesn't it bother you when you use a 16:9 monitor and a 4:3 screenmode and all your icons and background are stretched out like that?

Thanks for the kind words, nope not too bothered about the stretching.  I can always change it to 4x3 like in the A1200D shot, that was taken on the same screen.  I would setup the workbench in 1280x768 but the damn TV just wont take the Picasso Screen Mode, always out on sync...

The WarpOS games like Doom/Quake/Wipeout all look fine in squashed 4x3 mode so I tend to leave it that way for PC input which is how the RTG is connected to the TV

The best thing about the 16x9 screen being an LCD TV it has RGB Scart so the native stuff like AGA games are displayed nice and sharp, plus games that have black borders can be zoomed out to fill the screen in 16x9 or 14x9 :afro:

Steve.

[zylesea]

I have a very pure environment on my main maschine.

[Karlos]

I have a very pure environment on my main maschine.

Audrey Hepburn, eh? From the days when women weren't afraid to have eyebrows

Try this one...

[zylesea]

Well, she's just lovely. Was sad day when she died a couple of years back.
And of course Truman Capote did a brilliant thing with 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. The movie, albeit the modified end, is great, too.

[Thematic]

Not long ago I had a proper 4:3 screen for the A1200, but I didn't do any screenshots recently. So here's a 16:9 one. It tends to look "too sharp" in the picture, because the display device is actually a not-extremely-configurable television (at least I get RGB AGA by a flick of the remote).

Link

[redfox]

I hope people can see these ok.

Here is my favourite background on my current system.
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_grab10.jpg
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/2_grab11.jpg

This is my Amiga Workbench 3.1 running on E-UAE.
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_QuickGrab1.gif
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/113/1_QuickGrab2.gif

I used the same Dragon background on my A2000HD, which is currently offline for repairs.

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redfox

[Damion]

An old one from my A2000. I've since disabled AfA and gone back to a basic 3.9/glowicon setup for speed and nostalgia.

[tone007]

It's been so long since I had any of my Amigas turned on I can't remember what my WBPatterns are.  This will probably change as I just got a care package from Poland with an A1200 busboard!  Time to start cutting up the massive PC tower I've been saving...

[Templario]

Well, in my WinUAE I have one background with.... yeah the great Freddy Krueger altough the last movie (the worst of alls) and in my Sam I have one Fairy in a forrest, but both case I use PNG icons, mines and the others designers.