If I were to guess (not that I’m an expert in any way) it’s probably related to memory and storage constraints. That includes the install media: Windows 98 was still available on floppy disk, albeit in a slightly stripped down version. Windows 95 could run on as little as 4MB of memory, and MS-DOS was still used for bootstrapping the OS (and did a lot more besides). I think that means that, at least during the initial OS boot, you ALSO had to deal with the memory limits of MS-DOS without HI-MEM which meant you had even less space to work with (1 MB). Given those constraints, and how small/slow hard drives were back then, compressing everything as much as possible makes sense.
That sounds reasonable. I even noticed that in the first passes of my compressor, when it was compressing inefficiently, sometimes only part of the bitmap would show up, presumably because the whole thing wouldn't fit in memory. That would also explain why they didn't just keep using the standard BMP RLE, it may not have been good enough. That being said, why _only_ the bitmap? Maybe they were afraid decompressing would be too taxing on the CPU? Or the DOS code needed to be uncompressed until DOS 8 in ME?
that bit mentioning about "just shoving all sorts of dll and exe file into Resource Hacker", THAT'S SO MEEEE WHEN I WERE YOUNG YOU NAILED IT SO HARD XDDDDDDDDD
I remember that at some point I was modding Windows (the famous unattended editions) when I was like, idk, 7 or 8 years old, in the XP/Vista era, unsupervised on the internet. Didn't end up going into IT/programming until 2 years ago, but this made me learn a loooot about design *and* Windows internals knowledge. Fucking around and finding around is the best way to learn new stuff and I wish everyone had the chance to do this. It's the single best way to have life-long skills. Fun fact: the newer versions of Windows store the spinner in a font. And it's used a lot throughout. A very good way to save resources and make it fancy.
It's so weird that you decided to reverse all the boot screen formats directly in a straight way like it was in the early 00s instead of using Ghidra or some other RE software. So much patience and stuff, cool, I love it so much!
If I actually knew the first thing about RE this video would have been much different..! This is just me stumbling around with the little technical knowledge I have and running into a lot of small miracles to figure things out.
@berylrose2270 That honestly makes the video more interesting to me. Ghidra's awesome, but getting to see someone pick apart software by hand always makes me more invested in the video.
There were tools for Windows XP that allowed you to customize your boot screen. The programs were called "Boot Screen"/"Boot Skin" and "Boot Editor". Allowed you to change where the progress bar was and stuff. Quite a community for it too.
I'm speechless That's amazing, you're a gem Something super precious I love everything about it, searching, finding, modifying, and your art that you seem to make so quickly. everything I can't do with my work that takes up 90% of me Wait... is that love I feel? I'm in love with what you've done! I love the music and the way you explain it, it feels like you didn't follow a script and the way it's done is just the way it looks. You could say you followed an anti-script, make it and see
I'm happy There's always room to be a nerd on the internet It took me 2 days to watch your video, it's dense with information, I watched it in a few parts
This video was genuinely INCREDIBLY interesting to look at with all this info being discovered etc, the constant presence of scalies and banger music in the background made it 10 times better tho LMAO
26:07 YESSSSS I'M SO GLAD WE'RE DOING THIS!!! loving this journey so far, i really appreciate how you guide us through so we can actually follow the logic. makes it feel like i'm figuring this stuff out with you :] also the dragons are cute :D
during the windows me segment i was literally thinking "ooh i wonder if this decompression thing could work on 95/98?" AND THEN WE CIRCLED BACK FOR REAL
You are a great narrator, to the point where you basically managed to keep me entertained with essencially just an unedited desktop with a few graphics done in paint (lol). I hope you do more stuff like this, it was really fun! My only pet peeve about this video's editing is that the music you chose just randomly fades in and sometimes doesn't quite fit the moment, but some admittedly did fit good for the big reveal moment.
