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- From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.082435.2688@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 08:24:35 GMT
- References: <2A9C93FB.14833@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1992Aug27.151019.26372@cs.hw.ac.uk> <1992Aug27.163806.1979@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug27.163806.1979@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu
- (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.151019.26372@cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk
- >(Neil Forsyth) <- That's me! writes:
- >>It would be nice if the Atari desktop could also have multi-coloured icons
- >>like W*nd*ws has. I was trying to think of a way it could be bolted on to
- >>the exiting GEM interface but no clean solutions came to mind.
- >>You'd think we'd be happy with 3D but no. :-)
- >Surprise!!! The new AES that comes with MultiTOS not only has a new 3D look
- >to it, but it also allows icons to have up to 256 colors. So, you don't
- >have to be happy with just 3D. <grin>
-
- Drool, drool. I want it now! I presume the original set come up in colour
- and any regular additional icons from the Mega STE or TT come up in b/w.
- I guess there will be docs, and hopefully tools, regarding how to create
- your own coloured icons.
-
- This explains why Atari are recommending that the first 16 colours of
- the 256 colour palette be left alone by the user. It's so the icons and
- windows don't look dumb.
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