SubGenius: TheCon V1.0

GENERAL INFORMATION

This theme is part of a series of themes based on the Books of the SubGenius, and the SubGenius Foundation, and is designed to work with Microsoft Plus! and compatible programs, on PCs with WINDOWS 95 and WINDOWS 98 (though it should still work on Windows 2000 and Me with a lot of adapting).

It has been designed by Rev. Octobriana Oberwoman (a.k.a. Laura Seabrook) who used sources such as the BOBCO fonts and the Holy prescriptures to do so. She feels confident in doing so, having pulled the wool over her own eyes years ago.

The font used with this theme, 'Praise "Bob"', comes from Spork Thug Typography. Pleased read Spork Thug Typography for full details. Also, check out the notes for the Tentacle Screensaver as well.

All themes were designed using Desktop Architect, available from http://www.desktoparchitect.com/. You will need either Desktop Architect, Plus! or equivalent program in order to use this theme. Two versions of the theme definition file are supplied for each theme -- one for use with Desktop Architect (which configures extra icons and sets web images), and another for use with Plus! and other programs (which use different codes for logo settings).

THEME COMPONENTS

Each "GOTHIC SERIES" theme uses a common set of sounds, and icons. The wallpaper, fonts, logos, and appearance settings may be different for each individual theme. A complete list of files in this archive is listed in sgTheCon.txt. You may distribute this archive freely, so long as no component files are removed or added, and this message remains intact. If any of the files in this theme appear to be missing, you can contact the author via gallae@octapod.org.

INSTALLING THE THEME

All the above files should be extracted to the \SubGenius directory underneath your theme directory. For example, if your theme directory is \Program Files\Plus!\Themes then the files should be extracted to \ProgramFiles\Plus!\Themes\SubGenius. In addition to the above, you should also extract the sgTheCon.Theme and sgTheCon (Plus).Theme files to your theme directory (which would be \Program Files\Plus!\Themes in the above example). These two files hold the theme definition, the first for use with Desktop Architect, and the second for use with Plus! and other programs.

Normally extracting the files should not be a problem. This zip file was created using WinZip and folder information was saved for each file. If you are using WINZIP 8 or later then to extract the theme, select Install and choose which version you wish to install -- Winzip will then extract the files to the appropriate directories.

If you are using an earlier version of Winzip, select Extract (without selecting any files) and then target your theme directory, making sure that the "Use folder names" option is ticked. If you are using some other program, you may have to extract the files manually to the correct directory. Don't worry if you overwrite any files in an existing \SubGenius directory, as both themes use common files in this directory to save space.

DESIGN NOTES

Images for this theme were taken from the following sources:
Startup Logo Three-Fisted tales of "Bob", front cover (Mavrides)
Background The Book of the SubGenius (McGraw Hill ed), front cover, (?)
Wait Logo Revelation X, front cover (Mavrides)
Shutdown Logo Revelation X, back cover (Mavrides)
 


This theme compilation © 2001-2003 Laura Seabrook