I only now noticed this was uploaded 1 day ago and from a channel with almost 900 subs. I am now one of them, this is so underrated. Keep up the good work
You should ABSOLUTELY make a discord server btw I'd love to have a place where i can yap about both art and stuff like older operating systems. Unless you have one and i'm just blind
I'm also the same kind of nerd that I'm interested by those unimportant bits of knowledge, so I enjoyed the entire video a lot (and it takes a lot for me to commit to a video longer than 10 minutes). Good job.
this is super cool!! i always wondered where the bitmaps were stored in those old windows OSs since i was little but i never got around to finding out myself. i especially thought that it was nothing short of mind blowing that you dedicated yourself to write a [de]compressor for 9x's IO.SYS to find the original bitmap. (also cool scalies :))
The absolute wizardry I witnessed when you opened calc in word and resized it to see the icon... Man everything in this vid is just so cool! And bravo for not only figuring out the 95/98 logo decryption, but taking the time to reverse engineer a re-encryption tool! ^,=,^
as a kid I just used stardock bootskin for xp. This was such an awesome watch. nothing I cant say that others haven't. I do have to comment on how great your taste in music is. an hour and 12 minutes well spent.
Dang, you’re gaining subscribers fast because of this video! I mean, it’s pretty well edited, and the music sounds good, so you’re doing something right and the algorithm is praising you!
Yo I love your Shit! Lovely how this video is full of educated guesses :3 Currently done with the first Windows Version and I already Love the Video, gonna love Watching the rest!
This might be one of the most fascinating videos i've watched on this platform. It was so intriguing to see how different versions of Windows handles these boot screens and how you can use it to your advantage by replacing it. It was surprisingly fun to watch, everything was delivered so clearly even for a person that doesn't know much about the details, and your voice is so calming that it's a pleasure listening to your ramblings about techy beep-boop stuff ❤ It's actually insane how much effort you made to something that's so niche that most of the people wouldn't even consider doing, especially in the earlier versions of Windows. Like come on, why would anyone even want to change the boot screen for Windows 1.01? Or to write a decompressor AND A COMPRESSOR for something that you didn't need to do in the first place??? Also, I checked out some of your other stuff and your website, and damn, not only you know a thing about tech AND drawing, but you also WRITE NOVELS? It's actually mind-blowing how talented you are that it's honestly making me jealous lol Real talk though, keep up the good work, and best of luck to you in the future! And if you're still interested in making videos that explain in detail certain things about tech, I'm definitely going to check back on you! ❤ also i genuinely burst out laughing at the windows gangster edition reference this was constantly running in my head throughout this video and i was sure you weren't aware i love you so much for that
Honestly this is one of the best videos on windows I’ve seen in a long time. The documentation you’ve done was extremely well done, and it may help the windows modding community. Thanks a lot for this tutorial, you earned my full respect.
“I’m not enough of a compression nerd to know that’s RLE” Me after seeing patches of like the same black color then suddenly white or whatever : “THATS RLE”
Wow, I clicked on this purely because reading such a title and seeing the video length I felt obligated to do so, not thinking I'd actually be interested enough to watch the whole thing.. But it turned out to be a goddamn journey! This was so fucking cool I loved every second of it
I'm so glad I found this video. The premise was intriguing and your artwork was a joy to look at. I didn't even notice it was an hour long before I was almost done watching!
A few hours later, I remembered that the most recent versions of Windows can get the startup logo from the system firmware on modern machines, meaning parts of the startup graphics may be replaced without breaking Windows security. It just involves modding my UEFI instead... I can't help but be tempted to try it, despite the less-than-zero chance that I might nuke my motherboard in the process.
I love this video. This brought back some nostalgia for me too, especially as I always wondered back when I was younger how to replace the XP bootscreen. When you mentioned Resource Hacker and you ran through the bitmaps and dialogs for each program I genuinely got so excited! Used to do this same exact thing back then, especially when transforming XP into a different OS (like 2000 or Vista) Genuinely great job on this video. Bravo. (Edit: I love your scalies too! So adorable!)
That was like the coolest thing I've watched on RUclips in a few months. :D Wouldn't have thought that I could be hooked on a 1h video about the bootscreens in Windows, but hey here I am :D
I finally made it through this banger of a video. I learned a lot. Like the fact that I accidently just made a slightly simpler version of the bitmap file format and thought it was original. No but seriously this was really cool, keep up the great work!
