============================================================================== 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ============================================================================== Intro/Mini-Review: ============================================================================== 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)... ============================================================================== Installation: ============================================================================== 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!) ============================================================================== 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) ============================================================================== END ==============================================================================