I hope you can still see what this one represents. It actually was a great challenge for me to draw an AGuide window that small. Hey... I did it! First I only had that tiny AGuide window but I missed the 'creating' in it, if you know what I mean. After all, 'AGW' means 'AmigaGuideWriter'. So to get that 'creating', or 'writing', bit in there, I added a tiny brush which is drawing the small AGuide window. As we click the icon once we see the window almost completed and when double clicked we should see the 'AGW' program icon which explains more clearly how the 'writing' of an AGuide file is being done. I guess this icon represents perfectly what the program in its drawer does: the creation of an AGuide file.
The 'AGW' drawer.
This is a very very simple one. I took the standard MagicWB 'Emulators' drawer and edited it a bit. I put something on the screen which represents an 'AIBB' test running. When clicked I let a magnifying glass come in to check up the whole thing. That is what 'Amiga Intuition Based Benchmarks' does. It runs several tests and then determines the speed of your setup.
The 'AIBB' drawer.
Well, another simple drawer. This one shows a mouse drawn with ASCII chararacters. It's really a small ANSI... Pretty obvious, not?
The 'ANSIEditors' drawer.
Mmmm... What does this look like. Maybe a 'viruses prohibited' sign? If that's what you think, then you're right. I've seen drawers with just a virus drawn on them but that does not mean anti-virus now, does it? Well, this one does mean something like that. P.S.: I'm not sure, but I beleive there still is a small bug in this one 8).
The 'AntiVirus' drawer.
I never saw a catalogs drawer so I decided to make one, just for kicks. But I didn't have the slightest idea how to draw a catalog. So I just combined the standard MagicWB 'Locale' drawer with the standard 'Libs' drawer and it worked out fine. I only had to remove one book to be able to still see the map on the background. But it surely explains what a 'catalog' does.
The 'Catalogs' drawer.
This also is a combination of the 'Locale' drawer and the 'Libs' drawer, only this time it's animated. We see one book and when we click it we see three books; these representing new catalogs created. Another fine icon, if I do say so myself. Refer to chapter The 'CatEdit' icon. for more information.
The 'CatEdit' drawer.
I put a small 'CyberTracker' GUI on the drawer which I took from the original program icon.
The 'CyberTracker' drawer.
Simple... Just a clock display put on the drawer. But why one minute earlier as on the original 'DClock' program icon? Well, do you know? Even more simple... Time goes fast, very fast 8).
The 'DClock' drawer.
What's behind this one? I wouldn't know. I just put one of the hammers of the original program icon on the drawer. Couldn't find anything better, sorry 'bout that.
The 'Deduce' drawer.
Fairly simple. A sign which says:"A4000 prohibited". If something old doesn't work it will always be on the A4000 or its smaller sister the A1200. Good enough for me.
The 'Degraders' drawer.
What we see here is some platform which has smashed something flat. If we click the icon we see that 'something' being restored to it's original size. I beleive that is a depacking routine explained extremely simple.
The 'Depackers' drawer.
I guess I just could have taken the standard MagicWB 'Backup' drawer for this one. But there's one more word in 'DiavoloBackup' than in 'Backup', or am I wrong. Thus I took a backed up disk and painted a very very small devil (=diavolo) next to it. Voila, 'DiavoloBackup' is there!
The 'DiavoloBackup' drawer.
A tiny Directory Opus window on a drawer. Nothing more to be said.
The 'DirectoryOpus' drawer.
I repainted the snorkel and diving glasses from the original program icon and placed them, together with a disk, on a drawer icon. When we click the icon, we see the glasses filling with water. We're off to salvage some disks! P.S.: See also: The 'DiskSalv' icon..
The 'DiskSalv' drawer.
There is an amplifier with an equaliser on the original program icon. I just took the equaliser and put it on the drawer icon.
The 'Eagleplayer' drawer.
Well, I took the feather pen from the program icon and put it on the drawer. Later I added the paper and animated it as if it is being written.
The 'FinalWriter' drawer.
'GigaMem' combines your memory with your hard disk, as I did with a very big chip and a small hard disk. You can find more explanations with the GigaMem program icon, the 'GigaMemPrefs' icon. and with the 'GigaMem-Startup' icon..
The 'GigaMem' drawer.
This one is just the same as the 'GuiArc' program icon.
The 'GuiArc' drawer.
This one was made for a small program called 'The Guru', which explains the complaints of our Amiga's spiritual teacher 8). Guess what's on that drawer? No, not a requester, it's a Guru!
The 'Guru' drawer.
Well... 'HandyDMS' is a GUI for 'DMS'. The drawer should now explain itself, not? If it doesn't, I'll do it. The drawer shows a GUI with 'DMS' written on it. Good enough?
The 'HandyDMS' drawer.
You could use the 'Repair' drawer from MagicWB instead of this one but I don't like that one as a 'Help' drawer. This one looks more like a first-aid kit, thus it's more suitable.
The 'Help' drawer.
Too simple... Just painted the pencil from the original program icon on the drawer. The program icon explains it all when you enter the drawer.
The 'Iconian' drawer.
