4. Load Prefs/Palette and change the last four colours to
255,212,203 122,96,72 210,210,210 229,93,93
and save it. After re-boot everything should work fine."
There you have it all the instructions you need to make your MWB2.0 look really @{" Cool " SYSTEM "TIGuide/SOUND TIGuide/Cool1.snd q"} too!
@ENDNODE
@NODE "prefs" "TomIcons3 Information"
@{b}Preference Icons@{ub}
Hi Everyone :-)!
Here is my third collection of MWB Icons and other stuff that I have drawn or created over the
last few months. Most of them require the modified 16 colour palette discussed in @{" RomIcons9 " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/wahoo.snd q"}.
@{" Click Here " LINK "16Col"} for further details.
I am not an artist but use a registered version of Iconian and Picticon to cut and paste
images to produce the icons that are on your screen now. Once in a while Personal Paint 6.1
came in handy as well ;-).
These preference icons are enhanced from the original MWB ones by replacing most of the pale
blue for a darker grey colour. This tends to accentuate the details of many of the icons giving
them a greater 3D effect. The other change is that the question mark (?) remains stationary as
the icon is clicked. This was borrowed from the icon package Magical0.lha by Aheco ten Bokkel
Huinink. I hope you don't mind - everything old is new again! I've also included a template for
anyone who wishes to produce their own pref icons.
@{" Click Here " SYSTEM "Multiview SCREEN TomsWB"} for a brief look at the Pref Icons.
@ENDNODE
@NODE "point" "Colour & Pointer"
@{b}Colour & Pointer@{ub}
As I have discussed the 16 MWB palette elsewhere @{" Click Here " LINK "16Col"} to find out more.
This pointer is my creation.
After seeing the multitude of arrows and other weird and wonderful pointers out there I
thought it was time to develop my own pointer. It is a picture of a cartoon-like hand
with an out-stretched index finger for the pointer. The wait picture is like the original
Zzz cloud. I think they look much better than arrows and give my @{" AMIGA " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Yeah.snd q"} (and maybe yours too)
an individual touch that only owners of @{" INTEL Based Machines " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/DoesNot.snd q"} can only drool over - Ha Ha.
@{fg shine}There is one small problem which I don't quite understand :-/. When you click on the pointer
icon the hand looks okay but the Zzz cloud has part of its side missing. To overcome this I
suggest that you use Iconian or IconEdit and load the def_BUSYdisk icon and copy the Zzz cloud
from it. Save it as an image and import it to the Pointer prefs program as the BUSY image.
Sorry for any inconvenience. If someone can suggest a way around this problem please let @{" ME " LINK "Contact"}
know.@{fg text}
I have also given this pointer and wait picture to Antonio Santos, the author of Sleeping
Pointers, and he will try to animate the cloud and possibly the hand too. I can't wait for
that one :-). If your interested in high resolution animated pointers check his program out
on the Aminet in util/cdity SleepingPointers.lha. A new larger release is due soon. It will
be called MagicPointer!
@ENDNODE
@NODE "boot" "Boot-Pics"
@{b}Boot-Picture@{ub}
Here is a picture suitable as boot-pic with a program such as BootScreen or
similar. It is in the PAL format.
This picture was converted from its GIF original which can found in the wustl archives
in the multimedia section. I think it is more interesting to display a picture which is
aesthetically pleasing rather than something which tells the owner what chip set he/she is
working with (they should know this anyway!).
@{" Otters " SYSTEM "Multiview SCREEN BootPic/Otters.iff"} - The three wet amigos.
@{fg shine}I have also included a short program that I found with another package on the aminet. It stops
that annoying jumping of the bootpic as the prefs are loaded into the system. This program
reads the overscan-prefs and uses this information to display the bootpic. What you get is no
jumping of the bootpic. It's called FixJump, by AlienDesign, and is found in the C drawer.
@{" Click Here " LINK "fix"} for the changes necessary to use FixJump.@{fg text}
@ENDNODE
@NODE "fix" "FixJump"
@{B}FixJump@{UB}
FixJump will stop your boot-pic from jumping during HD bootup. See @{" Boot-Pics " LINK "boot"} for more info.
FixJump is a small program which should be copied into your C Drawer and the following line
added to your Startup-Sequence using ED or some other ASCII editor. This line should come
before your boot-pic program but after the SETPATCH command.
In my startup-sequence it looks like this;
C:SetPatch QUIET
run >NIL: PatchPointer
C:FixJump
;BootScreen
1994 by Joseph Luk
BootScreen
Now when you boot up the boot picture will remain steady.
@ENDNODE
@NODE "Copyright" "Copyright"
@{b}COPYRIGHT@{ub}
@{" TomIcons " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Cool1.snd q"} is Copyright
1995 @{" Tom Heeren " LINK "Contact"}.
This package is @{fg shine}CARDWARE@{fg text}.
If you like any of these icons or the other stuff included in this package you
are humbly requested to spend a few minutes filling out a post-card of your home
town and sending it to me.
You are allowed to spread it all over the world using any storage medium
available, but you must spread the whole package intact. This includes CDROM
distributions. Programmers & creators of PD-software are allowed to include
single icons of this package in their own package-distributions (If you think
any of them are any good) *8-).
No one is allowed to take more than AUS$2.50 - (Australian Dollars) including
disk and copying cost, and you must include some other MagicWB icons/patterns
to fill up the disk by at least 90%.
MagicWB is Copyright
1992-1994 Martin Huttenloher.
BootPics are Public Domain.
FixJump V1.0 (05-Jun-95) by zerocom of ALiENDESiGN.
@ENDNODE
@NODE "Contact" "How to reach me"
@{b}Where does this guy live?@{ub}
Tom Heeren
Lot 2 Nicholson Street
Woolsthorpe
Victoria 3276
Australia (Home of many @{" sheep " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Sheep.snd 4 e10 q"} and @{" Border Collies " SYSTEM "TIGuide/Sound TIGuide/Doglong.snd v50 q"})!
@{B}Internet:<Tom Heeren>eagle@deakin.edu.au@{UB}
If you send me Email, I will answer it as soon as I can but I am in the middle
of my honours thesis so you may have to wait a couple of days :-).
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