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+                      Clock Face Extension Pack
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+                                  by
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+                            AtFaCT Factory
+
+                                 for
+
+                          WongCK's PH Clock
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+
+                       Last Updated 30/11/2012
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+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+For some time now, WongCK has been again producing software for 
+classic Atari TOS machines. He is totally open-minded to suggestions 
+by users. It is awesome what he has done so far, and this package is 
+supposed to support this fantastic work.
+
+
+What is it?
+-----------
+
+This extension pack contains about 24 clock faces for the great PH 
+Clock by WongCK. All of them are clippings and/or scaled versions of 
+existing pictures. I tried to find the best ones and to make them 
+into perfect clock faces.
+
+Only Atari machines (Falcon with CT60) and software were used to 
+create this package.
+
+
+Some Info on the Clock Faces
+----------------------------
+
+01     White Atari logo on orange background. The picture resembles 
+       the modern Apple look.
+02     Clipping of the cool red Atari logo on black background from a 
+       picture by Enhanced Buzz.
+03     Clipping of an awesome Atari wallpaper by tominosik1.
+04     Wonderful artistic Atari logo by SikkinDiVigil.
+05     Clipping of an Atari poster.
+06     Clipping of the nice Atari wallpaper mATARIx. An Atari logo 
+       designed like the one of the science fiction movie The Matrix.
+07     Cool Atari logo by Kamorek called Atari Air Show.
+08     Clipping of a well-designed Atari wallpaper by GameScanner.
+09     Clipping of a great Atari wallpaper by InvertedInferno.
+10     Logo of the famous Atari ST game company Thalion. They 
+       released games like Wings of Death or No Second Prize.
+11-14  Four different Motorola logos. This company produced the 68k 
+       processor family (Atari ST, TT, Falcon, clones and accelerator 
+       boards).
+15-24  Ten clocks by the German clock manufacturer Vaerst. The 
+       pictures have been kindly provided by them. Their fine clocks 
+       are made from natural state. If you like them, please visit 
+       www.vaerst.de.
+
+All images have a size of 120x120 pixels, so PH Clock do not have to 
+scale the pictures.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+In the folder 'TC', you find the clock faces in true colour PNG 
+format (16 million colours). For resolutions with just 256 colours (8-
+bit screen modes), you can use special 256-colour PNG versions of the 
+pictures that can be found in folder '256C'. They were adapted in a 
+way they look as good as possible with the conversion routine of the 
+LDG plugin that PH Clock makes use of.
+
+Some rough in-depth information on colour reduction: Pictures with 
+sharp contrasts were dithered with the nearest-colour algorithm of a 
+converter and modified manually with a pixel painter since the LDG 
+system still dithered some colours. I replaced most of the dithered 
+colours with the best-matching non-dithered one. In order to know 
+which ones are not dithered by the LDG routine, in an 8-bit 
+resolution, I displayed a picture with all 256 screen colours with 
+zView (also uses LDG system). Finally, I converted the pictures with 
+zView. As continuous-tone images look good with the LDG routine, they 
+were converted only with it.
+
+You just have to replace the original clock faces in PH Clock's clock 
+face directory by the true- or 256-colour clock faces of this package.
+
+As all 256-colour pictures are converted for the NVDI 5 colour 
+palette, your desktop has to set this palette or you must install the 
+Atari VDI replacement NVDI 5, else the clock faces will not look 
+as intended.
+
+
+Disclaimer
+----------
+
+If any of the clock faces images/logo used infringe on any copyright 
+laws, please inform us at the e-mail address below and we will 
+promptly remove those images from the download package.
+
+
+Contact
+-------
+If you have any questions or comments regarding the clock faces, or 
+any other Atari related stuff, or you want me to add further clock 
+faces to this package, you can contact me via e-mail at 
+atfact@arcor.de.