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Now it doesn't matter what 20 colours from the palette you use for scrolling, as long as they're in a row. Let's add something to our logo:
Our new LOGO.SYS (click to enlarge)
And It's palette (click to enlarge)
Like the Win95 logo, I also used the last 20 colours of the palette for scrolling. Save it just like we did before (don't forget to set it's file attributes to 'Hidden'). Now, here comes the tricky part.
If we reboot like normal, the disc won't animate. This is because we have to modify the file to let windows know what to animate. For this I've tried 2 methods, using a windows program that lets you configure the animation with a GUI, and a tried, tested and true Hex Editor for DOS :)
XrX
Logo Utility
This is a windows util that'll do the low-level
file editing for you. This program is shareware, but it won't add
any stupid 'unregistered' messages to your logo or anything.
XrX Logo Utility (click to enlarge)
This utility allows you to play around with more animation options then you'd be able to by using a Hex Editor and doing it yourself. As you can see you can change the number of colours used to animate, the direction in which it'll move, looping and masking options. Be sure to check out the XrX website for more information.
One feature that I like about this util is that you can test the logo before you drop it into Windows. Keeps ya from having to reboot 14 times if you're having problems :)
If you're having problems with getting some colours in your range to scroll correctly, you may have duplicate colours in your palette. Try to keep those 20 (or so) colours you want to scroll unique from the rest of the palette.
HexEdit for DOS
Good ol' heXEdit (click to enlarge)
You can do the basics using a Hex Editor if you like. In this case I'm using the trusty HexEdit. There are 2 bytes in the file that can be edited:
Offset 32 - Hex number of the starting colour (EC
for the last 20 in the palette)
Offset 33 - Direction, 00=forward, 01=backward
There you go. Not as featureful or easy as XrX, but it gets the job done.
That just about covers the basics for editing the windows splash screens!
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