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3D ICONS FOR NEODESK - FREEWARE
BY DAN DREIBELBIS
NEODESK 3 certainly has proven to be very popular - and
justifiably so in the added features and capabilities this
replacement desktop gives to the ST. One nice feature that it
adds is the ability to have specifically designed icons that
denote at a glance what the program, folder or file is without
having to squint at the writing underneath.
I hadn't seen it all, however, until I saw J. Hurwitz's
NEONEXT enhancement to NEODESK, which adds a NeXT-like feel and
look to the ST's desktop. The thing that really got me was the
icons, though - they LOOKED 3-D, and they even looked like they
were actually being pushed in like a button when selected by the
mouse cursor. (If you'd like to take a look at this interesting
file, you'll find it in GEnie's Atari ST Roundtable - it's file
NEONEXT.ARC; well worth the download!)
Curiousity getting the better of me, I loaded the .NIC file
from J.'s creation into NEODESK's Icon Editor, and began to pull
apart his design - and was surprised to discover just how easy
the process of designing an icon to get the effect he had
achieved was. So easy, in fact, that within ten minutes I was editing
my own icons to give me the very same features! Not only that,
but the exercise also helped me to understand better how the
Editor worked - thereby allowing me to actually improve upon the
variety of icons I had designed in the past, as well as designing
a whole load of new ones for some recent programs I had acquired
at both the ACE '92 Canadian Atari Exhibition and at my meetings
of the computer group I belong to, the Toronto Atari Federation
(TAF) (PLUG!).
I've decided that these icons are too good-looking to keep
to myself, and so I've decided to share these with my fellow ST
and NEOdesk3 users. Since some of the ones in this collection are
modifications of the icons that originally came with NEOdesk, I
decided that the honest thing would be to release it as freeware,
since it wouldn't be right to ask for any fee on something that
would come under copyright. (And I have spoken with Gribnif on
the matter to get a few facts straight whether I should upload
this file or not). You will, though, find quite a few of my own
icons on this collection - including ones for Turtle, No Roach,
Warp 9, MUGSHOT!, Multi-Viewer Graphica, STeno, Cardfile3,
CatsPaw (the front end of Image Cat) - plus a few more. These
icons are designed for use on monochrome ST systems - I would've
loved to have designed some colour ones, but monochrome's all I
have at the moment. They also look best on some sort of dark or 3-D
background.
Please feel free to distribute this file to as many users of
NEOdesk as you can. The only compensation I really would like is
from users of GFA Basic - see, I just got a copy of GFA and would
like to start doing some of my own programs, but being a novice
at programming, I don't know where to begin, and computer
languages are all too confusing to me to comprehend - so if
anybody with experience at programming with GFA Basic Version 3.5
could nudge me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful! You
can get in touch with me at:
Dan Dreibelbis
72 Glendonwynne Rd.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6P 3E4
Or you can E-mail me via GEnie (my address is D.DREIBELBIS)
- I also am available through a number of BBSes that carry
FIDONET or USENET.
Special thanks to J. Hurwitz, who got me started on the road
to this interesting and fulfilling project - and to Rick Flashman
at Gribnif Software, who was able to set me straight on a few
questions regarding this file. Ah, heck - thanks to Gribnif,
period, for putting out exemplary products for the Atari
ST/STE/TT line and giving quick fast support when things go
wrong!
NEODESK3, NEODESK, STENO, CARDFILE 3, are registered
trademarks of Gribnif Software. Image Cat, CatsPaw, MUGSHOT!, and
Multi-Viewer Graphica are registered trademarks of WizWorks!
Software. WARP 9 is a registered trademark of Codehead Software.
NO_ROACH is a software title by Atari Computer Corporation.
TURTLE is a software title by George Woodside.