I hate to be an ass.....(and we are probably ticking off Ramon by now....)
but the files logos.sys, logow.sys (and those which are coded into io.sys)
are all 320 by 400--four hundred. Also, maybe my monitor is nuts..., and
320 by 400 is a legal scan mode--so why does the picture which is quite
clear at 320 by 400 look so messed up on my monitors (all of them.....,
multisync or not)? The obvious answer is that the console is not running at
320 by 400!!! As for the comment about the scanlines in text mode...., I
did not say that the splash screens were true text mode. What I did say is
that command.com seems to just be switching to a raw frame buffer dump of
some sort when it displays the actual splash screen..., and that it appears,
at least to me, that command.com is just not bothering to reset the scan
mode(!= to text mode) just for the splash screen image.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Josh McDonald
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
>
>
> Given enough coding time, slow enough horiz refresh, and
> incredibly fast IO, i could get more than 16 colours a scanline
> in textmode, but you can still only ever have 2 colours every
> 8 pixels (or 9 in normal text mode).
>
> I assure you, your monitor is just not telling you the truth, it
> _is_ unchained mode x. I'm not sure what you know about
> hardware, but monitors don't know resolution. It looks up
> the timing in a table and either a) the timings for textmode and
> modex are the same, or b) it doesn't have timing info in it's
> lookup table that match mode x, and it just defaults to that
> text mode (more likely).
>
> That and the fact that 320x200 doesn't expand nicely into
> 720x400...
>
> -Gfunk007
>
> "I like walking, but hiking is walking in areas with insects and steep
> inclines while carrying dried fruit, and I'm not down with that."
>
> :::: visit me - http://www.gfunk007.com/ :::: ICQ 74477509 ::::
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Northup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:04 AM
> Subject: RE: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
>
>
> > Look guys..., I'm not sure what you know about hardware--but
> here are the
> > details. The actual graphics files (and the images built into
> io.sys) are
> > 320 by 400...., but the display algorithm (the text console built into
> > command.com) uses the native text mode as the display mode. This text
> mode
> > is 720 by 400 (by default....others are available via various
> hacks....).
> > This means that although the file only encodes a display space of 320 by
> 400
> > it is being either expanded, or more likely from the appearance of
> > it--interpolated, onto the text console's frame buffer space. Note this
> is
> > also, as far as I know, only explicitly the case for command.com ver 7.0
> or
> > greater. I hope that this clears things up a bit.
> >
> > Drew Northup, N1XIM
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> > > Of Josh McDonald
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:24 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> > >
> > >
> > > Yup, sure is.
> > > -Gfunk007
> > >
> > > "I like walking, but hiking is walking in areas with insects and steep
> > > inclines while carrying dried fruit, and I'm not down with that."
> > >
> > > :::: visit me - http://www.gfunk007.com/ :::: ICQ 74477509 ::::
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nelson Rush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Plex86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 4:38 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> > >
> > >
> > > > Actually, I think I know why Drew's monitor detected the wrong
> > > resolution.
> > > > 320x400 is an unchained mode x hack, right?
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Nelson Rush
> > > >
> > > > "Listen... strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no
> basis
> > > for
> > > > a system of government."
> > > > - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
