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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

 

<strong>How do you mean customizable?</strong>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.  

 

<strong>Doesn’t embedding the images makes the boot loader too large?</strong>

 

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).

 

<strong>What image formats are supported?</strong>

 

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.

 

<strong>What if I still prefer the text mode interface?</strong>

 

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. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

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shavex

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o freakin heck yea!!!! THATS AWESOME!!! I'm excited for its release!

TallonKrd

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very cool, any estimate on when?

tehsusenoh

Posted

Yay!

This might just be the next GRUB for me!

booger_sniffer5000

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Make a Bootcamp theme and you're as close to a real Mac as you can get. :)

chuckeroo

Posted

Oh man, that is beautiful.

markpenn

Posted

great. this +livedvd+SL..

or lord..

David Leonard

Posted

Epic, can't wait for the release. This will make it so much easier for new users to understand OSx86.

Manutd

Posted

cool i love it

macita

Posted

/me slaps zef! ;)

 

thnx guys for all this hard work...thnx thnx thnx!

quetzalcoatl2435

Posted

Awesome!!! Can't wait for it to be released. ;)

Dr. Hurt

Posted

+1 for the boot camp theme.

Can't wait to see what other features it has!!

Raph4

Posted

woow, very nice :)

Crawley

Posted

Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow WowWowWow!!!!!!!!

Axethrower

Posted

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 B)

madhias

Posted

First i saw the new-stylish insanelymac frontpage, and then this! What a day! I call it styleday09.

cabron

Posted

a dream, cant wait to test

stellarola

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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. :D

 

Also, forgot to ask the mother of all questions...

 

WILL WE BE ABLE TO PLAY THE MAC BOOT SOUND WHEN THE BOOTLOADER STARTS?

 

:D :D

 

-Stell

Konami®

Posted

This is really freaky awesome! GUI FTW!!! :)

gengstapo

Posted

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?)

Cris900

Posted

Wow....

Awasome!!!!

Congratulation for hard work!!! And thanks for this new revolutionary version of Chameleon!

Fernicus

Posted

Pure, solid-rock awesomeness!

 

You guys are amazing! I'll give you some $!!!

superjunaid

Posted

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!

booger_sniffer5000

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WILL WE BE ABLE TO PLAY THE MAC BOOT SOUND WHEN THE BOOTLOADER STARTS?

Yeah that would be awesome.

Dr. Hurt

Posted

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

XQYZ

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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

 

OT really, but does you MB actually beep when you turn it on? Never had one that did that and it would drive me nuts if it did. I mean, seriously why would it need to beep? So that even the dumbest idiot would notice when the PC is actually turned on (in case he misses the sound of the fans and the brightness of the display)?

 

OnT: This is really cool, but I don't really need it as I'm not dual booting.



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