Really great video. I always love figuring out how tech stuff works under the hood and breaking and rebuilding it in my own image. Please do more of these windows videos
This is by far one of the greatest videos I have ever seen on RUclips. Not only do you figure out where and how these graphics are stored in these not-image files, but you go out of your way to actually decompile them! And with very little documentation that Windows 95 and 98 have on their IO .SYS files, my mind was genuinely blown away when you actually went through the effort to program a toolkit to decompress the Windows 95 and 98 boot screens! Like for real, this video blew my mind at least 4 times throughout! Excellent video! You deserve attention from the Windows community!
This was so fun to watch! Great pacing, great explanation and great music. It was a fun adventure following you through the different challenges and to see how you solved them!
I had so much fin in my youth screwing with my windows ME and XP install by customizing every piece of graphics I could rech with Resource Hacker. A trial version would at some point stop fixing the dll correctly and replace every string with some gibberish :D There were also special websites with windows XP custom boot screens, people went ham on those, riffing on the 3 running bars with custom graphics around them, I remember some would make them look like someone's teeth. Thanks a ton for a throwback!
great video! love to see videos that aren't overedited to hell and back which are still very interesting and good at keeping my attention for a long time
me when i have to watch an hour long video about operating systems because im bored (i should note: awesome video. i love doing this sort of stuff in my free time)
i was trying to remember why this channel seemed familiar. then i checked your channel and saw that you made the video about porting your screensaver to windows 95! i loved that video, and this one was just as based.
If only 86box ran Windows XP better. Even with the fastest CPU I could configure, it's still at least an order of magnitude slower than using virtualbox.
Back in the day, I changed the XP boot screen image on my coworkers workstation to a modified Mac OS one. Betawiki has a page on boot screens of every version of windows and modifying them.
Clicked cuz I was curious, was not expecting to get so hooked up on the premise! I didn't know that fact about BMPs, changed the way I look at them now xD
Aww hell yeah! I was so proud of myself for replacing Windows 3.11 start up screen with one of Garfield back in the 90s.. Thinking about it, I'm not even sure how I managed - I remember using a piece of software that supported the fileformat that could change the boot screen file, but not really how I figured it out (wasn't on my own, I'm not that intelligent), or where I got that picture editor that supported the format. If I had to guess: A magazine that came with the software.
I love this nerd stuff I did expect the raw bitmap, I did expect the "compressed image", I did not expect "JUST image compressed in one version, WHOLE file compressed in next version" also just fyi, windows uses animated font files for a bunch of stuff, like the little spinny icons, and even the win8/10/11 spinny dot loader at startup!
About Windows NT 3.1/3.5 Windows NT 3.1/3.5's "boot splash" is used as desktop background (the file name is WINNT.bmp), it means that these operating systems does not have graphical boot screen, only text boot screen
this is the exact type of stuff i would do i love it i modified the text in the windows xp smss.exe manually once. idk if i would do it again but it worked for the most part edit: just watched the rest of the video you are an actual legend
There is an alternate Vista boot splash that can be found by setting "no gui boot" in msconfig. From what I remember it's just an image in a file somewhere.
ah yes i remember editing the logo, logos and logow.sys bitmaps, it was fun, a bit trickier in 2k/xp since it's about literally decompiling the kernel to modify the bitmap and progress bar. but hell it was cool. also i like your dregs.
That one Microsoft dev deciding to only compress the bitmap:
I need Raymond Chen to explain why Microsoft would do this to me.
If I were to guess (not that I’m an expert in any way) it’s probably related to memory and storage constraints. That includes the install media: Windows 98 was still available on floppy disk, albeit in a slightly stripped down version.
Windows 95 could run on as little as 4MB of memory, and MS-DOS was still used for bootstrapping the OS (and did a lot more besides). I think that means that, at least during the initial OS boot, you ALSO had to deal with the memory limits of MS-DOS without HI-MEM which meant you had even less space to work with (1 MB). Given those constraints, and how small/slow hard drives were back then, compressing everything as much as possible makes sense.
That sounds reasonable. I even noticed that in the first passes of my compressor, when it was compressing inefficiently, sometimes only part of the bitmap would show up, presumably because the whole thing wouldn't fit in memory. That would also explain why they didn't just keep using the standard BMP RLE, it may not have been good enough.
