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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ski's ICON EDITING SYSTEM | | Shareware Version 1.2 | | October 1996 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This file contains most of the important general information about Ski's Icon Editing system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a printer, and would like to print this document, you may do this by returning to the DOS prompt, changing to the Ski's Icon Editing System directory, and typing: PRINT README.TXT If this does not work try typing: TYPE README.TXT>PRN: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Contacting The Author ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions or comments about the editor or any of the included files, I can be reached by email or through regular mail at the following addresses: Chester Karwowski 1502 Green Valley Ct. Bel Air, MD 21015-4758 Email: skikar@erols.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [0] Table Of Contents ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1]. The Installation Process [a]. Download Version [b]. Disk Version [c]. Running From Windows [2]. The Editing Tools [3]. Creating Screenshots with Ski Capture [4]. Converting Bitmaps, and PCXs to Icons [5]. Using Your Newly Created Icons [6]. Known Problems and Temporary Workarounds [7]. Registering Information [a]. Registration Incentives [b]. How to Get the Full Version [8]. Licensing and Warranty Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] The Installation Process ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1a]. -------------------- THE DOWNLOAD VERSION ------------------------ If you have the download version, you may obtain an original copy of the shareware disk from the author, by sending a request, your address, and $3 for shipping and handling to: Chester Karwowski 1502 Green Valley Ct. Bel Air, MD 21015-4758 You may wish to get an original disk if any of the program files listed in section [1b] below are missing once the zip file is unzipped. To install the program all that you have to do is create a directory to store the files into, and then unzip the zip file into that directory. All of the program files will be contained in that directory, and if you choose not to keep the program, you can uninstall it by deleting the program directory. Installing the program will not clutter up your Windows directory with INI and DLL files like many annoying programs. [1b]. ----------------------- THE DISK VERSION -------------------------- If you have the disk distribution version of the program, the files that are present on the disk should be: INSTALL.BAT INSTALL1.EXE README.TXT To install the program from the disk version, just insert the disk into your disk drive. We will assume that you are using your A: drive. Then change the default directory to that drive by typing: A: Then type: INSTALL Inside the install program you may either install into the default C:\ICONEDIT directory, or you will have to type the directory that you wish to install into. Be sure to keep the drive letter at the beginning of the path if you change the directory. The install program will take care of the rest of the installation. When it is finished, the install program will leave you in the newly created directory, and the following files should exist: ICONEDIT.EXE - The Main executable file ICONEDIT.ICO - The Icon for the icon editor SKIGRAB.EXE - A good screen capture utility SKIGRAB.TXT - The document describing SKIGRAB.EXE README.TXT - This information document VENDOR.DOC - Information for distributors ORDER.FRM - An order form to order the full version GAMES.DLL - A set of icons converted from game screenshots GAMES256.DLL - A set of 256 color icons from games If any of the above files are missing after installation, you have an invalid copy of the program, and the program may or may not run correctly. If you think your copy is invalid, you may obtain an original copy of the shareware disk from the author, by sending a request, your address, and $3 for shipping and handling to: Chester Karwowski 1502 Green Valley Ct. Bel Air, MD 21015-4758 [1c]. ----------------- RUNNING FROM WINDOWS -------------------------- The install program for Ski's Icon Editing System only installs the editor onto your hard drive. It does not alter your Windows environment in any way. If you wish to run the Icon Editor from Windows, you must set it up as a new program item from the Windows Desktop. To set up the Editor in Windows: 1). Load Windows 2). Open the program group that you would like to put the editor into. 3). Click the File menu at the top of the Program Manager, choose New. 4). Click on New Program Item, and choose OK. 5). Click the Browse Button, locate the directory that you installed the Editor into, and double click on the iconedit.exe file. 6). Click the Change Icon button. 7). Relocate the directory that you installed the editor into, and double click the ICONEDIT.ICO file. 8). Click the OK button to make the program accessible. For a more detailed explanation on setting up new program items, read you Windows documentation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] The Editing Tools ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PALLET The Pallet is located above the displayed icon. You may set the number of colors in the icon by pressing either the 16 or 256 color buttons at the top of the pallet. You may right click on any color greater than the original 16 colors in order to modify the color. EXIT Exit from the icon editing system losing all unsaved data. OPTIONS This button allows you to modify the current option settings for the number of colors in icons, and sound system. It also allows you to change your registration name. Note: Currently this option is limited since some of the options are not yet available. LOAD This button loads an icon into the editor allowing you to modify it. The buttons with letters on them are drive