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Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems...
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From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
Date: 26 Jan 1998 10:19:31 +0100
In-Reply-To: Joel Ray Holveck's message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:30:57 -0600 (CST)"
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Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> writes:
> > > Well, enough of that, I've gotten in the mood to write a graphical
> > > *SOMETHING* now, so I'll probably be submitting a graphical
> > > screensaver RSN.
> > OK, where is it?  8)
> It's presently only on my machine.  And it still doesn't work.  I have
> identified the two major root problem areas:
>  * I don't know much about syscons
>  * I don't know anything about register- and memory-level VGA
> programming

I took the mode-switching code out of splashkit and merged it with
fade_saver_mod. I'll submit RSN...

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