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

Friday, August 29, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

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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Philly0381
Reply #1 Friday, August 29, 2008 11:29 AM
Stardock always seems to be moving forward. Very nice to see that.   
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #2 Friday, August 29, 2008 11:42 AM
Thanks. Looks great running on my AMD with ATI graphics.    
Doronila1
Reply #3 Friday, August 29, 2008 11:43 AM
Logo should be green! Hah just messin, looks good mike. got the ati and amd, just not mycolors yet (
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #4 Friday, August 29, 2008 11:50 AM
just not mycolors yet
It's free just follow the link in ID's post.
ChewySolo
Reply #5 Friday, August 29, 2008 1:25 PM
now make an Nvidia one much better
butch123
Reply #6 Friday, August 29, 2008 1:54 PM
Thanks.
ZubaZ
Reply #7 Friday, August 29, 2008 1:57 PM
It's great to see Stardock outside the niche customization community!

Great looking theme!
sixshot
Reply #8 Friday, August 29, 2008 2:42 PM
Dunno 'bout that look. I'm not a big fan of giant window borders. Everything else look okay tho.
DaveRI
Reply #9 Friday, August 29, 2008 3:12 PM
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?  )
AnneMarie
Reply #10 Friday, August 29, 2008 3:23 PM
wow Very nice theme I really like the colors and the graphics. I think its yet another great job from Stardock. I do agree wiff Chewy in post #5. We now need an Nvidia one ... 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 thanks and Great work again Anne a
lgspence
Reply #11 Friday, August 29, 2008 3:26 PM
This is nice..Thank you.   A Nvidia theme that matches the WMP,would be nice...black and green.  
Concepts
Reply #12 Friday, August 29, 2008 4:40 PM
Now all we need is an Intel and Nvidia one!
kwyjibo
Reply #13 Friday, August 29, 2008 5:02 PM
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.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #14 Friday, August 29, 2008 7:51 PM
I use AMD, but can't stand red (what happened to all the pretty blue on the MyColors site?).
kwyjibo
Reply #15 Friday, August 29, 2008 8:03 PM
I use AMD, but can't stand red
Windowblinds can recolour it, but I still hate AMD.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #16 Friday, August 29, 2008 8:12 PM
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.
sb_41
Reply #17 Friday, August 29, 2008 8:24 PM
Now all we need is an Intel and Nvidia one!

I second that!


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!

and

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

zakai1369
Reply #18 Friday, August 29, 2008 10:31 PM
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.


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?

zakai1369
Reply #19 Friday, August 29, 2008 10:32 PM
Oh yeah btw not a bad looking theme. I'll have to give it a try.
kwyjibo
Reply #20 Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:43 AM

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?

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.

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