I’ve got some great news! I’ve successfully converted every wallpaper that William Bart (the designer and illustrator that originally created BBX). I’m waiting for him to reply to my e-mail asking for permission to post these wallpapers. Without a doubt, you’ll sh*t yourself once you see these wallpapers. I managed to get the resolution up to 1280x1024 on these wallpapers. So anyone higher is sh*t outta luck!



Here's a small preview of what I have done so far:







There's about 12 different sets of wallpapers and roughly 4-8 wallpapers per/set.



I'll finish the rest after I get permission from William.



I’ll keep everyone posted. But please tell me what you think. I'm new to the Mac to XP conversions, and if you ask me I'm doing a damn good job!



James



KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED

WOW! Good job James-I'm not familiar with Bart's work other that the screenshots of the original BBX theme for MacOS-truly awesome!

very nice abstract and 3d walls. hope you get that permission since that seems to be the big thing these days

so what exactly did you do?

i mean is/was it a bin-hex file or a sit?

Nice job man, hope you get permission .

They look sweeeeeet James...fingers crossed here on the permissions from William Bart

Looks great!

Awesome!!

nice work james.



P.S You're never on icq (maybe it's the time difference)



and when are you doing that icon for me?

Those desktops just blow my mind! Amazing!

I must second this, I`m going crazy here ...



FANTASTIC !!!



SPECTACULAR !!!



:knocked:

Very very very NICE!!

Holy cow! Man, I have to have those!!

Where did you convert them from? What web site?

James, those walls are Beautiful, I hope you get permission to release it.

Just out of curiosity, what part of a wallpaper needs converting?

was wondering that one as well

looks great!!!!

I was wondering as well, all you'd have to do is extract the file using that program from aladin....stuff it i think its called.

and just load up the jpg.

absolutely none. all this wallpapers are included in the Kaleidoscope schemes by William Bart. you only need to download them and extract them with Aladdin Expander (like i did months ago). wonder what the point here is?

idvah was faster

And where can I find the "Kaleidoscope schemes" ??

Looks good!!!, I hope you get permission to release them

here: http://www.kaleidoscope.net/cgi-bin/scheme...hor=williambart



and then google for aladdin expander of stuffit expander.

Im not receiving all the desktops you were talking about...I see about 5...where are the rest?

Eh, what the heck here’s a preview:







link killed dead by zombie industries...nice knowing you !



But it’s very important you understand that I DID NOT MAKE THESE WALLPAPERS. The rightful owner and creator is link killed dead by zombie industries...thanks for playing!, a digital illustrator and designer. You can check out his portfolio link killed dead by zombie industries...thanks for playing!Make sure you give him full credit for these wallpapers cause’ I don’t want to receive any credit. Once again, everyone make sure they give William credit, I don’t want any e-mails etc. saying I ripped his work or anything. I strictly converted um so we can enjoy them on our desktops, not just starring at them from preview images.



Thanks again William, your amazing!



James



PS: If anyone could upload this file to their server for another download link. My server might be slow cause of bandwidth.

Im an idiot! I found all Barts desktops after my last post...took the time to convert them all...then come back here and WHAM! you've got them for download.



William did an incredible job on these. Super props to BB!

to be honest: you did not convert them, you extracted them. actually extracting from a *.sit file is just as easy as extracting a *.zip file. ok?

Perhaps we don't see eye to eye on this. If Windows does not recognize the native file format, which it does not recognize the binary encoded .jpg's, then to change the file into something readable by the OS is, by my definition a conversion.



You are right, I did extract the files. However they must be converted into a format readable by Windows. So I did both.

Well put deadzombie.

i don´t want to have beef with you but Photoshop, IrfanView and XNview can read this format. probably many other graphics editors can do this also. so converting is open it in one program and then saving it?

that´s not that much work:)

Why are you making this so difficult? Just use the damn wallpapers and shut your mouf. It's really not that complicated, I did what I had to do. Maybe you would have done it differently, but I don't want to hear your *****ing.

No beef here, just conversation



I see your point about these applications being able to read the file. You see my point that MOST Windows graphics apps, including Windows Picture and Fax viewer AND Internet Explorer just don't see the pics. It's not alot of work, but it is a conversion. I'm just telling the guy thanks...



Hope we've got that cleared up.

Yeah, I agree... thanks zombie.

Dead Links.....

Links Dead, any Mirrors, or any screenies at least b4 i DL it bc the ones on page one are gone.

Thnx



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Here's a new link:

link killed dead by zombie industries...thanks for coming out!

James, thanks for CONVERTING the wallpapers. Im' very happy with it. Maybe "converting" those wallpapers is really easy, but now James has converted those walls so I don't have to do it myself anymore

It saves me some time ...

Hey Guy, no offense - but if you don't remove this material from distribution (and I will be keeping an eye out for it) immediately both you and your ISP will be hearing from my lawyers. It states specifically (in the infos, legal notices and even on the images themselves) bundled with my interface stuff that these images are copyrighted materials created for real commercial clients prior to inclusion in my themes (and only placed there as kind of a nod to my illustration background - I don't own these images, but retain rights to use them for my own self-promotion - what you're doing doesn't fall into that category). There seems to be some confusion as to what constitutes fair use here, so just so you know - you're breaking the law. You cannot re-distribute these images out of context or without express written permission, so I advise you to remove all traces of them immediately.

For what it's worth, I'm not trying to be a hard-ass. I appreciate the enthusiasm and the props here... but I had to flip through some hoops to get this stuff included with the schemes in the first place - I am bound by the terms of my agreements with these clients to ask you to remove them immediately and to ultimately take legal steps to stop their distribution if it gets that far - I'm asking you to comply with my wishes. However, there is nothing stopping anybody from downloading the archives and using the wallpapers for their own personal use - it's just that things get sticky when you redistribute. Sorry =/

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At the request of the copyright holder to this material, all links have been removed and this thread is closed



Sorry 'bout that William!



-deadzombie