letters. Push the button that corresponds to the drive from which you wish to load. If the drive letter is not shown, press the [?] button, and then type the drive letter that you wish to change to. The directories available on the drive are listed in the directory box. If the arrows next to the directories box are not depressed, there are more directories available than are listed in the box. Click on a directory name to access that directory. The files that may contain icons in that directory are listed in the files boxes. You may scroll through the files in that directory by clicking the arrows next to the files box. When you find a file that you wish to examine, click on the file name to scan it for icons. The icons present in the file are shown in the icon view box at the bottom of the load plaque. There are arrows under the icon view box that allow you to scroll through the icons. When you find an icon that you wish to load, click on the icon, or press load and the first icon in the icon view box will be loaded. If you find a file that you wish to delete, click on the file and then click the delete button. Be careful with the delete button, it will delete the entire file, and not just the icons. SAVE This button saves the current icon. The save plaque is laid out similar to the load plaque. You may traverse the directories as described in the LOAD help section. To save a file, click in the file name box. A cursor will appear with the extension .ico. Type the name for the icon without an extension and the editor will save the file with the proper extension. When you save more than one icon in a file it creates a dll type file with an *.ico extension. This file type is easily read by Windows 3.1, and Windows '95, but other icon manipulating programs may not be able to distinguish the change. To remedy this situation, you may rename the *.ico libraries to *.dll files from the dos prompt. REDRAW This button may be used to redraw the entire screen in the event that something has messed up the screen, and it needs to be redrawn. This may happen if you frequently switch tasks in Windows 3.1 while using the icon editor. Windows '95 is much more capable of switching tasks between programs, so Win95 users may never need this button. UNDO This button will undo the last major modification to the icon that you have made. Major modifications include loading a new icon, xy-flipping, undo, restore, line drag, box drawing, circle drawing, filling, letter typing, and pasting clips. RESTORE This button will restore the last icon that was loaded into the editor, or the last icon that was saved by the backup button. If you have made modifications to an icon that you have previously loaded, and you wish to keep them, do not restore the icon or the changes will be lost. Clicking Undo will fix an accidental restore. BACKUP This button will backup the current icon so that it can be restored later if you have made major changes, and wish to get the original icon back. It may be to your advantage to back up the icon if you like the way it looks currently, but you want to make some major changes to try to make it better. Y-FLIP This button will flip the icon from top to bottom. It essentially turns the icon upside down. X-FLIP This button will flip the icon from left to right. ROTATE This button will rotate the icon clockwise. CLEAR This button clears the icon, creating an empty background. PEN This button will give you a drawing pen allowing you to make modifications to the icon, pixel by pixel. You may hold the left mouse button down to draw as if you had a pen in your hand. You can also grab a new color from the drawing board by clicking the right mouse button while pointing at a new color. The pen color will then change to the new color. LINE This button will give you a line drawing tool that will draw lines from one point to another on the screen. To draw a line: 1. Click on the line drawing tool button. 2. Move the mouse to the point on the pixel map from which you wish to start a line. 3. Push the left mouse button, and hold it down until you have moved the mouse to the pixel that you wish to be the end location. 4. Release the button to make the line a permanent part of the icon. BOX This button will give you a box drawing tool that will draw filled boxes, or rectangles from one corner to another. To draw a box: 1. Click on the box drawing tool button. 2. Move the mouse to the point on the pixel map that you wish to make a corner of the box. 3. Push the left mouse button, and hold it down until you have moved the mouse to the pixel that you wish to be the opposite corner of the box. 4. Release the button to make the box a permanent part of the icon. CIRCLE This button will give you a circle drawing tool that will draw hollow circles in the icon. If you wish to draw a filled circle, then you must draw a hollow circle as usual, change to the fill tool, and then fill the interior of the circle. To draw a circle: 1. Click on the circle drawing tool button. 2. Move the mouse to the point on the pixel map that you wish to make the center of the circle. 3. Push the left mouse button, and hold it down until you have moved the mouse to the pixel that you wish to be the edge of the circle. 4. Release the button to make the circle a permanent part of the icon. FILL This button gives you a fill tool that will allow you to fill an area of color in the icon with another color. The color will spill into pixels adjacent (left, right, top, and bottom) to the initial fill pixel, but will not fill into pixels diagonally adjacent. It will also not fill into pixels of a color different from the color of the original initial pixel. To fill an area with a new color: 1. Click on the fill drawing tool button. 2. Click on a pixel in the area of color that you wish to change to a new color. 