moulinaie Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hello, I have made some changes in ColorSTE: 1) The name ColorSTE was not signifiant anymore as it also works in mono and not only on the STE... I changed this for STDESK 2) In mono and medium resolution, you get new icons and a sound at startup 3) in color, always the same plus the menu bar colored. Here are the views of the three available resolutions: The archive is downloadable on my page: http://gtello.pagesp...fr/colorste.htm Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) Nice. Cant wait to try it, when I get the new GLUE chip for my STfm. Edited March 5, 2012 by Official Ninja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Looks Fantastic! I really like it. I'll have to grab the one that works for 2.06 for use on the Mega computers.... One thing though, I ran this on a STFM so it should have played the STDESK.YM but I didnt hear any sound. I even made an auto folder on the floppy, copied STDESK.PRG in there and rebooted, and still no sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Another idea, which i don't know if it's feasible.. smaller icons for stlow.. (soon enough you'll be writing your own desktop if I have my suggestion way) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Looks Fantastic! I really like it. I'll have to grab the one that works for 2.06 for use on the Mega computers.... One thing though, I ran this on a STFM so it should have played the STDESK.YM but I didnt hear any sound. I even made an auto folder on the floppy, copied STDESK.PRG in there and rebooted, and still no sound. Where did you put the STDESK.YM file??? It should be in C:\, not in the AUTO folder. Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Well, I was using a floppy so A: but it was in the root. I didn't move stdesk.ym Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Hi again, I'm working on the background... Looks cool ! But not finished as I have to find some system addresses for the TOS 1.4/1.2/1.0 This background remains active when an application is running, here my FORTH editor: Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 ST DESK is ready to work with the backgrounds in every resolution. You can download it. I'd like to have some testers for TOS<1.6 (1.4, 1.2, 1.0). Please help !! http://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/colorste.htm Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tresas Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Wow!!!! Very - Very very - Nice Work!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Thanks to all! Here is a better video of ST DESK, but it is blocked in the US because I added some music... Guillaume. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Yeah, it sucks like that over here sometimes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Yeah, it sucks like that over here sometimes... For those who can't access the video, here is a new link but (sorry again!) without the annotations that came in Youtube to comment the video. http://dl.free.fr/qN0zXPved Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I've been using the Mega STe version and I enjoy it. Luckily most all the games I run have no troubles while using this. One of my favorites does complain about too much low ram occupied. So I just clean boot to play that one. It's "invaders" a nice little Space Invaders clone. Thanks for the nice program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Bumping for this excellent software. Plus, is there any chance the TOS2.06 version could get the sound player like STDesk? I was using STDesk with my STe when it was 1.62 and now that I switched it to 2.06 I have to use the version compatible with that. So no more boot up music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Thanks for the bump - I had forgotten. I finally have my 520ST up and running. It has TOS 1.00. I will give this a try sometime in the next few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Bumping for this excellent software. Plus, is there any chance the TOS2.06 version could get the sound player like STDesk? I was using STDesk with my STe when it was 1.62 and now that I switched it to 2.06 I have to use the version compatible with that. So no more boot up music. And no more background image !!!!! Adding the music to the 2.06 version could be possible, I'll have to recompile the source written by Ronald Andersson with a different assembler than mine... Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Thanks for the bump - I had forgotten. I finally have my 520ST up and running. It has TOS 1.00. I will give this a try sometime in the next few days. if it works, that will be a great info ! thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Bumping for this excellent software. Plus, is there any chance the TOS2.06 version could get the sound player like STDesk? I was using STDesk with my STe when it was 1.62 and now that I switched it to 2.06 I have to use the version compatible with that. So no more boot up music. And no more background image !!!!! Adding the music to the 2.06 version could be possible, I'll have to recompile the source written by Ronald Andersson with a different assembler than mine... Guillaume. That would be awesome. I would use it for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder11 Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Thanks to all! Here is a better video of ST DESK, but it is blocked in the US because I added some music... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0P1uY2x_7c Guillaume. Hey sounds like good old Diamond Dave and I assume Van Halen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Hi, I really like this since it really improves the GEM desktop. It works on boot up, but when I do a warm reset the icons, background and sound don't appear. I'm using TOS 1.62 but on Hatari so I'm not sure if this also happens on a real ST (which sadly I don't have hooked up now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted May 13, 2012 Author Share Posted May 13, 2012 Hi, I really like this since it really improves the GEM desktop. It works on boot up, but when I do a warm reset the icons, background and sound don't appear. I'm using TOS 1.62 but on Hatari so I'm not sure if this also happens on a real ST (which sadly I don't have hooked up now). I've had problems with Hatari too, ST DESK is not so stable than on a real ST. Why? I can't undestrand... !!! Does Hatari really emulates the hardware or does it replaces some code of TOS to speed up things? Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I've had problems with Hatari too, ST DESK is not so stable than on a real ST. Why? I can't undestrand... !!! Does Hatari really emulates the hardware or does it replaces some code of TOS to speed up things? Guillaume. Hmm, no clue... Emulation is never 100% perfect either way. Might be something with the reset vector cause it only happens when you do a warm boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Bump. Guillaume, any chance on some med-res enhancements like the awesome work you've done in low res? I realize you're working with only 4 colors instead of 16. That would be very cool though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Bump. Guillaume, any chance on some med-res enhancements like the awesome work you've done in low res? I realize you're working with only 4 colors instead of 16. That would be very cool though! I was thinking about using a 4 grey levels design. But suddenly... I got lazy! Sure that with 4 greys, the medium rez would look much better. But how many softs will be disturbed by those colors when they expect to find the standard red, green white and black? Is it really worth it? Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Well, when you put it like that, I guess not. Still, it would be nice just to get some color desktop/window icons, instead of just the plain ones. So whats the difference with what they expect in low res? Is it because there are 16 colors to play around with? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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