I haven't read all reply yet however i stumbled over this (while looking for SimGen i used it since... since?)
nice job!
MyMenus i even use since a long time (stuff i used already on my real A500, A2000 latter has become a victim to time while the A500 is still operating, would be it rests together with my A4000 in a box)
What i like to post here is another neat enhancement for OS1.3 some might know it "wIconify", wIconify is hard to describe it squeezes the workbench screen in a window and opens a custom screen (manager as well) as the name suggests the purpose is to iconify processes, windows and screens. Whatfor? Productivity, you receive a clean workbench and can drop any program or folder on the screen(s) you can tell that a given program should open on a given screen (almost like the pubscreen features from on OS 2.0), you can even iconify the workbench itself even if that has little sense, theoretically you can open any program on a custom screen and iconify it (there is a danger within most processes don't like this but for a shell it's fine, i.e you could iconify DPaint or a game which uses a wb clone screen like SimCity on it's own screen whateverfor but keep in mind that it can trash a process). wIconify uses own icon templates for to specify process types, i.e. the shell, a text reader, an editor or by default any process this is i have to say very time consuming since you have to edit the icons plane by plane in c format but you have utilities that will help you creating them. A process receives the preset icon for this process when iconified (little use but i made a nice one for the wb and of course for some process types like, CLI, reader, editor - for the use you assign program names to the icon templates, you have to wIconify isn't intelligent but you are - aren't you?). I have to admit that wIconify needs a long long time to be installed and setup (see this as a sort of game, it's fun doing so and you will be pretty proud of the results, i.e. my own "hacked" icons) it isn't for the intermediate user it's meant for advanced users and programmers - people who have several programs open to edit code, gfx and/or sound (and or and even all together). Of course one can forgo all the icon stuff and use a single template for all processes the name of the process will tell you what it is.
The "Workbench" icon isn't my creation i found it on a fish disk (if i remember that right) but all the rest are my creations and equal in size no matter what program (na ja, fast alle) which results in a neat looking WB instead of this thouhouwabohou of different sized and different looking icons also the size consistent icons fit well to wIconify.
I hope you don't mind if i post a screenshot or two.
The latter shows MyMenu and picks a preset for SimGen (selects from a theme a random pic or loops the content) i use it for a lot of things - except to run games
but well...
If you look close you see that the three processes differ for the icons used on the screen, left is a CLI with the cursor positioned top-left, midst is a text editor and right is a simple output shell like "RAW", latter is my default icon for processes i didn't listed, any if you like though). The idea is that if you work on a project can close (iconify) and open the programs you need for your job and this frees a lot of space on the wb additionally you can open screens and drop either any process on it and even iconify them on this screen.
Like i said you can open and manage screens which is a rare feature for OS 1.3 the screens can have depth up to 5 bitplanes! (32 colors, unfortunately proggies like SimGen or WBPic only work with a depth of 2 bitplanes, that what i was looking for real a program with which i can backdrop an 8 or 16 color image)
I guess this is a very nice addition to 1.3 and it doesn't only looks good it also makes sense (if you work with the amiga).
You might have noticed the altered fonts for the title bar and the icons, you will find these proggies and i guess as well wIconify on a fish disk - most probably i got it from there.
wIconify not only drops icons for processes on the screen you can also tell if they should be floating or have a fixed position and you can forbid or allow multiselection (of course only for the virtual icons).
wIconify isn't meant to be run on a disk operated A500 it would need to much space on floppies and disk swapping would never stop... it's an A2000 productivity enhancement.
let's see if i find the softs on aminet...
wIconify:
http://aminet.net/util/boot/wIconify.lha
If you are really interested (who so ever) in my icons and like to spare the work (or otherwise if you like the look of 'em) leave a PM.
SetFont for the shell (alt. OneFont)
http://aminet.net/search?query=setfont
Unfortunately you will need a second proggie to change the font for the Icon name which is "chfont" (i'm not sure for the use of OneFont, i haven't tried this yet but by reading of the description it should do the job alone).
chfont for the WB font, seems not to be on aminet but i'm pretty sure it's from a fish disk (not all programs are archived as it looks).
OhKeh OneFont tells by it's name to use one by using SetFont and chfont you could have two different but i see no reason for this, the font i used and which is really good looking on a hi-res interlaced screen is "WB7" i'm so used to it that i get nausea if i see the old topaz font (one could guess it must be the OS font).
I don't like to pester you furthermore and will leave...
...until next time.
Mostly (and this since end of the last century) i run the miggy only emulated the machines still lurk around (two of 'em) but i really see not much sense in using them, perhaps i will see first i need a new flat. The A500 would be OK to play a game but my A4000 has a broken CD-ROM drive - however what do i like most of the amiga?
The games i played in my youth and for this an emulator like UAE suits well and unlike for my Intellivision which is very specific for the controllers the joysticks and the handling of the amiga doesn't differ much to a doze.
Personally i prefer the emulation over the hardware, i play better and faster virtual.
Imagine! In the very beginning if i liked to hack a game or it's resources i had a shitty editor with which you edited directly on the media if something went wrong, usually if you forgot to calculate the checksum and wrote the data the whole disk was broken after editing - today i run the game virtual and can use whatever of cool tools to hack my game and most of all NO DANGER AT ALL.
Well you are right "why don't start a own thread - Gernots Themed Amiga" i have so many little things gathered over the decades useful and less useful.
to have a shell icon in the dock, but if it doesn't have my paths setup it's useless for getting any done. 
