Imperial Probedroid Theme v1.0a						 5/4/97
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by: Michael J. van Zwieten -- Please read my personal info on bottom of this
mikevz@bellsouth.net          Text file!  A VERY Important StarWars related
		 	      question is addressed to you!



Short Overview of this theme:  
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Probedroids are robots controlled by the Empire in the StarWars saga, namely,
'The Empire Strikes Back', where Probedroids got sent out to find the secret
location of the Rebel base.  One lucky probe droid landed on an icy, cold
planet named Hoth, which then captured and sent back images and information 
leading into an Imperial ground assault on the Rebel's secret base.  This 
theme depicts a Probedroid hovering over the Hoth landscape, accompanied by 
sounds mainly taken from 'The Empire Strikes Back' to give it it's personality.
Enjoy!


System Requirements:
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* Microsoft Windows'95
* Microsoft Plus!
* 16bit color (for animated cursors/background)
* 16bit soundcard or higher

License/Disclaimer:
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You may use and freely distribute this archive as long as it's ONLY used for 
your own personal use, and as long as no changes are made to the original 
archive or contents!  Any attempt to make profit off from this copyrighted 
material is punishable under national and international copyright law, whereby
Mr. Lucas from LucasFilm Ltd. will probably come knocking on your door...

This Theme is provided "AS IS".  Michael J. van Zwieten's Theme disclaims all
other warrantees, either express or implied, including but not limited to 
implied warrantees of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement of their party rights with respect to this Theme.  The entire
risk as to the quality and performance of this Theme is with you.


Imperial Probedroid Theme Installation:
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This ZIPfile has been zipped with recursive directories.  What that means is
that when you unZIP this file, it should automatically uncompress itself into
a subdirectory called \probedroid under the c:\program files\plus!\themes
directory.  If you're having problems getting this theme to work, try copying
the contents of this ZIP into a c:\program files\plus!\themes\probedroid
directory, leaving the probedroid.theme file in the 
c:\program files\plus!\themes directory.  Once the theme is installed in it's 
directory, open up the 'Desktop Themes' icon in the control panel, and select
the 'Imperial Probedroid (high color)' theme.  Select 'OK' to use this theme!
If you are still having problems installing this theme, see if you can get a 
hold of WinZip v6.x (www.winzip.com) which can handle the long filenames that 
Windows'95 uses, and is friendlier when it comes to file recursion.


Custom Startup/Shutdown Screens installation:
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I have included some custom Startup/Shutdown screens that Windows displays
when starting up, or shutting down.  These files will be located in your
\probedroid directory.  Simply copy the LOGO.SYS to your root directory (ie.
C:\), and overwrite the one that currently resides there.  Next, copy the
LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS to your C:\WINDOWS directory, and overwrite the
existing ones.  NOTE!  If you want to keep the original Startup/Shutdown
screens that were installed with Windows, you must back those up before 
overwriting them with the custom-made ones included with this theme.  An
easy way to do that is to just tack a ".bak" onto the end of them, so they
look something like this:  LOGO.SYS.BAK   This way, you can still revert
to the old ones if need be.


Credits:
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* The background picture is original artwork done by Jim Varner (Cap'n Jim).
  Sincere thanks for letting me use it to distribute this theme!  Most of
  the animated cursors and icons that you see were also done by Jim.  There
  are no better StarWars cursors/icons out there, so they were also promptly
  included with this theme! :)  You may reach Cap'n Jim via email at:
  jvarner@netmcr.com, or view some more of his beautiful artwork at his 
  great site:  http://ns.netmcr.com/~jvarner/  
  Among his numerous pictures, Jim also has 2 great themes available for 
  download!  Check them out!

* Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, concept designs, sounds, and pretty
  much anything closely associated with StarWars is Copyright LucasFilm Ltd.

* Other sounds, icons and startup/shutdown screens were obtained from many 
  other sites and themes, and manipulated by me, so I'd like to thank those
  people who may (or may not) recognize one of their sounds or pics! ;)


Revision History
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1.0a	- 05/08/97 - Has a bug in the theme file, ie.  Norton Antivirus
                     decided to rename my trashcan icons to some weird name
		     that it stuck under the \windows directory.  Fixed.
1.0	- 05/05/97 - First official release onto the 'net!

Personal Information
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As of today (5/5/97) I'm still 26... and still heavily into StarWars (as you 
can see!).  I still speak some Dutch & German (Nederlands & Deutsch!), zo als
iemand me in Nederlands wil schrijven, dann können Sie daß tun, bitte!  If
you don't speak Dutch or German, please ignore the above sentence! :)  Some
of my musical interests starting with most my favoritest bands are: *Frontline
Assembly* (incl. Intermix, Noise Unit, Delerium), Front242, KMFDM, Anything
Box, Erasure, New Order, Electronic, DM, Nitzer Ebb, Moev, NIN, Petshop 
Boys... just to name a couple... Please send along a quick note to tell me 
what you think of the theme!  Let me know if I should make any more, or if I 
should call it quits after this one! <grin>


*VERY IMPORTANT STARWARS RELATED QUESTION I NEED TO ASK YOU!*
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I'm looking to find/buy myself an AUTHENTIC Full-Size (6 foot) Storm Trooper
Uniform (like the ones used in the movies) that you can actually wear!  If you
know of ANY place, or ANYONE that makes these outfits (usually formed from 
molds using white 1/4" plastic)... PLEASE send me an email to 
mikevz@bellsouth.net!  I have been searching for YEARS trying to find a REAL
Uniform, but have come up with nothing sofar... I'm willing to dish out some 
serious $cash$...

Thanks very much!
Mike

mikevz@bellsouth.net