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From: dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Changing HD ICON / What about Disks?
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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.
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