Star Trek: Armada Theme
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Assembled by Neil Morford
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This theme is based on the Activision Computer game Star Trek: Armada.

The sounds are all taken from the game. The Start Windows sample is an section of the game's theme tune. It has been saved with MPEG audio compression to reduce the size, which probably won't be a problem to you anyway.

The icons are mostly from the game's user interface. Some have been taken from other ST themes I have downloaded, as were the startup/shutdown/wait screens. I don't have the details of who actually produced them, but the images in them are from the film First Contact.

The wallpapers are downloaded from the official Armada website, resized by me using Paint Shop Pro. I haven't done any webview images since I'm not particularly arty and they'd probably look rubbish.

Installation
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I suspect that most people downloading this will know what to do anyway, but here goes:

Unzip the files to your themes directory (default c:\program files\plus!\themes) using your favourite Zip application. 

Copy the .theme files into your themes directory.

The fonts will decompress to your themes directory, NOT into the new Armada directory. I couldn't see an easy way around this, so I left it that way. Copy the fonts to your Fonts directory (c:\windows\fonts) by hand if you want to do it the quick way, or open the fonts control panel, select menu "file/install new fonts..." and browse to the directory to which you extracted the files. If you're lucky, windows will recognise the fonts automatically and add them for you.

If you are using Desktop Architect (and maybe some other Theme managers which aren't produced by M$, but I don't use them, so I don't know) then you can leave the startup, wait and shutdown logo files where they are. This is what I suggest, since it's easier and tidier. If not, then you will need to copy them to the appropriate places: Logo.sys goes to c:\ and both logow.sys and logos.sys go to c:\windows.

That should be everything.

(Even More) Boring details
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I used the theme manager Desktop Architect (http://www.desktoparchitect.com/) to assemble this theme. It's the best of the many managers I tried, and it's Freeware (Yay!). It manages startup/shutdown screens and theme rotation as well, plus has the neat little built in trick of removing the icon text background to make your desktop look groovier. Highly recommended.

I tried Microangelo to knock up the icons (www.impactsoft.com)

The Windows start sample is a fairly long section of the game's theme, saved as an MPEG audio compressed WAVE file. I did't include the original file I use to keep the file size down. Unfortunately, the sound quality suffers quite a bit in the compression, due to the reduced sample rate, but there doesn't appear to be anything I can do about that. I have put the file in a seperate .zip on my website, incase anyone wants do get it. It's at http://members.madasafish.com/~njmorf/ArmadaLongSample.zip and is 4.39MB in size.

There are no webview images or screensaver because I'm not arty enough to create my own, and I couldn't find any easily adaptable imagery to knock one together from. I make no apologies for this. 


Very brief links section
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http://themedoctor.com is good for themes and theme creating info.
http://themeworld.com has lots of themes and an OK search engine, plus some ratings

Any questions, email me at neil@morfs.freeserve.co.uk and I'll try to help.

All images and samples (C) Activision  (http://www.activsion.com/)#
All Star Trek stuff (C) up to the eyballs by Paramount.
Fonts (C) the Monotype Corporation, apparently.
All other files (C) whoever made them. 



