NewIcons
NewIcons (or NewIcon) is an icon file format associated with the NewIcons software for Amiga computers. NewIcons is a popular third-party utility that adds support for higher-quality icons.
NewIcons images are usually 36×40 pixels in size, and can have up to about 255 colors. Unlike the original icon format, the colors are not determined by the user's chosen color scheme.
See Amiga Workbench icon for more information about Amiga icons.
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Format
A NewIcons file is (more or less) a valid original format icon file. It contains an icon (or a pair of icons) in the old format, which will be displayed by applications that don't support NewIcons format. For some reason, in practice this icon is usually a blank 5×5 8-color image.
Icon files can contain a table of strings called "ToolTypes". NewIcons abuses this data structure by storing the actual image data in it. Locating the ToolTypes table is nontrivial.
In a NewIcons file, the first string in the table contains a single space: " ".
The second contains the message "*** DON'T EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES!! ***".
Following strings contain the NewIcons data. This data includes the image dimensions, and the palette and pixel data.
Identification
As with all the major Amiga icon formats, files begin with bytes 0xE3 0x10.
The ASCII string "*** DON'T EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES!! ***" appears somewhere in the file.
Specifications
Software
- NewIcons46.lha: The NewIcons software
- XnView - Supports some but not all NewIcons files
Sample files
- Some of the icons at http://aminet.net/pix/icon
