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"FunIcons":
The various screen-hacks and graphic demos available in the public-domain
are a great way to show off the Amiga. However, one problem with many of
them is that they can't be run from the WorkBench, usually because the authors
simply didn't bother to make icons for them. Well, here's my answer...
a set of icons for some of the more popular screen-hacks and demos that I
happen to like...
The programs these icons are used for are well-known enough that you should
either already have them (if you don't, where have you been??), or be able to
find them on a good network like PeopleLink's AmigaZone or your friendly
neighborhood Amiga BBS:
The following icons are TOOL type. Just put them into the same directory as
the program of the same name (e.g. "Viacom.info" goes with "Viacom").
Viacom.info
Suck.info
WBLander.info
Melt.info
Scat!.info
Grains.info
RobotRoff.info
Oing.info
AmiBug.info
BenchQuake.info
Blur.info
JumpBench.info
Trails.info
Tilt.info
LPM.info
FlowWeb.info
Stars.info
The following icons are PROJECT type. The programs they correspond to either
crash if run directly by icon, or require an argument. These icons can be
used to run these programs via the public-domain utility "XIcon2".
(I leave it to you to obtain "XIcon2" and read its documentation to
figure out how to use it... and note that this is for the PUBLIC-DOMAIN
version "Xicon2", NOT the Commodore version with the similar name of "XIcon".
I understand that with WB 1.3 CBM will officially release their version under
the new name of "IconX" to avoid further confusion).
These icons are set up as follows:
a. The tool-type is set to ":c/XIcon" which assumes that "XIcon"
is located in the "C" subdirectory of the root-directory of the
disk on which the icon is located. Change this to your own
desired path.
b. The icon is associated with an ASCII execute-file that must be
located in the same directory as the icon itself. The ASCII files
I use are included here, and give an explicit path that must be
changed for the particular disk YOU place it on. For example, the
files I include here assume a disk named "FUN!!" that has
subdirectories (drawers) named "ScreenHacks" and "Demos", since that
is how I have my own disk set up.
(Read the docs to XIcon2 for the gory details... and yes, it
could have been made a lot cleaner by using the "LocDir" function
of XIcon2, but I'm lazy...)
ICON: Execute File: Used to run:
RunStrobe.info RunStrobe Strobe
UpsDn.info UpsDn UD
ABlaster.info ABlaster AB ("AtariBlaster")
Startle1.info Startle1 Startle
(plus desired text-file)
Since some of these icons have been shamelessly adapted from existing icons
from various sources, the icons included in this file are released into the
public domain by:
Andy Levy
PLink: apl
CIS: 72767,1237
BIX: apl
GENIE: apl