[soporific]

i'm just about to release a new version of the UBCD for Win98/SE as a sort of last hurrah for the ancient thing, and i'd dearly love to do up a custom billboard screen for this. I just don't know which file to edit and i've been searching for days and it seems lots of pages have been taken down since its now considered obsolete ... but maybe someone here know ... please please please say something, even if its to point me to the place i need to visit. Tons, literally tons of kudos to you for your help.

This post has been edited by soporific: 19 September 2007 - 02:38 AM

[soporific]

soporific, on Sep 14 2007, 12:06 AM, said:

Tons, literally tons of kudos to you for your help.

I know!! Does this mean i get to send kudos to myself??

For those wanting to know the answer, it is:

win95bb.dll & win95bb.ini

inside PRECOPY1.CAB

the question now is ... anyone know of a program that can edit NE files? Apps like Process Explorer say they don't support such an "obsolete" format.

i can change the text of the billboards but not the appearance. I think i have to edit win95bb.dll to be able to do that.

Any clues?

[eidenk]

soporific, on Sep 19 2007, 02:39 AM, said:

soporific, on Sep 14 2007, 12:06 AM, said:

Tons, literally tons of kudos to you for your help.

the question now is ... anyone know of a program that can edit NE files?

What do you want to edit in win95bb.dll ? Text is in win95bb.ini and the bitmap images are inside the precopy folder as .bin files.

Replace the text and images to some of your liking that have the same size and color depth and you'll be done probably.

NE resources can be edited with MSVC but there is little you can do to edit the compiled code displaying all those external resources unless you are a very good hacker maybe.

Why don't you post this in the Win 98 forum btw ?

[soporific]

eidenk, on Sep 20 2007, 10:41 AM, said:

What do you want to edit in win95bb.dll ? Text is in win95bb.ini and the bitmap images are inside the precopy folder as .bin files.

Replace the text and images to some of your liking that have the same size and color depth and you'll be done probably.

NE resources can be edited with MSVC but there is little you can do to edit the compiled code displaying all those external resources unless you are a very good hacker maybe.

Why don't you post this in the Win 98 forum btw ?

good point. And thanks for the info!