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I am working with parts of The POV Desktop Theme and I need some information
about the windows splash screens as I am planning to make my own. I hope
this is not considered too much OT.
In windows 95 there's the screen that comes when the computer boots, the
screen that says that the computer is shutting down, and the screen that
says that you can now safely shut down the computer.
These screens are .bmp images with .sys extensions normally located at
c:\logo.sys, c:\windows\logow.sys, and c:\windows\logos.sys.
So here comes the questions:
What about Windows 98? Are things the same there? Do you have all the three
screens or only some of them? Where are they located, and what are their
names?
And do I dare to ask the Windows NT users? Do you have these screens at all?
Thanks!
The already finished parts of The POV Desktop Theme can be found on my
website http://welcome.to/rsj in the Miscellaneous section.
Greetings,
Rune S. Johansen
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Rune S. Johansen wrote in message <3787e075@news.povray.org>...
>I am working with parts of The POV Desktop Theme and I need some
information
>about the windows splash screens as I am planning to make my own. I hope
>this is not considered too much OT.
>
>In windows 95 there's the screen that comes when the computer boots, the
>screen that says that the computer is shutting down, and the screen that
>says that you can now safely shut down the computer.
>
>These screens are .bmp images with .sys extensions normally located at
>c:\logo.sys, c:\windows\logow.sys, and c:\windows\logos.sys.
>
>So here comes the questions:
>
>What about Windows 98? Are things the same there? Do you have all the three
>screens or only some of them? Where are they located, and what are their
>names?
Yes, they are the same under Windoze 98.
Mark
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Yup, Mark's right, and also there are a couple of proggies available to
allow the "color band" cycling of the palette. Plus, something to note is
that the border color of the screen palette will be the first color index,
so it's best to make that color black.
Not sure about NT.
--
Lance.
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Lance Birch wrote:
>Yup, Mark's right, and also there are a couple of proggies available to
>allow the "color band" cycling of the palette. Plus, something to note is
>that the border color of the screen palette will be the first color index,
>so it's best to make that color black.
>
>Not sure about NT.
>
>--
>Lance.
Thanks for the responds, I hoped it was the same in W98!
Instead of using a program to add the color band, you can make anything in
the picture use the cycling of the palette. I.e. you can make some blinking
text or some colored dots smoothly changing colors. These color cycling
effects work only for the boot screen as far as I know.
If anybody is interested, I can make a webpage which explains the details.
Didn't know that the first color = border, though. I must have a look at
that.
Greetings,
Rune S. Johansen
---
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for 3D images including still lives, dragons,
mathematical shapes, and more. Stereograms,
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"you know you have been raytracing too long when",
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>Instead of using a program to add the color band, you can make anything in
>the picture use the cycling of the palette. I.e. you can make some blinking
>text or some colored dots smoothly changing colors. These color cycling
>effects work only for the boot screen as far as I know.
start-up screen as fair as I know. I had a lot of problems when making my
computer's scheme and start-up screen because I kept getting a strange
border color. So I eventually had to do a bin edit on the image :) It
worked :)
--
Lance.
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For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
Colorblind - http://listen.to/colorblind
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"Rune S. Johansen" wrote:
>[snip]
> And do I dare to ask the Windows NT users? Do you have these screens at all?
>[snip]
Hi all,
For WinNT 4, the only equivalent is a screen that appears behind the
login prompt ("Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to log on") that says something
along the lines of "Windows NT Workstation 4 with Microsoft Internet
Explorer". I will post/e-mail a copy if anyone asks.
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Courtney Bane (cba### [at] hiwaay net)
"Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the
Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning."
--Rich Cook
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Lance Birch wrote:
>>Instead of using a program to add the color band, you can make anything in
>>the picture use the cycling of the palette. I.e. you can make some
blinking
>>text or some colored dots smoothly changing colors. These color cycling
>>effects work only for the boot screen as far as I know.
>
>start-up screen as fair as I know. I had a lot of problems when making my
>computer's scheme and start-up screen because I kept getting a strange
>border color. So I eventually had to do a bin edit on the image :) It
>worked :)
>
>--
>Lance.
I posted an image to the images group.
It is named "POV splash screen for windows".
What do you think of it?
BTW, how do you make the color cycling work, Lance? I have to do it manually
an "i" !).
Also, Lance, may I see the images you made?
Greetings,
Rune S. Johansen
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Visit The RSJ Website at http://welcome.to/rsj
for 3D images including still lives, dragons,
mathematical shapes, and more. Stereograms,
tutorials, The POV Desktop Theme, all the jokes
"you know you have been raytracing too long when",
miscellaneous other things, and a lot of fun!
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>BTW, how do you make the color cycling work, Lance? I have to do it
manually
>an "i" !).
>
>Also, Lance, may I see the images you made?
The color cycling utility can be found in one of the reply posts to your
image in p.b.i. The images I made were part of a full windows theme that a
friend and I made together one morning at around 4 am over the net :) The
idea was that we needed a scheme that would take us through the nights
without burning the windows into our eyes! ;-) The end theme is a deep
blue with green highlights and some nifty other colors that don't seem to
destroy our eyes as much, and is based around The Prodigy and overclocking
with an addition "Overclocked" added into the embosded text and flames
smoking off it :) I'm sorry but this one I don't send to anyway (as is the
case with the scheme) because it took so long to do it and although I know
that you wouldn't give it to anyone else, I still don't give it out.
On the subject of the POV startup screen however, from my experiance it is
good to keep it simple and keep it without TOO much detail (because of the
terribly low resolution).
--
Lance.
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For the latest 3D Studio MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
For a totally different experience, visit my Chroma Key Website:
Colorblind - http://listen.to/colorblind
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