Dangerous OS X Badge

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Being curious, I was rumaging around through my System folder and opening up stuff using BBedit (Dont be stupid like me, I know I have something coming) and low and behold, I found a cool ASCII image courtesy of apple.
I found it in the holy CoreServices folder in a file called BootX.

Hmm, just the name makes it sound important...

Anyhow, Inside this file is a cool ascii image called the OS-BADGE-ICONS.
I have attatched it here so you dont have to worry about a, Booting problem?:p
 

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Almost forgot,
For all of you who love ASCII images and stuff, type
banner cool
into the terminal, then replace cool with another word.
The power of UNIX... Now to learn the other 100 commands!
 
100?

Code: 
$ ls -1 /bin | wc -l
      32 
$ ls -1 /usr/bin | wc -l
     449 
$ ls -1 /sbin | wc -l
      57 
$ ls -1 /usr/sbin | wc -l
     111

Granted some are links/symlinks...
 
Actually, that's not just ASCII, it's also hexadecimal.

Those are the three layers (image, alpha, 1-bit mask) of a cute little X.

For the historians, back in DP2 the entire Mac OS 9-era startup screen was in BootX.
 
And I saw those hex images when i decided to look at the contents of BootX (the osx bootloader, which i have the source code to :D) cause i was BORED.
 
That "X" must be that thing with a white circle around it in the hd icon in the Startup Manager (that thing witharrows and icons u get when u hold option on boot up on some macs).
 
And I can start BootX from OpenFirmware. The directions are: boot holding Command-Option-O-F, when u get a 0> prompt type boot hd:6,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX and press return. This only works on ATA drives as far as I know (if it doesnt work substitute hd:6 with hd:9).
 
Back in the days of OS 9, there was something similar to that in the Mac OS ROM file. Open it in BBEdit, and up pops a huge Mac logo :D

While we're on the subject: has anyone found any other ASCII images in the OS?
 
In reply to the Dangerous OSX badge msg:

Typing
Code: 
Banner
and then any word in the terminal window, makes that word in #'s!!!!:p : LIke this:

#####
# # #### #####
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # # #
##### #### #### ######

But i looks better in the window!!!! :cool:

Enjoy!!!
 
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