
		  THE AMAZING MONTY PYCON COLLECTION

  (Previously known as "The Rather Unamazing Monty Pycon Collection")

					 BY

	GARRETT "THE BUG" GILCHRIST
     LINUS "THE LLAMA" BOMAN

				    WITH HELP FROM

		MARK "GUMBY" WUNSCH	7TH LEVEL	AND OTHERS


  FOR WINDOWS AND WIN95

  VERSION 5.0

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  Right! It seems you've taken the time to download this little file, and
  I suppose we should take the time to tell you what it's all about. This
  is a little file we like to call "MTYPYCON.ZIP," and it's just chock-full
  of the very best Monty Python ICOs, CURs, and ANIs available anywhere on
  the 'Net. If there is a better or more complete set anywhere frankly we
  doubt it, but if there is we'd love to steal from it so I'll just note
  here that Garrett Gilchrist can be reached at ocpmovie at lycos.com as of
  this writing. This is a really heart-rendingly good set, we swear it, and
  it's all based on the works of Monty Python, including such films as "Monty
  Python and the Holy Grail," "Monty Python's Life of Brian," and "Monty Python
  and the Meaning of Life," and of course the Flying Circus television show.
  We also make nods to the Python video games by 7th Level, and such post-Python
  works as Terry Gilliam's film "Brazil" and John Cleese's television series
  "Fawlty Towers." We plan to update this file regularly, so stay tuned to
  further updates, which should be readily available at:

  PythoNET:
  (http://orangecow.org/pythonet)

  If you can't find the pages, or have any questions, comments, or horribly
  demeaning hamster-related insults, just drop us a line at, again,
  ocpmovie at lycos.com.

  Hmmm ... still here? Wow, you're a patient little bastard. Maybe you looked
  at the icons first. Few can resist the temptation at this point. Well,
  since you're here ...


  UPDATES IN VERSION 5.0

  This file used to be all in 16 colors, but now includes lots of hi-color icons
  created by Linus the Llama. These are quite nice looking.

  Every single part of the collection has been updated. About half the icons are
  now by Linus ..... the hi-color ones are all him.



  GUIDE TO THE ANIMATED CURSORS

  These animated cursors replace your mouse arrow cursor
  when it is busy or working in the background (usually
  an hourglass). Much more interesting than an hourglass,
  these are. These ones are by Garrett, and are his favorite
  part of the collection.

  MPFCOPEN - Really cool, this one. Recreates the entire opening
  sequence to Monty Python's Flying Circus. Nude organist plays,
  John says "and now," Mike says "It's," and Gilliam animation
  rolls.

  BRIAN - Lots of stuff happens. The Life of Brian logo floats
  through space, a centurion pops up looking for Brian but is hit
  by a stone head, Brian pops up running from soldiers and is hit
  by a stone head, Brian falls down, dies, turns into an angel,
  can't fly and falls down.

  CREOFISH - The John Cleese fish from Meaning of Life swims as
  Mr. Creosote walks by in the distance ... then Mr. Creosote's
  huge head appears, frightening the fish away.

  SILLYWALK - John Cleese does his silly walk.

  TIM-BLOW - Tim the Enchanter blows things up.

  NORMAN - Spiny Norman the giant hedgehog says "Dinsdale!"

  APPLAUSE - Stock footage of old ladies applauding, often seen in
  the Flying Circus shows.

  BOMB - A Gilliam cartoon bomb falls on a computer monitor.

  CHICKEN MAN - Chicken Man from Gilliam cartoons flaps his wings.

  COMFY - The Comfy Chair flashes ominously.

  FLOWERHEAD - Flowers grow out of a man's head, as in the MPFC
  opening titles.

  FOOT - Python foot crushes a computer monitor.

  GRAIL - Holy Grail flashes on and off like a beacon.

  GRAIL2 - Grail floats around elusively.

  HATCHING - Chicken lays an egg, out of which the Chicken Man
  hatches and flies off.

  HEAD - Various things fly out of a Gilliam cartoon head.

