My A4k30 needs about 1 minute to boot. It was boring to wait  all  the
time and just seeing a black screen.

When I saw that the MAC (System 7.5.1+) had a boot gauge bar  I  began
to develop an equal program and here it is: BootGauge

BootGauge executes a specified startup-sequence  and  displays  during
that e.g. a gauge bar.

But  BootGauge  offers  you  even  more.  BootGauge  has  been  object
orientated  developed.  This  means  that  it  is  build up by several
tasks/processes [in this case called "modules"]:

  mod_Time:  Time/Date/Day information
  mod_Gauge: gauge bar telling you how much already has worked up
  mod_Devs:  devices information
  mod_Mem:   memory information
  mod_Text:  displays current line executed and count of errors
  mod_Sys:   CPU, FPU, Chip set, OS version, ...

Every modules features a nice looking gtlayout GUI ;-)

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                34166   79172  43.2% -lh5- b5c6 May 11  1996 BootGauge/BootGauge
[generic]                  884    1667  53.0% -lh5- bdde May  8  1996 BootGauge/BootGauge.info
[generic]                  253     633  40.0% -lh5- f3db May 11  1996 BootGauge/BootGauge.lnk
[generic]                  591    1044  56.6% -lh5- 1eaf May  7  1996 BootGauge/BootGauge.readme
[generic]                  516    1402  36.8% -lh5- 980c May  8  1996 BootGauge/BootGauge.readme.info
[generic]                  819    1233  66.4% -lh5- 34a4 May 11  1996 BootGauge/help.info
[generic]                13904   41812  33.3% -lh5- 756b May 11  1996 BootGauge/help/BootGauge.guide
[generic]                  951    1822  52.2% -lh5- c24c May 11  1996 BootGauge/help/BootGauge.guide.info
[generic]                  628    1741  36.1% -lh5- dccd May  1  1996 BootGauge/Install
[generic]                 1041    1916  54.3% -lh5- cf51 May  8  1996 BootGauge/Install.info
[generic]                  702    1233  56.9% -lh5- 0b35 May 11  1996 BootGauge/misc.info
[generic]                  403     661  61.0% -lh5- 87b6 May  1  1996 BootGauge/misc/BetaTester.readme
[generic]                  826    2300  35.9% -lh5- 24b0 May  1  1996 BootGauge/misc/BootGauge.prefs
[generic]                 6255   19241  32.5% -lh5- e5c9 May 11  1996 BootGauge/misc/header.txt
[generic]                  591    1044  56.6% -lh5- 1eaf May  7  1996 BootGauge.readme
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 Total        15 files   62530  156921  39.8%            Jun 15  1996