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Hiya Readers;
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.
Taking a brief tour around the workbench we can see:
Multiview: (always useful)
Internet: This starts up my connection to Freeserve, using Miami as my TCP/IP
stack.
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.
Ibrowse: This seems to be the fastest and most stable on my system, It does
the job.
Peperoni: A drag and drop file ar/dearchiver
Downloads: A sort of junk drawer, everything is copied here until it gets
sorted elsewhere or deleted :)
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.
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.
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.
Hip: short for Hippoplayer, a module, and sound player. It's small and
supports many file formats.
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.
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)
All screenshots are taken using Ppaints "Grab Screen" option.
All programs mention may be obtained from the Aminet CD's or FTP sites or from
Various Cover CD's/Disks.
David Steele (DJAMIGO)
email David@biochemlab.freeserve.co.uk