Craig Ballantyne (OS/2 Bochs) got the splashscreen to display correctly, and
so did I in the Win32 version at one point. Seems to me that it was
320x400. Why doesn't someone email Craig as my hard drive got trashed...
again...
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> Josh is right.
>
> Think of it this way, if the screen really was 720x400x256 colour, then
> the framebuffer would occupy over 280Kbytes. A standard VGA only allows
> access to 256K (I believe).
>
> Its really a mode-x 320x400, but the hsync and vsync frequencies
> probably match the normal text mode.
>
> Jeff
>
> Josh McDonald wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
