After uploading the file "a500ocs.jpg" to aminet I received several replies with
requests for the image only. As a reaction to this and as a tribute to the work
done by the team at http://www.amigaos.com I now release "miracle of life" in
full iff-quality. In fact the jpg-shot was of really poor quality compared to
the oiginal iff. I would call it a mistake having uploaded it as jpg.

The picture was originally in 1024x768x24 and can be downloaded from
http://www.amigaos.com in the section about Classic-Amiga-AddOns.

To take full profit of the image as a backdrop on your own OCS-Workbench you
will need some software installed: At first you'll need OS 3.x which is in my humble
opinion the only way to set up backdrop images at all. If there's a way to do
the same with OS 2.x, let me know ! Second you'll need something that lets you
lock all 16 colors. I am using "Scalos" which provides me this possibility and
also has a quite well done way of handling backdrops.

If you are using "NewIcons" the icons should look quite well with or without
rendering. NewIcons makes use of all the 16 colors and they are quite well
different. If you do only use the standard Workbench icons you won't have a
problem with the icons' colors at all: The first four colors of the image are
still the standard Workbench colors grey, black, white and blue. 

Adapting the image to smaller sizes should be no problem using PPaint.

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