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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 16 Color Icons - Wb3.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.202104.2207@msus1.msus.edu>
- From: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:21:03 -0600
- Reply-To: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
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- In article <1993Jan26.144002.13386@wam.umd.edu>, davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.140949.727@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ross.Knepper@launchpad.unc.edu (Ross Knepper) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan22.183350.18320@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>Are there any nice 16 color PD icons out there. The 4 color ones
- >>>from C= are just not "neat enough " for those new AGA chips.
- >>>
- >>
- >>You mean you can get a 16 color Workbech with Wb3.0!? HOW??
- >>
- >>>--
- >>>________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
- >>> "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
- >>> inevitable.." -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
- >>
- >>- Ross Knepper
- >>--
- >> The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- >> North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- >> Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- >> internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
- >
- > You just select a 16-color workbench. You could do a 16 color workbench
- > in Wb2.0 Wb2.1 and Wb2.04 and Wb2.05. It's just that Wb3.0 can go up to a
- > 256 color workbench in a whole lot of resolutions and settings. But with
- > a 16 color workbench only, it is hard to make 16 color icons that look
- > good from computer to computer, so often 4 color icons are still used.
- > With a 256 on screen pallette, you are more inclined to do 16 color or
- > 32 color icons since you aren't as worried about color limitations that
- > you want in your picture.
- > -- Hope this helps.
- > If in doubt, check out Prefs/Screenmode.
-
- Well, WB3.0 doesn't allow for more than 8 colors in the icons as far as i can
- tell w/ the IconEdit program. Sorta sad...sure would like to make some of them
- nice 256 color mac icons work on my amiga...but no such luck. :)
-
- Jim
- >..
- >
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