how to change drives and ramdisk icon?

[scuzzb494]

Im just going to necro this thread.

Workbench 3.1

So, Ive been changing all the icons, for my harddrives and folders. The icons Ive taken from Amiga Forever (bought the program ofcourse).

But Im unable to locate the RAM disk icon that AF uses.
I know how to change the RAM disk, by editing the startup sequence, and renaming random disk.info to def_ramdisk.info.

I just want that Ram icon from AF, since its the best looking icon for the job.

If you are talking about the ram icon in that image, why not [ with a pc PrtScr ] edit out the icon with a paint package, I use Photoshop. Interrogate the ram icon you have and work out the size using Iconian say. Create the image in a paint package and edit the size. I use a handy tool called Thumbs for resizing on the PC. Save as say gif. Copy to the Amiga. Open PPaint and save as lbm or iff. And then fire up Iconian and create your image. Iconian also lets you save as the specific tool.

Over the last 25 years I have created all my own icons. On the desktop I keep the tool 'IconCopy' its brilliant. I also hate the new icons and os3.9 style icons. I use a lot of images that I transfer from the PC and between the paint packages I can generally create anything. Also PaintShopPro[not Photoshop] lets you save in iff format if you can get a copy but gifs will generally do.

What you can see on a pc screen you can always take. PrtScr. Magic.

Making your own is way more fun. All my disks have there own sexy images. Classic.

Also... from this thread it highlights a simple failure to use say DOpus to carry out file management. Why folk struggle with open drawers I will never know. You are forever switching the menu options to seeing hidden stuff. Dopus not only lets you see all the hidden files, but lets you look at both the tool and the 'info' icon. And better, lets you move, copy, rename etc.

Essential tools for the desktop. DOpus, ADFBlitzer, SnoopDOS, IconCopy, Shell, Edit [CED] or just have ToolsDaemon and drop them from a menu. Also Fastview assigned through DOpus for looking at images. Plus paint packages DPaint and PPaint. Iconian is OK I guess. There are others.

I also use a handy tool for defining icons and their images and keep a large library of defining icon images. The customisation of the desktop is still the greatest joy of the Amiga and something modern computers fail to provide.

One last comment.... A base Amiga 1200 has limited graphics resources and that is why 3.0 and 3.1 are little gems. Jumping to OS3.9 without a powerful computer is a big mistake. And staying with 3.1 and using a more refined and memory efficient environment teaches you how to play with a limited palette of colours to get the most imaginative of style and appearance. So no backdrop workbench images or drawer images. And small and effective limited colour icons. Can be done... I do. I can render a colour image taken from the PC and make into a very effective icon style with just a few colours on the Amiga.

When you find a locked door try another way round. The journey may be longer but the path more rewarding.

[scuzzb494]

Photoshop can save in .iff, I used to use it all the time when I wanted to quickly make custom wallpapers to fit a "high res overscan laced" Workbench screensize.  Hard to find native 702x482 images otherwise, lol.    It's right in the dropdown, might depend on your version, dunno.

You make a lot of work for yourself with all those steps, but to each their own.  Can't say I didn't do similar, back in the day.    These days Ken's Icons are good enough for me, but obviously those only look good on 16-bit screenmodes or better.

3.9 will run with 6MB fast/2MB chip, but personally I wouldn't do it with less than 16MB.

I made the reference to PaintShopPro and not Photoshop cus it found its way onto so many cover discs as a freebee I would be surprised if you don't have one knocking around. My copy of Photoshop predates the current subscription based software [5.5]. Not sure I would ever recommend someone do that just to make icons.

The difference is whether you want your own customised icons or use someone elses. Personally I like sampling images and designing and drawing icons. Always have. And when you are stumped and can't progress just cus you can't find something, isn't it about time you used the computer for what it is very good at and that is a design tool. Always been easier to create my own stuff and then I get just what I want.

PS I have my bits of paper in front of me that give me all the screen resolutions I need to generate on the PC images to transfer onto the Amiga. I don't use Photoshop I use ThumbsPlus cus its superior in every way for file management of images. Always has been.

Personally I try to avoid using Adobe products. Apple - Adobe... the scurge of the computing world.

Anyway.. back to my uploading of my PD Disks to the website. Magic. Not that anyone here appears to be interested. Odd that.