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I always wanted the epic boot up sequences like they had in that movie... in Windows for a bit you could change your boot image, but I could never get it to be an animation.....

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I've got a dorky 'matrixish' oembootlogo on my desktop cause the bios tool asks for an image. Doesn't animate or anything though. It would be difficult to use the windows 95 pallete animation to do a rotation effect, I think.

I vaguely remember being able to hack it to display an animation…

>I vaguely remember being able to hack it to display an animation…

I can remember as a kid downloading executables that claimed they would do this for you. In retrospect they were probably just malware…

IIRC the bitmap was saved as a .sys file to make it a secret for some reason.

The image itself was 320x400 bitmap and the animation was done through palette cycling.

All these years later, there is an answer to years of lounging. Thank you for the closure. :)

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