Workbench on Amiga 1200

[lassie]

Hi i have seen pictures of the workbench background screen on Amiga where the background starts dark blue and keeps getting more light blue down like a rainbow of some sort, but i cannot seem to find where to make it. I can get black and red and all others single colour background on my 1200. do you know how to make that effect?

[Thomas]

You need some kind of patch which hacks into the WB's copper list and changes the palette of one pen every pixel row.

I've written one myself: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/downloads/wbgradient.lha

There are others on Aminet. The most famous is contained in MagicWB.

Of course you could just make a background picture which contains the color gradient you like and use this as WB pattern. But the picture will be dithered into the available number of colors which might not look like you want it to.

[lassie]

You need some kind of patch which hacks into the WB's copper list and changes the palette of one pen every pixel row.

I've written one myself: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/downloads/wbgradient.lha

There are others on Aminet. The most famous is contained in MagicWB.

Of course you could just make a background picture which contains the color gradient you like and use this as WB pattern. But the picture will be dithered into the available number of colors which might not look like you want it to.

Okay thanks for your answer i have sat many hours and tried to find it

[lassie]

You need some kind of patch which hacks into the WB's copper list and changes the palette of one pen every pixel row.

I've written one myself: http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/downloads/wbgradient.lha

There are others on Aminet. The most famous is contained in MagicWB.

Of course you could just make a background picture which contains the color gradient you like and use this as WB pattern. But the picture will be dithered into the available number of colors which might not look like you want it to.

Do you know if it is in MagicWB for Amiga 600? or is it only for AGA amiga?

[icbrkr]

MagicWB is for all machines.

[Thomas]

MagicWB is for all machines.

Yes, but the gradient utility only works with AGA chipset.

My program also works on OCS/ECS. But it needs Kick 3.0+ currently. I looked at the source code and gfx dependencies can be removed easily. The major problem is the use of the GT_GetGadgetAttrs function which does not exist in Kick/WB 2.0. I yet have to learn how to work around this.

[paul1981]

@lassie

Try this:
http://aminet.net/package/misc/antiq/Stripes

Read the docs as it is a cli tool (24 years old now!). This copper gradient works under 1.x. I've just tested it on my KS 2.0 / WB2.1 A600 and it works fine.

[lassie]

@lassie

Try this:
http://aminet.net/package/misc/antiq/Stripes

Read the docs as it is a cli tool (24 years old now!). This copper gradient works under 1.x. I've just tested it on my KS 2.0 / WB2.1 A600 and it works fine.[/QUOTHi

Hi i will check that out

[_ThEcRoW]

You can also take a look at classicWB installations that are available, who has copper-like colors in background and on system windows.
I have it installed recently and it's amazing.