Stardock and AMD Partner to offer a free MyColors Theme, AMD-Branded Impulse

https://www.stardock.com/products/mycolors/amdgame/
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Stardock has partnered with AMD to offer a free MyColors theme inspired by AMD’s gaming website, GAME.AMD.COM.

Powered by MyColors technology from Stardock, the desktop theme features a new visual style created by Mike Bryant for Stardock Design and wallpaper featuring AMD’s digital superstar, Ruby.

With one quick easy download, users get everything needed to transform the look of their PC desktop. The AMD Game MyColors is intended to inspire a whole new group of PC enthusiasts and will be available for download from the web and also included on AMD’s Ruby ROM content disk.

Additionally, AMD will be distributing a specially branded version of Stardock’s electronic software distribution platform, Impulse, with the AMD logo. Impulse provides consumers with access to hundreds of games and PC utilities.

Phil Madis, Stardock’s Director of Business Development recently said “By working with key technology partners such as AMD, Stardock hopes to ensure PC gamers a great experience now and into the future.”

Download the free AMD Game MyColors theme now!

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Stardock always seems to be moving forward. Very nice to see that.  :CONGRAT: 
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks. Looks great running on my AMD with ATI graphics. :CONGRAT:  :D 
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Logo should be green! Hah just messin, looks good mike. :CONGRAT: got the ati and amd, just not mycolors yet (:(
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
just not mycolors yet
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It's free just follow the link in ID's post.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's great to see Stardock outside the niche customization community!

Great looking theme!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dunno 'bout that look. I'm not a big fan of giant window borders. Everything else look okay tho.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Another nice addition to the free MyColors collection, thanks again! (Perhaps a disturbing sidenote: Am I the only one who has developed somewhat of a crush on ol' Ruby there? :LOL: )
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
wow Very nice theme :D I really like the colors and the graphics. I think its yet another great job from Stardock. :D I do agree wiff Chewy in post #5. We now need an Nvidia one :D... :D I am a big Nvidia girl. I have grabbed all the dreams and wallpapers and blinds for Nvidia from Stardock already :) I do love the ATI one but would greatly appreciate and adore an Nvidia mycolors theme to be added to the gallery :D thanks and Great work again :) Anne a
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is nice..Thank you. :)  A Nvidia theme that matches the WMP,would be nice...black and green. :) 
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like this, but I despise AMD, so I can't use it. And since it's encrypted, I can't customize it anymore with Skinstudio. This is the major downfall of Mycolors and it destroys the value of Skinstudio for a lot of people.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use AMD, but can't stand red (what happened to all the pretty blue on the MyColors site?). X(
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey wait...ATI is red, AMD was green. And yeah I know I can recolor it, but bleh. The window frames are a bit big for my tastes.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Now all we need is an Intel and Nvidia one!
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I second that! :CONGRAT:


I like the AMD/ATI theme. Looks very cool. I have 2 objections, though:

1. No IP theme. A cool Red-ish IconPackager theme would complete the look!

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2. Like people have been saying, the window borders are a bit too big...

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And since it's encrypted, I can't customize it anymore with Skinstudio. This is the major downfall of Mycolors and it destroys the value of Skinstudio for a lot of people.
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I really don't understand why some people have this outlook.

I can understand that some of the people who have been around awhile have become accustomed to being able to alter any theme to meet their personal preferences and/or to be able to make matching skins to go with a theme.

But wouldn't the better way to look at the whole MyColors encryption thing be that if it weren't for MyColors then 99% of these "Branded" themes wouldn't even exist and therefore you wouldn't have them to edit anyhow? ;)

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh yeah btw not a bad looking theme. ;) I'll have to give it a try.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

But wouldn't the better way to look at the whole MyColors encryption thing be that if it weren't for MyColors then 99% of these "Branded" themes wouldn't even exist and therefore you wouldn't have them to edit anyhow?

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I read Stardock's Gamers' Bill of Rights.

Why is their philosophy the opposite with people that want to customize Windows? I'll quote you this gem:

  • Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.

Honest people will always pay for a product. Pirates will pirate things no matter what you do, so why punish the paying customers? It seems Stardock realizes this in regard to games, which baffles me when it comes to their Mycolors DRM. This encryption stifles customization. It's the worst thing Stardock could have done.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Honest people will always pay for a product. Pirates will pirate things no matter what you do, so why punish the paying customers? It seems Stardock realizes this in regard to games, which baffles me when it comes to their Mycolors DRM. This encryption stifles customization. It's the worst thing Stardock could have done.
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It's a free theme. What "piracy" do you think is going to occur?  IP holders, like AMD, have every right to choose how their IP is distributed.

As most should know, Stardock IP in MyColors themes are being released as ZIP files so people can mod it.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice WB, but could have used an IP Theme.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's a free theme. What "piracy" do you think is going to occur? IP holders, like AMD, have every right to choose how their IP is distributed.

As most should know, Stardock IP in MyColors themes are being released as ZIP files so people can mod it.

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Free to use, but not to customize. But why use DRM at all? Why facilitate it? You can't wash your hands of the existence of Mycolors DRM because Stardock put it there to prevent customization. Yes. It is anti-customization.

I have the utmost love and respect for Stardock, for everything it has done and continues to do for the skinning community, and for it's unmatched Customer Service, but it worries me how far Stardock's adoption of DRM will go.

It's still assuming people are Intellectual Property thieves. This is a nice theme and 99.9% of people would never pick up Skinstudio and alter it for personal taste. That tiny group of people that do edit it for personal use never show it to anyone. How does the ability to customize this theme hurt anyone if nobody ever sees the edits?

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
kwyjibo, as Brad just said, they plan to release unencrypted versions of the StardockDesign ones, but the branded themes need the encryption because that's how the companies wanted it, to protect *their* intellectual property.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
kwyjibo, as Brad just said, they plan to release unencrypted versions of the StardockDesign ones, but the branded themes need the encryption because that's how the companies wanted it, to protect *their* intellectual property.
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Because those companies asked for it does not make it right.

A crude comparison: China wants Google to censor search results. Google has a choice to do the right or the wrong thing, but they choose to censor. Why? Because China's government asked for it. Is that all? No fuss? No code of ethics?