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- Mark Wadner's Icon Nightmare
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- This is my first attempt at a P.D disk so if you find this a little basic
- for your needs then why not attempt one for yourselves as you may then
- appreciate just how long it takes to compile a disk.
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- Why another Icon Disk?
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- This is more than likely the first question that you would like to ask.
- Well my answer is that having tried several of these disks I had found
- that many of them contained some icons that I would not even want to use
- on my working copy of Workbench.This of course is not to say that this is
- the best Icon disk ever as in the end it is all a matter of what you like
- and don't like.The only other thing that I have added to this disk is a
- simple step by step guide on how to use these Icons.
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- How much will this cost me?
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- Nothing.
- As with all P.D there is no cost for this collection but any comments would
- of course be welcomed along with any advice by writing to the address
- below and if you would care to send a donation in DM or £ then this would
- be accepted no matter how small or large.
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- How do I use this Disk?
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- To start with you will find things are much easier if you have a couple of
- good P.D utilities such as SID and ICONMASTER as these are about the best
- utilities that I have recieved from P.D.
- O.K now you have these utilities to hand I will try and go through a step
- by step account of what to do.
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- 1) Load SID in DF0:
- 2) Remove SID and place this disk in its place.
- 3) List the contents of this and open up the drawer you require.
- 4) Place the disk who's Icon you wish to change in DF1:
- 5) Delete the Icon from DF1: that you wish to change,but make sure that
- you note the spelling.
- 6) Copy from this disk the Icon (info) you wish to replace it with then
- rename this to the name the original Icon was called.
- 7) Remove all disks from the Amiga reboot it and place in your changed
- disk and all going well you should have what you want.
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- Why wont it work?
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- There are of course many reasons that this could be but I have found that
- the most common are as follows.
- 1) The Icon has not been either renamed or not renamed the same as the one
- that you deleted
- 2) The Icon is not of The desired type for example it is of no use using a
- disk Icon to operate a drawer unless you own a good utility such as
- Iconmaster which I mentioned before as this allows you to change the
- tool type of the Icon.
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- Contact address.
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- Mark Wadner
- Twin Birches
- Tinkle Street
- Grimolby
- Louth
- Lincolnshire.
- England
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- Credits.
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- Colin Puleston for his help with PPMORE,C Dir Etc.
- My Wife and Daughter for putting up with me only doing this.
- Commodore for the Amiga.
- All people that write P.D.
- Any one else that knows me.
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