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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Hacking the "Welcome to Macintosh." intro
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.213658.13732@svc.portal.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 21:36:58 GMT
References: <9254@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1365@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
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In article <1365@tardis.Tymnet.COM> carl@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas) writes:
>In article <9254@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> biswa@galileo.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes:
>>I want to hack the "Welcome to Macintosh." logo that comes up at startup
>>to something more interesting. Yes, I know this is frivolous and puerile,
>>but it's *my* toy. (No,no,no, I'm not implying the Mac is only a toy. I
>>do use it for serious work now and then.)
>>
>Someone correct me if I'm wrong, (I'm sure someone will :-) but isn't the
>easiest way to change the "Welcome to Macintosh." logo to just put a file
>called "StartupScreen" in your system folder.  The contents of which are
>any pict resource that you'd like to see instead of the "Welcome" logo..

Another way to do this, is to go in with ResEdit and modify one of the DSAT
resources of the system file. There maybe more than one, but just look
through them for the one that contains the welcome message. I've modified
these with success. However, I'm not certain if you can lengthen or shorten
the string and not crash, so I've always been certain to perserve the string's
length.


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