WHAT IS TAUICONS ABOUT This archive was compiled because I got tired of the ugly utility icons on my otherwise so beautiful MagicWB Workbench. There are 28 icons in the compilation. In all probability, I'll be making more of these still, but I decided people should get these now. COPYRIGHT AND OTHER LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO All the icons in this collection are Copyright 1993 Osma Ahvenlampi. These icons are freely distributable provided this file, including this copyright notice is accompanied with the icons unchanged. You may not distribute any modified versions of these icons without prior consent from Osma Ahvenlampi. No guarantee of any kind is given on the icons. You are using the icons at your own risk. The author can not be held responsible for any damage and/or losses which might be caused by using these icons. What the above means that if you manage to crash your hard drive while installing the icons, YOU did it, not me. Only nominal copying fee can be charged for these icons. Any disk or CD-ROM library charging more than Fred Fish or the Aminet CD-ROM can not distribute these icons. The icons may be distributed through Bulletin Board Systems, Internet/Usenet FTP sites, and other similar electronic channels only in the original, unchanged original LhA archive form. Any services charging extra for file transfers may not distribute these icons. NONE of the icons may be used on any machine which is used for research, development, construction, testing or production of weapons or other military applications. This includes any machine used for training persons for any of the above mentioned purposes. IMPORTANT These icons are Giftware. If you like these icons and use them often, consider sending some gift to the author. I suggest a copy of your own program, a donation of 5-10 USD, or an A4000 :). Please don't send cheques or money orders from outside Europe, those things cause a lot of trouble and cashing them might cost more than what they amount to. If you can't afford to send a donation, don't feel too bad. I would have made these icons anyway. Please send a note that you are using them anyway, it's nice to know that some one appreciates the work put into these icons. The address can be found below. If you use some program that does not have a goodlooking MagicWB icon, contact me, I might make one if I have the time to do it. If you are an author yourself, and would like to have me make an icon for your program, I'd be glad to do it for a copy of the program. The time limitation applies here too, however, so I might not be able to help you. AUTHORS ADDRESS I can be reached through email at: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi If you IRC, stop by at #amiga and say hi to me. My nick there is Tau. If for some reason you can not use any electronic channels, my snailmail address is, at least for the time being: Osma Ahvenlampi Rekipellontie 2 F 55 00940 Helsinki Finland CONTENTS AND SOME NOTES TauIcons/TauIcons.readme You're reading it. TauIcons/WBStartup/ASwarm.info TauIcons/WBStartup/Spliner.info TauIcons/WBStartup/Rotor.info ASwarm II, Spliner, and Rotor are the three best screen blankers for Amiga. On a multitasking platform, all screen blankers should be like these. TauIcons/WBStartup/Yak.info Yak is a very nice mouse accelerator/hotkey program/whatever the commodities of this kind do. By the way, don't ask me for a KCommodity icon. That's a bad kludge, IMHO. TauIcons/WBStartup/LacePointer.info A hack, but a necessary one. TauIcons/Prefs/ToolManager.info ToolManager is cool, try it. I think it was thb who first released MagicWB icons for ToolManager. Anyway, I didn't like the Preferences icon, here is my version. I probably won't be making an icon for the WBStartup program. TauIcons/Prefs/ReqTools.info ReqTools is a nice asl.library/req.library replacement, that is configurable through its Preferences program. TauIcons/Prefs/BattMem.info TauIcons/Prefs/BattMem2.info I made these two icons due to a request. I personally think the DIP package is better for this, but decided to make an SMD version as the MagicWB Ram Disk icon has an SMD chip.. TauIcons/Tools/SunClock.info Another request. Personally, I think this program is quite pointless, but here goes. I'm quite satisfied at how this came out. Note the lights in Berlin, Los Angeles, Sydney and Tokio. TauIcons/Tools/TopCPU.info TauIcons/Tools/DSD.info TopCPU and DSD are parts of the very nice Spy System 3 system load monitor package. Only problem with these are that they take a lot of room on the screen. I wish DSD could be resizable and have an option to not show uptime etc. TauIcons/Tools/Lens.info Use this with MKS_Lens, QLens or similar. TauIcons/Tools/Player.info MultiPlayer is THE module player. There is no other that is as system friendly as this. I wish it would play all the modules I have though.. TauIcons/Tools/MTool.info MTool is a nice directory utilitity. It will take a lot of requests to have me make an icon for any other similar program. I've had some requests for DirWorks and DOPUS icons, but I haven't seen neither, so it would be a bit tough... TauIcons/Tools/CatEdit.info A GUI catalog editor. The easiest way to make catalogs, it seems. TauIcons/Tools/FileX.info I've looked for a long time for a good hex file editor. I want something that not only performs well, but also looks good. FileX seems to be the answer. TauIcons/Tools/EditKeys.info The only working keymap editor... I wish it could accept control chars as \ escapes. TauIcons/Tools/CyberCron.info The best cron for Amiga, with ARexx support and the works. I made this due to a request by the author, and would probably has missed it other- wise, since I had it in C: myself... I quite like the result myself. TauIcons/Tools/X-Comm.info X-Comm is the best terminal program for Amiga. Term comes quite close though, so I recommend you use that until X-Comm comes out of beta. Forget Terminus, that bites it hard IMHO. No other terminal program will have an icon by me, and this wouldn't work too well with others.. Tough, but that's life. I look forward to ALink, the AUW successor though. And that isn't a simple terminal program in my book, so I probably make icons for it. TauIcons/Tools/HDToolBox.info TauIcons/Tools/HDToolBox2.info This is a tough one. The first retains the general idea in the original icon, and though it is quite horrible, I use it myself. The second... well.. I'd better not say anything.. :) I wish MagicWB had originally included this. TauIcons/Tools/Degrader.info This should be general enough to be usable with any program of this type. TauIcons/Tools/DiskSalv.info I made this before the idea in the original icon was explained to me. Hazy, you sure made a weird icon... Anyway, I haven't bothered to remake this because it fits in quite well with the ReOrg and SuperDuper icons. TauIcons/Tools/SD.info TauIcons/Tools/ReOrg.info These have the same scheme as the DiskSalv icon. Hopefully the ideas behind these are clear enough... Understanding them might require a crisp monitor, but I hope no one is using MagicWB on a monitor not capable of showing the differences. TauIcons/Tools/HFT.info HFT is a nifty little terminal program for use with DNet and AUW. No file transfer capabilities or VT100 emulation, but a very small executable instead. TauIcons/Games/UChess.info The only game icon I've made so far. The original is horrible... Making a good looking and recognisable Knight wasn't the easiest task I've done, but I think came through okay. COMING UP Well, I have a list of requests I've not made yet, but I think I'll be having a break from icon making for a while. Those that want an icon for Final Copy II or Final Writer, how about using the Readme icon from original MagicWB distribution? It has exactly the same elements, even though they are not in the same order... I might be making a few other game icons next... AmigaBoulderDash and Frontier wouldn't be too time consuming... THE END Yep. That's it for now. Take care, and enjoy the nicest PC class platform there is, the Amiga...