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- Short: MWB-style Blitz Basic Icons
-
- Uploader: camge@ix.netcom.com
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- Author: Curt Esser
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- Type: pix/icon
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- Requires: Well, they're just icons - nothing is really required, but
- they will look kind of funny if you don't use a MWB pallette
- on your workbench! You should also have Blitz Basic or else
- you really don't need 'em (unless you just like to collect
- icons)
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- Distribution: Wherever you like - they're free!
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- These are a set of MWB style replacements for the standard icons that come
- with Blitz-Basic. Included are icons for Blitz, Ted, 2 choices for SuperTed,
- 2 for the source codes, 2 for the executable, and a blitz-drawer. Try 'em -
- you might like 'em!
-
- Also, please note that the icons for the source and executables have a bunch
- of garbage in the tooltypes. This is actually a NewIcon image -- WHAT!!! I
- DON'T WANT ANY STUPID NEWICONS ON MY NICE MWB ICONS!!! -- no, wait a minute
- before you delete the tooltypes. The NewIcon image is exactly the SAME as the
- MWB icon image. So what's the point? Well, if you have ever seen a MWB icon
- on a non-MWB palette, you know it can look anywhere from inaccurate to downright
- horrible. The NewIcon system is really a way to save pallette information with
- the icon (something that should have been done by the OS) so that when a NewIcon
- is displayed on another system, it will be re-mapped to the existing pallette so
- your icon will still be displayed in the correct colors (like a drawing program
- does when you load a brush). So now, if you distribute a program with one of
- these "double" icons attached, it will still look good not only on a MWB system
- (MWB pallette) but also on a NewIcons system.
-
- This extra information does take up some disk space, so I suggest that you copy
- the icons for executable and source and put the copies away somewhere. Then you
- can delete the tooltypes from the other icons and use them on your own system, and
- attached the "double" versions to your programs and sources for distribution.
-
- Well, I hope you can use these. Feel free to direct any comments or questions
- to me at the above address. Oh, and if anybody knows how Blitz saves its icons,
- I would appreciate it if you would let me know. I use IconMiser on my system to
- intercept and change the images of icons generated by programs like Dpaint and
- OctaMed, but it doesn't work with Blitz! Blitz apparently saves it's icons in a
- non-standard way, but I don't know what it is.
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- If anybody cares, these icons were made on an A2500, 68020, wb3.1 - I'm pretty
- sure they'll run on any system, although I recommend at least a 68060 with at least
- 16m fastmem and 2m chip, and a 2gig hard drive should be enough for most purposes.
- (I always wanted to say that!)