That being said, why _only_ the bitmap? Maybe they were afraid decompressing would be too taxing on the CPU? Or the DOS code needed to be uncompressed until DOS 8 in ME?
@@berylrose2270 windows 7 is animation bmp long vertical image.
THANK YOU
I love old tech
I love scalies
This is triggering my obsessions
I LOVE IT
same :3
Same here too :33
omg samee
Same!
Exactly, best of all worlds!
that bit mentioning about "just shoving all sorts of dll and exe file into Resource Hacker", THAT'S SO MEEEE WHEN I WERE YOUNG YOU NAILED IT SO HARD XDDDDDDDDD
Ah yes the early reverse engineering days
I remember that at some point I was modding Windows (the famous unattended editions) when I was like, idk, 7 or 8 years old, in the XP/Vista era, unsupervised on the internet. Didn't end up going into IT/programming until 2 years ago, but this made me learn a loooot about design *and* Windows internals knowledge.
Fucking around and finding around is the best way to learn new stuff and I wish everyone had the chance to do this. It's the single best way to have life-long skills.
Fun fact: the newer versions of Windows store the spinner in a font. And it's used a lot throughout. A very good way to save resources and make it fancy.
Excellent story, well told. I was hooked from start to finish. RIP to Rudolph's "trade secrets".
It's so weird that you decided to reverse all the boot screen formats directly in a straight way like it was in the early 00s instead of using Ghidra or some other RE software. So much patience and stuff, cool, I love it so much!
If I actually knew the first thing about RE this video would have been much different..! This is just me stumbling around with the little technical knowledge I have and running into a lot of small miracles to figure things out.
@berylrose2270 That honestly makes the video more interesting to me. Ghidra's awesome, but getting to see someone pick apart software by hand always makes me more invested in the video.
To be fair, I'd probably do it the same way
@@berylrose2270 reversing the format straight is way more fun anyway :3 its like solving a puzzle
Ghidra is pretty overkill for what he's doing. I even think it would make his job harder.
Excellent work, especially the Win9x part.
Those guys with their trade secrets thought they're smarter than everybody else but they're not.
I absolutely ADORE your scalies, they're so adorable! You should take on custom bootscreen commissions! Hahaha
dude that would be insane if someone, or even he, actually did something like that, i would buy that
Great video! Hope Rlow got a lot out of his "trade secret" lol. What a beautiful journey
Total dick for that by the way
That early Windows interlaced slide in effect is pretty dope.
i have no clue how i would get your level of hyperfixation, bravo
14:09 I literally squealed out loud "Ouh that's cute!"
There were tools for Windows XP that allowed you to customize your boot screen. The programs were called "Boot Screen"/"Boot Skin" and "Boot Editor". Allowed you to change where the progress bar was and stuff. Quite a community for it too.
Bootskin doesn't work for me for some reason.
For me it was Boot Editor which was quite iffy.
The Virtual machine reports that the guest OS supports mouse pointer integration
Fffffff.....
gd payer
I'm speechless
That's amazing, you're a gem
Something super precious
I love everything about it, searching, finding, modifying, and your art that you seem to make so quickly.
everything I can't do with my work that takes up 90% of me
Wait... is that love I feel? I'm in love with what you've done!
I love the music and the way you explain it, it feels like you didn't follow a script and the way it's done is just the way it looks.
You could say you followed an anti-script, make it and see
I'm happy
There's always room to be a nerd on the internet
It took me 2 days to watch your video, it's dense with information, I watched it in a few parts
This video was genuinely INCREDIBLY interesting to look at with all this info being discovered etc, the constant presence of scalies and banger music in the background made it 10 times better tho LMAO
Came for Windows, stayed for scalie creatures.
26:07 YESSSSS I'M SO GLAD WE'RE DOING THIS!!! loving this journey so far, i really appreciate how you guide us through so we can actually follow the logic. makes it feel like i'm figuring this stuff out with you :]
also the dragons are cute :D
during the windows me segment i was literally thinking "ooh i wonder if this decompression thing could work on 95/98?" AND THEN WE CIRCLED BACK FOR REAL
You are a great narrator, to the point where you basically managed to keep me entertained with essencially just an unedited desktop with a few graphics done in paint (lol). I hope you do more stuff like this, it was really fun! My only pet peeve about this video's editing is that the music you chose just randomly fades in and sometimes doesn't quite fit the moment, but some admittedly did fit good for the big reveal moment.
