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ReadMe

This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.

Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.

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Filename: ReadMe
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File contents
This disc provides !NewLook 1.00, an application which provides a new appearance
for the RISC OS 3 desktop. In future versions of RISC OS this is likely to
become the default settings.

For information on how to use !NewLook, select it in the directory display,
click on MENU, move to the submenu entitled 'NewLook', and choose Help on
that menu.

This new look is only recommended for users with hard discs, as loading from
floppy disc is quite cumbersome and the result is aesthetic rather than
functional. Considerable memory is also consumed at run time.

This disc also provides 3D template files for the two applications discs
and the support disc. In order to apply these to your applications, proceed
as follows:

Open your App1 directory on your hard disc.
Open the TemplApp1 directory on this disc.
Click MENU over the TemplApp1 directory, and choose 'Select all'.
Press SELECT over the TemplApp1 directory, and drag all of the selected
applications into the App1 directory. Release SELECT. This will copy
replacement Template files from TemplApp1 into App1.

Repeat this procedure with App2 and TemplApp2.

Repeat this procedure with Support and TemplSupp.

Any applications now started up from these directories should have 3D
dialogue box elements.

!NewLook contains replacement template files for all ROM applications to
give them 3D buttons etc. Loading these does not affect tasks which are
already running (eg. the filer, the task manager). In order to get 3D
dialogue boxes on these you must RMLoad the files BorderUtil and ROMApps3D
from within !NewLook as part of your machine boot sequence, before the
desktop starts up. Choose Help from the directory display menu for more
information on how to do this. After BorderUtil has been loaded do not
reload, reinitialise or RMFaster the window manager.
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00000030  20 77 68 69 63 68 20 70  72 6f 76 69 64 65 73 20  | which provides |
00000040  61 20 6e 65 77 20 61 70  70 65 61 72 61 6e 63 65  |a new appearance|
00000050  0a 66 6f 72 20 74 68 65  20 52 49 53 43 20 4f 53  |.for the RISC OS|
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