3. Push the left mouse button, and the new color will fill into the area. LETTERS This button gives you a letter drawing tool that will allow you to print letters into the icon in a chosen font. The shareware version only allows you to insert letters of a single font, but the registered version allows you to choose from several different fonts. To place a letter in the icon: 1. Move the mouse to the pixel you wish to designate the upper left corner of the new character. 2. Click the left mouse button. 3. Type the letter you wish to print into the icon. BITMAP This button allows you to scan bitmaps looking for graphics clips that can be pulled into the icon editor. To pull a clip from the bitmap: 1. Click on the bitmap scanning tool button. 2. Find the bitmap file using the load plaque in the same manor as described in the LOAD help section. 3. Click the bitmap file that you wish to scan for a possible icon. 4. When the bitmap comes up, place the box cursor around the picture that you wish to scan into the editor. 5. Press the left mouse button to pull the picture into the editor (256 colors) or into the color filter tool (16 colors). 6. If you are making a 16 color icon, you must use the color filter tool. In the color filter, you may either use the default editor values for the conversion, or you may alter the color breakpoint values by press the +,- buttons next to the desired breakpoint. - The values represent the points at which the graphics color converter switches from the color on the left to the color on the right of the number. - If you modify the ALL line, the changes will not take effect until you hit the equalize button on the all line. - You may restore the values of any color to the default values by hitting the restore button on that line. 7. When you are satisfied with the icon as it is displayed in the icon box, click on the use icon button to pull the icon into the editor for further modification. Note: Icons that are scanned into the editor from bitmaps are saved in a scrambled form in a file with the extension *.sko. In order to make the files viewable by Windows, you must buy the complete registered version. This will allow you to convert all of your old [.sko files to *.ico files, and to save all new scanned icons directly as *.ico files. For more information about registering, click the REGISTERING INFO button on the main screen. COPY CLIP This button gives you a grabbing tool that allows you to take a square clip from the current icon which can be pasted into an icon with the paste clip button. PASTE CLIP This button allows you to paste the contents of the clip buffer into the current icon. To use it just click the upper left pixel where you wish to leave the clip. The background pixels of the clip buffer are not pasted into the icon. Therefore if you wish to transfer an odd shaped image, it is best to convert everything but the image to background, grab the clip with the copy clip button, and paste the clip once you have recovered the icon you wish to paste into. BACKGROUND This button alters the background color to confirm which pixels of the icon are transparent. It does not alter the icon that you are working with in any way. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Using Ski Capture To Create Screenshots ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A primitive screen capture utility is included with the Ski's Icon Editing System package. This screen capture program will help you create bitmap copies of many of the screens from your games. After you have captured the screens from a game, you can then use the bitmap converting tool in the icon editor to create icons from the graphics in the captured screenshot. To create screenshots: 1). Return to the DOS prompt 2). Change directory to the Ski's Icon Editing System directory 3). Type: SKIGRAB to run the Screen capture program 4). Load the game from which you would like to capture 5). Hit the ` key to capture the screen while playing the game. The captured bitmaps are saved in the directory that you ran the SKIGRAB program from. After you have created the bitmaps, you may reload the icon editor, and convert them into icons. This version of Ski Capture is very limited, so you will not be able to capture all of the screens from all of the games that you would like. Since this version is very intrusive, and tries to interfere with the game stealing control from the screen capture program, it is not entirely stable. It may cause some games to lock up periodically. You might have to try a few times to capture the screens that you are trying to capture. For more detailed information about Ski Capture, read the file SKIGRAB.TXT in the Ski's Icon Editing System directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Converting Bitmaps, and PCXs to Icons ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the most outstanding features of Ski's Icon Editing System is it's ability to take 256 color bitmaps, and convert them into standard 16 color icons or 256 color icons that Windows can use. There are several examples of this conversion included in the \ICONS directory saved as *.dll files. This option is great for users like myself that have absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever. What better icon could you use for a game then actual pictures from the game? To convert an icon from a bitmap or pcx, you must first create a bitmap screenshot from a game. To do this, you can use the included Ski Capture program described in the previous section. You might want to take a look at the SKIGRAB.TXT document before using the screen capture program, because it contains important information about how to run it, and how it works. Once you have successfully created a bitmap screenshot or several, you can load the icon editor and click the Bitmap conversion button in the toolbar. Locate the bitmap files that you wish to scan, click one of them, and press the Load button. The bitmap will then be displayed on the screen. Place the box around the section of bitmap that you would like to try to convert, and click the left mouse button. If you started the bitmap scan in 256 color