MacThemes Forum / BootXChanger Pictures

ConnorCimowsky · Dec 22, 2007 8:03 pm

After seeing this for the first time (I only thought you could do it on Jaguar/Panther), I thought we should have a thread for boot logos! I would normally go to resex, but I don't know the situation with them... Here are a few

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Empire and Jedi

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xion · Dec 22, 2007 9:20 pm

4th for mine!

macbookcoard · Dec 22, 2007 9:28 pm

i use the retro apple hotness

zerroeffect · Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm

I, too, use the retro multi-color apple. It's really easy to make an Autobot or Decepticon symbol, too.

SpaceCat85 · Dec 22, 2007 10:48 pm

Using the star from the default pack, because all of my old Imagine BootX images seem to be too complex.

If you're running 10.4 (or 10.3) on a PowerPC Mac, Imagine BootX will do a bit more like change the background color, but the developer gave up on an Intel version because of the complications But still, at least someone managed to change the picture on the Intel Macs

willBook · Dec 22, 2007 11:20 pm

I don't really have a problem with the default. But really how often do you see this anymore. I mean maybe on a laptop but only then for a couple of seconds. I usually only restart my desktop once a week or once month sometimes, but I usually do it on a bathroom break or something.

It does bring back memories though. Those were the days

bluevertical · Dec 22, 2007 11:38 pm

i boot so rarely i'm not sure it's worth it (?) especially with apples frequent updates now. they seem to want to break things like this and booting is something i don't want to play with.
my 2 cents.
cheers mates!
bv.

Spargett · Dec 23, 2007 12:56 am

willBook wrote:
I don't really have a problem with the default. But really how often do you see this anymore. I mean maybe on a laptop but only then for a couple of seconds. I usually only restart my desktop once a week or once month sometimes, but I usually do it on a bathroom break or something.

It does bring back memories though. Those were the days

When I reboot I see this screen much longer than a couple of seconds. Its prob like 14-15 seconds. And I have a 2Ghz Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM running 10.5 (which BootXChanger works perfectly with).

willBook · Dec 23, 2007 3:45 am

Spargett wrote:
willBook wrote:
I don't really have a problem with the default. But really how often do you see this anymore. I mean maybe on a laptop but only then for a couple of seconds. I usually only restart my desktop once a week or once month sometimes, but I usually do it on a bathroom break or something.

It does bring back memories though. Those were the days
When I reboot I see this screen much longer than a couple of seconds. Its prob like 14-15 seconds. And I have a 2Ghz Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM running 10.5 (which BootXChanger works perfectly with).

Haha Well as I said I usually reboot while on the john, but 14(-15)<- seconds is such a short time considering how long I spend on my computer that it just not that big of a deal to me. Don't misunderstand me though, I'm not trying to keep people from using this - just stating why I don't.

ConnorCimowsky · Dec 23, 2007 8:43 am

I'm on a 1.83 GHz "Rev A" MacBook Pro (with 2 GB of RAM), the startup gray screen shows for about 25 seconds for me. I actually boot all the time, after my computer unexpectedly shuts down (which is happening more and more frequently lately) I'm going to get a new one when a quad core one comes out. I know I shouldn't hold my breath, though

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edgefusion · Dec 23, 2007 12:06 pm

The shiny Apple logo doesn't work.

MasterC · Dec 23, 2007 2:07 pm

I can't get any of my own images to work! I've saved them as png-8 and gif with no transparency and the app tells me they can't be used. I'm trying to do a Decepticon logo.

ConnorCimowsky · Dec 23, 2007 2:22 pm

Did you read the Limitations section here? For example, the background must be #BFBFBF

MiLToS_666 · Dec 23, 2007 3:07 pm

edgefusion wrote:
The shiny Apple logo doesn't work.

It works fine on my iBook G4 with 10.5.1!

MasterC · Dec 23, 2007 3:30 pm

connorcimowsky wrote:
Did you read the Limitations section here? For example, the background must be #BFBFBF

I followed all those limitations earlier.

tezcat · Dec 23, 2007 4:53 pm

connorcimowsky wrote:
After seeing this for the first time (I only thought you could do it on Jaguar/Panther), I thought we should have a thread for boot logos! I would normally go to resex, but I don't know the situation with them... Here are a few

You can find more here.

Luke · Dec 23, 2007 4:55 pm

gosh with this done my reboot or a cold start up too a WHOLE lot longer. I don't know what the deal was. with 3 gigs of ram my reboot is usually blazing. This took forever.

adamhdm42 · Jan 21, 2008 9:10 pm

hey.... bumping this to say that the shiny apple wont work on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.1 but i REALLY want it! Help? anyone?

NHeer-Design · Jan 21, 2008 9:23 pm

adamhdm42 wrote:
hey.... bumping this to say that the shiny apple wont work on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.1 but i REALLY want it! Help? anyone?

Are you on an Intel Mac? It won't work.

I made one as a simple "N". It was the exact same colour pattern as the Apple boot logo. To get it to work, I needed to save it as a PNG-8 with only 2 colours. They've got to be really simple on Intel Macs.

adamhdm42 · Jan 22, 2008 7:12 pm

damn.... the Happy Mac logo works, that has more than two colors.... it seems that all the sample images (that all work) are 4kb pngs. is it possible to optimize the metallic apple to that size without TOO much loss of quality?

ConnorCimowsky · Jan 22, 2008 7:45 pm

I think the maximum is 9 colours on an Intel Mac.

buffonitaly · Jan 23, 2008 6:37 pm

cool

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Bm4n · Feb 20, 2008 12:19 pm

A simple bomb:

J.Will · Feb 20, 2008 12:33 pm

you just gave me an OS 9 flashback

Rafael Barbosa POA - RS · Feb 20, 2008 12:53 pm

Pacman

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