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Galaga Bartop 19" LCD Rotating Display *UPDATED 11/26/12*

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Ritalin:
I've created some custom Windows XP boot screens for my galaga bartop project.
I thought I'd share them since others may want to use them as well. (it's all about sharing!) :D

These are easily added to your Windows XP system by doing the following:

Go to My Computer >Properties >Advanced >Startup and Recovery >Settings. Select “Edit startup options file”. Add “ /bootlogo /noguiboot” to your default operating system path (there must be a space between each switch)

It will look something like this:



Then download the custom 16-color 640 x 480 pixel BMP files I created in a ZIP file to this post.
Change the name of the file you want to use to "boot.bmp” and add it to your WINDOWS directory.
(I can't upload bmp files directly here, and I included a horizontal and vertical option.

JPG files below are for PREVIEW only and are full color JPGs
The ZIP file contains the 16 color bmp files you will need.

Enjoy!

leapinlew:
Does that work? I can never get it to work...

Nice job sharing.  :)

Ritalin:
It worked perfectly the very first time I tried it with Windows XP.
At first I didn't know where to add the line of text, because many instructions don't officially show where for noob's like me, so that's why I included the screen shot.

I'm officially using "TinyXP".

Worked great, the only drawback is that you don't see the moving progress bar, but I didn't want to use a third party utility for this. Just a simple text hack/graphic.

Hope someone gets some use out of this. :D

Ritalin:
Ok, being a total woodworking novice, I finally broke ground and made my first cuts for this project.

First I created the template in Adobe Illustrator, printed each tabloid page sized @ 100%, and did page tiling to reproduce it:
(Bottom is approximately 22" and height is 27")



I first cut the two sides of 3/4" plywood separately with a jigsaw.
Then I clamped them together to see the small areas where the two pieces were off a bit.



After sanding them down evenly with a belt sander, the cuts are level and the curves came out pretty good.







Everything was even and I called it a night.
I'm happy with the results (dollar bill shown for scale):



After I use the router on it for the t-moulding, I'll clean up the edges with some plastic wood to give it a flush feel.

Since this was the first time I've ever used a jigsaw and belt sander, I'm pretty happy with the results.
That's all for now!

leapinlew:
Looks good!

One thing Patrick pointed out to me is that a real galaga machine doesn't have as pointy of corners near the CP. I rounded mine and it still looks good and the T-molding applied a little easier.

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