Macintosh Windoz 95 Plus! Theme
created by The E (Jason E. Dustin)

Revision 3!

What's New?
-Animated startup screen!
-Higher Resolution startup & shutdown screens!

So, you always wanted a Mac which is why you started drooling 
when you saw Windoz 95 for the first time.  Well, we have news for you, 
Windoz 95 can look even more like a Mac.  
We have created the Macintosh Theme for Windoz 95.  
This can only be used if you have Micro$oft Plus installed on your system.

Theme features include:
-Macintosh busy clock, pointer, trash icons, hard & floppy icons.
-All Mac sounds, including ROM startup (hummmm...) sound.
-Mac desktop background.
-Mac fonts.
-Mac startup and shutdown screens.

Here are the steps you need to take to get this theme off right.  
I will assume win95 is installed under "c:\windows".  
You may have to adjust the instructions if this is not your settings.
I'm separating the theme installation in 2 parts.  The first part is just
to make your system look pretty much like a Mac.  The 2nd part takes your
computer to "the next level" and is kinda like the icing on the cake.  The
2nd part is just a bit more time consuming.

-Part 1:  General theme
1.  Since you are reading this you must have already unzipped this
 "mactheme" zip file.  Hopefully you unzipped all the files into an
empty directory.  If not, unzip the "mactheme" zip file in an empty directory.  
Name it "Mac".  
 
2.  Put this directory in the "Themes" folder which should be under the 
directory "Plus!" (ie. C:\program files\Plus!\Themes\).

3.  Now take the files Geneva & Chicago and put them in the directory 
c:\windows\fonts

4.  Go into the control panel and go in desktop themes.
Then click on the theme menu and go all the way down to other.  Pick it.  Now
browse to the theme "Mac95" which should be in the "Mac" folder.  Under settings have
all of them checked (no need to check screensaver though, did not include one with
this theme).  Now hit "OK" and your Mac is ready!


-Part 2 (Finish HIM!):  These are additions that aren't technically part of the
theme but help to make your PC look like a Mac.

5.  Next rename the file c:\logo.sys to c:\winlogo.sys
rename c:\windows\logow.sys to c:\windows\winlogow.sys
rename c:\windows\logos.sys to c:\windows\winlogos.sys
(these are windoz default startup screens)
NOTE:  Some windoz95 systems are setup without a c:\logo.sys file which means you don't
have to rename it.  Just put my logo.sys file in c:\ and windoz will recognize it's there
and use it as the default startup screen.  Simply remove it to get the old startup screen
back.

6.  Now look in the "Mac" directory and move the file "logo.sys" to 
the "c:\" directory.  Now move the files logos.sys & logow.sys 
to the "c:\windows" directory.
(these are new mac startup screens)

We're almost finished, don't give up yet!

7.  Go in "My computer" and take the "c:\" drive and bring it to the desktop
 to create a shortcut.  Do the same for the floppy drive "a:\".   
Go to the c:\ drive shortcut you put on your desktop and right click the mouse 
and choose properties.  Then click the tab "shortcut", then click "change icon" 
and browse into the Mac directory.  Then choose the icon "Macintosh HD".  
Follow the same instructions for the Floppy icon except choose the icon 
"Floppy Drive".
NOTE:  You can change "Recycle Bin" to "Trash" by using RegEdit (c:\windows\regedit)
Simply start RegEdit and go to "Edit".  Do "Find" and use "Recycle Bin".  Right click
the icon and choose modify.  Rename it "Trash".  Now hit F3 to find other entries and
edit them also.  There should be about 2 of "Recycle Bin".

8.  Now arrange your desktop like a Mac (This is the easy part!):
________________________________________________________
|							|
|  My computer				Macintosh HD	|
|							|
|					Floppy Drive	|
|							|
|							|
|							|
|							|
|							|
|							|
|							| 		
|							| 
|							|
|						Trash	|
---------------------------------------------------------

9.  Make a Control Panel in your start menu (like a Mac).  Go into Start, Settings, Taskbar.
Hit the tab "Start Menu items", then click "Advanced".  Now right click the mouse
and make a new folder and call it "Control Panel".  Double click in it, it should be empty.
Now leave that area for now & go in "My Computer", then "Control Panel".  Select all of
the icons or just the ones you use most frequently and then move them to the new folder
"Control Panel".  Now in the start menu you should have a new Control Panel that is much
faster than the original!

Well, I hope you like the theme, we worked hard on it.  
Consider this a tribute to a dying OS which could and should have 
been the home OS standard.  Take care.

Credits:

-Michael Guidry:  This is "the man" guys...the one who started this project and
contributed a lot to it.  I would have had a hard time starting without him.

-Ritchie Chow:  What's a mactheme without the trashcans???  This guy gave me the trash to
give to you all, in a figure of speech ;)

-Reno Filla:  A cool new feature in Win95 is animated startup screens.  I completely in
dark on how to make them until Reno came along to help me.  Moreover he clued me in on how
to make higher rez startup screens.  

Notes:

1.  Startup and shutdown screens are still somewhat pixelated & distorted because of the
win95 resizing effect.  Unfortunately, this is unavoidable.

2.  I only have access to a American version of the MacOS and Win95 operating system
therefore I cannot support foreign OS's.  Specifically, the U.S. fonts may not work on
foreign systems...sorry I wish I could do something about this.

Comments, Questions?:

The E (Jason E. Dustin):  rhyme@uclink.berkeley.edu   http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~thee