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1 | eva | 1 | Short: Standardised MagicWB Icon Set |
2 | Author: Wizardry and Steamworks |
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3 | Uploader: "Wizardry and Steamworks" <office@grimore.org> |
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4 | Type: pix/mwb |
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5 | Version: 1.1 |
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6 | Architecture: generic |
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7 | Replaces: pix/mwb/StandardMagicWB10.lha |
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9 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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11 | Standardised MagicWB Icon Set |
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14 | |||
15 | ---------- |
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16 | About |
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17 | ---------- |
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19 | This is an effort to create an exhaustive collection of MagicWB icons for |
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20 | the simple reason that there are certain scattered packages of lovely |
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21 | MagicWB icons that are not easy to access unless you know their names |
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22 | precisely and search for them on AmiNET. Furthermore, some of the MagicWB |
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23 | icons you find are not quite uniformly standardised. For example, the icons |
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24 | for preferences sometimes appear with a question mark to the left of the |
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25 | icon and sometimes to the right. Sometimes, the preferences icons have a |
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26 | question mark that lights up, sometimes they do not. Some drawers are in a |
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27 | squashed "small" format (such as the ones used in ClassicWB), sometimes they |
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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 |
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31 | can use on MagicWB whilst preserving the dimensions and style - which, by |
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32 | consequence also helps sorting and arranging icons so they are on the same |
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33 | sort row and column. |
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35 | We chose only one standard out of all these variations; not because they |
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36 | look "better" than the others, but rather because they are more icons of the |
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37 | same style publicly available! The style we picked roughly conforms to the |
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38 | following specification: |
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40 | * All icons are MagicWB icons - they can, of course, be used on OS3.9 but |
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41 | not necessarily. |
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42 | * Large drawers (unlike ClassicWB) |
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43 | * The drawers may have an arbitrary shading as background as long as |
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44 | they have a picture displayed on top of the drawer. |
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45 | * Preferences have a question mark on the left side of the icon and the |
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46 | question mark lights-up when the icon is selected. |
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47 | * Commodities have a flat visible border on the edges of the icon. |
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48 | |||
49 | The collection of MagicWB icons that were sorted using the following methods |
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50 | in order: |
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52 | 1.) all icons are sorted alphabetically |
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53 | 2.) if the icon was recognised as corresponding to an application, it was |
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54 | named after the application |
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55 | 3.) if the icon had a name, it was copied as that name |
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56 | 4.) if the icon had no name, then the image of that icon was |
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57 | conceptualised as a word or a contraction of two words |
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58 | 5.) if an icon already exists but looks different, then it is serialised |
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59 | by appending a number to the name of the icon |
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60 | |||
61 | Also note that all the drawers 0-9, A..Z that do not contain icons have a |
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62 | warning sign icon on the drawer. This makes it easier to distinguish from |
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63 | other drawers that do contain icons. |
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65 | On number 4, we would like to mention that conceptualising means attributing |
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66 | a word to an icon "dog", "cat", "brush", etc... And that it may happen that |
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67 | some of these icons correspond to an application instead. For example, a |
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68 | drawer with a monkey-looking creature is apparently attributed to ImageFX |
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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 |
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72 | MagicWB icons but rather an attempt to sort icons by their size and aspect. |
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73 | It is also possible that, say, a commodity does not have a flat border |
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74 | around the edges, but it is a commodity yet it is sorted in this collection |
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75 | as an application. |
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76 | |||
77 | ---------- |
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78 | Statistics |
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79 | ---------- |
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81 | The following table shows the type of icon and the count as well as the |
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82 | total number of icons available. |
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84 | +--------------+---------+ |
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85 | | Item | Count | |
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86 | +--------------+---------+ |
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87 | | Applications | 896 | |
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88 | | Drawers | 778 | |
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89 | | Drives | 17 | |
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90 | | Commodities | 125 | |
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91 | | Preferences | 168 | |
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92 | +--------------+---------+ |
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93 | | Total: | 1984 | |
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94 | ---------------+---------+ |
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96 | ---------- |
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97 | Credits & License |
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100 | Wizardry and Steamworks makes no copyright claims to the artwork in this |
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101 | package. Our work consists in collecting, sorting and cataloging the work of |
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102 | others with the following mentioned exceptions which are icons created by |
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103 | ourselves: |
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105 | * The Romanian localisation drawer icons: |
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106 | * Drawers/R/Romania.info |
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107 | * Drawers/R/RO.info |
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108 | * Drawers/R/Român?.info |
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109 | * Drawers/R/Romania2.info |
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110 | * The Meridian preferences icon: |
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111 | * Preferences/Meridian.info |
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112 | * The PDF drawer icon: |
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113 | * Drawers/P/PDF.info |
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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 |
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117 | public domain. |
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118 | |||
119 | This compilation could not have been assembled, concocted and composed if it |
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120 | weren't for the work of the following artists and collectors: |
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121 | |||
122 | * Mark Sorensen / Australia - Mark's Icons |
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123 | * Alisdair Walker / Australia - AW Icons |
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124 | * Jan-Tore Eliassen / Norway - JTEMWB Icons |
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125 | * Marcin Orlowski / Poland - Shapeshifter Icons |
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126 | * La Veglia Gionatan / Switzerland - (Icon Collector) |
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127 | * Armin C. Künstler / Germany - ACK Icons |
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128 | * Anonymous - MNT Icons |
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129 | * Torsten Hiddessen - MagicIcons |
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130 | * Tony Scott - (Icon Collector) |
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131 | * Richard Harris - FOXX Icons |
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132 | * Thomas Baetzler / Germany - MagicIcons |
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133 | * Matthias Eckardt - MWBMAC |
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134 | * Martin Rolfsmeyer / Germany - MagicGaston |
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135 | * Mark Rose / Germany - MUGicWB |
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136 | * Roman Patzner / Austria - RomIcons |
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137 | * Tom Heeren / Australia - TomIcons |
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138 | * Tobias Ferber / Germany - Tobi Icons |
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139 | * Martin Huttenloher (Partial), Osma Ahvenlampi - TauIcons |
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140 | * Karsten Böhm / Germany - Creatv-Icons |
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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 |
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146 | (MagicWB Treasurechest) which is a comprehensive collection of icons taken |
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147 | off an Amiga public domain CD. We adopted the idea and extended the work to |
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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 |
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151 | from whom some of these icons stem, and, if that is the case, please do drop |
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152 | us an e-mail so we can add you to this list. Similarly, if you want your |
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153 | icons removed, please contact us and we will remove them promptly. |
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154 | Conversely, if you are an icon creator and would like to have your icons |
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155 | included please drop us an e-mail and we will sort them and file them into |
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156 | the chest. |
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158 | ----------------------- |
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159 | >> Project Website |
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160 | ----------------------- |
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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 |
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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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174 | |||
175 | ----------------------- |
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176 | >> Feedback |
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177 | ----------------------- |
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178 | |||
179 | You can reach us at: |
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181 | Wizardry and Steamworks |
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182 | e-mail: office@grimore.org |