Like a lot of people here, I saw scalies and I clicked. Great artwork, and great exploration of the Windows 95 image compression algorithm!
respect gangster✅✅BINBOWS those who knows💀💀💀
I only now noticed this was uploaded 1 day ago and from a channel with almost 900 subs. I am now one of them, this is so underrated. Keep up the good work
You should ABSOLUTELY make a discord server btw I'd love to have a place where i can yap about both art and stuff like older operating systems. Unless you have one and i'm just blind
I do have one! discord.com/invite/X5SuQTb
@@berylrose2270 So i was blind, thanks lmao
Micropenis 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
adorable scalies and retro tech? sign me up!!!
love the dragon artworks, and no I didnt fell asleep :)
I'm also the same kind of nerd that I'm interested by those unimportant bits of knowledge, so I enjoyed the entire video a lot (and it takes a lot for me to commit to a video longer than 10 minutes). Good job.
The IO7 decompression you got working is cool af, props to you man
I have a lot of good things to talk about this video but i must say how naturally charismatic this guys is
The nostalgia of looking at all the files in system32 and putting them in RH is great
this is super cool!! i always wondered where the bitmaps were stored in those old windows OSs since i was little but i never got around to finding out myself. i especially thought that it was nothing short of mind blowing that you dedicated yourself to write a [de]compressor for 9x's IO.SYS to find the original bitmap.
(also cool scalies :))
The absolute wizardry I witnessed when you opened calc in word and resized it to see the icon...
Man everything in this vid is just so cool!
And bravo for not only figuring out the 95/98 logo decryption, but taking the time to reverse engineer a re-encryption tool! ^,=,^
as a kid I just used stardock bootskin for xp. This was such an awesome watch. nothing I cant say that others haven't. I do have to comment on how great your taste in music is. an hour and 12 minutes well spent.
Great video man. It's kinda rare to find actually good content nowadays and it's feeding me hyperfixations
Dang, you’re gaining subscribers fast because of this video! I mean, it’s pretty well edited, and the music sounds good, so you’re doing something right and the algorithm is praising you!
Yo I love your Shit!
Lovely how this video is full of educated guesses :3
Currently done with the first Windows Version and I already Love the Video, gonna love Watching the rest!
This might be one of the most fascinating videos i've watched on this platform. It was so intriguing to see how different versions of Windows handles these boot screens and how you can use it to your advantage by replacing it. It was surprisingly fun to watch, everything was delivered so clearly even for a person that doesn't know much about the details, and your voice is so calming that it's a pleasure listening to your ramblings about techy beep-boop stuff ❤
It's actually insane how much effort you made to something that's so niche that most of the people wouldn't even consider doing, especially in the earlier versions of Windows. Like come on, why would anyone even want to change the boot screen for Windows 1.01? Or to write a decompressor AND A COMPRESSOR for something that you didn't need to do in the first place???
Also, I checked out some of your other stuff and your website, and damn, not only you know a thing about tech AND drawing, but you also WRITE NOVELS? It's actually mind-blowing how talented you are that it's honestly making me jealous lol
Real talk though, keep up the good work, and best of luck to you in the future!
And if you're still interested in making videos that explain in detail certain things about tech, I'm definitely going to check back on you!
❤
also i genuinely burst out laughing at the windows gangster edition reference this was constantly running in my head throughout this video and i was sure you weren't aware
i love you so much for that
You got me giggling like a girl everytime you did something that worked. Great video!!! You deserve more views
Honestly this is one of the best videos on windows I’ve seen in a long time. The documentation you’ve done was extremely well done, and it may help the windows modding community. Thanks a lot for this tutorial, you earned my full respect.
