@DATABASE "TI.guide" @AUTHOR "Tom Heeren" @(C) "Copyright 1995 Tom Heeren" @$VER: TomIcons2.guide (15.08.95) @NODE "MAIN" "TomIcons2.guide"" @NEXT "MAIN" @{b}Welcome!@{ub} @{fg shine}@{" Tom's Magic WB Icons Number 2 " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/RockNRol.snd q"}@{fg text} 15-Aug-95 MagicWB2.0-Style Icons and other stuff in a 16 colour format. Don't worry if these icons look a little strange at first, I'm no @{" turkey " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/gobble.snd q"} it's just that you haven't installed the correct 16 colour palette. ;-> Please read on on how to make your workbench compatible with the colour prefs used by many of the world's greatest icon creators! @{" " LINK "ico"} DockIcons @{" " LINK "point"} Colour & Pointer @{" " LINK "16C"} 16 Colour Icons @{" " LINK "fix"} C Drawer (FixJump) @{" " LINK "Boot"} Boot-Pic @{" " SYSTEM "Multiview SCREEN TomsWB"} Screen-Shot @{" " LINK "Copyright"} Copyright notice @{" " LINK "Contact"} How to reach me @{" " LINK "Credits"} Credits @ENDNODE @NODE "ico" "TomIcons2 Information" @{b}DockIcons@{ub} Hi Everyone :-)! Here is another collection of MWB Icons and other stuff that I have drawn or created over the last few months. Most of them require the modified 16 colour palette discussed in @{" RomIcons9 " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/wahoo.snd q"}. (See below for further details). I am not an artist but use a registered version of Iconian and Picticon to cut and paste images to produce the icons that are on your screen now. Once in a while Personal Paint 6.1 came in handy as well ;-). These DockIcons are for the PD, Shareware or Commercial programs available of the same name from the AmiNet or your local Amiga retailer (Hard to find in country Victoria). They can be used with ToolManager 2.1 (2.1a update out now) and use a stone specky background. See my @{" Screen-Shot " SYSTEM "Multiview SCREEN TomsWB"} for a brief look. This is a direct quote from RomIcons9 RI.Guide about the installation of a modified 16 colour Workbench. Take it away Roman. "Steps to install my 16 colour palette on your system: 1. Change your screenmode to 16 colors. 2. Load the User-Startup into your editor and change the MagicWB-Daemon to: Run >NIL: C:MagicWB-Demon 4,123,123,123 5,175,175,175 6,170,144,124 7,255,169,151 8,0,0,255 9,50,50,50 10,96,128,96 11,226,209,119 12,255,212,203 13,122,96,72 14,210,210,210 15,229,93,93 3. Do the same with your Startup-Sequence 4. Load Prefs/Palette and change the last four colours to 255,212,203 122,96,72 210,210,210 229,93,93 and save it. After re-boot everything should work fine." There you have it all the instructions you need to make your MWB2.0 look really @{" Cool " SYSTEM "TIGuide/SOUND TIGuide/Cool1.snd q"} too! @ENDNODE @NODE "point" "Colour & Pointer" @{b}Colour & Pointer@{ub} As I have discussed the 16 MWB palette in the @{" Icons " LINK "ico"} section you'll have to look it up yourself. ;-) This pointer is my creation. After seeing the multitude of arrows and other weird and wonderful pointers out there I thought it was time to develop my own pointer. It is a picture of a cartoon-like hand with an out-stretched index finger for the pointer. The wait picture is like the original Zzz cloud. I think they look much better than arrows and give my @{" AMIGA " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Yeah.snd q"} (and maybe yours too) an individual touch that only owners of @{" INTEL Based Machines " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/DoesNot.snd q"} can only drool over - Ha Ha. @{fg shine}There is one small problem which I don't quite understand :-/. When you click on the pointer icon the hand looks okay but the Zzz cloud has part of its side missing. To overcome this I suggest that you use Iconian or IconEdit and load the def_BUSYdisk icon and copy the Zzz cloud from it. Save it as an image and import it to the Pointer prefs program as the BUSY image. Sorry for any inconvenience. If someone can suggest a way around this problem please let @{" ME " LINK "Contact"} know.@{fg text} I have also given this pointer and wait picture to Antonio Santos, the author of Sleeping Pointers, and he will try to animate the cloud and possibly the hand too. I can't wait for that one :-). If your interested in high resolution animated pointers check his program out on the Aminet in util/cdity SleepingPointers.lha. A new larger release is due soon. It will be called MagicPointer! @ENDNODE @NODE "16C" "16 Colour Icons" @{B}16 Colour Icons@{UB} Here is a collection of 16 colour icons that I have designed or modified from original pictures using Picticon and Iconian. These icons were made for my workbench environment to make it more colourful and to replace the boring icons that came with the original programs. They are probably no use to anyone but me but I thought you might want to see them anyway. :-) Icons include those