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xp boot screens? (mame related...or custom)
hulkster:
your my boy blue!!! ....he looks....glorious.... (old school ref.) ;D
Aceldamor:
Hulkster....
What about this...put the exe of whatever fe your running in the startup folder of XP... then make the bootscreen a screenshot or a copy of the skin your fe is using.
That way your pc won't look like it's booting at all, it will just look like it's loading your games the whole time. When it's done booting, your gamelists. screenshots, marquees, ect. will populate in the empty fields the skin or background your fe is using.
The only way I don't see this looking remotely authentic is if your using something like Mame32. Simply because you can't "skin" Mame32
Just something I've though about doing on my cab. :P
rchadd:
there are many XP tips on this page http://wirelesstek.com/winxp.htm
seems to have info on how to hide the startup/login/shutdown screens
Brad Lee:
If you're looking for the screens themselves, I've got about 20 that are pre-sized for a win98 boot screen (320x400, 98 doubles the width when it uses em)
Probably useless for XP, but for any 98'ers out there checkin it out..
located here- http://worldwidewasted.com/download.htm
eu4ria:
What better way to disguise windows than by removing it :)
Seriosuly are people actually putting in cabs and wating a liscence fee on Windows - when linux would work just as well and then you could ue that saved money to much better use in your cab.
;D