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From: jtsweet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan Thoma Sweet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Changing HD ICON / What about Disks?
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Message-ID: <1991Apr8.134459.30976@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 13:44:59 GMT
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dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes:

>In article <1991Apr8.051959.18050@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> rhumphre@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Robert P. Humphrey) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr8.044814.10844@agate.berkeley.edu> dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes:
>>>In article <1991Apr7.221348.5837@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> jtsweet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan Thoma Sweet) writes:
>>>>All this tak about boot blocks, etc. ahs got me thinking.  Using facade you
>>>>can also change the Icons of floppies (for example I have a Question mark on
>>>>and Untitled disk), but if facade doesn't recognize the disk, the disk's Icon
>>>>is the normal Disk Icon.  I've looked through the finder and system for this
>>>>Icon (for the disks) but I can't find it.  Anybody have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Alas, my friend, your search is fruitless.  The disk icon, as well as many
>>>"standard" Mac icons (the system file icon (the little Macintosh), the 
>>>"Welcome to Macintosh" screen icon (the Mac being drawn in squiggly lines),
>>>etc.) are stored in the Macintosh ROM.  so, unless you have a team of lawyers
>>>that can beat Apple, a ROM decoder a ROM burner and a ROM editor, you're out
>>>of luck.
>>>______________________________________________________________________________
>>>Donald Burr; Univ of California, Berkeley | America Online: DonaldBurr
>>>INTERNET: dburr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU          |_Compu$erve:_72540,3071____________
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>>
>>
>>	Sorry, my friend, but no.  All three of these can be found in
>>either the System, Finder, or the Desktop.  (I can't remember which.)
>>I myself have seen both the system file icon and the disk icon, and I
>>have used a utility to change the Welcome to Macintosh icon to the
>>Bananna Jr. icon, and have changed the text to read "Macintosh-  The
>>power to crush the other kids."  (Sorry, SNL!)
>>	The only things like that that I know are in ROM are the arrow
>>cursor, and perhaps a watch cursor.
>>
>>	Bob
>>--
>>*******************************************************************************
>>       Robert Humphrey,       "It's easy to grin when your ship comes in,
>>       Gentleman Scholar      And you've got the stock market beat;
>>                              But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile,
>>   rhumphre@ucs.indiana.edu   When his shorts are too tight in the seat."
>>                                                  -Ted Knight, Caddyshack
>>*******************************************************************************


>Think again.

>From page 26 of _Zen_and_the_Art_of_Resource_Editing_, (c)1990 BMUG,
>ed. Derrick Schneider:

>"...however, one of these is a lie.  Many people want to edit the way a disk
>will look when it is inserted in the drive, so they edit the floppy disk they
>see in the Finder.  However, this is to no avail.  The icon for an inserted
>floppy disk is built into the ROMS of your Macintosh.  This disk is actually
>used very seldomly.  Well, it was worth the shot anyways."

>I have tried to change the disk icon as mentioned above, and it didn't
>work.  The Finder used the disk icon in memory.

>Now that I think about it, actually, the system file icon IS editable.
>My mistake.

>However, I still have yet to find the location of the "drawn Mac" used in
>the Welcome to Macintosh screen.  It certainly isn't in MY system file.

>What kind of mac do you have anyway?  Perhaps they aren't in your version
>of the ROM.
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Donald Burr; Univ of California, Berkeley | America Online: DonaldBurr
>INTERNET: dburr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU          |_Compu$erve:_72540,3071____________
>

I know about this one:

There is a program out there that will let you edit your startup, bomb, and 
disk request ICONS and messages, I cant recall it's name, but it's probable
that it's on sumex.

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