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- NewerLook
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- Well after Acorn's effort called NewLook, it's a wonder Doggysoft
- didn't get there first, but there here now. OK, so NewLook is quite good,
- but you don't really recognise any difference until you start using the
- applications. For some reason, Acorn still use the old 310-type
- filesystem icons even on the RiscPC which, you'd think would of been
- replaced by new 3d icons for the new 3d Desktop; but no. NewLook was
- really for 2meg+ owners as it uses quite an amount of memory as all the
- replacement files were loaded in at once in a module. Doggysoft have
- decided against this and loads in replacement code as it needs it, but
- unfortunately this is only really useful for hard disc owners. It offers
- replacement templates for most Wimp operations and new sprites for
- hundreds of icons. Perhaps some more time could of been spent
- designing the icons as they have a "cartoony" style.
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- NewerLook also comes with some very useful modules. It contains a
- new transparent DragASprite module which flickers so as not to lose any
- of the image on non-multisync monitors, which I don't like, but still very
- useful as it can be used on RISC OS 2 machines as well as RISC OS 3
- machines. I don't know about you but I load in quite a few 3d
- replacement sprites in my boot-up sequence and I hate it when badly-
- behaved applications replace them with the old icons or their efforts at
- redesigning. Doggysoft have made a module that stops certain icons
- from merging with the sprite pool which is very useful. Also in the pack
- is a replacement hourglass, although I don't like this and prefer to use the
- one designed by Lovell which is like the Acorn one, but is bigger and in
- full colour.
-
- Nice one Doggysoft; it is very welcome in my PD collection. I'm sure it
- will soon be in yours too.
-
- 8/10
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