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Waht's your boot screen looks like ?

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Silver:

Is that meant to be blank?

danny_galaga:

minwahs screen is the most poignant. i think this is a reflection of extremes in todays society. the black of the startup screen prepares us for a dark time indeed. and yet when a game starts, the total antithesis is true. the game is vibrant, dynamic and so full of 'joi de vivre'. the irony of this juxtaposition is not lost on fellow mamers. if it causes us to ponder the very existance of being, giving that it makes us feel a, je ne se quoi, perhaps a feeling of deja vu. even as it does, for who can forget those innocent days when as kids, we would take our pocket money and blow it on space invaders. yet even as we feel deja vu, so too we experience jaime vu since there are so many games to explore that we have never experienced before.
 so when people say 'yes, but is it art?' i must most resolutely exclaim 'it certainly freakin' is!'

danny_galaga:

oh, what were we talking about? oh, yes. mine's a capture from the galaga test screen. looks appropriate, even if it is sideways...
(i left the machine all grubby because i thought it had a great 'pub' feel about it)

danny_galaga:


--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 14, 2004, 06:37:22 am ---oh, what were we talking about? oh, yes. mine's a capture from the galaga test screen. looks appropriate, even if it is sideways...
(i left the machine all grubby because i thought it had a great 'pub' feel about it)

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edit: i also got rid of the windows start up sound (win98) and inserted one of mames 'sample' sounds. initially it was a 'berzerk' sound but i found that too jarring. now it's a 'space invaders mother ship being hit' sound which is more pleasant...

Minwah:


--- Quote from: Silver on September 14, 2004, 06:25:13 am ---Is that meant to be blank?

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Yes, I removed the boot screen altogether :)

danny_galaga: not sure what you were on about exactly but I like your boot screen!

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