[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bootsplash?
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. -jh -- 5 Ways to Improve Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bootsplash?
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. -- 5 Ways to Improve Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bootsplash?
Blackout has a gif2raw that's available as binary-only. The documentation indicates that source code is NOT available for gif2raw, so I separated this out of the zip file, and left the sources and other source-provided binaries. (Ok per the license, which is literally do what you want.) gif2raw is only needed to create a RAW format image from a GIF image. There are other tools to do that, so I'm not worried about taking gif2raw out of the distribution. I'll remove Bootsplash from the software list ibiblio this weekend if no one can point me to sources. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: 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. -- 5 Ways to Improve Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bootsplash?
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 14:36 -0500, Jim Hall a écrit : Blackout has a gif2raw that's available as binary-only. The documentation indicates that source code is NOT available for gif2raw, so I separated this out of the zip file, and left the sources and other source-provided binaries. (Ok per the license, which is literally do what you want.) gif2raw is only needed to create a RAW format image from a GIF image. There are other tools to do that, so I'm not worried about taking gif2raw out of the distribution. In case you need some splash routines to rewrite the thing, you can probably snoop on Haiku's bootloader splash code: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/system/boot/platform/generic The x86 code uses VESA to set the video mode: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/system/boot/platform/bios_ia32/video.cpp And we have some tools to generate splash data as source code from PNG files. All should be MIT-licences. FWIW. François. -- 5 Ways to Improve Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bootsplash?
Hi again,:-)) On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: 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. I think you already asked about this, and a quick search of my old e-mails proves me right! But it was one and a half years ago, long enough to forget! ;-) = Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:06 AM subject Re: Updated FreeDOS software list I seem to remember a similar thing being open-sourced for FreeDOS, but I can't remember if this was it or not. And of course I can't find the link (bah, Google is overrated, Bing didn't help either). :-/ If you look inside bsplashx.zip, its DEPENDS.TXT file says blckout, which is blckoutx.zip and blckouts.zip, respectively. However, only two of the three utils in that are open sourced (although I'd imagine gif2raw is fairly trivial to write anyways). Seems the only page for Blackout is here: http://homepages.ipact.nl/~lokhorst/dos.html But banner is by J.P. Morris (and presumably gif2raw also). However, his Tripod page is long gone, and even WayBack doesn't have it (the three links they do have don't work, so ...). Actually, I don't think bsplashx.zip *ever had* source code (call it N/A, I suppose): == Archive: bsplashx.zip Length DateTimeName - -- - 0 05/19/2006 22:09 bin/ 888 07/19/2005 03:06 bin/banner1.com 887 07/19/2005 03:07 bin/banner2.com 2390 09/04/2006 13:16 bsplash.bat 0 05/19/2006 20:14 packages/ 0 07/05/2006 01:59 packages/bsplashx/ 8 05/19/2006 22:10 packages/bsplashx/depends.txt 38 06/03/2006 11:12 packages/bsplashx/install.bat 50 05/19/2006 22:10 packages/bsplashx/remove.bat 0 05/19/2006 22:01 splashes/ 64768 07/20/2005 13:07 splashes/device.raw 64768 07/20/2005 13:07 splashes/device2.raw 64768 07/20/2005 13:08 splashes/device3.raw 64768 07/28/2005 14:16 splashes/device4.raw 64768 07/20/2005 13:08 splashes/shell.raw 64768 07/20/2005 13:09 splashes/shell2.raw 64768 07/20/2005 13:09 splashes/shell3.raw 64768 07/28/2005 14:16 splashes/shell4.raw - --- 522405 18 files == It's basically some .BATs, a .TXT, some .RAW images (of what?), and two (barely modified) banner versions from Blackout. (I assume J.P. Morris is the author here.) It seems that banner.com has a hardcoded filename c:\openinit.raw where banner1.com has c:\device.raw and banner2.com has c:\shell.raw. They look (almost) identical otherwise, so he probably just used a different assembler on the latter two than the first one (e.g. TASM instead of MASM or whatever). And just to look even closer to satisfy your purist mind, Jim, I used ndisasm. Okay, seems that the only difference is due to a jmp that was short in the original but not in the offspring banner[12].com files (which slightly adjusted some offsets by one byte). So bsplashx.zip is fine, I suppose. It's only blckout[xs].zip that lacks sources for Gif2Raw. If we could find J.P. Morris (unlikely) Though it might be easier just to have someone (Eric? heh) whip up a quick replacement version (although there are probably some image editors, even for DOS, that do it for you, I just can't think of any offhand since I don't do lots of image stuff). EDIT: Okay, I grabbed Iguana's old GFV20.ARJ to view the raw files. Seems they are as follows: device.raw - FreeDOS ... cool and fresh ... loading devices (bunch of Blinky fish) device2.raw - FreeDOS C:\ ... loading devices (raindrops) device3.raw - Tux and Blinky sitting at table with computer next to them (loading devices) device4.raw - big fish outline FreeDOS ... loading devices (on mandelbrot background??) shell.raw - same image as device.raw (cool and fresh) except says Loading the shell shell2.raw - same as device2.raw (raindrops) except Loading Shell shell3.raw - same as device3.raw (Tux + Blinky) except Loading the Shell shell4.raw - same as device4.raw (fish outline) except Loading the Shell openinit.raw - says Caldera OpenDOS (which Blackout was originally written for, apparently) I think all of those (except last, obviously) are standard FreeDOS logo / banners / images. So they should be kosher. -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10
