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"Hackers" movie startup screens

Posted by miststlkr [send private reply] at March 22, 2002, 12:14:04 PM

Hey all, I was thinking about trying to make a starup screen like the characters had in the movie Hackers. It looks like they basically use an animated GIF as their startup screen, but I don't think that's possible. What I was thinking was just write a program that displays an animated GIF (or a series of pictures to simulate one) and throw that in the autoexec.bat file... would that work? is there a better way?

Thanks for any help.

Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at March 22, 2002, 12:25:40 PM

I've read about startup screen animations before and from what I can remember the way MS did it (With that scrolling color bar on the bottom) was to set up a run of colors in the pallette and do some fancy palette shifting effects (actually they're very easy)

Posted by miststlkr [send private reply] at March 22, 2002, 12:33:23 PM

hmm... haven't done much win-blowz programming... oh well.. now's as good of a time to learn as ever. suggested language?

Posted by miststlkr [send private reply] at March 22, 2002, 01:38:22 PM

Another idea i had had was to change the bios logo, but as far as i know, that is no way to animate that, is there?

Posted by miststlkr [send private reply] at March 22, 2002, 01:54:10 PM

Hey. I found a site that walks you through it if anyone else is interrested. I haven't tried it yet so don't get mad at me if it doesn't work...

http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/windows_logo_mod/index.shtml

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