  KANIGETS - The camera pans past all of King Arthur's knights, as
  the Grail sneaks around behind them, unbeknownst to them.

  KANIGET2 - Same thing without the Grail.

  LIPS - Gilliam laughing lips.

  LOBANGEL - Angel Brian flaps his wings, from Life of Brian opening.

  LOBCROSS - Whistling on the cross in Life of Brian.

  ORGANIST - Nude organist plays music.

  REAPER - Death from Meaning of Life points accusingly.

  SPAM - Can of Spam rolls and unrolls itself.

  SPANISH - Camera pans past the members of The Spanish Inquision.

  TRAFFIC - "I Like Traffic Lights" song.


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  WHAT ARE PYCONS?

  pycon = monty PYthon + windows iCON

  The original "Pythicon" collection was created by Garrett "Bug" Gilchrist
  after realizing how few good Python icons were out on the 'Net. It started
  small but soon grew to be rather impressive and proved a worthy
  cornerstone, one of several, for his struggling new Python webpage. That
  webpage grew into the mighty PythoNET, but the icon collection remained
  untouched for some time. Enter Linus "The Llama" Boman, creator of the
  long-established Virtual Camelot webpage. Bug and Llama had been decent
  friends and damned good enemies for some time and had even collaborated
  (read: nearly come to blows over) a Monty Python theme for Windows 95.
  Seeing the now-long-established Pythicon collection stagnate was too much
  for this young Aussie so he began to submit creations of his own, which
  Garrett took one look at and then deleted entirely. But Linus would not
  be squelched, and after submitting an estimated 6.5 billion little icon
  files to the Bug he finally had to admit defeat, and a new icon collection,
  dubbed the "Pycon" collection, began. That's pretty much it. Unless, of
  course, you count the theme work by Mark "Gumby" Wunsch (MAWGumby1@aol.com)
  and all that ripping off from AOL, the Net, and 7th Level, but then that's
  another story ...


   "SHELL32" FOLDER EXPLAINED

   WHAT IS SHELL32?

   ----------------

   Look in the Shell32 folder for Shell32 Icons.

   Most of the graphics in WIndows 95 are regulated by a file called
   SHELL32.DLL which is found in your C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM folder. This includes
   majorly the icon art used for file folders, the Windows Start menu, the
   "My Computer" art etc.

   For the Monty Pycon icon collection we've decided to include Pythonic
   versions of some of the icons in this DLL. They are all named by number
   and with the aid of a program such as Microangelo Engineer (part of the
   Microangelo suite, easily found in shareware form on AOL and the Web)
   you can quite easily change your WIN95 (NT too) system to be Python-
   ready.

   All these icons are given by a number, usually the place of the original
   icon in SHELL32.DLL. Some of the icons included:

   1.ICO - Blank or New Document
   7.ICO - 3.5' disk drive
   12.ICO - Cd-Rom drive
   20.ICO - "Programs," for the Start Menu
   21.ICO - "Documents," for the Start Menu
   22.ICO - "Settings," for the Start Menu
   23.ICO - "Find," for the Start Menu
   24.ICO - "Help," for the Start Menu
   25.ICO - "Run," for the Start Menu
   26.ICO - "Suspend," for the Start Menu
   28.ICO - "Shut Down," for the Start Menu
   30.ICO - Shortcut arrow (here a tiny keep left sign)
   32.ICO - Recycle Bin empty
   33.ICO - Recycle Bin full
   40.ICO - Windows logo
   41.ICO - Audio CD
   43.ICO - Many Blank or New Documents
   51.ICO - Print to Disk
   52.ICO - Recycle Document
   53.ICO - Recycle Folder
   54.ICO - Recycle Both
   67.ICO - To Tape Backup/Disk

  More system-ready icons can be found in the other folders of the Pycon.
  Enjoy.


  Still here? Oh piss off and install the icons already. Don't know how?
  Check the sodding windows manual. And no, the CURs and ANIs don't work
  in Windows 3.x.

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  PythoNET:
  (http://orangecow.org/pythonet)

