Perhaps you could upload one or two of the icons here? Perhaps a simple tweak to the format will render them useable.

good idea - I just had a look at them on the 486 and they are huge.. like 500k-700k each... whoever did them just downsampled some jpegs.

The size probably explains the issues.

They aren't brilliant quality either - highly dithered images. I'll upload a few later on (have to transfer them back to another pc).

kreats wrote:

good idea - I just had a look at them on the 486 and they are huge.. like 500k-700k each... whoever did them just downsampled some jpegs.

I don't think you can even make a standard .ico of that size. You will probably want to open them up in decent icon editor and re-save them. (There are lots of icon editors out there and I don't know which I would recommend specifically. If all else fails IrfanView supports exporting to .ICO.)

OT but if anyone has game .ico packs that are NOT "glossy" and/or box resamples please shere.

Here is my small collection, FWIW. Size and color depth are all over the map, and the vast majority are from Apogee games (from an old zip file I found years ago); the rest I either ripped from the game itself or created from a screen cap with IrfanView. Quality is average.

Hi kreats,

The problem you're having with the addico utility is most probably to do with the (uncommon) format of these particular icons; When I wrote the utility many years ago, the specs to these files were not very well documented and I had to make some estimated guesses here and there 😊
Unfortunately, the source-code to the program seems to have gone missing, thus it is not easy to fix the original problem. That having said, it is relatively easy to implement the functionality in a modern language like Java, so that is what I've come up with. I hope you will find it useful.

AddIco
Source

To add icons to Access' icon-library using this java tool:
java AddIco <.ico file or directory> <iconlib>

For example:
java AddIco c:\ico\game.ico c:\xx\iconlib.xx
or
java AddIco c:\allmyicons c:\xx\iconlib.xx

Have fun, regards,
Ronald