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"Dual" PNG icons
« on: March 21, 2007, 09:25:40 PM »
I've just noticed that the new version of AmiKit support dual PNG icons. What does this mean? Does it means the icons change to another image like Workbench icons should? How was this achieved? I've checked and can't find an update to PowerIcons. I'm thinking it might be something to do with AfAOS, but I can't find any information about this on their web site.

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2007, 09:29:23 PM »
Very interested too!
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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2007, 09:37:37 PM »
Using it here on some of my Amiga's, first it was achieved with AfA_OS and an extra "Iconlib" now with the latest AfA version it's all integrated in the new package

It's a replacement for PowerIcons, yes

dual PNG icons are like the glowicons but now with the new AfA_OS they're 32bit like in OS4
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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2007, 09:39:05 PM »
How fast (read slow) is AfA with dual PNG icons on a real Amiga?
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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2007, 09:43:05 PM »
A bit faster than Ken's Icons and IconBeFast

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2007, 09:43:26 PM »
That was going to be my next question :-)

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50  NEXT C
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70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2007, 09:43:55 PM »
Is it quicker than plain PowerIcons?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
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40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2007, 09:44:56 PM »
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Is it quicker than plain PowerIcons?

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2007, 09:48:35 PM »
I've heard AfA OS can be a pain to get working. Is it worth installing it? Is the speedup that good?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2007, 09:52:06 PM »
Hmm maybe I need to backup my config and get started on installing AfA!
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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2007, 09:53:37 PM »
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I've heard AfA OS can be a pain to get working. Is it worth installing it? Is the speedup that good?

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It very easy to "install" and get working, I always take a peek at AmiKit's startup-sequence when using stuff that's also in AmiKit and use it's startup-sequence as a template..it has never failed me
It's very easy also to disable AfA....just comment out it's launch line in startup-sequence  ;-)

If you already use IconBeFast and don't need 32bit dual image icons and truetype ant aliased fonts there's no need imho to use AfA, the speedup with the new AfA isn't that big
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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2007, 09:57:22 PM »
From who?

It's a piece of cake - just copy a few libraries, assign them and run the executable from the startup-sequence.

Hardly rocket science for most Amiga users.

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2007, 09:57:30 PM »
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I've heard AfA OS can be a pain to get working.


The first versions were quite buggy, in fact public alpha releases, nice enough to be able to play around with them.
3.95 is actually quite straight-forward to get running.

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Is it worth installing it?


Yes. With truetype fonts and PNG icons, my Workbench looks really gorgeous now.

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Is the speedup that good?


In comparison to powericons it's worth it. Truetype fonts with antialiasing might slow the system down a bit, but I wouldn't want anymore to look at Aweb or IBrowse with those horrible blocky bitmap fonts.
 

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2007, 09:57:58 PM »
I think I'll have a go at installing it as I like the idea of using TrueType antialiased fonts on my Workbench. Am I correct in thinking that AfA OS is intended to allow AROS functions to be backported to 68k AmigaOS?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: "Dual" PNG icons
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2007, 10:41:01 PM »
Hmm I installed it as described in the document but my system just hangs when the Workbench screen opens. I tried adding "Set USESEMAPHORES 0" to the startup-sequence just before afa_os_loader but this made no difference  :-?

[EDIT]And yes I commented out VisualPrefs and PowerIcons[/EDIT]

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10