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Ahem....
Well, it seems like I just get finished designing icons, and Commode-Door
releases another upgrade to AmigaDOS.
So, here is the latest batch of icons for WB 2.1 - In the 2.1-ICONS directory
is the tool SWAPICON. To use this, click ONCE on the SWAPICON icon,
then holding down the SHIFT KEY, click ONCE on the icon you want to use
as the NEW image, and then SHIFT-CLICK on the icons you want the image
to replace, DOUBLE-CLICKING the last one. A requester will open giving
you the name of the image that will REPLACE the others, and ask if you
want to proceed. If the NEW image is not the one you want, select CANCEL
(zzzzzzzzzzzzzz... oh, sorry, but really, do I have to tell you this?) If
you're really confused, just double-click the SWAPICON icon, and a window
will open up with a list of instructions on how to use it. The application
was written by Richard Mazzarisi, and is a Godsend for this kind of
gruntwork.
So, Friday is here, and I've just spent another week listening to co-workers
whine and blubber about why they don't have any easy way to change their
icons on the Mac Quadras at work. Har-D-Har-Har. When they approached
me for a solution, I opened up the application "RESedit" and wished them
bon-appetite. They did not appreciate the humor...and lord knows they're
too damn cheap to BUY an application to do this (which I, for one, cannot
understand - especially since they elected to purchase the Macintosh, a
system which is far and wide regarded in the industry as
The-Computer-That-Ate-My-Wallet!)
Of course, on the 1-BMs, life doesn't seem to get any better. Windows
seems content with its current mutation into an offensive, voracious memory
pig - gobbling up system resources with an unrestrained gallop and sporting
an atrocious mal d'image GUI with its circus of triple-quadruple-quintuple
mouse click arrangement, apparently designed with dexterity-fatigue as the
primary goal. If Commode-Door were serious about boosting sales of the
Amiga, they would send all potential customers one of these turds from BIG
BLUE, and include the icon-illness of Windows 3.1 with its uncooperative
"managers" and driver assignment headaches.
One final thought. Earlier this week, I was musing over the LIFE imitates
ART imitates LIFE imitates ART ad infinitum al nauseaum (except at work,
where ART tends to imitate the competitor of the week), and I recalled the
film "Yellow Submarine", where the BIG IDEA was to save the (albeit mythical)
population from the oppressive domination of a group who sucked every last
drop of creativity out of them by bonking them on the head with, what else,
-BIG BLUE-APPLES. Hmmmmm.....
C'est la vie dans Afrique, enfante.....
Roger McVey