From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 7 11:10:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05565 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 11:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05496; Wed, 7 May 1997 11:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA21682; Wed, 7 May 1997 11:05:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705071805.LAA21682@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:05:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rhh@ct.picker.com, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705070637.IAA05436@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 7, 97 08:37:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > - A MSW95 LOGO.SYS converter for lifting cool pre-built splash pages > > > of the net and flipping them into FreeBSD :-) (Slap me, I'm dream > > > ing :-) > > 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 > sos> They have a seperate pallette channel for the color-cycle animation, so they are not simple bitmaps. I have editted a number of these on Win95 for various editorial comments on MS products (if they don't want people seeing these comments, they only have to make their OS's more robust). You can not use a standard bitmap editor because it collapses the color pallette. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.