NewIcons sucks

[Tenacious]

Forgive the preaching about the Ram disk.

Other OSes have tried to implement a Ram disk (Apple II, Mac, etc) or 3rd parties have tried to add them into existing OSes.  I'm aware of none that have the elegance (over-used word) and function of the Amiga's auto-sizing design.  It's invaluable to try new software from the Ram disk before writing it to some system drive.  Have you ever decided you didn't like some trial software on a Mac or Windows machine and then tried to remove it?

Equally cool is the RAD: drive (if you haven't heard).  If you have extra ram but no HD, you can move the OS there.  Rad: is lightning fast and will survive a warm reset.  Incredible!

Have you tried Magic Workbench and some of the other pre-OS3.5 icon packages on Aminet?  Mr.500 has posted some excellent Workbench screenshots (icons, backdrops, etc) on this website executed in only 8 or 16 colors on original ECS hardware.  Take a look!

[Tenacious]

I don't think you mentioned what version of the OS you are running.  Since the Ram: disk is a virtual device that is created during booting, there are no files there initially.  This includes no disk.info file to define the icon image and it's snap-shotted position.  With earlier versions of the OS, the Ram Disk icon was whatever was defined in the ENVARC:sys/ directory as the default icon for all disks.  With older systems, the user could make a cool icon for the Ram disk and copy it directly to the Ramdisk toward the end of the startup-sequence, usually from some safe location on the boot-up disk (like SYS:Envarc/sys/  or S:). It seems OS 3.9 defines a default icon for the Ramdisk and stores it in the ENVARC:sys/ directory as def_ram.info.  My OS 3.9 does not need to copy a .info file to the ramdisk anymore to present it's icon.

Is this helping or am I writing this for my own entertainment?

[Tenacious]

I have no experience with WHDload, not much of a gamer.  I wonder what success you would have had if there had been a clever way to unpack and configure in RAD: instead.  Just a notion.

[Tenacious]

I think you are getting a tiny square for the Ramdisk icon because the old icon was over-written when you installed NewIcons which also installs (i think) a special, non-standard icon display engine.  When you removed NewIcons, you removed the engine but not the new Ram disk icon.  Now you must find where that something.info file is stored on your boot disk and replace it with the original.  It is probably in ENVARC:sys/.  ENVARC: is a virtual device (an assignment) that points to a specific place on your bootdisk.  For example   YOURBOOTDISKNAME:Prefs/Env-Archive/ (add /sys/ to the end of this string for the full path to the file).   This is where you should find the file def_ram.info.  Delete this or over-write it with the file of the same name from your OS3.1 floppies.

EDIT: Great!