for; DistantSuns SimAnt SimEarth @ENDNODE @NODE "boot" "Boot-Pics" @{b}Boot-Pictures@{ub} Here is a picture suitable as boot-pic with a program such as BootScreen or similar. It is in the PAL format. This picture was converted from its GIF original which can found in the wustl archives in the multimedia section. I think it is more interesting to display a picture which is aesthetically pleasing rather than something which tells the owner what chip set he/she is working with (they should know this anyway!). @{" Wolf " SYSTEM "Multiview SCREEN BootPic/Wolf.iff"} - The face of the wild. @{fg shine}I have also included a short program that I found with another package on the aminet. It stops that annoying jumping of the bootpic as the prefs are loaded into the system. This program reads the overscan-prefs and uses this information to display the bootpic. What you get is no jumping of the bootpic. It's called FixJump, by AlienDesign, and is found in the C drawer. @{" Click Here " LINK "fix"} for the changes necessary to use FixJump.@{fg text} @ENDNODE @NODE "fix" "FixJump" @{B}FixJump@{UB} FixJump will stop your boot-pic from jumping during HD bootup. See @{" Boot-Pics " LINK "boot"} for more info. FixJump is a small program which should be copied into your C Drawer and the following line added to your Startup-Sequence using ED or some other ASCII editor. This line should come before your boot-pic program but after the SETPATCH command. In my startup-sequence it looks like this; C:SetPatch QUIET run >NIL: PatchPointer C:FixJump ;BootScreen 1994 by Joseph Luk BootScreen Now when you boot up the boot picture will remain steady. @ENDNODE @NODE "Copyright" "Copyright" @{b}COPYRIGHT@{ub} @{" TomIcons " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Cool1.snd q"} is Copyright 1995 @{" Tom Heeren " LINK "Contact"}. This package is @{fg shine}CARDWARE@{fg text}. If you like any of these icons or the other stuff included in this package you are humbly requested to spend a few minutes filling out a post-card of your home town and sending it to me. You are allowed to spread it all over the world using any storage medium available, but you must spread the whole package intact. This includes CDROM distributions. Programmers & creators of PD-software are allowed to include single icons of this package in their own package-distributions (If you think any of them are any good) *8-). No one is allowed to take more than AUS$2.50 - (Australian Dollars) including disk and copying cost, and you must include some other MagicWB icons/patterns to fill up the disk by at least 90%. MagicWB is Copyright 1992-1994 Martin Huttenloher. BootPics are Public Domain. FixJump V1.0 (05-Jun-95) by zerocom of ALiENDESiGN. @ENDNODE @NODE "Contact" "How to reach me" @{b}Where does this guy live?@{ub} Tom Heeren Lot 2 Nicholson Street Woolsthorpe Victoria 3276 Australia (Home of many @{" sheep " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Sheep.snd 4 e10 q"} and @{" Border Collies " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Doglong.snd v50 q"})! @{B}Internet:eagle@deakin.edu.au@{UB} If you send me Email, I will answer it as soon as I can but I am in the middle of my honours thesis so you may have to wait a couple of days :-). @{fg Shine}_ ____ ___ ______ _______ _ d# ####b g#00 `N##0" _agN#0P0N# d# d## jN## j##F J## _dN0" " d## .#]## _P ##L jN##F ### g#0" .#]## dE_j## # 0## jF ##F j##F j##' ______ dE_j## .0"""N## d" ##L0 ##F 0## 0## "9##F" .0"""5## .DF' ]## jF ##0 ##F ##F `##K d## .dF' j## _.g#_ _j##_ _g##__ ]N _j##L_ _d##L `#Nh___g#N'_.g#_ _j##_ """"" """"" """""" " """""" """""" """"""" """"" """""@{fg text} @{B}There Is No Alternative!@{UB} Amiga 1200 (2+32)Megabytes OS3.1 DKB Mongoose '030 50MHz, Internal 40+450MB IDE HDs, Commodore 1942 Monitor, Canon BJ200, B/W Hand Scanner @{" Good-Bye until next time. " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Whoo.snd q"} -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- @{B}STOP PRESS@{UB} @{fg Shine}Coming soon to an Aminet site near you@{fg text} @{B}"TomIcons3"@{UB} @{fg Shine}which will include a complete Preferences Icon replacement plus some other useful stuff! ;-)@{fg text} @ENDNODE @NODE "Credits" "Credits" @NEXT "Credits" @{b}Thanks must go to@{ub} - Martin Huttenloher for creating MagicWB and improving the look of Amigas everywhere. - Urban D. M ller for his work with the AmiNet. - Roman "Icon King" Patzner for all his RomIcons and the bit of help he gave me to get this file on the Aminet. - Antonio Santos for making SleepingPointers and his recent communications. - All the other Icon artists out there who have given me the inspiration to produce this little collection and share it with the world! - The programmers of FRED, which I used to make this document - Thanks guys :-)!. - Escom for buying the Amiga. Please show the world what this great tool can do!! - All those people who wrote to me about my first icon package. @ENDNODE