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- You must be pretty desparate if you're looking for the meaning of life
- buried in a subdirectory of a graphics pack. Haaaa-haaaa.
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- Pretty icon tho, isnt it? :)
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- Well, anyways, if this is the first ArcsPack you've downloaded, you might
- be asking yourself what the hell you're gonna do with all this stuff.
- So, I'll try and answer that.
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- Traditionally, the ArcsPack series contains generally 3 types of goodies.
- Startup-Pix, Backdrops, and Palletes.
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- Startup Pix are simply nicely-painted screens for your Amiga to display
- during startup..Instead of a nasty solid grey or black screen. If you
- find an ArcsPack which contains Startup-Pix (not all of them do), you
- can then find the image for your specific machine. There are versions
- for every known Amiga out there, from the bargain-basement A600 all
- the way up to the top-of-the-line A3000UX/040 and A4000/040 ..
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- Backdrops are what constitutes the majority of the space in any ArcsPack.
- These are images which you may load into any Workbench tile & backdrop
- program, like WBPattern in OS3, and NickPrefs' WBPicture. These images are
- painted in such a way as to look pretty cool when repeated as a pattern.
- The goofy names I give them are usually due to things I see and come across
- in my every-day life.. Music I listen to while I paint, TV shows I flip
- back and forth from, etc. I try to inject a little humor into the Amiga
- community whenever I can, especially these days, when humor is what we need
- most. More on that, later.
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- Thirdly, each ArcsPack usually contains Palletes. Incase you dont like
- the color schemes of either my backdrops or my startup pix, you are
- welcome to load the images into the paint program of your choice, and
- then load these palletes in to change their color! Since I paint ALL of
- my work using the same basic color scheme layout, adding new color to
- my work is a cinch. If you dont like basic grey, change it to BoO-BeRRy
- BlUe, or GraPiTty-Grape-Purple! However you like.
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- As I mentioned above, I think it's important for those of us lucky to have
- Net access to "share the wealth", so to speak, when it comes to our own
- community. The Amiga community is an extremely distinct community of highly
- inventive and creative people; You are one of the people in this community,
- which encompasses the Net, your local dealership, your local BBSes, and
- other Amiga users worldwide. A month or so ago, I figured I would take it
- upon myself to do my part to keep our community striving, by using my
- talents in painting to generate these ArcsPacks. Its just my little way
- of helping everyone out and saying thanks. I dont ask anything in return.
- It would be extremely cool of you if you could stop where youre at, and
- ask yourself what tiny little thing YOU could do to help out.. Maybe
- bringing some files off the net, and taking them to your local BBS for
- folks who dont have net access, or maybe even taking the time to send
- something as small as a thank-you note to the author of your favorite
- utility. It dosent take much effort, and it has really fab results.
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- I'm doing my part by lending a hand--and so should you, really. Its 1995,
- and the Amiga is still alive and well because of the efforts of folks
- like you and I. Lets keep it that way. Because if we continue to do so,
- we'll have absolutely no problem weathering the storm.
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- Bowie J. Poag
- (Arctangent)
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- arctngnt@interaccess.com
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