Custom Boot Panels

jackieonasses · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
PDF is here.

Normally, I am not to fond of boot panels, and i am not obsessed with Kiera. Although i think she is gorgeous. That boot panel wants me to be become obsessed with her AND want to change my boot panel!

kyle

nice work js-dub

virividox · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
PDF is here.

good gosh!!! hotness!!!

jsw · Mar 3, 2005

virividox said:
i dont have apple developer kit installed 🙁 crap and i dont have my cds with me

i want to change the text that default says Mac Os x oh well need to wait till i get my cds!!!

Can't get the tools from here?

jsw · Mar 3, 2005

jackieonasses said:
Normally, I am not to fond of boot panels, and i am not obsessed with Kiera. Although i think she is gorgeous. That boot panel wants me to be become obsessed with her AND want to change my boot panel!

kyle

nice work js-dub

Now I'm going to be rebooting hourly.... 😉

mkrishnan · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
Now I'm going to be rebooting hourly.... 😉

And kernel panics suddenly have a bright side. 😛

virividox · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
Can't get the tools from here?

not an ADC member 🙁

virividox · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
Now I'm going to be rebooting hourly.... 😉

now someone will start a thread with 'who has the shortest uptime and why'
hahahah ;D

jackieonasses · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
Now I'm going to be rebooting hourly.... 😉

Trust me... I can say a nasty not so forum appropriate joke to that....

I won't... ha but nice work again. I am working on one now.

kyle

jsw · Mar 3, 2005

virividox said:
not an ADC member 🙁

I believe you can get these tools with the free membership.

Daveway · Mar 3, 2005

Here are some of mine.

virividox · Mar 3, 2005

jsw said:
I believe you can get these tools with the free membership.

yeah i could get them if i had my panther cds with me, but i left them at home 🙁

jsw · Mar 3, 2005

virividox said:
yeah i could get them if i had my panther cds with me, but i left them at home 🙁

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if you join ADC (free), then you can go to that link and download the tools. Isn't that all you need to do? Or are you running Jaguar?

tonyeck · Mar 3, 2005

daveway00 said:
Here are some of mine.

They are taken from that website!!!!

Mechcozmo · Mar 3, 2005

I sense a number of people's uptime going down the drain...

jsw · Mar 3, 2005

Mechcozmo said:
I sense a number of people's uptime going down the drain...

Yeah, for some reason, my Mac's become very unstable.... 😉

tonyeck · Mar 3, 2005

This is why windows crashes so much...so people can see their modded boot up screen!

All makes sense now, Bill just wanted to see pics of Kiera all the time! 😛

thecow · Mar 3, 2005

Here's one that I did. I wasted WAY too much time on this.

Does anyone have the old font that Apple used on the classic boot panel? The one that I used doesn't look right. It seams too thin. Maybe it's just me. The O definitely isn't right though.

stubeeef · Mar 3, 2005

By the looks of things, you'all are deprived! 😛

virividox · Mar 3, 2005

im not deprived!!!

emw · Mar 4, 2005

This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to embed an animated GIF into a PDF file? I would think I could do it, but don't have the apps with me on this machine so can't test it.

But it could lead to a BootPanel with an animated GIF. Hmmm. I'll have to try to find this out when I can.

jsw · Mar 4, 2005

emw said:
This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to embed an animated GIF into a PDF file? I would think I could do it, but don't have the apps with me on this machine so can't test it.

But it could lead to a BootPanel with an animated GIF. Hmmm. I'll have to try to find this out when I can.

I've never seen one - but that doesn't mean it can't be done. However, I think the whole PDF concept revolves around something which is printable - which would rule out animated images. So my guess: can't be done. Hope I'm wrong.

emw · Mar 4, 2005

jsw said:
I've never seen one - but that doesn't mean it can't be done. However, I think the whole PDF concept revolves around something which is printable - which would rule out animated images. So my guess: can't be done. Hope I'm wrong.

PDFs can store movies, audio, etc. I would think it could hold an animated GIF. I just need to get to a point I can test it. I'll let you all know, hopefully today.

damgpro · Mar 4, 2005

Vida Guerra BootPanel

Here's a bootpanel I made, I also use it as my login screen.

Download PDF

I had a question too, after a lot of attempts at setting up a Login Screen, I finally figured out that it only works when the Login Options are set as: Display Login Window as Name and Password, not List of Users. Is it possible to change the screen for the List of Users option?

edesignuk · Mar 4, 2005

Funny thing...

I tell you what, it's not too obvious that most of us here are blokes is it...how sterortypical and pathetic are we? 😱

🙄 meh...😀

evoluzione · Mar 7, 2005

heh, i can't believe it's taken you lot so long to figure all this out...not to gloat or anything, but i was changing my boot panels at least 2 years ago...

you know you can also change all the text that is displayed during startup, like "starting network services" etc, and you can have it say anything you like. great for practical jokes 🙂

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