Animated LILO boot screen: penguins

LILO meets Pingus!

In this animation, several penguins are walking, falling or flying on the screen. I borrowed the images of the penguins from the program XPenguins and from the game Pingus. The original versions of these images were created by Joël Fauché (walker), Craig Timpany (tumbler), Rob Gietema, Robin Hogan and Brian Chu (reader and superpenguin).

Features

• Video mode: 640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
• Animations:
  • walking penguin at the bottom of the screen
  • walking X-Mas penguin on top of the menu
  • falling penguin (tumbler) for the LILO timeout
• Special keys:
  • any key tells the X-Mas penguin to turn around
  • F1 calls SuperPenguin
  • F2 tells the walking penguin to read a book
  • F3 tells the walking penguin to turn around
• License: GPL

Downloads

penguins.boot.gz (63 KB)

This is the compiled boot screen, ready to be used by the version of LILO included in SuSE Linux 7.3. This is the only file that you need if you do not intend to modify the animations. It has been compressed with gzip, so you need to gunzip it before installing it. See the help page for installation instructions.

Sources

Files used for compiling the boot screen (using mkbootmsg):

• penguins.config (24 KB)
  The script that defines how the graphical menus are drawn and how the animations are displayed. It requires the following PCX file and font file.
• penguins.pcx (162 KB)
  The 640x570 PCX image that is displayed on the screen and contains the various elements of the animations.
• fixed_10x20 (4 KB)
  The font file (bitmap) used for displaying text in the menus.

Source file used for creating the image penguins.pcx:

• penguins.xcf.gz (445 KB)
  A 640x570 color XCF file with all objects and texts on separate layers. This file can be flattened and converted to indexed mode to produce the PCX file.