Sunday 9 March 2014

Windows 95 On Raspberry Pi

So i was just messing up with my pi and found out Dietmar's post on the forum about running Windows 95 on the Pi so i decided to give it a try!

This is Windows 95 running on Pi using Qemu
For tutorial follow this post by Dietmar.



Boot Animation On Raspberry Pi !!

Bored of your pi booting up in text only ?

Here's a solution to pimp it up!


  1. Copy & Paste
    sudo apt-get install omxplayer
  2. copy the boot video to /home/pi as boot.mp4
  3. create this init script with your editor in /etc/init.d/asplashscreen
    sudo nano /etc/init.d/asplashscreen
  4. Copy & Paste

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          asplashscreen
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:      
# Default-Start:     S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Show custom splashscreen
# Description:       Show custom splashscreen
### END INIT INFO

do_start () {

    omxplayer /home/pi/boot.mp4 &  
    exit 0
}

case "$1" in
  start|"")
    do_start
    ;;
  restart|reload|force-reload)
    echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
    exit 3
    ;;
  stop)
    # No-op
    ;;
  status)
    exit 0
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: asplashscreen [start|stop]" >&2
    exit 3
    ;;
esac

:

5)Copy and Paste
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

6)Copy and Paste
sudo insserv /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

Finally Reboot and Enjoy!!!