Short: Arctangent's WB Patterns & Startup-Pix Vol 12! Author: arctngnt@mcs.net (Bowie J. Poag) Uploader: arctngnt mcs net (Bowie J Poag) Type: pix/icon Architecture: generic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for downloading Arctangent's Graphics Pack Volume 12. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed creating it! The purpose of these volumes is two fold. The primary purpose of these graphics is to give your Amiga a wicked-ass facelift by allowing you the ability to redecorate your Workbench, MUI Applications, and Public Screens with fab looking, professionally-drawn artwork. The second purpose of these volumes is to give something BACK to the computer, and the user community that has made me so happy since 1987, when I bought my first A500. :) Now, more than ever, the Amiga community NEEDS people to help keep the dream alive. There a bunch of guys in Benzheim, Germany, who are busting their asses night and day to keep the dream alive for all of us. The least we can do, is to do everything in our power to make their job a little easier, by continuing to support Amiga Shareware authors, loyal third-party companies, and commercial software vendors. I'm doing my part, by giving folks a reason to continue to be PROUD of their machines. What are -you- doing? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On to the technical notes: Recently, a problem has been brought to my attention, regarding my ArcsPacks.. There is one "bug" in every ArcsPack---the Palletes drawer. You see, Digital Creations, the guys who wrote Brilliance 2.0 (the paint program I use to create all this shit) didn't exactly follow Commodore's guidelines when creating their Pallete file standard. Inside every one of those 1000-or-so byte Pallete files, there exists color register information, and a little chunk of information that tells programs what kind of file it is. This "chunk", is referred to as the "BMHD" Chunk. When Brilliance is told to save a Pallete, a file is written which ends up being detected as having a "Malformed BMHD Chunk"... Several popular, mainstream image processing utilities (Even ADPro) have an extremely difficult time trying to use these files, because of this irregularity in the form of the Pallete files. Blame DC, not me. :) In the meantime, I'll attempt to fix this problem in subsequent releases of ArcsPack, by loading all my Palletes into DPaint V (That is, if DPaint V will even accept it), and save them out as DPaint palletes. That way, the palletes will be easilly importable into any image processor or other paint program for application to pre-existing patterns and startup-pix. In the meantime, as the situation exists right now, using Brilliance is the only way to apply one of these Palletes onto the patterns or startup pix. Good luck. For those wishing to contact me, my name, net address, and FTP server (my FTP server is known as E-T-S-A) are shown in the image labelled as "All About Arctangent!" in the Arctangent's Graphics Pack 12 main drawer. See yah around! Bowie J. Poag (Arctangent)