AmigaSplash

This simple tool is indended to show splash screen during boot process from HDD. For now it supports only OCS/ECS graphics. It supports displaying HAM6 images but only without fade in/out.

Supported formats

• S:splash.wav: stereo, mono, unsigned 8-bit. Length is limited to the Paula max audio buffer (131072 bytes).
• S:splash.iff: Capabilities of the OS graphics subsystem. It will not open the screen if there is something that could not be displayed.

Operation

• Loads assets from disk (S:splash.iff and S:splash.wav)
• Fade in the splash image (S:splash.iff)
• Waits for the system to create default workbench screen (mostly splash window loses focus)
• Plays the splash sound (S:splash.wav)
• Fades out the splash image
• Fades the workbench in
• Waits for audio to finish
• Exits

Program can be exited by pressing ESC on keyboard or launching C:AmigaSplash signal (sending C signal into process AmigaSplash).

Installation

Just copy the AmigaSplash somewhere into your system (e.g. C:) and then in the beginning of S:startup-sequence insert this line:

Run >NIL: C:AmigaSplash >RAM:splash.log

• You can do C:AmigaSplash signal later from startup-sequence. This command identifies the AmigaSplash process in memory and sends a C break signal to terminate it. Use this within your startup-sequence to define exactly when the splash screen should close.

• Note that IPref will try to restart Workbench when it applies the overscan settings, so I recommend moving the C:IPref line to just before LoadWB is called in the startup-sequence.