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