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- These are two Lightwave Raytraces of The Amiga Version of the New
- MacOS 8 (Copland) boot/logo screens as seen from the official Apple WWW
- site for MacOS8.0.
-
- I recommend you use the only with a Gfx card as native AGA in 256
- colours especially on an unexpanded A1200 will be deathly slow.
-
- They are fine on my A3000/040/40 with CyberGraphics but they swipe a
- fair chunk of fast/chip ram - nice if you can afford to use it this way.
-
- One is for OS3.0 and the other is for OS3.1 - take your pick depending
- on the OS you are using.
-
- You can use them either as Workbench backdrops or as boot screens (if
- like me you hate the CyberGfx Logo). Any boot screen program which can
- use normal 256 colour IFFs will be able to load these two pictures.
-
- If they are to be used as Workbench Backers I suggest that you use a 256
- colour intuition screen of SVGA dimensions (800x600 pixels) and you use
- an image manipulation program (ADPRO for instance) and reduce the number
- of colours to 128 or less. They are currently 256 colours. The reason
- for this is that The entire 256 colours is curently used in the palette
- for the pictures and with OS3.X palette methods you will actually have
- less (seeing colours 1-4 and 252-256 are locked by the WB Pallete
- program (pens are locked)) than 256 coloours to map the image to and
- it's always a good idea to allow some free pens for icons and other
- palette operations (don't worry Windoze actually has less colours than
- this to play with on a 256 colour screen and a Mac can be horrifying
- when not using the "System Palette" or a shared palette :).
-
- They are FREEWARE and you can do with them what you wish. Do not upload
- these to anywhere near or to do with Apple Computers (i.e. they are NOT
- to be used on a real Macintosh unless it's Shapeshifter:). I did not see
- any Copyrights or anything whilst on the Apple site saying they or the
- idea for the visuals were theirs, so I provide them here in their AMIGA
- versions in the hope I haven't breached any rights.
-
- Ivan Smith
- (ivans@zeta.org.au)
- http://www.zeta.org.au/~ivans/