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1 eva 1 Short: Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
2 Author: Wizardry and Steamworks
3 Uploader: "Wizardry and Steamworks" <office@grimore.org>
4 Type: pix/mwb
5 Version: 1.1
6 Architecture: generic
7 Replaces: pix/mwb/StandardMagicWB10.lha
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11 Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
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16 About
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19 This is an effort to create an exhaustive collection of MagicWB icons for
20 the simple reason that there are certain scattered packages of lovely
21 MagicWB icons that are not easy to access unless you know their names
22 precisely and search for them on AmiNET. Furthermore, some of the MagicWB
23 icons you find are not quite uniformly standardised. For example, the icons
24 for preferences sometimes appear with a question mark to the left of the
25 icon and sometimes to the right. Sometimes, the preferences icons have a
26 question mark that lights up, sometimes they do not. Some drawers are in a
27 squashed "small" format (such as the ones used in ClassicWB), sometimes they
28 are large.
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30 All these issues lead to the need of a good, large and fat icon set that you
31 can use on MagicWB whilst preserving the dimensions and style - which, by
32 consequence also helps sorting and arranging icons so they are on the same
33 sort row and column.
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35 We chose only one standard out of all these variations; not because they
36 look "better" than the others, but rather because they are more icons of the
37 same style publicly available! The style we picked roughly conforms to the
38 following specification:
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40 * All icons are MagicWB icons - they can, of course, be used on OS3.9 but
41 not necessarily.
42 * Large drawers (unlike ClassicWB)
43 * The drawers may have an arbitrary shading as background as long as
44 they have a picture displayed on top of the drawer.
45 * Preferences have a question mark on the left side of the icon and the
46 question mark lights-up when the icon is selected.
47 * Commodities have a flat visible border on the edges of the icon.
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49 The collection of MagicWB icons that were sorted using the following methods
50 in order:
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52 1.) all icons are sorted alphabetically
53 2.) if the icon was recognised as corresponding to an application, it was
54 named after the application
55 3.) if the icon had a name, it was copied as that name
56 4.) if the icon had no name, then the image of that icon was
57 conceptualised as a word or a contraction of two words
58 5.) if an icon already exists but looks different, then it is serialised
59 by appending a number to the name of the icon
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61 Also note that all the drawers 0-9, A..Z that do not contain icons have a
62 warning sign icon on the drawer. This makes it easier to distinguish from
63 other drawers that do contain icons.
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65 On number 4, we would like to mention that conceptualising means attributing
66 a word to an icon "dog", "cat", "brush", etc... And that it may happen that
67 some of these icons correspond to an application instead. For example, a
68 drawer with a monkey-looking creature is apparently attributed to ImageFX
69 such that we renamed the icon from "Monkey" to ImageFX.
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71 The set we present here should not be taken as a complete collection of
72 MagicWB icons but rather an attempt to sort icons by their size and aspect.
73 It is also possible that, say, a commodity does not have a flat border
74 around the edges, but it is a commodity yet it is sorted in this collection
75 as an application.
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78 Statistics
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81 The following table shows the type of icon and the count as well as the
82 total number of icons available.
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84 +--------------+---------+
85 | Item | Count |
86 +--------------+---------+
87 | Applications | 896 |
88 | Drawers | 778 |
89 | Drives | 17 |
90 | Commodities | 125 |
91 | Preferences | 168 |
92 +--------------+---------+
93 | Total: | 1984 |
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97 Credits & License
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100 Wizardry and Steamworks makes no copyright claims to the artwork in this
101 package. Our work consists in collecting, sorting and cataloging the work of
102 others with the following mentioned exceptions which are icons created by
103 ourselves:
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105 * The Romanian localisation drawer icons:
106 * Drawers/R/Romania.info
107 * Drawers/R/RO.info
108 * Drawers/R/Român?.info
109 * Drawers/R/Romania2.info
110 * The Meridian preferences icon:
111 * Preferences/Meridian.info
112 * The PDF drawer icon:
113 * Drawers/P/PDF.info
114 * The main drawer icon with the [WaS] logo.
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116 We release the aformentioned icons created by Wizardry and Steamworks to the
117 public domain.
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119 This compilation could not have been assembled, concocted and composed if it
120 weren't for the work of the following artists and collectors:
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122 * Mark Sorensen / Australia - Mark's Icons
123 * Alisdair Walker / Australia - AW Icons
124 * Jan-Tore Eliassen / Norway - JTEMWB Icons
125 * Marcin Orlowski / Poland - Shapeshifter Icons
126 * La Veglia Gionatan / Switzerland - (Icon Collector)
127 * Armin C. Künstler / Germany - ACK Icons
128 * Anonymous - MNT Icons
129 * Torsten Hiddessen - MagicIcons
130 * Tony Scott - (Icon Collector)
131 * Richard Harris - FOXX Icons
132 * Thomas Baetzler / Germany - MagicIcons
133 * Matthias Eckardt - MWBMAC
134 * Martin Rolfsmeyer / Germany - MagicGaston
135 * Mark Rose / Germany - MUGicWB
136 * Roman Patzner / Austria - RomIcons
137 * Tom Heeren / Australia - TomIcons
138 * Tobias Ferber / Germany - Tobi Icons
139 * Martin Huttenloher (Partial), Osma Ahvenlampi - TauIcons
140 * Karsten Böhm / Germany - Creatv-Icons
141 * Aheco ten Bokkel Huinink / The Netherlands - Magical
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143 and
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145 * The idea comes entirely from a project called MagicWB Schatzkiste
146 (MagicWB Treasurechest) which is a comprehensive collection of icons taken
147 off an Amiga public domain CD. We adopted the idea and extended the work to
148 include as many icons as we could find.
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150 We would like to apologise in advance in case we omitted to name someone
151 from whom some of these icons stem, and, if that is the case, please do drop
152 us an e-mail so we can add you to this list. Similarly, if you want your
153 icons removed, please contact us and we will remove them promptly.
154 Conversely, if you are an icon creator and would like to have your icons
155 included please drop us an e-mail and we will sort them and file them into
156 the chest.
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159 >> Project Website
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162 The project website can be found at:
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164 * http://grimore.org/amiga/standardised_magicwb_icons
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166 which contains more up-to-date information on the status of the icons.
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168 Similarly, these icons are stored in an SVN repository and they can be
169 pulled from the following address:
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171 * http://svn.grimore.org/standard-magicwb-icons
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173 by using any svn tool (on the Amiga, with dev/misc/subversion-1.1.4).
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176 >> Feedback
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179 You can reach us at:
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181 Wizardry and Steamworks
182 e-mail: office@grimore.org