Tag: Mac OS X
Customizing Boot Camp icons for NTFS drives under Leopard
by Michael Ryan on Dec.04, 2008, under Macintosh, Windows
- Under Mac OS X, use Disk Utility to format a USB stick as a FAT32 file system.
- Update the icon of the USB stick with the icon you wish to use on the NTFS drive. You can do this using the same Get Info procedure described for the Macintosh HD above.
- Boot into Windows XP using Boot Camp or Parallels, if you have it configured to use your Boot Camp partition.
- In Windows XP, access the USB stick, and copy the following two files from the stick to the C:\ folder. The files may be marked hidden, so make sure you are able to see hidden files first.
.VolumeIcon.icns ._ - Boot back into OS X (or shutdown Parallels), and the the NTFS partition should now have the new icon.
I’ve read that the “._” file is actually called “._<r>_file” (where <r> is a Return character). When viewing the file in Windows Explorer, it just appeared as “._” for me, although in a CMD window, it appeared as “._?”.
xU4 - Ultima IV Recreated
by Michael Ryan on Oct.13, 2008, under Game Development
XU4 is a remake of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, the classic computer game first released in 1985. This isn’t just another game inspired by the original. Instead, it’s a faithful recreation, and it is fully playable from beginning to end!
XU4 is a cross-platform application able to run on popular modern operating systems thanks to SDL; it’s available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and more. The project is currently under development, and beta releases are available for download.
Visit the project on SourceForge.net, and download the game now.
