Need ideas to make my workbench look nicer (PIC)

[dougal]

Here is a picture of my desktop.

I need ideas to make it look nicer. The resolution is PAL Hi-Res 640x256 @ 64 colors. The display is an old(ish) 20" LCD TV and connected via scart. The TV does NOT flickerfix.

If i go any higher in resolution i will get flicker, so any higher is out of the question.

Maybe when the Indivision AGA MKII comes out and if i have money i'll buy one but till then i would like to make my workbench look nicer with the hardware i have.

A1200 060/50, 64MB fast and OS3.9

[carvedeye]

Wheres the pic? or am i missing something?

[dougal]

Wheres the pic? or am i missing something?

Lofl ooops your right. i forgot to up it Its there now

[Matt_H]

The 3.9 icons are designed for a higher resolution screen (640x400 or higher), so you may want to consider replacing those. Zillions of options on Aminet. MUI comes with some nice textures that you can use in WBPattern (I'm fond of MarbleDark myself). Beware of chip RAM limitations, though.

[Karlos]

The 3.9 icons are designed for a higher resolution screen (640x400 or higher), so you may want to consider replacing those. Zillions of options on Aminet. MUI comes with some nice textures that you can use in WBPattern (I'm fond of MarbleDark myself). Beware of chip RAM limitations, though.

Magic workbench for the win. There are plenty of decent icons suitable for those pesky 1:2 aspect modes too.

[Khephren]

you can plug your composite and vga (Amiga Rgb)  into the lcdtv at the same time. (asuming your lcd has vga)
Run your workbench in a vga compatible mode, and play your games through composite. My lcdtv autoswitches between the two signals, perhaps yours will also.

Failng that, run in 16 colours using rebels palette and magicTV (a software flicker fixer for 4bit mode).

[yssing]

Start by removing the borders, and I guess your lcd can show highres-laced with no flicker, my old one does it perfectly.

[bbond007]

Here is a picture of my desktop.

I need ideas to make it look nicer. The resolution is PAL Hi-Res 640x256 @ 64 colors. The display is an old(ish) 20" LCD TV and connected via scart. The TV does NOT flickerfix.

If i go any higher in resolution i will get flicker, so any higher is out of the question.

Maybe when the Indivision AGA MKII comes out and if i have money i'll buy one but till then i would like to make my workbench look nicer with the hardware i have.

A1200 060/50, 64MB fast and OS3.9

This is my minimig 1.1's dedktop. I'm kind of limited by an 68000 and ECS..

I'm running BetterWB, 724x283-16color overscan, FullPallette(Cammy and Rebel's palette) PowerWindows, and I converted the background pic with Hamlab+

I stretched the pic vertically a bit so it would look more like it does on my widescreen monitor.

With that 1200 you could run VisualPrefs and Birdie to really dress up WB.

[dougal]

Magic workbench for the win. There are plenty of decent icons suitable for those pesky 1:2 aspect modes too.

I saw MagicWb but not keen on the classic Workbench look and i much prefer the OS3.5+ look.

I would like to work with the icons and stuff (i know they look too big) of OS3.9. But i cannot find any backgrounds for my screen res.

I'm also looking for a dock kind of thing. I removed Amidock because at my resolution and at anything less than 256 colors it looks like crap.

I'm also looking for something that can add a boing ball or amiga tick logo to the status bar at the top.

[dougal]

Start by removing the borders, and I guess your lcd can show highres-laced with no flicker, my old one does it perfectly.

I removed the borders. Unfortunatly Hires Laced still flickers on the LCD

[Matt_H]

I'm also looking for something that can add a boing ball or amiga tick logo to the status bar at the top.

What's the name of it, VisualPrefs, maybe? I think that will do it.

[bbond007]

I'm also looking for something that can add a boing ball or amiga tick logo to the status bar at the top.

Look at Visual Prefs to do what you want, but I think adding anything to the status bar is going to look crappy unless you run in multiscan or interlace.

as far as the background image, I just download and re-size/crop/edit the picture using photoshop 7.0 and then send it to my minimig where I convert it to IFF and my WB 16 color palette using Hamlab+.

[Khephren]

I removed the borders. Unfortunatly Hires Laced still flickers on the LCD

why are you using interlace on an lcd? dblpal or euro36 would be more suitable.

[danwood]

why are you using interlace on an lcd? dblpal or euro36 would be more suitable.

Not via scart, I don't know of any LCD TV that will display those modes via Scart.

You could install MagicTV to get non-flickr higher res.

[dougal]

Not via scart, I don't know of any LCD TV that will display those modes via Scart.

You could install MagicTV to get non-flickr higher res.

Don't like MagicTV as it has to be 16 colors. Shame my LCD TV does not flicker fix.