“I’m not enough of a compression nerd to know that’s RLE”
Me after seeing patches of like the same black color then suddenly white or whatever : “THATS RLE”
Wow, I clicked on this purely because reading such a title and seeing the video length I felt obligated to do so, not thinking I'd actually be interested enough to watch the whole thing.. But it turned out to be a goddamn journey! This was so fucking cool I loved every second of it
Loved it. I never thought I would sit for an hour watching someone explain how the windows boot screen is stored lol
I'm so glad I found this video. The premise was intriguing and your artwork was a joy to look at. I didn't even notice it was an hour long before I was almost done watching!
A few hours later, I remembered that the most recent versions of Windows can get the startup logo from the system firmware on modern machines, meaning parts of the startup graphics may be replaced without breaking Windows security. It just involves modding my UEFI instead... I can't help but be tempted to try it, despite the less-than-zero chance that I might nuke my motherboard in the process.
I love this video. This brought back some nostalgia for me too, especially as I always wondered back when I was younger how to replace the XP bootscreen.
When you mentioned Resource Hacker and you ran through the bitmaps and dialogs for each program I genuinely got so excited! Used to do this same exact thing back then, especially when transforming XP into a different OS (like 2000 or Vista)
Genuinely great job on this video. Bravo.
(Edit: I love your scalies too! So adorable!)
That was like the coolest thing I've watched on RUclips in a few months. :D Wouldn't have thought that I could be hooked on a 1h video about the bootscreens in Windows, but hey here I am :D
34:03 A Man Tried To Modify His Windows Install. This Is What Happened To His Computer.
I immediately looked for a Chubbyemu comment the moment I heard that music, and I'm not disappointed
A Prince Polo ad appeared.
@@maya20484 Dustforce music
Just stumbling onto your channel and I just love your art work. Was a blast going to your website!
I finally made it through this banger of a video. I learned a lot. Like the fact that I accidently just made a slightly simpler version of the bitmap file format and thought it was original.
No but seriously this was really cool, keep up the great work!
the windows modding community is probably more than happy for this
You’re doing research that deserves a Nobel prize!
Really great video. I always love figuring out how tech stuff works under the hood and breaking and rebuilding it in my own image. Please do more of these windows videos
So much work and love into this one, thank you so much for sharing!! This was nice to watch
This video was absolutely amazing!
DUDE I CANT BELIEVE I HAVENT SEEN YOUR CHANNEL BEFORE I LOVE OLD TECH!!!
This is by far one of the greatest videos I have ever seen on RUclips. Not only do you figure out where and how these graphics are stored in these not-image files, but you go out of your way to actually decompile them! And with very little documentation that Windows 95 and 98 have on their IO .SYS files, my mind was genuinely blown away when you actually went through the effort to program a toolkit to decompress the Windows 95 and 98 boot screens! Like for real, this video blew my mind at least 4 times throughout! Excellent video! You deserve attention from the Windows community!
This was so fun to watch! Great pacing, great explanation and great music. It was a fun adventure following you through the different challenges and to see how you solved them!
Sir, you just gained yourself a new subscriber. Loved every single minute of this and really liked your art! Gj
All hail Resource Hacker
400 more subs in less than a day is completely deserved this is the best thing i have seen in a while
What an interesting topic! I was always fascinated by retro boot screens and are very nostalgic to me, Windows 3.1 and 95...
I had so much fin in my youth screwing with my windows ME and XP install by customizing every piece of graphics I could rech with Resource Hacker. A trial version would at some point stop fixing the dll correctly and replace every string with some gibberish :D There were also special websites with windows XP custom boot screens, people went ham on those, riffing on the 3 running bars with custom graphics around them, I remember some would make them look like someone's teeth. Thanks a ton for a throwback!
great video! love to see videos that aren't overedited to hell and back which are still very interesting and good at keeping my attention for a long time
It is criminal how little views you got from this. This has to be the best video from a really small channel
What a surprisingly entertaining video for how lack of editing or hyperactivity there is. I love it!!!
