Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 20:15:08 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801080945.UAA00313@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jan 1998 01:18:00 CDT." <19980108011800.13651@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
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> [discussing splash image formats] > > > > How about GIF? > > > > > > Kazu > > > > > > While the being able to mooch off the large BMP archives of splash > > screens it a laudable goal, I see no reason why we cannot support other > > formats. If anything at least one compressed format should be supported, > > .png, .jpeg, or .whatever. This way a compressed image could be more > > reasonable be packed into the installation floppy with little overhead. Nope, you're right on the money. I just got the extras section stuff working with kzip (and it's not even really ugly!), so next up is gzipped BMP. Somebody mentioned that the W95 startup image is 320x400. Anyone have a handy description of this mode? I presume it's one of the ugly paged ones... 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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