1.2.4 - Improved 1-bit support in Aardwolf Dark and Light, and made many improvements to Aardwolf Green, including a lot of 4-bit alterations, the most striking being that the text is no longer a hideous blue. Made other changes to ‘ics4’ resources and generally fixed up what was a pretty lacklustre 1.2.3. Finally, rebuilt all the Aardwolf splash screen logos to look better in 256 colours.
1.2.3 - Oh, where to begin... The much neglected Aardwolf schemes get a make-over, including adding cicn -12272 and barber’s pole ppat, plus improvements to 4-bit and 1-bit support and various pixel related jiggling. Aardwolf Green’s green colour is altered so that a) it’s more legible and b) disabled items are no longer dithered in 256 colours.
1.2.2 - Deleted unnecessary ‘TMPL’ resources from all schemes, altered utility window grow boxes for compatibility with Kaleidoscope 1.7, made tiny cosmetic changes to some ‘cicn’ resources in all schemes, including altering the contrast of menu hilites (making everything look nicer and fixing a 4-bit colour problem in Aardwolf Light). Made cosmetic improvements to ‘ics8’ and ‘ics4’ disabled scroll arrows in all three schemes and to the ‘ics4’ windoid widgets in Aardwolf Light. Made a few minor changes to this ‘Read Me’ file. Finally, did a little dance, made a little love, got down tonight.
1.2.1 - Altered corners of pop-up menu, button and widget resources. Named all the ‘cicn’ resources. Made improvements to window and windoid ‘cicn’s. Re-designed the windoid widgets in ‘Light’. Nothing mind-blowing here, hence the weeny step in version numbers, but the Aardwolves are feeling groovier than ever.
1.2 - Made minor hex colour changes, and did a small amount of tinkering. Deleted all the useless ‘Created by Color Scheme Convertor’ info from ‘cicn’ resources, which gets the file sizes down a bit.
1.1 - Improved 16 colour support and monkeyed with the close and zoom widgets in ‘Dark’ and ‘Green’ so that they matched their backgrounds. Changed the menu hilite on ‘Light’ in 256 colours so that it would function properly in 16 colours (ah, the joys of the 16 colour palette - gaaah!). Meddled a little with various aspects of the 256 colour ‘cicn’ resources to try and increase your viewing pleasure. There are still slight problems with the 16 colour versions of ‘Dark’ and ‘Green’ that I can only fix, it seems, by substantially altering the look of the 256 colour versions, and I don’t really want to do that. If anyone knows differently, and I can guess at least one of you does, please let me know.
1.0 - Introduced the Aardwolves to the Aardvarks and, to my surprise, they got on quite well.
Are you at it again?
Yes, but don’t get too excited. Aardwolf Dark, Green and Light are Colour Schemes for Kaleidoscope 1.7 that are based on Aardvark Ultra Smooth, but have a darker grey theme. They’re not original, they’re not new or exciting, but they’re quite subtle and easy on the eye. Basically, I produced the Aardwolves to learn about the fun that was the all new Kaleidoscope 1.5 file format, which is quite logical apart from the freaky scary bits that make you go ‘Argh’.
To use these Colour Schemes, just throw them at your ‘Kaleidoscope Color Schemes’ folder. If you don’t have Kaleidoscope, this is the point where the light bulb comes on over your head and you say ‘aaah…’.
What if I don’t like the Aardwolves?
Make them go away. Use a Colour Scheme you do like. The Aardwolves are completely free of charge and I never claimed they were any good. If you do like the Aardwolves, then they’re still completely free of charge, and didn’t I tell you they were brilliant? Essentially, they’re the small, pointless, computerised equivalent of a free lunch.
Other things you might like to know.
The Aardwolves don’t change your icons or make silly noises, but they do work in black-and-white, much like Humphrey Bogart. As you would expect, though, they work best in 256 or more colours (particularly Aardwolf Green). 8-bit good, 4-bit bad…
Serving Suggestion
You might like to try the Aardwolves with a background window colour of red: 100, green: 100, blue: 80. Or you might not. It’s not compulsory and no-one will call at your house to check up on you.
The Aardwolves have just eaten all my files and I don’t have back-ups. Can I come to your house and punch you?
No. Apart from the fact that I’m a physical coward, the Aardwolves come with no guarantees, telephone support, free mouse-mats or promises that they will improve the quality of your life. The Aardwolves will not give you the ability to play the piano, nor will they make you irresistible to the opposite (or same) sex, nor reduce male-pattern baldness. They might make you go “Oo! Look!”, but only if you’re easily impressed. Oh, and you should always make back-ups. Aardwolves are notorious for eating anything that crosses their path, but at least they always wash their paws first.
You missed something in the Aardwolves. Can I e-mail you and criticise you mercilessly?
You could, I suppose, but it would make me all grumpy, and I'm just a bear when I’m grumpy.
That’s rather unfortunate.
Yes it is. However, if you do find something wrong with the Aardwolves, I’d be pleased to hear from you (as long as you don’t criticise me mercilessly. See above). Of course, if you happen to like the Aardwolves, send me mail anyway. It’s nice to be nice. It’s nice to be plain rude, too - but not to me - I take these things too seriously.
How do I contact BouncyWare™?
Send e-mail addressed to neil.green@netmatters.co.uk and then the internet faeries who live in the world’s telephone wires will hand deliver it to my computer.
If you’re just browsing, go to http://users.netmatters.co.uk/neil.green/ and read about Aardvarks, who tend not to bite as much as Aardwolves.
How much is a pint of milk?
You need to get out more.
Playlist
Music by Suzanne Vega, Miles Davis, Sam Brown, No Doubt, Pooka, and the soundtrack from ‘Hear My Song’ (of all things) was used in the creation of the Aardwolves. My brain had surprisingly little to do with it, but it did help with that alert/dialog confusion. Gosh, isn’t hex fun…
The BouncyWare™ Mission Statement
Before it crashes into obscurity, is shut down by mysterious government agencies, or disappears up its own backside, BouncyWare™ will endeavour to produce little, useless things that don’t quite make people excited and that are consistently almost useful. BouncyWare™ will also continue to aid the integration of Aardvarks into society until they are no longer ridiculed, pointed at in the street, or used as stand-ins for Armadilloes in feature films or television programmes.
