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Mac95 Pack! Rev. 2!
(This readme has been optimized for viewing by "Notepad" text editor ;)
What's New?
-Animated startup screen!
-Higher Resolution startup & shutdown screens!
Ok, so your not willing to shell out 50 of your hard earned dollars on an add-on
files that should have been included with Win95 in the first place. I can
totally understand you feel which is why I made this alternative "Pack". I have
to admit, to do all the things in the instructions is a big pain in the butt,
but if you really want to make your PC look like a Mac it should be worth it.
Something things you may find you can skip and still be satisfied with the Mac
look, it's up to you. I will list everything I have done to make my PC look like
a Mac.
Right now I'm currently using WinMac96. This is a really cool program that makes
a small Mac taskbar at the top of your screen. It is made by Ritchie Chow and
can be downloaded from:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/~rchow/winmac96.zip
If this address is old by now try using a search engine on the web for WinMac96,
it's worth the effort (IMHO).
This pack includes:
-Mac sounds
-Mac wallpapers
-Mac icons
-Mac font
-Mac startup/ shutdown screens
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU SCREWING UP YOUR COMPUTER, MAKE SURE YOU WRITE DOWN
FILES OR THINGS YOU CHANGE SO YOU CAN CHANGE THEM BACK LATER. This readme tells
you how to change your computer look to mac but not how to change it back to
windoz. You could theoretically read this backwords to change it back.
Instructions
---------------
1. To install this Pack, first I hope you unzipped the mac95pck.zip file into
an empty directory. Put this directory somewhere permanently, for instance,
in the c:\windows directory.
2. Now take the files Geneva & Chicago and put them in the directory
c:\windows\fonts
Appearance
3. Next rename the file c:\logo.sys to c:\winlogo.sys
rename c:\windows\logow.sys to c:\windows\winlogow.sys
rename c:\windows\logos.sys to c:\windows\winlogos.sys
(these are windoz default startup screens)
NOTE: Some windoz95 systems are setup without a c:\logo.sys file which means you don't
have to rename it. Just put my logo.sys file in c:\ and windoz will recognize it's there
and use it as the default startup screen. Simply remove it to get the old startup screen
back.
4. Now look in the Mac directory and move the file "logo.sys" to
the "c:\" directory. Now move the files logos.sys & logow.sys
to the "c:\windows" directory.
(these are new mac startup screens)
5. Now figure out the resolution on your screen. You most likely have 640x480,
800x600 or 1024x768. Now the only wallpapers that are relevant to you are the
ones that apply to your desktop size. So file wise, look in your Mac directory
for:
640x480 = desk640, wm640
800x600 = desk800, wm800
1024x768 = desk1024, wm1024
6. If you are using WinMac96 then you want to use the "wm" file. If you are
not using WinMac96 then you want to use the "desk" file. Simply go into control
panel, display then browse to the location of the "desk" or "wm" wallpaper and
choose it.
7. Now time for a tedious part. Go into control panel, display and choose
appearance. Now edit these fields appropriately. A "/" means the info applies
to the "Font:" section.
3D Objects: light grey/ black
Active Title Bar: dark grey/ Chicago 9 white
Active Window Border: light grey
Application Background: dark grey
Desktop: white
Icon: Geneva 8
Inactive Title Bar: light grey/ Chicago 9 white
Inactive Window Border: light grey
Menu: light grey/ Chicago 9 black
Message Box: Geneva 9 black
*Palette Title: Chicago 9
Selected Items: dark grey/ Chicago 9 white
*ToolTip: white/ Chicago 9 black
Window: white/ black
Icons & Cursors
8. To change the Recycle Bin icon you need to use RegEdit
(c:\windows\regedit.exe).
Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon.
Now you should see 3 String values. The default and full one should be set on the
file "Macfull.ico" and the empty one on "MacEmpty.ico". To modify the location
just right click on the string and choose modify. Now change the (Default) value
to "filename, 0" where filename is the location of the file. So in my full and
default string settings I have:
"C:\Windows\Mac\Macfull.ico,0"
Now go to the top of the regedit directory "My Computer" and go to "Edit".
Do "Find" and use "Recycle Bin". Right click the icon and choose modify.
Rename it "Trash". Now hit F3 to find other entries and edit them also.
There should be about 2 of "Recycle Bin". After doing this leave regedit.
9. Now go into control panel, go into mouse, go to the tab pointers, then click
normal select and choose browse. Browse to the file MacPointer in the Mac
directory and choose it. Then click on working in background and browser to the
file MacWait and choose it. Do the same for Busy. Close it.
10. Go in "My computer" and take the "c:\" drive and bring it to the desktop
to create a shortcut. Do the same for the floppy drive "a:\".
Go to the c:\ drive shortcut you put on your desktop and right click the mouse
and choose properties. Then click the tab "shortcut", then click "change icon"
and browse into the Mac directory. Then choose the icon "Macintosh HD".
Follow the same instructions for the Floppy icon except choose the icon
"Floppy Drive".
Structure
11.
Now arrange your desktop like a Mac (This is the easy part!):
________________________________________________________
| |
| My computer Macintosh HD |
| |
| Floppy Drive |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Trash |
---------------------------------------------------------
12. Make a Control Panel in your start menu (like a Mac). Go into Start,
Settings, Taskbar. Hit the tab "Start Menu items", then click "Advanced".
Now right click the mouse and make a new folder and call it "Control Panel".
Double click in it, it should be empty. Now leave that area for now & go in
"My Computer", then "Control Panel". Select all of the icons or just the ones
you use most frequently and then move them to the new folder "Control Panel".
Now in the start menu you should have a new Control Panel that is much faster
than the original!
Sound
13. Finally, the last steps. Go to control panel and go to sounds. Here is
how I setup my sound events. You can change yours accordingly depending on
which sounds you prefer:
Default
Indigo.wav
Program error
Indigo.wav
Asterisk
Quack.wav
SystemDefault
Sosumi.wav
Exclamation
Indigo.wav
SystemExit
Macstart.wav
Critical Stop
Wild Eep.wav
Question
Wild Eep.wav
SystemStart
Macstart.wav
14. Enjoy your new cool GUI (Graphic User Interface)!!!
Well, I hope you like the theme, we worked hard on it.
Consider this a tribute to a dying OS which could and should have
been the home OS standard. Take care.
Credits:
-Michael Guidry: This is "the man" guys...the one who started the MacTheme project
and contributed a lot to it. I would have had a hard time starting without him.
-Ritchie Chow: What's a mactheme without the trashcans??? This guy gave me the trash to
give to you all, in a figure of speech ;)
-Reno Filla: A cool new feature in Win95 is animated startup screens. I completely in
dark on how to make them until Reno came along to help me. Moreover he clued me in on how
to make higher rez startup screens.
Notes:
1. Startup and shutdown screens are still somewhat pixelated & distorted because of the
win95 resizing effect. Unfortunately, this is unavoidable.
2. I only have access to a American version of the MacOS and Win95 operating system
therefore I cannot support foreign OS's. Specifically, the U.S. fonts may not work on
foreign systems...sorry I wish I could do something about this.
Comments, Questions?:
The E (Jason E. Dustin): rhyme@uclink.berkeley.edu
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~thee