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- Well, here it is again.. New version of TauIcons. I wonder how many of
- you even read this simple text file.
-
- PLEASE, even if you don't read docs, READ the sections titled IMPORTANT
- in TauIcons.doc. It starts on the line 79. Shouldn't be too hard to
- find. If you don't, you can forget about ever seeing new versions of
- this collection as well.
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE
-
- Since even MagicWB has been moved to 3 bitplane icons (yes, there is no
- Magic(tm) behind the speedup, even though XEN seems to try to claim
- that), I decided to convert all my icons into 3 bitplanes also. This
- makes them less than half the size, and more than twice as fast to
- load. I really feel it is worth to emphasize that what XEN did in
- MagicWB 2.0 is not in any way special. The icons just have the extra
- bitplanes stripped off, and a utility is added that allocates 4 extra
- colors on the Workbench. What that means is that on for example 16
- color Workbench, you used to have 8 free colors, and with MWB 2.0 only
- 4. Whether it is worth it is up to you to decide.
-
- Aminet has several tools that can convert icons from 8 to 3 bitplanes
- and back again. Try DoIcon by Lars Eilebrecht, in util/cli/DoIcon.lha.
- I just found while building this archive. Very cool.
-
- I don't want to hear any complains that the colors are wrong.
-