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THE HAPPY ICON COLLECTION FOR WINDOWS 95 v2.1 
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 http://www.tcp.co.uk/~jwatts/andy/happy.html                      
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HI there, fellow icon collectors! Here is a cool collection of icons 
which I, Andrew Watts, have collected from various sources including:

* The ICOHolic Collection 2
* Converted by me from Macintosh (some originally by Dave Schutz)
* The Simpsons Icon Collection vol. 4 (found on CICA)
* Some from the 3000 icon collection (found on CICA) which I cleaned up
* The 'World Flags' Collection
* EMAILed to me from many people (too many to list here) Thanks!
* Converted from bitmaps (GIFs, JPGs etc.)
* Some I drew from scratch
* A few from other unknown places

Only the best hand picked icons end up in this collection!

These icons are most useful to Windows 95 users who can use them for 
their shortcut folders and DOS games.  (Cant yet change actual folders
like on the Mac - maybe in Windows 96?)

I have used 256 colours in most of the toon icons so I could get a skin 
colour - the extended colours will only show up in High Colour mode 
(or True Colour).  They will still work in 16/256 colour modes but skin 
colours will show up as grey (Yuck!)

LATE NOTE: TO USE 256 COLOUR ICONS YOU MUST HAVE MICROSOFT PLUS! SORRY!

To save time and memory I have put them in their own folders as follows:

Computer - Icons to do with the computer, e.g. disks
Game Icons - Icons mostly drawn by me for various games
Toons - Icons of cartoon characters - some from the Mac
The Simpsons - See text file for descriptions!
Folders - Folder icons from the Mac
World Flags - A flag for every country!
Misc - Anything else I could find
Cursors - Animated replacements for the hour glass
Animals - Icons of, well, animals!
People - Faces, portraits and people
Shapes - Icons of squares, circles, rectangles . . .
Sighns & Logos - Loads of sighns & logos!
Smileys - Happy Icons galore!
Sonic the Hedgehog - Many ripped from the game, and some by me!

NEW IN VERSION 2.1
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I have added the following since version 2.0:

* About 50 new toons icons
* New animated cursors - sonic.ani, sonic2.ani, nekko.ani & others
* Added the beatles icons to people
* About 5 new game icons
* About 5 new sonic icons
* Added a turkish flag to world flags
* Changed a few names

USAGE WITH SHORTCUTS (Or Aliases? :) IN WIN95
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1. Right click a shortcut icon you wish to change
2. Click Properties
3. Click Change Icon . . .
4. Click Browse
5. Find the icon you wish to use from the path C:\WINDOWS\ICONS
6. Click OK

BORING STUFF . . .
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I use Microangelo to do my editing, it is full of bugs but it works!
(I used to use Iconmaster)

To convert the Mac icons to the PC I did the following:

1. I took a screen shot of the Mac desktop and saved it in PICT format.
2. Renamed the files with PCT file extension.
3. Copied the files to a PC disk and loaded them into Corel Photo Paint
   (I would have used PSP but it did not support PICT :( )
4. Took screen shots of the icons using Iconmaster.
5. Edited the colours so they were using the Windows 16 colour palette
   (there was no skin colour so I had to use others)
6. Saved them to disk (obviously!)
7. Converted them back to 256 colours using Microangelo (only High Colour)

THE AUTHOR
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I don't 'spose you care who I am do you?  I wouldn't care if I was reading
this! I cant take all the credit because I only drew a few of them, but
I want credit for putting this collection together!  All I ask is that
if you have some good icons, mail them to me and i'll add them to the
collection!

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Feel free to distribute this collection but please dont distribute the
icons individually! Keep this ZIP file together with this readme file!

I am still looking for more icons to add to the collection, EMAIL me!

Has anyone got any Startrek TNG/Voyager or X Files icons?
(The files are out there!) 

Some icons have their own readme files so read them as well!

Sources
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ICOHolic Collection:

	Johan Spee
     	Irisstraat 33
     	6666 BE Heteren
     	the Netherlands

Simpsons Icon Collection:

	Jeanette Foshee
        1603-13th St.
        Boone, IA  50036
	Jfoshee1@aol.com

Dave Schutz (Mac Icons - mostly toons)

	Alikchi Graphics
	P.O. Box 8132
	Madison, 
	WI  53708

	For the 93-94 academic year, he can also be e-mailed at
	daschutz@students.wisc.edu

World Flags:

	Jonathan Broadus
	jbroadus@cybernetics.net

See ya, and remember:
Welcome to the world of M$%"$tosh er... Windows 95!

Have fun!,
Andrew Watts

Icon Collector/Designer

PS I used a lot of time at work to convert the Mac icons while I should
   have been working! Hope no-one catches me!

Sorey 'bout da spellin mistaks!

Still reading? Go back to sleep!
