Discolour works only under System 7 on color-capable Macintoshes.
Discolour is a system extension for System 7.0 and later that rectifies
a shortcoming in the wonderful Finder 7.0: floppy disk icons are
displayed as the ugly old black and white icon while the rest of the
desktop is bursting with color!
Discolour causes the Finder to display beautiful full-color icons in
place of the black and white floppy disk icons when you are in 16 color
mode or greater. Just drag Discolour onto your System Folder icon and
restart your Macintosh to activate it.
Discolour uses less than 1K of memory once it is installed, and was
optimized so that it won't slow your Macintosh down, so the cost
of having beautiful color disk icons is minimal.
Discolour is completely free; I hope you enjoy it!
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If you like this software, check out the other software products we have to offer! We have support forums on most of the major information services:
America Online: While you are signed on AOL, choose "Keyword..." from the "GO TO" menu, type AMBROSIA and hit the return key. You'll be taken to our forum, where you'll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
CompuServe: On CIS a majority of our programs can be found in the System forum of the Macintosh forums, with the exception of our games, which can be found in the Entertainment Forum. Contact us if you need specific file names.
eWorld: While you are signed on eWorld, choose "Go to Shortcut" from the "PLACES" menu, type AMBROSIA and hit the return key. You'll be taken to our forum, where you'll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
GEnie: Ambrosia's support area is in the Macintosh Product Support Round Table, located on page 606. To get there, while signed on and in terminal mode, type M606 at any GEnie prompt. Our message base can be found by choosing option 1 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the message boards. The Ambrosia Section can be found by typing SET 4. Our software library can be found by choosing option 3 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the software libraries. Then choose option 8 to set the software library to Ambrosia's library, which is library 14.
Internet: Ambrosia Software's products can be found at the "mac.archive.umich.edu" or "sumex-aim.stanford.edu" FTP sites. Contact us for complete Internet paths to our products.
And last but not least, you can obtain disks from us for $5.00 to cover shipping & handling. You may place your order by indicating the name of the program you are interested in and sending us a check via US mail, faxing us your credit card number & expiration date, sending us your credit card number & expiration date via electronic mail, or calling our 800 number order line: 800.231.1816.
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Contact Information
-- If you have any problems with this software or if you require additional information, please write or call:
US Mail:
Ambrosia Software, Inc.
PO Box 23140
Rochester, NY 14692
Voice:
716.427.2577
Fax:
716.475.9289
E-mail:
America Online: AmbrosiaSW
Compuserve: 73424, 1226
eWorld: AmbrosiaSW
GEnie: AmbrosiaSW
Internet: AmbrosiaSW@AOL.com
Notes for Hackers
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If you don't like the icon I provided for Discolour, you CAN change it
with ResEdit, but there are some precautions. The resources you
will need to change are 'icl4' #256 (the 16 color floppy disk icon)
and 'icl8' #256 (the 256 and greater color floppy disk icon). Here
are some things to keep in mind:
1) Work only on a COPY of Discolour in case you screw something up.
2) DO NOT modify the 'ICN#' #256 (b/w floppy disk icon) or the
floppy disk icon mask; this will cause Discolour to no longer work.
3) DO NOT distribute modified versions of Discolour.
4) Use only the Apple recommended colors in the 256 color icons so that
the icons will dim properly when they are clicked on.
5) Make sure the color disk icons you create fit exactly within the
