Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "/dev/null" <null@dnswatch.com> To: "Sam Lawrance" <boris@brooknet.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <58473.216.177.243.35.1114647751.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> In-Reply-To: <1114645784.45212.78.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com><1114644537.45212.74.camel@dirk.no.domain><4270228B.5070407@samsco.org> <1114645784.45212.78.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 17:38 -0600, Scott Long wrote: >> >> >> >>Is it possible to do this without having to switch to an entirely >> >>raster-based console? Raster consoles (like what SuSE uses) have >> >>been discussed in the past, and the common thinking is that the >> >>loss in reliability and loss in speed is a significant issue to >> >>consider. >> > >> > >> > For a small, non-flashy banner, grab a stack of unused characters and >> > draw a logo into them. Much like what moused does to give us a nice >> > pointer-shaped pointer rather than an ugly block. >> > >> > It'll be 1-bit, but you can pick the foreground and background color >> in >> > each block from a selection of the most popular console text colours >> > ever :) >> > >> > I think you could allocate the top two rows of text to this and get a >> > nice effect without losing much. And no raster, either. >> > >> > >> >> ARGH! Bad memories of the TI-99/4A! Can we at least move up to >> Atari800 video technology? >> > > Haha! The TI-99/4A was the first computer I ever got my hands on :D It was a Timex Sinclair for me. :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > //////////////////////////////////////////////////// If only Western Electric had found a way to offer binary licenses for the UNIX system back in 1974, the UNIX system would be running on all PC's today rather than DOS/Windows. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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