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- Hiya Readers;
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- Here are some grabs of my everyday workbench in action. It hasn't been
- "enhanced" for the screenshotting process or anything like that.
- Due to student financial constraints :( I have what I consider a very low
- spec amiga system, A1200, WB3.0,68030 @25mhz, 2meg chip, 4meg fast, SCSI 2x
- CD-ROM (attached via a squirrel interface), Modem and a 250 MB maxtor 2.5
- inch HD. Oh and a Cumana
- external floppy, but thats only really used for playing Moonstone (One of the
- top games ever IMHO)
- As I am using the 68030 in combination with the AGA chipset (and an RGB
- monitor) my usable display options are very limited. In fact I use 640x256 in
- 16 colours for my Workbench. This gives a broad enough palette for Newicons
- to look good, while keeping the display speed up, and saving memory.
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- Taking a brief tour around the workbench we can see:
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- Multiview: (always useful)
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- Internet: This starts up my connection to Freeserve, using Miami as my TCP/IP
- stack.
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- Yam: I'm currently using Version 2, preview 7 (the latest public version at
- the time of writing). What can I say, this program is great I havn't used
- better on any platform.
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- Ibrowse: This seems to be the fastest and most stable on my system, It does
- the job.
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- Peperoni: A drag and drop file ar/dearchiver
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- Downloads: A sort of junk drawer, everything is copied here until it gets
- sorted elsewhere or deleted :)
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- Visage: A graphics viewer, opens on a public screen and displays jpegs via
- some rather speedy internal code, and just about any other file format thanks
- to datatypes.
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- Top: Part of the Executive package which I can't recommend highly enough
- (CU-Amiga gave it 98%) this part of the program is a small CPU usage monitor,
- which can display usage for each task, you can also send breaks to programs
- from it, very useful.
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- Shell: An easily accessable link to the shell, I have it patched with Kingcon
- so that it has tab filename completion, command completion, scrollback
- buffer, the works really.
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- Hip: short for Hippoplayer, a module, and sound player. It's small and
- supports many file formats.
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- Do you like my backdrop???? It's only 8 colors and I think it looks great
- (many thanks Kira) It adds a bit of humour to my workbench.
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- In some shots you might see me playing a CD using a program called ACDPlay.
- It gets launched when the audio CD icon is Dclicked (thanks to Deficons)
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- All screenshots are taken using Ppaints "Grab Screen" option.
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- All programs mention may be obtained from the Aminet CD's or FTP sites or from
- Various Cover CD's/Disks.
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- David Steele (DJAMIGO)
- email David@biochemlab.freeserve.co.uk
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