This program will load a 640x480x256c pic and replace all those
boring boot messages you get while booting mint. Press ESC and you
can get back to watching the console output.
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Hope you like it! It was 1 day of happy hacking around :)
IMO, tool for this task should be taken from wider angle, here are my ideas for anyone who would be interested in expanding your tool:
- it should use VDI instead of raw Videl values (Aranym incompatibility hurts!)
- it should be part of kernel -- then you can implement things like progress bar for example, kernel has very good knowledge of what is just doing, how many XDDs / XFSs is going to load etc...
- it should be in C (better portability etc)
Something like this I'd really love. I'm even tempted to try to implement it ;)