# BIOS POST Boot Screen: motion graphics style

> A 90s PC boot text animation: a BIOS self-test counts memory and beeps, then the word streams in as a big shaded ANSI block-art logo. 80×25 text mode, PC text-mode font and a blinking prompt make it a nerdy tech or hacker intro.

- Category: [Retro Computing & Games](https://aimotions.art/category/retro-computing-games/)
- Also known as: bios boot screen, power on self test, post screen, ansi art logo, command prompt boot, 90s pc startup, text mode boot, memory test count
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Calm · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/bios-post-boot/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/bios-post-boot/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Recreate a 90s computer powering on in 80×25 text mode, revealing [TEXT]. Black screen, blocky 9×16 pixel text font, light gray text with white and yellow highlights. First the power-on self test: header and copyright lines, a memory test counter racing up to 65536K then OK, drive detection lines resolving one by one, a "Press DEL to enter SETUP" footer and a cryptic date code. A single short beep is visualized as a little pixel speaker with expanding sound arcs. Then the screen clears and [TEXT] streams in character by character as a big ANSI block-art logo: chunky letters built from full blocks, white at the top fading through cyan to dark blue, bottom rows in shade blocks, a dotted shadow, framed by half-block gradient bars; end on a command prompt with a blinking cursor. Subtle scanlines.
```

## Visual DNA

- Strict 80×25 text grid with a 9×16 pixel PC text-mode font
- Gray text on black, white and yellow highlights, 16-color palette
- Memory test counter racing up in kilobytes, then OK
- Speaker beep shown as a pixel speaker with expanding sound arcs
- ANSI block-art logo with full, dark and medium shade blocks and gradients
- Logo streams in character by character like a fast modem, blinking cursor

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: BIOS POST Boot Screen, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/bios-post-boot/