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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?
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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)
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