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Booting OS/2 with an Animation

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Martin Iturbide:
Hello Richard.

--- Quote from: RTAN on September 12, 2024, 09:52:16 pm ---The start of the animation sequence (little OS/2 logos then the main centre logo) was also present in at least OS/2 2.1 wasn’t it?

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My first OS/2 was Warp 3, and I haven't played with the 2.x version enough. Maybe that is why I found it interesting, since I never have a boot animation in my OS/2.  ;D

Regards

RTAN:
I'm like you - my first experience of OS/2 was Warp 3 back in 1994 - a trial version was included on a magazine cover CD when I was at University. I had a 486SX25 with 8MB RAM and I remember waiting patiently for the drivers for my CD-ROM (connected via my SoundCard, not IDE) so that I could actually install it!

More recently, in revisiting retro PC's and legacy OS's I've been having some fun getting to know OS/2 2.1 quite a bit more, and then 2.0 and 1.3 to a much lesser extent.

I have of course also bought ArcaOS 5.1 but I haven't actually used it much of late. My "daily driver" is my Windows 10 workstation but I want to spend some time with ArcaOS and get to know it more as well.

St3gm4:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on September 08, 2024, 12:30:56 am ---Hello

Just to document this old thread. The OS/2 Warp 3 Beta 2 CD-ROM has a boot animation:
- https://youtu.be/k10yM0OCJeE

First, there is like little OS/2 logos and it switches to the big one
Second, after some loading the OS/2 circles disappear and appears in an animation.

Regards

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Any chance to have this boot logo animation in ArcaOS? Custom animations just for aesthetics.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

ArcaOS is based in OS/2 Warp 4.52, and it does not support animations on the boot procedure. I think this old hack will not work today.

But I don't know if something can be worked out for the UEFI boot, but I guess there are other development priorities for ArcaOS.

Dreaming in technicolor here, I once saw a Linux that had a nice boot process. Just the boot logo animation and later the desktop. but you can optionally press "Esc" and remove the logo and see all the stuff running on the back, until the desktop is show on the screen.

Regards

Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 10, 2025, 06:06:57 pm ---Hello

ArcaOS is based in OS/2 Warp 4.52, and it does not support animations on the boot procedure. I think this old hack will not work today.

But I don't know if something can be worked out for the UEFI boot, but I guess there are other development priorities for ArcaOS.

Dreaming in technicolor here, I once saw a Linux that had a nice boot process. Just the boot logo animation and later the desktop. but you can optionally press "Esc" and remove the logo and see all the stuff running on the back, until the desktop is show on the screen.

Regards

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The ArcaOS UEFI loader does support true color PNG files. But that is just it.
It seems you would need this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
If this can be put in the UEFI loader even at all.

Roderick

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