On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Max F Lang wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 21:41, Tim Wright wrote:
>
> > didn't notice, or wasn't amused. I haven't taken the time yet to
> > figure out where Win95/98, Windows 2000, or XP keep their
>
> Since Win2K/XP are essentially WinNT, shouldn't it be the same? I
> remember that Win 3.1's win.com was several files appended
> together: win.bin + one/two other files + the splash screen bitmap,
> and you just ran "copy" to merge the files. You could use any
> bitmap for the splash screen, and I used the OS/2 2.1 splash for
> grins. Win95/98 might be similar, my company uses our corporate
> logo in place of the clouds, and I haven't thought to ask how they
> do that.
ISTR the 'moving bar' effect is just palette rotation, using some extra
colors (~20?) in the color table. I've seen a program to do that for you.
The Win 3.1/9x logo*.sys files were simply compressed BMP files in a funny
shape (laterally compressed 2:1, so they looked funny when viewed
normally, but looked correct when they're shown with wide pixels). There
was a startup graphic, a 'please wait' graphic, and a 'power down' graphic
(not used on ATX machines).
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