mode, then the icon will be scanned into the editor in all of it's 256 color glory, but if you were originally in 16 color mode, the graphics clip will be pulled into the color converter box, which allows you to try to get a better conversion by adjusting the color breakpoints. Many icons require almost no color conversion box modifications to recover a great icon, while others may require a lot of fine tuning, especially if the original picture is too dark. Once you are comfortable with the icon, click the Use Icon button to draw it into the editor for pixel by pixel modification. Many icons will convert perfectly from bitmaps, but if you wish to try to convert larger bitmaps into icons, you will have to first compress or scale down the clip you wish to take into a 32x32 bit picture using another graphics program. Unfortunately this version of Ski's Icon Editing System does not support the option for compression of bitmaps, but that is an option that has high priority to be implemented in future versions. But, for now, there are many other graphics programs that offer this function. You do not have to compress the whole bitmap, only compress the area from which you would like to take a clip. This option also works with pictures that were created by a scanner, so you could create icons of yourself, and your family if you would like. Just scan a picture of yourself, save it as a bitmap, and draw it into the icon editor. The manual that comes with the registered version explains the process in great detail, and offers suggestions to get the best results. Just another reason to register now. B-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [5] Using Your Newly Created Icons ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Windows instruction manuals will definitely do a better job of explaining this, but: Once you have created the perfect icon, you will want to put it into Windows where everyone can see your unique customized set of icons. To use the icon to replace an old icon: 1. Save the icon with the save icon button in the editor. 2. Exit the editor and load Windows 3. Find, and Click on the old icon 4. Type Alt-Enter or choose Properties in the File Menu 5. Click the Change Icon Button 6. Click the Browse Button 7. Locate the new icon, and click it to activate it 8. Then click OK until you are back to the Desktop If you wish to use the Icon for a new application: 1. Save the icon with the save icon button 2. Exit the editor and load Windows 3. Choose New in the File Menu 4. Type in all of the requested information 5. Click the Change Icon Button 6. Click the Browse Button 7. Locate the saved icon, and click it to activate it 8. Then click OK until you are back to the Desktop Note: If you have used the bitmap converting tool to create the icon, it will have been saved as a scrambled *.sko file. These files can be seen by the editor, but you will have to buy the registered version to convert them to *.ico files so that Windows can see them. If you have any problems using the icons in Windows. Read the Windows documentation to learn how to change the icons for an application, or how to set up new applications, and retrieve a new icon. There is online help available in Windows by clicking the help menu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [6] Known Problems and Temporary Workarounds ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Windows 3.1 the 256 color icons are color fit to 16 colors if you have chosen a Windows resolution with less than or equal to 256 colors. If you change your Windows to a color depth of 64K colors or greater, the icons will be displayed in all 256 colors. Setting Windows to 64K colors or more will make all of your graphics in Windows much prettier because it will no longer go through the process of color fitting the pallet, but it does require additional memory. Windows 95 users have to do more than just change the color depth for their Windows screen resolution to see 256 color icons in all of their glory. Follow these steps to tell Windows to display 256 color icons: 1. Change your Windows screen color depth to 64K colors or higher by right clicking your mouse on the background of your Windows Desktop. Then choose Properties from the bottom of the menu. Then click the Settings tab, and a list box with the label Color Pallet will appear. Click the list box, and it will display all of the color depths that Windows 95 feels your video card can handle. You must choose either (High Color - 16 Bit), or (True Color - 24 Bit). If these options are not available, then your video card may not be able to handle these color depths at your resolution. You could try lowering your screen resolution with the Desktop area box next to the Color Pallet box if it is set to higher than 640x480. Lowering the screen resolution usually allows greater color depth. 2. Now you must tell Windows 95 to enable high color icons. To do that you must: a. Click Start, then click Run, and type the program name: REGEDIT b. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics by double clicking each folder. c. After double clicking the WindowMetrics folder, a list of settings appears on the right side. Search down the list to find Shell Icon BPP. If it is not there you must create it by holding the Alt key down while typing ENS. A new setting will appear on the right side called "New Value #1." Type in Shell Icon BPP as the name of the value, and hit enter twice. Then follow the directions to modify in step (d). If Shell Icon BPP is there double click it with the left mouse button to open it. Then continue with step (d). d. Change the Value Data to either 16 or 24 depending on whether you chose High Color - 16, or True Color - 24 in step 1 above. e. Click OK, and you are finally done. You will have to reboot the computer before the changes will take effect. 