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Title: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: Crazy Cooter on February 12, 2005, 02:16:20 am

I asked this within a thread a long time ago and can't find it so I'll start a topic.

I want a startup screen for win98 that has the "blocks" like a test screen.  If it changed colors it would be even better than a static block image, but I could modify it myself if needed.  Right now I just need the "basic" screenshot with all the blocks.  I can't find one on google images for some reason... :-[

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: mahuti on February 12, 2005, 04:45:27 am

http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/images/bars52.gif

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: mahuti on February 12, 2005, 04:46:00 am

but you'll need to resize it to the wonky windows startup screen size.

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: fredster on February 12, 2005, 10:46:21 pm

Hi Cooter,

That's a cool idea.

I made this from a Pacman startup.

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: Crazy Cooter on February 13, 2005, 02:26:26 pm

Yeah, fredster is closer to what I'm looking for.  I might be able to work from there.  Instead of the animation "bar", windows can cycle through a color change over the entire image.  So If I make each of the squares a different color, I can tell windows to cycle those colors and it will change the blocks.  That should give it a close copy of what a real game does.  I'll see what I can toss together.

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: Crazy Cooter on February 13, 2005, 06:48:24 pm

That utility that Fredster pointed out is actually exactly what I needed.

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: fredster on February 13, 2005, 11:22:00 pm

 :D

I like that better than mine. I made mine black and white.

I guess I'm still black and white vector in a High definition world....

Title: Re: Win98 startup pic needed - "test blocks" screen
Post by: Crazy Cooter on February 14, 2005, 07:17:36 pm

lol.

Did you add a progress bar to yours?  If you use shades of gray you could pull it off.  Maybe a little circular type thing in a corner?  That would keep it from looking "windowsy".