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- ----++> Janich-San's New Icons <++----
-
- by
- Simon Janich
-
-
- 1. The Introducing Bit
-
- Welcome to my first colletion of NewIcons!
-
- When I got the NewIcons package by Nicola Samoria a few months ago, I simply
- loved it for making my Workbench as colourful and as professional-looking as
- it should be. But I *hated* Roger McVey's 'Building Block'-style icons.
- So I decided to create my own style of icons, with a more distinguished look.
- And after an awful lot of strenous work, here they are!
-
-
- 2. What Do I Need to Enjoy these Wonderful Small Pieces of Art?
- (System Requirements)
-
- First of all, you need an Amiga. Just any Amiga will do it, when it's running
- under OS 2.04 or better. And then, you need the aforementioned 'NewIcons' package,
- which is freeware and should be available from the Aminet, other BBS or some
- PD-collections. A hard-disk is recommended.
-
- And that's all you need...other funky gadgets (like graphic boards, cd-drives,
- toasters and blenders) might be useful, but aren't required to polish up your
- Workbench!
-
-
- 3. How Can I Use these Precious Gems of Graphic to Make my Workbench Look as
- Good as Myself?
- (Installation)
-
- After the installation of NewIcons, you simply use 'copynewicons' (should be found
- in the 'Utilities' drawer on your system-partition) to...er...copy my NewIcons to
- your old icon. If you want to use my default icons (which can be found in the
- 'System/Envarc' drawer), copy them to 'ENVARC:Sys', thus replacing the standard
- 'NewIcons' default icons. To use my disk icons, you'll have to change their type from
- 'Tool' to 'Disk' (i.e. with 'IconEdit') and copy them also to 'ENVARC:Sys'.
-
- NOTE: My default icons contain some filetypes, that aren't supported by DefIcons
- (at least until now). These are: - def_BMP
- - def_dvi
- - def_e
- - def_PCX
- - def_PNG
- - def_TIFF
-
- I hope that future versions of DefIcons will recognize these filetypes. Until then,
- you'll have to copy them manually...
-
-
- 4. The Things to Come...
-
- Until to today, I neither had the time, nor the nerve to paint icons for *all*
- software on my harddisk (which is quite a lot...), but I'm optimistic that some
- day I will make it.
-
- So you can expect some more icons for these programs:
-
- * AsimCDFS 3.0
- * Photogenics
- * DiskSalv
- * ReOrg
- * SFX
- * Wordworth
- * Digita Organiser
- * Directory Opus
- * PageStream
- * TypeSmith
- * TurboCalc
- * Shapeshifter
- * and more...
-
- If you like my style and want some similar-looking icons for your own programs,
- you can write me:
-
- Simon Janich
- Darler Str. 20
- 45891 Gelsenkirchen
- Germany
-
- email: sorry.pal@no.email
-
- Don't forget to enclose your ideas for the icons!
-
-
- 5. Distribution
-
- This software is FreeWare. It is freely distributable as long as the archive
- remains intact, and only a nominal fee is charged for its distribution.
-
- This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied. By using it, you agree to accept the entire risk as to
- the quality and performance of the program.
-
-