3. Although we have not confirmed this, we have been told that purchasing and installing Microsoft's Plus! Pack or Microangelo will allow you to enable high color icons. When you save more than one icon in a file it creates a dll type file with an *.ico extension. This file type is easily read by Windows 3.1, and Windows 95, but other icon manipulating programs may not be able to distinguish the extension change. To remedy this situation, you may rename the *.ico libraries to *.dll files. You should then be able to load them into other icon programs, but why would you need to? On some single floppy drive computers when the DOSKEY TSR is loaded, if you tell the editor to examine a drive that has no disk in it, it will examine the drive for a long time, and appear to lock up. If this happens you have to wait it out. If the drive light goes out, but it still appears to be locked up, hit the [a] key, and then hit [enter]. This should give you back control. Virus-Shield programs slow down the loader drastically, because V-Shield must scan every file that the editor accesses to ensure that it is virus free, this can be a pain for large directories. Some users may notice strange behavior with the mouse periodically. This occurs because the icon editor was designed to run with a true Microsoft Mouse Driver 8.20a. Most mouse drivers are Microsoft compatible, but they don't behave exactly the same as Microsoft's Mouse Driver. The somewhat compatible mouse drivers have been known to miss a button press here and there, or jump around a bit. The strange behavior also occurs with the default mouse driver that comes with Win95, and Windows 3.1. The only current workaround is to load a true Microsoft Mouse driver if you have one. You will probably notice smoother mouse control with all of your applications, and not just the editor. If you have a true Microsoft mouse driver and you wish to use that rather then the default mouse driver for Windows, edit the system.ini file in the Windows directory, and REM out the line mouse.drv=???????? in the [boot] section. Then be sure to load your true Microsoft mouse driver before you load Windows. It is not good enough to just load the MS driver, and then load Windows without REMing the line. You must REM the mouse.drv line or Windows will override the MS mouse driver with it's default mouse. If you have mouse problems after doing this, re-edit the system.ini file, and remove the REM to go back to the default. The ability to scan data from 24 bit (16 Million color) Bitmaps was added shortly before release. Unfortunately we did not have time to design a perfect conversion from 16 Million colors to 256 colors. Many graphics programs do a much better job of converting 16 million color bitmaps to 256 color bitmaps. Therefore if quality is important to you, you may wish to use a program designed for graphics manipulation to convert the bitmap from 16 million colors to 256 before you load it into the icon editor. If you would be interested in obtaining a shareware graphics program, we would suggest ColorView. ColorView for DOS is an excellent shareware (try before you buy) graphics program that has a scaling option that will allow you to scale large pictures to a smaller size before you convert them to an icon. This ability is a priority enhancement for future versions of the icon editor. It is our ultimate goal to make Ski's Icon Editing System completely self reliant, so that you will need no other accessory programs. But, for the time being you would create better icons if you had a good graphics program to assist in the graphics file manipulations. This program is ever improving, and future versions will probably have these problems fixed, as well as have additional options available. More details about future versions can be found in the Registering Information section on the next page. | (more) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [7] Registering Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [7a]. ------------------- REGISTERING INCENTIVES ----------------------- THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT: This version of the program is released so that you may try it for a period of time not to exceed 30 days. If you like the program you must register, and pay for the program. If you do not like the program, and choose not to register, you must remove it from your hard drive or you will be breaking the law. You are encouraged to give copies of this version to your friends so they may also try it. WHY YOU SHOULD REGISTER: The complete registered version will have: - The ability to save the icons converted from bitmaps and pcxs as *.ICO files that can be used in Windows. - The ability to type text into your icons using several different fonts. - A printed instruction manual explaining the finer points of the icon editor, including hints on how to get better icons. - A personalized on screen name plate showing that you are a registered user. - All of the delay screens asking for your registration will be removed. - Hundreds of additional 256 color icons scanned from most popular games. Also, - Any future revisions will be available to you for only the cost of shipping. If support for this program is high enough, we plan to integrate: - Additional editing ability to take advantage of options available in Windows 95. - The ability to convert other graphics formats (ie. GIFs, TGAs, etc.) - The ability to scan files for hidden data that might be a picture, so that you may convert additional pieces of graphics into icons. - The ability to take a larger clip from a bitmap and compress it into an icon. - Better graphics file manipulation allowing you to enhance pictures before they are scanned into an icon. - Better system compatibility including a VGA (640x480x16 color) version, and Sound support. - Better file control routines allowing more versatility in saving and retrieving files (ex. sorted directories, ability to access more drives). - More different types of fonts for typing text into icons. - Better screen capture utilities that will help you to capture more images from games. - Any