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> > You're in a difficult situation...  even a static GIF image would probably
> > be difficult because you don't know what you have for console until you
> > have probed the video..  animation I would think is out of the question
> > due to the way I understand the kernel works during the probe phase.
> 
> Animation is possible using color register cycling.  This is how the
> "startrek" bar of the Microsoft "Plus! Pack" is animated.

If you have the appropriate graphics depth available, _maybe_... can't
remember enough about PC graphics to figure out if normal VGA is 16 or 256
colors..  16 obviously would not fly.

However, I thought that interrupts were not guaranteed during the probe
phase...  or maybe not even allowed.

... JG