Incredibly well made video in every figurative department, thank you :] 🍻🖤
Went in thinking "no way in heck I will watch a one hour video talking about BOOT SCREENS"... ended up watching the entire thing, whoops
Twice, because I fell asleep the first time lol
me when i have to watch an hour long video about operating systems because im bored (i should note: awesome video. i love doing this sort of stuff in my free time)
This is so impressive, what a wonderfully high effort video
i was trying to remember why this channel seemed familiar. then i checked your channel and saw that you made the video about porting your screensaver to windows 95! i loved that video, and this one was just as based.
ohhh shit i forgot about that video!! turns out i've already watched it, and a couple speedpaints... i thought their art looked very familiar
awesome video. LOVE. much enjoy the pals & guys in this one
this is a really good video. i'm really liking your video essay-ish videos
my reaction to this whole video is just:
:D
I'm leaving a like just because you coded the whole algorithm 😂
52:47 the virtualbox struggles begin
If only 86box ran Windows XP better. Even with the fastest CPU I could configure, it's still at least an order of magnitude slower than using virtualbox.
@@berylrose2270 i somehow didn't even notice that's what you were using until reading this
I JUST WATCHED THIS FOR AN HOUR AND YOUR CHANNEL IS TINY???? YOUR CHANNEL IS TINY???? AND YOURE A WEIRD FURRY???? AWESOME
I don't consider myself a furry, I just really enjoy this style of art. Take that for what you will though. But I can admit to being weird.
DUDE THANKS !! I've been looking to edit the windows 3.1 bootscreen !
Very interesting well made video! Also your art is charming ^^ lovely scaley critters
This earned my subscription
you are so underrated, you need more subs and likes! subbed :) (yep i watched all the 1 hour video)
this is INSANE compared to any linux method lmao but it looks like so much fun
Back in the day, I changed the XP boot screen image on my coworkers workstation to a modified Mac OS one.
Betawiki has a page on boot screens of every version of windows and modifying them.
This looks so awesome! Thank you for the show.
RUclips actually deciding to recommend me something interesting. Great video!
wow i never imagined that id be possible to spot these graphics thru opening it as text like that, seriously cool
The macrium reflect popup is so real
Absolute cinema.
Clicked cuz I was curious, was not expecting to get so hooked up on the premise! I didn't know that fact about BMPs, changed the way I look at them now xD
As long as modders still able to change the bootscreen, it's now possible to do everything.
These long videos about Windows by you are awesome.
super entertaining and well researched :D
Aww hell yeah! I was so proud of myself for replacing Windows 3.11 start up screen with one of Garfield back in the 90s.. Thinking about it, I'm not even sure how I managed - I remember using a piece of software that supported the fileformat that could change the boot screen file, but not really how I figured it out (wasn't on my own, I'm not that intelligent), or where I got that picture editor that supported the format. If I had to guess: A magazine that came with the software.
I love this nerd stuff
I did expect the raw bitmap, I did expect the "compressed image", I did not expect "JUST image compressed in one version, WHOLE file compressed in next version"
also just fyi, windows uses animated font files for a bunch of stuff, like the little spinny icons, and even the win8/10/11 spinny dot loader at startup!
the name for those spinny loaders is a throbber! there's a wikipedia article about em
@@eggsbox yeah, also sux web browsers did away with a nice big throbber in the corner
strapping in rn
This video is amazing.
About Windows NT 3.1/3.5
Windows NT 3.1/3.5's "boot splash" is used as desktop background (the file name is WINNT.bmp), it means that these operating systems does not have graphical boot screen, only text boot screen
Thanks for the Google Document!
this is the exact type of stuff i would do i love it
i modified the text in the windows xp smss.exe manually once. idk if i would do it again but it worked for the most part
edit: just watched the rest of the video you are an actual legend
Niceness eventually impunity Halford
There is an alternate Vista boot splash that can be found by setting "no gui boot" in msconfig. From what I remember it's just an image in a file somewhere.
34:07 Presenting ☝️ to the emergency room! Oops, wrong channel.
41:20 the answer to life was missing another byte.
Seeing this was an hour long was a good surprise!
Aaaand done. Good work yokshire
ah yes i remember editing the logo, logos and logow.sys bitmaps, it was fun, a bit trickier in 2k/xp since it's about literally decompiling the kernel to modify the bitmap and progress bar. but hell it was cool.
also i like your dregs.
This is probably how the Windows 2000 tablet I have has a custom boot screen