I've recently read a bit more about usplash, and found development is harder than I first thought.

I have knowledge in C etc, so can handle the requirements of making a usplash theme (I think anyways).

However, I'm just wondering how I could get the development header files, and development package in general for Etch. I've googled and googled, but came up empty.

My idea is to make a BSOD (Windows blue screen of death) usplash theme, just for a joke. Will probably make some more serious themes later on.

Thanks for your time,

Tried this? sudo apt-get source usplash usplash-theme-debian
Downloads source to current directory.

Maybe here:
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/splashy/

edit:
oops bad package

Thanks very much makuyl!

I'll check out how to compile it with that, hopefully it's what I'm looking for. Sadly however, usplash-theme-debian's source isn't available via apt-get source, oh well.