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- It's such a shame...
-
- Emplant is SUCH a nice product, even though most new versions
- (including the PC emulator) exists only in internet-messages from UU's
- CEO. (Yes, Jim. This *is* a hint.)
- I love the ability to run Mac programs - even heavy programs like
- QuarkXPress(tm) and Adobe Illustrator(tm) runs nicely with this cheap
- little card fitted inside my A4000 "light".
- But there are two things that almost ruins the appearance of the
- Emplant as a serious product:
-
- 1) The icons. They're awful. REALLY awful. Especially if you use a
- tall workbench screen, like interlaced productivity. And the launch
- icons even open shell windows just to type one sentence - this steals
- valuable ram. Very valuable, since the Mac needs every unfragmented
- byte it can get.
-
- 2) The "manual". Apart from not having an index and a step-by-step
- getting-started section, the design reminds me of Electrolux(R),
- Hoover(R) and the "Big, Green Clean Machine"(tm). The ring binder
- itself is quite nice, but the typographic quality leaves a lot to be
- desired. The person(s) responsible for the DTP work should have paid
- Utilities Unlimited for delivering such a lousy product.
-
- But don't despair. There are replacement icons floating around the
- net. I saw a couple of icons by Dave Cole (pmethius@umcc.umich.edu)
- which were nice, but they had almost the same unpractical dimensions as
- the original icon upon which they were based. So I've drawn my own.
- Just so you can say: "Well - *Art can't draw either!"
-
- And a manual will be released in QuarkXPress(tm) format, as well as in
- "standard" postscript as soon as I can get hold of the new manual and
- get a clearance from UU to do this (the manual is copyrighted). You'll
- have to print it out yourselves.
-
- Because I haven't got the new manual and the permit from UU yet, all
- you'll find in this archive is a replacement script file for
- EC_Launch_MAC and four icons designed for use with MagicWB or a similar
- palette. The icons are smaller than the originals, and are saved in
- three bitplanes for use with an eight-colour workbench. Expand them
- with OptIcon or a similar program if you use more colors on your WB
- screen.
-
- This tiny collection is ofcourse FreeWare, but if you really like it,
- just send me your sister as payment.
-
- Enjoy,
- *Art
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