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To: Product Support
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From: Duncan Blanchard
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Re: Mac Icons
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Date: January 9, 1986
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When a Macintosh player saves a Infocom game position onto a second
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disk, it's possible for the save file not to get associated with the correct
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icon. Instead of appearing as a picture of an opened book and bookmark,
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it appears as a blank sheet of paper (the standard default icon).
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This is a general problem with the way the Macintosh Finder works.
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It can occur with any application that creates files with customized icons,
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including MacWrite and MacPaint. Among Infocom games, it's most likely
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to occur with AMFV. This is because EZIP games are shipped with a special
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MiniFinder which aggravates the problem.
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The following steps will install the correct icon. They assume a system
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with a single disk drive.
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1. Boot the computer with any disk (except the save disk!) which contains
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a normal Finder, and wait for the desktop to appear. If the application
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disk has a normal Finder, use it.
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2. If the application disk lacked a normal Finder (e.g. AMFV), eject the
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Finder disk and insert the application disk now.
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3. Eject the application disk and insert the save disk (un-write-protected).
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A couple of disk swaps may be requested. The correct icon will be copied
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automatically from the application disk to the save disk.
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