It's simply ridiculous that, on a system capable of displaying a 256 colour Workbench screen, and with a pen arbitration system like the one described above, icons are limited to 8 colours. Various solutions have been proposed, ranging from "use some colours and hope they are right" to "allocate some pens and reserve them for icon display", but they all miss the point, which is: Why should I, the user, have to care about the icon palette? Why should I use a palette in a way decided by someone else? NewIcons is a revolutionary GUI enhancement system for the Amiga computer. It adds many new features to the Workbench that, we hope, will be standard in the next generation Amiga operating system. Specifically, it allows for a palette independent icon system whereby icons look color correct on any system, no matter what your Workbench palette is set to. It allows you to use icons in up to 256 colors, adds default icons for many, many file types, and works on any Amiga with OS2.04 and up. If you have never used NewIcons before then you must be mad, it looks much nicer than MagicWorkbench, and tons better than the default 4 colour workbenc icons. If you are a seasoned NewIcons user, make this your next upgrade there are a lot of new features in this latest version. This archive is not "just another set of icons. This is a completely new concept, which we hope will revolutionize, and push in the right direction, the idea of GUI on the Amiga. The system's features include: * Allows up to 256 color icons on an AGA machine. (!) * Color correct icons on an AGA system no matter what your palette is! * Default icons for dozens of file types, automatically appear! * Make a brush, convert it to an icon. It will appear on your workbench in the proper colors you created it in! Regardless of palette! * Icon images are compressed to maximize disk space. They are uncompressed faster than you can say "NewIcons"! * Also KS 2.04 compatible (16 color icon limitation). * Fix that ugly Cross-DOS icon to look like a standard NewIcon. * Unique icons for RAM-Disks and CD-ROM's that don't have icons. * Beautiful, standardized Workbench icons, by artist Roger McVey. * Comprehensive set of utilities to manipulate your NewIcons. * Ditherd icons selectable for users with fewer Workbench colors. * Icons can be given a single tooltype, which will tell NewIcons to display a NewIcon image from elsewhere on the system. * The source for deficons.prefs has been included!!! * GUI enhanced Preferences program to configure all attributes! * The NewIcons system is now a commodity! * ReTargetable Graphics Mode! Store icon data in fast RAM! * Borderblank option! Remember the Kickstart 1.3 days when there were no gray border boxes around the icons? This new option removes those silly looking boxes once again, and is user configurable. * Faster icon rendering routines should speed things up even more. * Optimized newicon.library for '020+ machines. ZOOOM! * DefIcons brainfile which recognizes many file types, .lzx, .png etc. * FREEWARE! Why would anyone want to pay shareware for icons?