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Windows Doom Icons

All the credit for this information goes to Robert J. Baker (robert.bak@bigfoot.com). Here is a copy of the email message he sent me (note that I'm providing this icon info separately from the 'Doom under Windows' file because to include it would double the size of the help file)...
This info was email-posted on 10th April 1996 to:

Robert writes:

Many of you will have UUdecoded and installed the DooM icon from the Doom Help Service files. I did, and to my mind the version given there is too "fussy" -- it has a very cluttered background, and no transparency information.

Based on this icon, I have designed my own versions which I hope people will like. The attached files are:

    DOOM.ICO      DooM logo on transparent b/g -- for DooM 1/Ultimate
    DOOM2.ICO     Guess! -- for DooM II
    DOOM-WAD.ICO  Logo on maze -- for .WAD files
    DOOMSAVE.ICO  Logo on black floppy -- for .DSG files
    DOOMDEMO.ICO  Logo on red floppy -- for .LMP files
    DOOM.DLL      All five of the above in one file

I hereby donate these to the public domain, and would like people to pass them around, but do ask of course that I am acknowledged as their designer. I am also sending them to Ian Mapleson to facilitate sharing them.

By the way, if you have a HUGE hard drive as I do, I recommend the DLL as this is far more economical of drive space. The .ICO files take 1KB of *logical* file space (i.e. the disk occupied by the file) but, on a 1-and-a-bitGb drive, 32KB of *physical* space (the portion of disk allocated to the file).


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So, do you like Robert's icons? If so, let him know. - Ian.

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