'MBRTest-2' is a high quality check & test program supplied together with a 'Microbotics A1230' accelerator. The drawer shows this board and when clicked a magnifying glass comes in checking it through. You must also take a look at the 'RamTests' drawer.
The 'MBRTest-2' drawer.
Megalosound is a sampler and sample editor, so I took the sample from the original program icon, cut it in half and put it on the drawer icon.
The 'Megalosound' drawer.
A simple ProTracker pattern with some notes on it. I like it better than any other 'Modules' drawer icon 8).
The 'Modules' drawer.
A disk with a magnifying glass that scans the disk for viruses. When clicked we see that the disk is infected with an incredibly small virus. It could be the one that says: "FUCK"!
The 'MVK' drawer.
This is my interpretation of the name of the program. NewMode is represented by an old dull monitor being transformed into a hypermodern multysinc monitor. The actual purpose of the program is explained in the chapter: The 'NewMode' icon..
The 'NewMode' drawer.
Well, this is just a small version of a MagicWB dock-brush put on an imagedrawer icon. If you wish an extremely simple explanation of a packing routine, you ought to read the following chapter, back to front: The 'Depackers' drawer. 8).
The 'Packers' drawer.
A computer with a questionmark on it. It tries to call a question by the user:"What the hell is inside this machine?" You'll know the answer if you startup one of the programs inside this drawer.
The 'Performance1' drawer.
This is the same as the 'Performance1' drawer. This one is just for more expert users who know what's in this machine, but who want to show off to others 8). So, it doesn't call the question by the user, but by a friend.
The 'Performance2' drawer.
The icon visible on the drawer is a tiny version of the standard dull DPaint icon which accompanies a picture. When clicked it reveals a nice MagicWB icon of the same picture. It's just the same as what 'Picticon' does: transforming your picture into a MagicWB icon.
The 'Picticon' drawer.
Well... What's to be said about this one. I just put a printer port on a drawer icon and voila. Pretty neat though, wouldn't you say?
The 'PrinterPorts' drawer.
The wizard's hat of the original program icon, a little smaller, on a drawer did the trick.
The 'Pro-Wizard' drawer.
I just put the QB Macros icon on the drawer after repainting it smaller, offcourse.
The 'QB Macros' drawer.
The football of the program icon on a drawer looked nice, so here it is, flying across your screen. By the way, the disk tells you that it has something to do with backups.
The 'Quarterback' drawer.
The football of the program icon on a drawer looked nice, so here it is, flying across your screen. By the way, the tools tell you that it has something to do with repairs.
The 'QuarterbackTools' drawer.
Aha! This one requiers another philosophical explanation. The idea behind this one is that, normally, your active screen is on the foreground. QuickGrab changes this and puts your active screen on disk, so the disk becomes more important, thus on the foreground. We can see this when clicking the icon. More about how Quickgrab works is found here: The 'QuickGrab' icon.. P.S.: Philosophy works out fine when creating impossible icons 8).
The 'QuickGrab' drawer.
This is an icon for use with the 'MBRTest-2' test program which was supplied together with my 'Microbotics A1230' accelerator. There is a drawer called 'RamTests' for which this icon was created. What we see is a RAM chip being examined by a magnifying glass. When we click the icon the chip is tested by giving it power. The magnifying glass stays observing our chip. That's about the same as a test program works. You should also take a peek at the 'MBRTest-2' drawer. P.S.: Some philosophy is good for ya!
The 'RamTests' drawer.
If we take the meaning of ReOrg literally we come to the conclusion that it can reorganize everything. But it was designed to reorganize disks, so a disk with some pixels out of place will be reorganized into a brand new shiny disk. More information is available in the chapter: The 'ReOrg' icon.. P.S.: If you're not convinced yet, philosophy does come in handy 8).
The 'ReOrg' drawer.
This is a drawer created for 'Picticon'. There is a drawer somewhere with pre-rendered icons. I didn't find a drawer for this one so I made one myself. We see a chemical sample tube containing a strange substance on the drawer. When clicked this substance is poured in the empty icon beside it and fills it up with an image. Again a nice philosophical explanation for an even nicer icon 8).
The 'SampleIcons' drawer.
You'll have to figure this one out yourself.
The 'ScalaMM' drawer.
Just a universal source drawer, instead of separate 'C-Source', 'ASM-Source' etc. drawers. The source on the drawer will scroll when clicked. Nice detail huh?
The 'Source' drawer.
I do like this one the most. A tiny video cassette on an image drawer which partly reveals a hard disk when clicked. This is supposed to represent a Video Backup System. Nicely done, wouldn't you say so? Well if you don't, just take a look at its program icon.
The 'VBS' drawer.
'Viewtek' is a program that shows a lot of picture formats. It does this by popping up a requester and asking the user to select a picture. It then goes to work and the result will be visible within a few seconds (or hours on slower machines 8) ). The icon is just the same. We see the requester and when clicked we see the result. Philosophical or what?
The 'Viewtek' drawer.
Well... I just put a smaller version of the Swiss pocket knife, found on the original program icon, on a drawer icon.
The 'VirusChecker' drawer.