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I want to see if I can revive HappyMac. Remember HappyMac? He used to sit where the dull grey apple does in OS X.2 and above. I want to reincarnate him, possibly into ZombieMac. How exactly I'm going to go about this I haven't worked out yet, but I want to try. I miss him. Any suggestions?

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Hmm Im not exactly sure what you mean, but if you were referring to putting the Happy Mac as the boot image, this software can do it for PowerPC Macs.

 

BootX

 

Doing it for Intel Macs would probably be harder, but maybe the same principles can be applied. As I said, Im not exactly sure what you meant :P.

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im not completely familiar with Old World macs mobo hardware

 

but i beleive happy mac was in, the pc equivalent of a BIOS

 

because he shows before any operating system loads

 

and then OSX would overwrite it with a simple image, and then when the os loads, the progress bar starts

 

im sure it wouldnt be impossibly hard, just start digging through os9, and start comparing

 

-clay

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On PPC and older models, the image is part of the bios. On Intel models, it's a silent splash screen so you don't see the kernel loading information. The closest I think you can get to what you want would be either to try and change the splash image (if possible- those are normally compiled into the kernel or as an initrd image) or get a motherboard that supports boot images (my Asus A8N-SLI does, for example).

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