Wallpaper?
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Monday, May 26 2003 17:50
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This may have been discussed before, but I was wondering if Jeff (or whoever does the actual day-to-day administration of the Spiderweb Software website) would consider making available wallpaper JPGs (or GIFs, BMPs, whatever) of the start-up screens for their various games. Avernum 3 and Nethergate in particular have beautiful art (by Andrew Hunt, I believe) and I'd love to be able to have those pictures on my desktop. I tried making a regular snapshot of them (Apple + Shift + 3), but apparently the operating system won't allow any such activitiy while the start screen is displayed. Just a hopeful suggestion... -------------------- A.E. van Vogt (1912-2000) The World's Most Influential Science Fiction Writer Author of such classics as Slan (1940), The World of Null-A (1945), The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950), and The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951) Visit my website about him at www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/ Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, May 26 2003 19:55
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Why don't you just rip the file out of your data directory and use it as-is for a wallpaper? [disclaimer]It might be a good idea to ask Jeff first though.[/disclaimer] -------------------- ~ §øСüm ©ÿªñ¡Ðë ~ Mission Ridge -- All Your Snow Are Belong to Us. Posts: 1277 | Registered: Monday, June 24 2002 07:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Tuesday, May 27 2003 10:11
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quote:Uh... Because I don't know how? I'm not terribly computer-savvy; I just play the games, really, I don't know the first thing about how to access the data files and so on. -------------------- A.E. van Vogt (1912-2000) The World's Most Influential Science Fiction Writer Author of such classics as Slan (1940), The World of Null-A (1945), The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950), and The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951) Visit my website about him at www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/ Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, May 27 2003 10:30
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It's pretty easy. On a Mac, use ResEdit. Open up the graphics file with ResEdit and open up the pic resource inside. Then just find what you need and copy. Paste it into a graphics program and save. :D -------------------- -Daravon Posts: 104 | Registered: Friday, March 8 2002 08:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Tuesday, May 27 2003 11:44
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Can't you use Grab? Ah, never mind, then you'd get the dock... in it too... well you could hide the dock while starting up Avernum, anyway. BTW does that artist have his own website? He might have them there, if so... -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL Les forum de la chance. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Tuesday, May 27 2003 19:55
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quote:I had the same thought myself this afternoon. A Google search (gotta love Google!) turned up http://members.aol.com/wormius/. He didn't seem to have any of his Spiderweb art posted, so I'm going to send him an email. Thanks for the ResEdit suggestion, Daravon - I seem to recall having that program lying around in some deep, dark subfolder on my harddrive. Chances are I'll have to fight a whole multilevel dungeonful of monsters to get to it, and all I'll end up with as a result is a Dread Curse ... I think I'll play it safe and just email Mr. Hunter. Incidentally, in my original post I accidentally referred to him as Andrew Hunt - his name is actually Andrew Hunter with an "er" at the end. I got his name confused with that of a *Doctor Who* novelist, who wrote *Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible* in the New Adventure series (if that means anything to anybody, which I doubt). Edit: Turns out Hunter didn't do the art for Nethergate, either -- that was done by Brian Snoddy. I really was born with my foot in my mouth, you know. Edit #2: I've been in contact with Hunter, and found he has a newer website at http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/, for anyone who's interested. He's also arranged to send me the startup screens in whatever format and size I'd like! Very polite and obliging fellow... [ Sunday, June 01, 2003 20:07: Message edited by: Icshi ] -------------------- A.E. van Vogt (1912-2000) The World's Most Influential Science Fiction Writer Author of such classics as Slan (1940), The World of Null-A (1945), The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950), and The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951) Visit my website about him at www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/ Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |