Support Programs

NewIcons is first of all an icon system. Various programs will directly support NewIcons, either by allowing you to create NewIcons, or by internally using them.

Name: Thor 2.5
Author: Ultima Thule
Availability Shareware (Aminet: comm/thor - FTP site: ftp.thule.no /pub/thor/)
Desc:Offline news/email reader, uses NewIcons to display MIME attachments.
Name: Personal Paint 7.1
Author: Cloanto
Availability Commercial (Demo on their website)
Desc: Full-featured paint package, can create NewIcons as thumbnail images, or allow you to draw your own NewIcons.
Name: Iconian 2.98s
Author: Chad Randall (crandall@garnet.msen.com)
Availability Shareware (Aminet: gfx/edit/Iconian#?.lha)
Desc: Icon paint program that can directly load and save in NewIcon format.
Name: MWB2NI
Author: Chad Randall (crandall@garnet.msen.com)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/wb/MWB2NI#?.lha)
Desc: Small tool to convert MWB icons into the NewIcons format.
Name: Scalos
Author: Stefan Sommerfeld/AlienDesign (zerocom@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Availability Shareware (Demo on their website)
Desc: Workbench replacement, with built-in NewIcon support.
Name: NewiconDT
Author: Pascal Hurni
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/dtype/NewIconDT.lha)
Desc: AmigaOS 3.x datatype for NewIcons.
Name: NewiconToBrush
Author: Pascal Hurni
Availability Freeware (Aminet: gfx/conv/NewIconToBrush.lha)
Desc: Convert Newicons into IFF brushes.
Name: i2b
Author: Bernd Koesling (koessi@chessy.aworld.de)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/conv/i2b.lha)
Desc: Various icon conversion tools
Name: Picticon 1.4
Author: Chad Randall (crandall@garnet.msen.com)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/wb/Picticon#?.lha)
Desc: Converts pictures into icons.
Name: Icon Installer 3.1
Author: Tom Ekström (litoek@uta.fi)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/wb/IconInstaller.lha)
Desc: Icon/NewIcon management tool
Name: Directory Opus 5.6 - Magellan
Author: Jonathan Potter (GPSoftware )
Availability Commercial
Desc: File manager / Workbench replacement with built-in NewIcon support.
Name: DT2NI
Author: Alfred.P.Schwarz (Alfred.P.Schwarz@kerckhoff.med.uni-giessen.de)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/wb/dt2ni.lha)
Desc: Create NewIcons out of pictures, by using datatypes.
Name: mac2ni
Author: Daniel Balster (dbalster@uni-paderborn.de)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: gfx/conv/mac2ni.lha)
Desc: Convert Mac icons into NewIcons.
Name: Tornado3D
Author: EyeLight
Availability Commercial
Desc: Professional modelling, animation and rendering system. Its totally user-configurable interface uses NewIcons for the GUI images.
Name: MysticView
Author: Timm Mueller (timm.mueller@darmstadt.netsurf.de)
Availability Shareware (Aminet: gfx/show/MysticView.lha - Latest beta on his website)
Desc:High-end picture viewer for native chipsets and GFX Card systems, can save NewIcon thumbnails.
Name: UpdateNIcon
Author: Dominic Clifton (dom@dsltd.force9.co.uk)
Availability Freeware (Aminet: util/wb/UpdateNIcon#?.lha
Desc:Copies icons from one to another via an AppWindow.

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