Workbench Icons

[swordfish]

Hi all,
What is the best looking icons to be running these days, that can be easily accessed? I'm running an Amiga 1200 '030 18Meg Ram, any suggestions please?

Cheers
Swordfish

[Hyperspeed]

Stick with your MagicWB icons swordfish, they look classy even in
8-colour mode.

Unless you've got a super high resolution screen and a 24-bit display
then these garish multi-coloured icons just get on your nerves after a
while.

Minimalism was the whole point of MagicWB, that's why marble features
prominently in the design of them.

I like the way the pinks and greys mix so that even on a lo-res screen
you can barely see contrast between pixels. And they look 3D ish
unlike the flat Win'98/XP style.

Remove the Font border in your prefs but I don't think it's
aesthetically necessary to remove the icon borders (with PD hacks) to
make MWB icons look nice - they're not too loud.

I think unless you want to run in 4-colour mode then MagicWB is the
perfect companion for low-spec Amigas with no GFX card.

I find colourful icons and their grainy dither patterns painful to the
eye on a low colour Workbench (remember that OCS/ECS/AGA will be
sluggish in anything over 32-colour Workbench).

:-)

No doubt I'm going to be shot down by the OS3.9 monkeys...

:-D :-D :-D

[swordfish]

I'm looking for MagicWB but don't know where to get it as i can't get it from the Author and i don't like the shareware version as it differs from the registered version, i don't mind buying it from someone but i would really like a copy of it!

[adolescent]

You should be able to purchase MagicWB direct from the author at www.sasg.com.

[swordfish]

Hi,
Yeah i have tried emailing him but to no avail. Maybe he's changed his email or not around or something, if any users have a copy i would gratefully buy it off them?

Cheers
Swordfish

[Hyperspeed]

Well MagicWB to me is just the WB patterns and icons. I don't think
any of the utilities are much use for A1200.

To lock the colour pens use an utility like this:
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/util/wb/FullPalette22.lha

That will stop MagicWB stealing certain pens so you can comfortably
load anything onto your Workbench screen (particularly MUI apps) that
are likely to change the colours.

I know a lot of icons in MagicWB have "REGISTER ME" written on them
but the very same icons appear in collections of PD icons on Aminet
(by accident!)

Also, if you use DeluxePaint and Iconian you can easily alter the
existing ones or make your own!

:-)

Keep your colours below 6-bit(64)... 5-bit(32) if possible to keep
your ChipRAM bandwidth high.