~pcwiz Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today: How do you mean customizable?You can replace all the images, the icons, the funny chameleon artwork, the fonts. Also you can set the background color, the transparency levels, the dimensons, positions of certain user interface elements. The image resource files can be either embedded into the booter or can be loaded at runtime by using a special .plist style configuration file. Doesn’t embedding the images makes the boot loader too large? With the current set of icons, images, fonts embedded, the booter size is about 300k. Without embedding the resources you will get about a 110k large booter. The maximum size of the booter is 392704 bytes (383.5k). What image formats are supported? The booter has built-in support for true color 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit transparency layer. We wanted to offer a high quality lossless image format which can be created, edited with many graphics applications across all platforms. What if I still prefer the text mode interface? We can’t switch between text mode and graphical mode at the moment after the booter has been started, but you still have a Boot.plist option to disable the GUI. This way you get the well known text based Darwin boot menu. .....Read the rest on the Chameleon blog page here. Hi Res images are available on their blog. IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shavex Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 o freakin heck yea!!!! THATS AWESOME!!! I'm excited for its release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallonKrd Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 very cool, any estimate on when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Yay! This might just be the next GRUB for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Make a Bootcamp theme and you're as close to a real Mac as you can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckeroo Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Oh man, that is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markpenn Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 great. this +livedvd+SL.. or lord.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Leonard Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Epic, can't wait for the release. This will make it so much easier for new users to understand OSx86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manutd Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 cool i love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macita Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 /me slaps zef! thnx guys for all this hard work...thnx thnx thnx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quetzalcoatl2435 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Awesome!!! Can't wait for it to be released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 +1 for the boot camp theme. Can't wait to see what other features it has!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raph4 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 woow, very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawley Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow WowWowWow!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axethrower Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 WOW!! Nice work guys!! "we’re going to reveal other features in the next post on this week" Can't wait to see what the other features will be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhias Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 First i saw the new-stylish insanelymac frontpage, and then this! What a day! I call it styleday09. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 a dream, cant wait to test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I hope that the countdown will be added automatically instead of having to add it to the Boot.plist... Hopefully I'm curious how the images will be implemented as well. Will the images need to be built-in to the bootloader somehow or will there be a directory you can just drag and drop. I'll be all over making a bootcamp theme. Also, forgot to ask the mother of all questions... WILL WE BE ABLE TO PLAY THE MAC BOOT SOUND WHEN THE BOOTLOADER STARTS? :D -Stell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 This is really freaky awesome! GUI FTW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengstapo Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 its awesome, but also funny i think the black screen with moving up text boot would be greater, seems more profesional & faster(is that so?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris900 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Wow.... Awasome!!!! Congratulation for hard work!!! And thanks for this new revolutionary version of Chameleon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernicus Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Pure, solid-rock awesomeness! You guys are amazing! I'll give you some $!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjunaid Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Wow this is truly exquisite! I definitely look forward to it as I've got several Operating systems and my boot change method is to use the bootloader from the BIOS since I dedicated OS to their own hard drives. This will be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 WILL WE BE ABLE TO PLAY THE MAC BOOT SOUND WHEN THE BOOTLOADER STARTS? Yeah that would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Yeah that would be awesome. Very few motherboards support boot chimes (music) on boot, so it's very unlikely. I guess we just have to stay with our BIOS beep instead.... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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