Once again, I've been experimenting with some of my fave pics for 
use as Windows startup logos. My two successes I have posted in the 
file ALTWIN.ZIP. They are SMOBIUS2.COM, from Silent Mobius (3 frames 
of Yuki firing a Graviton gun), and RANMA.COM, from Ranma (shock! :).
To use them, simply use either one of these to replace WIN.COM for 
starting Windows.

For those of you that are interested, here is the process I used to 
create these alternative logos:
1) Start off with any pic, and convert it to RLE4 format (ie: RLE 
   format, 4 bits per pixel). Two important things to remember are 
   that the picture must be 16-colour, and that the pic can't be too
   big as the COM file cannot exceed 64k. In the case of using 
   256-colour pics, the best alternative I found was to convert them 
   to grayscale, then convert to 16-colour (I used this process for 
   the Ranma pic). To reduce the file size, try scaling the picture 
   size down.
2) Copy the RLE pic to your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM subdirectory, then cd to 
   that directory.
3) Use the ol' copy command with the binary switch, like so:
      copy /b WIN.CNF + VGALOGO.LGO + YOURPIC.RLE /WINDOWS/NEWWIN.COM
   The /b and the + signs are important, so don't ferget 'em.
4) Run NEWWIN.COM to start Windows.

Et Voila! Your own Windows startup logo! What could be simpler?
(well, a lot of things I suppose... :)

Anyway, hope you enjoy the ones I made. I might make some more later.


Jeremy Phillips.
aka: Sailor Uranus
Email: jphil@tartarus.uwa.edu.au