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Pure BBX Mercury skinning, here. Everything is redone, from the Shell32 to the Objectdock icons. This looks kinda like a 1940's or 50's Sci-Fi retro theme. Nothing revolutionary, but its a smooth style, and the best XP port of William Bart's award-winning BBX Mercury for OS X.

VS: BBX Mercury X by Shalayer (amazing port!)
Icons: MMX Mercury by Mikkel Madsen (mmicons.com)
Objectdock: Mercury skin
Rainlendar: Shadow (also available in BBX skin)
Winamp3: MMD3
Winamp 2.9: BBX Mercury
QCD Player: BBX
Sysmetrix: BBX
Wallpaper: from the BBX Mercury Collection, by William Bart (find these on Wincustomize.)
Shell32: BBX Mercury by GrandMufti
YZtoolbar: MMX Mercury (HWG)
CursorXP: BBX Mercury (not visible in screenshot)

Comments/Criticism welcome, as usual.
By the way, if anyone can find me the "BBX Max 2" wallpaper (in Imtoomuch's screenshot), I'll buy them dinner . . . next time they're in Toronto :-) NOTE:::: MERCURY BBX LOGON SCREEN AVAILABLE AT: XPthemes.com.
NOTE: This version of BBX Mercury is a direct port from the OSX version. There are 2 vesions, one for OS 9, and one for OSX. This version is based on OSX. See it on Shalayer's site, Plexal.

Comments (18)

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shocks says:

not my style.. but this package is very very nice.

Wed, Apr 2nd at 02:35pm (6 years ago)
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DarkFong says:

nutz, well no one can say that it doesnt match....lol, feels complete, but like shocks said not my style

Wed, Apr 2nd at 03:03pm (6 years ago)
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Wynton says:

Cool, but the 128x128 trash icon would have made it buttah. and start using smooth edges on those screenfonts

Wed, Apr 2nd at 03:10pm (6 years ago)
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LTD says:

Wynton, you're right . . . I suppose I need to go into the registry to get the 128x128 trash size . . .
BTW everyone, wincustomize wallpaper section is down, and that is basically the only place you can get BBX wallpapers (they have ALOT) until the bbxstudio site is completed Download the Wincustomize SkinBrowser that is offered there (I think you need membership, but it's worth it.) It's easy to use, works justl ike your web browser with some cool features, and allows you to browse and download all wallpapers on the site. The download id free, though it is shaerware. Not too costly, but it's good even if you want to get some hard-to-find walls.
MOJO: I'm just showcasing the skins :-)

IMTOOMCH: You like Red Lobster? :-)

WOW, this made featured!!! Thank you very much :-) UPDATE::: Ok, then it's steak at Zorro's. :-) Victor: He also made it for OSX. He got permission . . visit his site and you'll see 2 versions....
as I said, I put those players ob to SHOWCASE the skins, nothing more. This version of BBX is a direct port from the OSX version. Shalayer released this after he released the port from OS 9

Wed, Apr 2nd at 03:17pm (6 years ago)
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why are you using qcd, winamp2 and winamp3? doesn't make any sense.

Wed, Apr 2nd at 04:37pm (6 years ago)
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inphlict says:

Not bad..

Wed, Apr 2nd at 06:36pm (6 years ago)
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you kinda over did it this time... great themeing.. mojo i think he does it because he can lol... nice anyways.. i really dig the icons

Wed, Apr 2nd at 07:30pm (6 years ago)
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rk says:

wack

Wed, Apr 2nd at 09:32pm (6 years ago)
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imtoomuch says:

Update: I'll pass on Red Lobster. I don't like seafood. ;) And you are welcome.

Nice desktop. The MMD3 WA3 skin doesn't fit though. :/
To be completely honest, I don't know where I got that wallpaper, but I found out that the wp came from the BBX*MERCURY GUI Overlay Kit on this page http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileS
haring.woa/wa/default?user=bbxstudio&t
emplatefn=FileSharing2.html&xmlfn=TKDo
cument.2.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=c
onsumer&cty=US〈=en

You will need to download the Stuff-It expander, though because that file is a mac .sit file and only Stuff-It can open .sit files.
Oh BTW - you owe me ;) I searched for 10+ minutes and finally checked the wp itself and read the credits...

Wed, Apr 2nd at 10:18pm (6 years ago)
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Imrik says:

sorry that it tooked so long for my review. but i thought long about it: a whole suite, right? First the one thing that disturbs me. The little planet (maybe for your ie??) icon in the right of your dock. hmn. i don´t know what i should say. you know.. i am not a big fan of 3d art and silver effects and all that. but that doesn´t matter. it is your desktop. and for that it is just awesome to see that people helped together to make a suite even with a shell. AWESOME! but i cannot give you more points. custo 100% you´ve skinned every app a normal person needs. but. no skin is from you. i am sorry. no offense. YEAH FEATURED !!!!!

Thu, Apr 3rd at 11:16am (6 years ago)
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djbkxr says:

very smooth. i would use this

Thu, Apr 3rd at 06:21pm (6 years ago)
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very coo...a more elaborate (but in the same style) background would have made this ubercoo. great theming though =)

Thu, Apr 3rd at 08:20pm (6 years ago)
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an excellent BBX MERCURY desktop !

Fri, Apr 4th at 09:21am (6 years ago)
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VictorC says:

bbx looks nice as always, but like mojo said; 3 audio players? whats the point. (ps - william bart made bbx for os9)

Fri, Apr 4th at 02:49pm (6 years ago)
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smooth set up 8)

Fri, Apr 4th at 10:50pm (6 years ago)
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redzinha says:

que tal vc aprender outra lingua, alem de usar o ingles? e me desculpe, soh uma mente doentia para achar que eu e o juniperus somos a mesma pessoa... me desculpe, mas vc forçou demais nessa. Alem do mais, a internet eh livre em termos de linguagem, nao eh apenas o seu ingles que impera. Tenho tanto direito em escrever no meu idioma quanto vc no seu. Agora, se vc nao se esforça pra apredender o meu idioma, pq eu deveria fazer isso por vc ? Grata e ateh mais ver :)

Tue, Apr 8th at 10:01am (6 years ago)
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Nice theme, I like this... seems genuinely quite useable & functional while remaining sleek and sexy.

Fri, Jun 20th at 01:58pm (6 years ago)
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stoavio says:

Awesome. It's a shame you didn't post a link to download the visual styles and icons. Very good nonetheless.

Fri, Dec 26th at 01:56am (5 years ago)


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