Op 21-7-2011 21:21, Jim Hall schreef:
> Does anyone know the origin of Bootsplash that was included in FreeDOS
> 1.0? I'm going through the software list, making sure everything is in
> order before Bernd makes the next 1.1-test release, and realized that
> Bootsplash was included in 1.0 without source code.
>
> There aren't any doc files with bsplashx.zip (included in FreeDOS 1.0)
> so I can't find the original web site with source code. If I cannot
> locate the source code for this program, I will remove it from the
> software list, and delete it from the 1.0 "pkgs" directory on ibiblio.

No idea about sources, might be freeware licensed, and functioning as 
shell over BLACKOUT program? Not even sure if BLACKOUT works with 
FreeDOS, I recall something about it FreeDOS kernel being incompatible 
with this driver/program so far.

BLACKOUT / Bootsplash were intended as a kind of Windows bootup logo 
while processing startup files, if I remember correctly.

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