other user recommended modifications that we feel would enhance the program. | (more) | [7b]. ------------------ HOW TO GET THE FULL VERSION -------------------- You may order the complete version of the Icon Editing System in one of two ways: 1. Print out a copy of the file ORDER.FRM, and fill out the requested information. Then send the form with a check or money order for $14 US to the address listed below. or 2. Print "Ski's Icon Editor" on a sheet of paper, and then print your name, and complete mailing address in all capital letters, then write your choice of disk size (either 3.5 HD or DD, or 5.25 HD or DD). Then send the paper, and a check or money order for $14 US to the following address: Chester Karwowski 1502 Green Valley Ct. Bel Air, MD 21015-4758 - Please make check or money order payable to the author Chester Karwowski - The price for the complete version and all of its goodies is currently only $14 US, plus $4 shipping and handling outside the United States. - International users can save the shipping charges by requesting their upgrades through email. You must already have the ability to uudecode the files on your system if you prefer this option. If you choose this method, you will receive a uuencoded compressed file that after being uudecoded will expand into the programs that are usually on the install disks. If you have any questions, about the process, you can contact me by emailing: skikar@erols.com - If you have an older computer (286, or 386), and you are not sure whether you have a High Density disk drive, or an older Double Density disk drive, you should order the program on Double Density disks, because both High Density, and Double Density drives "should" be able to read Double Density Disks. HOW TO REGISTER WITH NO UPGRADES: If you like the shareware version, and wish to continue using it beyond the 30 day legal time limit, but can not afford the full registration, we will accept economy registrations for $7 US. For this fee you will not receive any of the advantages of the registered version, but you will receive a registration number, and will not be breaking the law if you continue using the program after the 30 day trial period. Economy registration will remove the "Illegal Copy" Warning, but will not change your version of the program in any other way. As an economy user, you will receive letters describing future updates and enhancements to the program, and will be allowed to register for the full version in the future by paying the remaining $7 even if the full price goes up in the future. To register with no upgrades, write "Ski's Icon Editor," and your name and address on a sheet of paper. Then send the paper and a check or money order made out to Chester Karwowski for $7 to the address below. You may also include a list of any improvements to the program that might entice you to register for the complete version of the program. Ordering Address: Chester Karwowski 1502 Green Valley Ct. Bel Air, MD 21015-4758 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [8] Licensing and Warranty Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are free to distribute the shareware version of this program in any way you see fit by posting to bulletin boards, or by direct copying provided the following 3 conditions are met: 1. If the program is distributed on disk, a fee of no more than $5 may be charged for the program and disk. 2. The program must be distributed completely intact, and unaltered. The program may be zipped into a compressed file for distribution as long as the compressed file will unzip into the completely intact program. 3. If any fee is charged for the distribution of this software, it must be made clear to the purchaser that the program is "Try before you buy" shareware, and that they are only paying for the distribution costs. This software is owned by Chester Karwowski and is protected by U.S. copyright laws. You are not permitted to reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise modify this software. If you use this software for longer than the 30 day trial period, you must purchase the complete registered version, or discontinue your use of the software. LIMITED WARRANTY We will replace, upon submission of the defective disk, for 90 days any defective Registered media that was purchased directly from the author Chester Karwowski. We offer no warranty guaranteeing the integrity of disks distributed by vendors or other distributors. The above warranty does not apply if you make any unauthorized attempt to modify the software, or if the media has been damaged by accident or abuse. We offer no warranty express or implied with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability or fitness of this program for any purpose. In no case will we be held liable for direct, indirect, or incidental damages resulting from any defect or omission in this software, including but not limited to, any interruption of service, loss of business, anticipated profit, or other consequential damages. In no event will our liability exceed the purchase price paid directly to Chester Karwowski for this product. Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, or the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - For distribution purposes, the Icon Editor was compressed into a self extracting archive using LHA Version 2.13. - LHA Version 2.13 is copyright 1988-1991 Haruyasu Yoshizaki. - Windows, Windows '95, and MSDOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. - ColorView and ColorView for DOS are trademarks of Millenium Technologies Corp. - The PCX file format was created by ZSoft Corporation. - The games.dll icons in the .\ICONS directory were converted from game screen captures of graphics data created by the programmers of the respective games. The images remain the copyright of their respective owners. The games and their publishers are listed in the GAMES.TXT file in the .\ICONS directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------