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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 06:57:16 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Sxren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG,
        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit
References: <199705070134.LAA15978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199705070637.IAA05436@sos.freebsd.dk>
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S\xren Schmidt:
 |In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
 |> There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is 
 |
 |No, the redraw rutine runs periodically even if there is no output (it
 |just doesn't do anything), this can be used for animation 20 steps

Ok, that explains it.

 |> >   - A MSW95 LOGO.SYS converter for lifting cool pre-built splash pages
 |> >     of the net and flipping them into FreeBSD :-) (Slap me, I'm
 |> >     dreaming :-)
 |> 
 |> I'm sure they're just BMP images slapped on the back of an executable...
 |
 |They are just BMP files with another name :) 
 |
 |sos> file logo.sys
 |logo.sys: PC bitmap data, Windows 3.x format, 320 x 400 x 8

Interesting--didn't know that.  Reading on down one of those W95 splash
page URLs, and sure enough -- there are palette rotation type and start/end
palette index entries right in the BMP.  So a converter is almost
trivial--cool.

Randall