It’s here: It’s the Omnibus disk that you get with your Knot registration. It contains…
Knot
The new, PowerPC-native version. Check out the expanded manual and power-user documentation for a full explanation, or just open it up and draw the knot called “Tile - Graphite” for a quick idea of what’s new.
Inevitably, there’s a Web page for Knot: http://ccn.cs.dal.ca/~aa731/knot.html.
Also, I've included some other programs. For example…
FeatherGIF
This is a filter for Photoshop and other paint programs, and it lets you do complicated transparency effects for Web graphics. The most recent version will be at
http://ccn.cs.dal.ca/~aa731/feathergif.html
Flaming Pear Icons
These 62 icons are complete ‘suites,’ including both small and large sizes in black & white, 16 colors, and 256 colors.
The 256-color versions have not been adapted to use only the legal hues for icons, so if you display them with a monitor in 256-colors mode, they will not all darken prettily when you select them. With a monitor set to thousands or millions of colors, this is not a problem.
All these icons may be used without restriction, and all were created with Knot.
Flaming Pear Textures
These are desktop textures - also known as 'ppats' - which can be installed with a program called Texture Installer. Or, if you have ResEdit, you can paste a 'ppat' from this file into the System file, and give it the ID number 16.
Color Swap Filters
These are three Photoshop filters for changing color harmonies in images.
Vitriol Filter
A Photoshop filters for changing an image’s contrast as though it is being viewed through colored glass, but without any colorization. Try it and see.
Despair
Despair has proven, unaccountably, to be a big hit. I wrote it one day in late summer when I was in a bad mood, put it on the Internet that Christmas, and started getting bizarre postcards with cryptic messages from around the world almost immediately. People tell me the appeal is 1) its total pointlessness, 2) the nerve of writing a game with such a baldly stated premise, and 3) the “computerized dammit doll” effect. And it comes with a morbid poster.
Although little changed from the original, primitive version, the Despair on this disk has been rewritten slightly to work on modern machines.
Government
Government is a curious bagatelle inspired by a book called “-Isms and -Ologies,” which, in cataloging the varietes of political thought, makes nearly anything seem plausible as long as it has an impressive, Latinate name. See for yourself.
Step on a Ferret, Rhapsotwang, Pizzicato, Zoing, and Space Harp
These five rare synthetic sounds could become your new system beep noises.
If you’ve got questions, or would like source code, I’m reachable at lloyd@kagi.com.
