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- Short: Directory Opus 5: MWB Icons for Listers
- Uploader: leo@hampschl.demon.co.uk (Leo Davidson)
- Author: leo@hampschl.demon.co.uk (Leo Davidson)
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- DOpus5_Icons * A collection of icons for use Directory Opus 5 Lister Toolbars
- For those who want their Opus5 to look a little more
- interesting and exciting!
- * Icons use the MagicWB palette.
- * Includes screen grabs for those interested in what the new
- and very different version of DOpus looks like.
- * Information on ordering DOpus5 also included.
- (I am in no way connected with GP software)
- * I (Leo Davidson) claim virtually no credit for the icons:
- they're really just a (good! IMHO) cut-n-paste job on icons
- by other people. I hope that these people do not mind me
- doing this to their images!
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- Compiled by Leo Davidson (P0T-NOoDLE / Gods'Gift/Anthrox)
- -> "Nudel" on IRC - 'Hi' to all those who've taken the time to talk to me!
- -> e-mail: leo@hampschl.demon.co.uk (Until July'95).
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- This is the AmiNet release of this collection of Icons.
-
- This file was previously released as D5P0TICN.LZX:
- D5P0TICN.LZX was spread around on a few BBS, but was rejected by
- AmiNet due to the .LZX format being used (guess I didn't read the upload
- rules well enough...). A little time past between the making of the .LZX
- and .LHA (AmiNet) versions, during which I made some changes to the contents:
-
- 1) The icons themselves have not changed, so if you already have D5P0TICN.LZX,
- there's little point in getting this.
- 2) For the record, the text file has changed and been updated a little
- now that my registered version of DOpus5 has arrived. The example
- pictures have changed as well (they're better now), and I removed the
- picture of my (wonderful!) Workbench, as the new example picture is
- quite large and I didn't want to create a monster archive.
- -) That's about it really!...
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- Full Contents:
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- File_Id.DIZ Description for scene boards.
- Dopus5_Icons/
- DOpus5_Icons.TXT Full information about the archive.
- DOpus5_Icons_16.IFF 16 colour version of Icons.
- DOpus5_Icons_8.IFF 8 colour version of Icons. (Std-MWB)
- DOpus5_PIcon.readme Duplicate of AmiNet .readme file.
- P0T_DOpus5_H.IFF Example picture: Hires-Laced
- P0T_DOpus5_L.IFF Example picture: Lores-Laced
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- Intro/Mini-Review:
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- Note:
- These docs are badly written, but I guess you don't need to know
- THAT much about a set of icons - I'm just gibbering on about stuff...
-
- Well, finally DOpus5 is here!! I've waited ages for this with mixed
- feelings: I'd seen previews in magazines and wasn't sure if this new way of
- doing things would work as well as the old style in DOpus4...
- I've sent off my order for DOpus5 today: I hope you will too if you
- use it! Yes, I was using a pirate copy: I didn't want to spend the money
- before I knew if I was going to get something more like DiskMaster than
- Opus (no disrespect to anyone with anything to do with DiskMaster, it's
- just my preference). Now that I've used it, I know it's worth every penny!
- (Update: My copy has arrived now, and I am not disapointed!)
-
- Opus has always been the most configurable and powerfull, directory
- program on the Amiga (hell, on anything I've seen! PC owners can dream of
- EVER having a piece of software like this!), and with v5 it's attained a
- new level of power. If you've used something like Browser, you'll know
- how nice it can be to be able to have multiple listers instead of being
- limited to just two -> now you can enjoy this along with the incredible
- configurability of Opus! (...and all this power is very easy to control:
- I have found the Config-GUI very intuitive, and I haven't even seen the
- manuals YET!)
-
- (This is turning into a review) I have to say that there are SOME
- things missing from the old Opus4, but I can easily live without them, and
- I expect there is a lot to be added with future updates... It looks like
- there has been a lot of space left for additional features... As a word
- to anyone using a pirate copy, I found a lot of extra features (some very
- useful) from reading the manual, so buy this (it is the best program ever,
- after all!)...
-
- Errr, yes where was I!!.... Anyway, a lot of people (myself included)
- had seen the preview screen-shots of DOpus5 and thought that it looked a
- little ugly (perhaps "plain" says it better)...
- Well, you remember how your workbench looked when you got it: stupid
- badly drawn 4-colour icons, and when you installed MagicWB: _nice_ (at least,
- more colourful, some people hate MWB)... Opus5 is the same: they didn't
- include any fancy icons, but you can install them!!
-
-
- So that's what this is: a collection of icons for the Lister Toolbars
- in DOpus5... They're in the MagicWB style (which will probably make some of
- you Isomefreaks sick!) and are mostly just cut-and-paste jobs on other
- people's icons (all credit for the quality of images does not go to me!!).
- I appologise for not crediting the original artists, but I collect icons
- in IFF pictures and have never bothered writting down the names of who
- drew them...
-
-
- If you want to see how Dopus5 looks with these icons installed,
- have a look at the example pictures (NOT the ones for cutting icons out
- of)... One is in Hires-Laced (I've put this as the Windows backdrop on
- the PC's at school so people can see just how shit Windows is every time
- they minimize Program Mangler!), the other is Hires-NonLaced.
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- Installation:
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-
- I decided not to break a standard and made all the icons the same size as
- the default ".small" ones which come with opus... Hopefully everyone will
- stick to this and we'll all be happy!...
-
- While I myself use the horrible 640*256 (actually, 662*256) resolution
- because I have to, those of you lucky enough to be able to use
- proportional resolutions should be able to enjoy all but about 2 of the icons
- without them looking stretched (consider it revenge for about 50% of them
- looking stretched for me!! hehe)...
-
- I'm not going to tell you how to get DOpus5 to use the icons in the IFF file
- because I'm assuming that you know how or can look it up in your manual
- (you'll obviously need a paint program to save out the icons as IFF brushes).
-
- I felt it would be easier for you to view the icons and decide which ones
- to use where if they were all together in one file - that is why I didn't
- release them as lots of little brushes!! Sorry if this is annoying...
-
- The 8 colour picture uses the standard magic-wb colours which most people
- will probably want to use.... Personally, I don't like the way MWB uses
- BLUE as the selected window colour (it DESTROYS the bass-relief). On my
- system I use a 16 colour screen with the upper eight colours being the
- standard MWB palette. The 16 colour picture is in my custom palette (as
- are both the example pictures), and I decided to include it too.
- (The icons are all the same (apart from two which use my extra colours),
- whichever picture you take them from, but one set has been remapped to
- the upper 8 colours, and the other has not!... Also, the 16 colour
- version has borders and stuff aroud the icons, well you'll see what I
- mean!)...
-
- By the way, to get DOpus5 to use your own custom palette, you should
- set the user-pens to the number you want (requires OS3), save the
- environment, reload DOpus5 and THEN edit the palette, because otherwise
- the user-pens may not always be allocated in the same order!
-
- Well, enough!... Just use them! (Or get Dopus5 first, if you haven't
- already!)
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- To order Directory Opus 5 (GP Software):
-
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- (Taken from the registration card - I hope this information is accurate)
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