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- DOpus5_Icons: A collection of icons for use within Directory Opus 5, for
- those who want their Opus5 to look a little more interesting!
-
- * Icons use the MagicWB palette.
-
- * Includes a screen grab for those interested in what the new
- and very different version of DOpus looks like.
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- Compiled by Leo Davidson (P0T-NOoDLE / Gods'Gift/Anthrox)
- -> "Nudel" on IRC - 'Hi' to all those who've taken the time to talk to me!
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- Intro/Mini-Review:
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- Note:
- These docs are badly written, but I guess you don't need to know
- THAT much about a set of icons - I'm just gibbering on about stuff...
-
- Well, finally DOpus5 is here!! I've waited ages for this with mixed
- feelings: I'd seen previews in magazines and wasn't sure if this new way of
- doing things would work as well as the old style in DOpus4...
- I've sent off my order for DOpus5 today: I hope you will too if you
- use it! Yes, I was using a pirate copy: I didn't want to spend the money
- before I knew if I was going to get something more like DiskMaster than
- Opus (no disrespect to anyone with anything to do with DiskMaster, it's
- just my preference). Now that I've used it, I know it's worth every penny!
-
- Opus has always been the most configurable and powerfull, directory
- program on the Amiga (hell, on anything I've seen! PC owners can dream of
- EVER having a piece of software like this!), and with v5 it's attained a
- new level of power. If you've used something like Browser, you'll know
- how nice it can be to be able to have multiple listers instead of being
- limited to just two -> now you can enjoy this along with the incredible
- configurability of Opus! (...and all this power is very easy to control:
- I have found the Config-GUI very intuitive, and I haven't even seen the
- manuals YET!)
-
- (This is turning into a review) I have to say that there are SOME
- things missing from the old Opus4, but I can easily live without them, and
- I expect there is a lot to be added with future updates... (I'm sure there
- are some features I haven't found yet too, and the copy I have been using
- may not be the release version!)
-
-
- Errr, yes where was I!!.... Anyway, a lot of people (myself included)
- had seen the preview screen-shots of DOpus5 and thought that it looked a
- little ugly (perhaps "plain" says it better)...
- Well, you remember how your workbench looked when you got it: stupid
- badly drawn 4-colour icons, and when you installed MagicWB: _nice_ (at least,
- more colourful, some people hate MWB)... Opus5 is the same: they didn't
- include any fancy icons (unless the copy I have isn't a full version, I'll
- have to wait for my delivery...), but you can install them!!
-
-
- So that's what this is: a collection of icons for the "Listers" in
- DOpus5... They're in the MagicWB style (which will probably make some of
- you Isomefreaks sick!) and are mostly just cut-and-paste jobs on other
- people's icons (all credit for the quality of images does not go to me!!).
- I appologise for not crediting the original artists, but I collect icons
- in IFF pictures and have never bothered writting down the names of who
- drew them...
-
-
- If you want to see how Dopus5 looks with these icons installed,
- have a look at the example picture (NOT the ones for cutting icons out
- of)... I've also included a nice picture of my workbench, and also a
- picture of the old DOpus4 for comparison with the new (it's small)...
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- Installation:
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-
- I decided not to break a standard and made all the icons the same size as
- the default ".small" ones which come with opus... Hopefully everyone will
- stick to this and we'll all be happy!...
-
- While I myself use the horrible 640*256 (actually, 662*256) resolution
- because I have to, those of you lucky enough to be able to use
- proportional resolutions should be able to enjoy all but about 2 of the icons
- without them looking stretched (consider it revenge for about 50% of them
- looking stretched for me!! hehe)...
-
- I'm not going to tell you how to get DOpus5 to use the icons in the IFF file
- because I'm assuming that you know how or can look it up in your manual
- (you'll obviously need a paint program to save out the icons as IFF brushes).
-
-
- The icons are all in the standard magic-wb colours...
- Personally I don't use this system, as I can't stand the way magic-wb
- uses BLUE as the selected window colour (It DESTROYS the bass-relief
- completely if you ask me!), but I've remapped them to the standard
- colours so that you can do whatever you want with them...
- (For those interested, the example picture IS using my custom
- colours...)
-
- There are two files to cut icons from, one which is remapped to MWB,
- in 8 colours, and the 16 colour one I use wich has the extra colours used
- for grids to draw the icons in and stuff... (Look at them both, you'll
- understand)...
-
- Well, enough!... Just use them! (Or get Dopus5 first, if you haven't
- already!)
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- I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK you can order
- Directory Opus 5 from:
-
- Wizard Developments
- PO BOX 490
- Dartford
- Kent DA1 2UH
-
- Phone: 01322 272 908
- (+44 1322 272 908)
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