Clock Face Extension Pack
by
AtFaCT Factory
for
WongCK's PH Clock
Last Updated 30/11/2012
Introduction
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
